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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 285, Issue 18, Pages 13561-13568Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M109.075945
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- National Institutes of Health [5R01CA046413, 5P50CA095103, 5T32HL007751]
- Ministry of Science and Technology [2009CB522200, 2006AA02A303]
- Ministry of Education for Cell Biology and Tumor Cell Engineering, Xiamen University [2009102]
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In Drosophila, naked cuticle is an inducible antagonist of the Wnt-beta-catenin pathway, likely acting at the level of Dishevelled (Dsh/Dvl), an essential component of this pathway. The mechanism by which naked cuticle and its two vertebrate orthologs, Naked1 (NKD1) and Naked2 (NKD2), inhibit Dvl function is unknown. NKD2 is myristoylated, a co-translational modification that leads to its plasma membrane localization. In contrast, myristoylation-deficient G2A NKD2 is cytoplasmic. Herein we show that the ability of Nkd2/NKD2 to antagonize Wnt-beta-catenin activity during zebrafish embryonic development and in mammalian HEK293cells is myristoylation-dependent. NKD2 and Dvl-1 interact and co-localize at the lateral membrane of polarized epithelial cells. In reciprocal overexpression and siRNA knockdown experiments, NKD2 and Dvl-1 destabilize each other via enhanced polyubiquitylation; this effect is also dependent upon Naked2 myristoylation. Cell fractionation and ubiquitylation assays indicate that endogenous NKD2 interacts with a slower migrating, ubiquitylated form of Dvl-1 in plasma membrane fractions. These results provide a mechanism by which NKD2 antagonizes Wnt signaling: myristoylated NKD2 interacts with Dvl-1 at the plasma membrane, and this interaction leads to their mutual ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation.
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