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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 287, Issue 34, Pages 28552-28563Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.387878
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The adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor forms a complex with Axin and GSK3 beta to promote the phosphorylation and degradation of beta-catenin, a key co-activator of Wnt-induced transcription. Here, we establish that APC is modified predominantly with K63-linked ubiquitin chains when it is bound to Axin in unstimulated HEK293 cells. Wnt3a stimulation induced a time-dependent loss of K63-polyubiquitin adducts from APC, an effect synchronous with the dissociation of Axin from APC and the stabilization of cytosolic beta-catenin. RNAi-mediated depletion of Axin or beta-catenin, which negated the association between APC and Axin, resulted in the absence of K63-adducts on APC. Overexpression of wild-type and phosphodegron-mutant beta-catenin, combined with analysis of thirteen human cancer cell lines that harbor oncogenic mutations in APC, Axin, or beta-catenin, support the hypothesis that a fully assembled APC-Axin-GSK3 beta-phospho-beta-catenin complex is necessary for the K63-polyubiquitylation of APC. Intriguingly, the degree of this modification on APC appears to correlate inversely with the levels of beta-catenin in cells. Together, our results indicate that K63-linked polyubiquitin adducts on APC regulate the assembly and/or efficiency of the beta-catenin destruction complex.
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