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NATURE
Volume 578, Issue 7795, Pages 461-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2000-y
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- Max Planck Gesellschaft
- European Commission (ERC) [Nedd8Activate]
- National Institutes of Health [R15GM117555-02]
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Eukaryotic cell biology depends on cullin-RING E3 ligase (CRL)-catalysed protein ubiquitylation(1), which is tightly controlled by the modification of cullin with the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8(2-6). However, how CRLs catalyse ubiquitylation, and the basis of NEDD8 activation, remain unknown. Here we report the cryo-electron microscopy structure of a chemically trapped complex that represents the ubiquitylation intermediate, in which the neddylated CRL1(beta-TRCP) promotes the transfer of ubiquitin from the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBE2D to its recruited substrate, phosphorylated I kappa B alpha. NEDD8 acts as a nexus that binds disparate cullin elements and the RING-activated ubiquitin-linked UBE2D. Local structural remodelling of NEDD8 and large-scale movements of CRL domains converge to juxtapose the substrate and the ubiquitylation active site. These findings explain how a distinctive ubiquitin-like protein alters the functions of its targets, and show how numerous NEDD8-dependent interprotein interactions and conformational changes synergistically configure a catalytic CRL architecture that is both robust, to enable rapid ubiquitylation of the substrate, and fragile, to enable the subsequent functions of cullin-RING proteins. A cryo-electron microscopy structure provides insights into the activation of cullin-RING E3 ligases by NEDD8 and the consequent catalysis of ubiquitylation reactions.
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