Journal
EMBO REPORTS
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.15252/embr.202153354
Keywords
endocytosis; membrane protein; phytohormone; receptor; ubiquitination
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [JP20K05949, JP21H05644, JP21H02150]
- Hokkaido University Young Scientist Support Program
- National Institute of Health [R01GM097247]
- JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists
- China Scholarship Council fellowship
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Protein ubiquitination is a crucial post-translational modification that regulates diverse cellular processes. In this study, two deubiquitinating enzymes, UBP12 and UBP13, were discovered to directly target the PM-localized brassinosteroid receptor BRI1 in Arabidopsis. They play essential roles in governing BRI1 abundance and degradation, and thereby regulate plant growth.
Protein ubiquitination is a dynamic and reversible post-translational modification that controls diverse cellular processes in eukaryotes. Ubiquitin-dependent internalization, recycling, and degradation are important mechanisms that regulate the activity and the abundance of plasma membrane (PM)-localized proteins. In plants, although several ubiquitin ligases are implicated in these processes, no deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), have been identified that directly remove ubiquitin from membrane proteins and limit their vacuolar degradation. Here, we discover two DUB proteins, UBP12 and UBP13, that directly target the PM-localized brassinosteroid (BR) receptor BR INSENSITIVE1 (BRI1) in Arabidopsis. BRI1 protein abundance is decreased in the ubp12i/ubp13 double mutant that displayed severe growth defects and reduced sensitivity to BRs. UBP13 directly interacts with and effectively removes K63-linked polyubiquitin chains from BRI1, thereby negatively modulating its vacuolar targeting and degradation. Our study reveals that UBP12 and UBP13 play crucial roles in governing BRI1 abundance and BR signaling activity to regulate plant growth.
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