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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 103, Issue 2, Pages 341-346Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0506618103
Keywords
autocrine motility factor receptor; ubiquitin protein ligase; ubiquitin; unfolded protein response; MmUBC7
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
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Efficient targeting of proteins for degradation from the secretory pathway is essential to homeostasis. This occurs through endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated degradation (ERAD). In this study, we establish that a human ubiquitin ligase (E3), gp78, and a specific E2, Ube2g2, are both critically important for ERAD of multiple substrates. gp78 exhibits a complex domain structure that, in addition to the RING finger, includes a ubiquitin-binding Cue domain and a specific binding site for Ube2g2. Disruption of either of these domains abolishes gp78-mediated ubiquitylation and protein degradation, resulting in accumulation of substrates in their fully glycosylated forms in the ER. This suggests that gp78-mediated ubiquitylation is an early step in ERAD that precedes dislocation of substrates from the ER. The in vivo requirement for both an E2-bincling site distinct from the RING finger and a ubiquitin-binding domain intrinsic to an E3 suggests a previously unappreciated level of complexity in ubiquitin ligase function. These results also provide proof of principle that interrupting a specific E2-E3 interaction can selectively inhibit ERAD.
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