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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 100, Issue 26, Pages 15446-15451Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2637012100
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V(D)J recombination, the rearrangement of gene segments to assemble Ig and T cell receptor coding regions, is vital to B and T lymphocyte development. Here, we demonstrate that the V(D)J recombinase protein RAG1 undergoes ubiquitylation in cells. In vitro,the RING finger domain of RAG1 acts as a ubiquitin ligase that mediates its own ubiquitylation at a highly conserved K residue in the RAG1 amino-terminal region. Ubiquitylation is best supported by a specific ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme, UbcH3/CDC34, and requires an intact RAG1 RING finger motif. Disruption of the RING finger and certain RAG1 N-terminal truncations are associated with immunodeficiency in human patients, suggesting that RAG1's ubiquitin ligase is required for its biological role in lymphocyte development.
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