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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 29, Pages 26307-26310Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.C300028200
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA95731] Funding Source: Medline
- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY11110] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM63773] Funding Source: Medline
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MAD plays an important role in decapentaplegic (DPP) signaling throughout Drosophila development. Despite a recent study describing the restriction of DPP signaling via putative ubiquitin E3 ligase dSmurf (1), the molecular mechanisms of how dSmurf affects DPP signaling remain unexplored. Toward this goal we demonstrated the degradation of phosphorylated MAD by dSmurf. dSmurf selectively interacted with MAD, but not Medea and Dad, and the MAD-dSmurf interaction was induced by constitutively active DPP type I receptor thickveins. Wild type dSmurf, but not its C1029A mutant, mediated ubiquitination-dependent degradation of MAD. Silencing of dSmurf using RNA interference stabilized MAD protein in Drosophila S2 cells. Targeted expression of dSmurf in various tissues abolished phosphorylated MAD and disrupted patterning and growth. In contrast, similar overexpression of inactive dSmurf(C1029A) showed no significant effects on development. We conclude that dSmurf specifically targets phosphorylated MAD to proteasome-dependent degradation and regulates DPP signaling during development.
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