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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 22, Pages 19433-19438Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111522200
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA66570] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI28847] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK25295] Funding Source: Medline
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Receptors belonging to the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNF-R) family utilize cytoplasmic adapter proteins called TNF-R-associated factors (TRAFs) as key elements in their signaling pathways. However, it is not yet clear how individual TRAFs regulate signaling by this large and growing receptor family. Signaling via the TNF-R family member CD40 has recently been shown to result in recruitment of TRAF2 to plasma membrane detergent-resistant microdomains (lipid rafts) as well as to subsequently initiate TRAF2 degradation. As TRAF2 associates with most members of the TNF-R family, we wished to determine how this degradation occurs. We show here that CD40-mediated TRAF2 degradation requires the zinc-binding RING domain of TRAF2 and is preceded by TRAF2 ubiquitination, suggesting that the TRAF2 RING may promote ubiquitination although the RING itself is not a target of ubiquitination. Several approaches show that ubiquitination and proteasomal activity are integral to TRAF2 degradation, and inhibition of this process potentiates CD40 signaling.
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