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JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 159, Issue 2, Pages 171-179Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvv084
Keywords
E3 ubiquitin ligase; muscular dystrophy; protein degradation; sarcolemma; WWP1
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- JSPS KAKENHI [21500384, 24500472]
- National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry [25-5]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21500384, 24500472] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A missense mutation in the gene encoding WWP1 was identified as the most promising candidate responsible for chicken muscular dystrophy (MD) by genetic link-age analysis. WWP1 is a HECT-type E3 ubiquitin protein ligase composed of 922 amino acids, which contains 4 tandem WW domains that interact with the proline-rich peptide motifs of target proteins. The missense mutation changes arginine 441 that is located in the centre of the WW domains into glutamine (R441Q), which potentially affects the function of the WWP1 protein. Here, we show that WWP1 is detected as similar to 130-kDa protein that localizes to various structures, such as the plasma membrane (sarcolemma), sarcoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria and nucleus, in normal chicken skeletal muscle. However, in MD chickens, the mutant WWP1 protein was markedly degraded and was absent in the sarcolemma. These changes were also observed in the muscles of chickens in early pre-pathological states. Moreover, in vitro expression analysis showed significant degradation of mutant, but not wild-type WWP1, specifically in myogenic cells. Altogether, our data revealed that the R441Q missense mutation in the WWP1 protein causes degradation and loss of the sarcolemmal localization of WWP1, which may play a role in the pathogenesis of chicken MD.
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