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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 69, Issue 19, Pages 7512-7517Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-2148
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- NIH [R01CA98666]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA098666] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase I (ASK1) is a key regulatory kinase in the proapoptotic response to various stresses. ASK1 phosphorylation of Daxx, an ASK1 activator protein, increases Daxx accumulation in cells and further enhances ASK1 activity through a positive feedback mechanism. Here, we show that ASK1-dependent phosphorylation of Daxx induces Lys(63) (K63)-linked polyubiquitination on Lys(122) of Daxx. Polyubiquitination is dispensable for Daxx accumulation or Daxx interaction with ASK1 because mutant Daxx deficient in polyubiquitin still exhibits ASK1-dependent accumulation and interaction with cellular ASK1. However, K63-linked Daxx polyubiquitination is required for tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced activation of ASK1. Therefore, K63-linked polyubiquitination of Daxx functions as a molecular switch to initiate and amplify the stress kinase response in the TNF-a signaling pathway. [Cancer Res 2009;69(19):7512-71
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