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The Four and a Half LIM-only Protein 2 (FHL2) Activates Transforming Growth Factor β (TGF-β) Signaling by Regulating Ubiquitination of the E3 Ligase Arkadia

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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 288, 期 3, 页码 1785-1794

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AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.439760

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  1. French Ligue contre le Cancer
  2. Comite d'Ile-de-France
  3. Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer
  4. Total-IPS scientific partnership program
  5. National Science and Technology Major Projects of China [2008ZX10002006, 2012ZX10002007]
  6. French Ministry of Foreign and European Affaires (Egide)

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Arkadia is a RING-based ubiquitin ligase that positively regulates TGF-beta signaling by targeting several pathway components for ubiquitination and degradation. However, little is known about the mechanisms controlling Arkadia activity. Here we show that the LIM-only protein FHL2 binds and synergistically cooperates with Arkadia to activate Smad3/Smad4-dependent transcription. Knockdown of FHL2 by RNA interference decreases Arkadia level and restricts the amplitude of Arkadia-induced TGF-beta target gene responses. We found that Arkadia is ubiquitinated via K63- and K27-linked polyubiquitination. A single mutation at the RING domain that abolishes the E3 activity diminishes Arkadia ubiquitination, indicating that this modification partly involves autocatalytic process. Mutation of seven lysines at the C-terminal region of Arkadia severely impairs ubiquitination through the K27 but not the K63 linkage and slows down the turnover of Arkadia, suggesting that K27-linked polyubiquitination might promote proteolysis-dependent regulation of Arkadia. We show that FHL2 increases the half-life of Arkadia through inhibition of ubiquitin chain assembly on the protein, which provides a molecular basis for functional cooperation between Arkadia and FHL2 in enhancing TGF-beta signaling. Our study uncovers a novel regulatory mechanism of Arkadia by ubiquitination and identifies FHL2 as important regulator of Arkadia ubiquitination and TGF-beta signal transduction.

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