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In Vitro Analysis of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Function
Published on: May 14, 2021
Ubiquitin chain specificities of E6AP E3 ligase and its HECT domain
Fuminori Kobayashi1, Takumi Nishiuchi2, Kento Takaki1
1Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan.
Abstract:
Ubiquitination of target proteins is accomplished by isopeptide bond formation between the carboxy group of the C-terminal glycine (Gly) residue of ubiquitin (Ub) and the ɛ-amino group of lysine (Lys) on the target proteins. The formation of an isopeptide bond between Ubs that gives rise to a poly-Ub chain on the target proteins and the types of poly-Ub chains formed depend on which of the seven Lys residues or N-terminal methionine (Met) residue on Ub is used for chain elongation. To understand the linkage specificity mechanism of Ub chains on E3, the previous study established an assay to monitor the formation of a free diubiquitin chain (Ub2 chain synthesis assay) by HECT type E3 ligase. In this study, we investigated Ub2 chain specificity using E6AP HECT domain. We here demonstrate the importance of the N-terminal domain of full length E6AP for Ub2 chain specificity.
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