In others, there is no evidence for the formation of such intermediates, in which cases E3 presumably serves as a kind of scaffold for simultaneous binding of E2 and substrate. In some cases, E3 enzymes themselves carry ubiquitin as a thioester ( Huibregtse et al., 1995 Hatakeyama et al., 1997).
#DBOX MEANING FREE#
Multiple rounds of ubiquitin conjugation form polyubiquitinated substrates, which are then degraded to short peptides by the ATP-dependent 26S proteasome complex, and free ubiquitin is regenerated by the action of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolases or isopeptidases. E2 acts alone or in conjunction with an E3 ubiquitin protein ligase to conjugate ubiquitin to the ϵ-amino group of lysine residues in substrate proteins to form a glycyl–lysine isopeptide bond ( Hershko et al., 1983). In this process, ubiquitin, a highly conserved 76-residue protein, is first linked by a thioester linkage to a ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1) in a reaction that uses ATP, then transferred to a small ubiquitin-carrier (E2). Proteolysis by the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway is a fundamental mechanism for protein turnover, cell cycle control and signal transduction ( Ciechanover, 1994 Hochstrasser, 1996 King et al., 1996a Hershko, 1997 Varshavsky, 1997 Elledge and Harper, 1998 Patton et al., 1998b). These data suggest the existence of a D-box receptor protein that recognizes D-boxes prior to ubiquitination. Both K0-N70 and 20-residue D-box peptides blocked polyubiquitination of other D-box-containing substrates in a cell-free ubiquitination assay system.
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The K0-N70 construct was neither polyubiquitinated nor degraded in vitro, but it blocked the growth of strains of yeast in which anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome (APC/C) function was compromised by mutation, and specifically inhibited proteolysis of APC/C substrates in vivo. Consistent with the idea that competition for ubiquitin accounts for some of its inhibitory effects, wild-type N70 not only stabilized D-box proteins, but also Rum1 and Cdc18, which are degraded by a different pathway. This inhibition can be overcome either by removal of all lysine residues from N70 using site-directed mutagenesis (K0-N70) or by raising the concentration of intracellular ubiquitin. Strong expression of protein fragments containing destruction boxes, such as the first 70 residues of Cdc13 (N70), inhibits the growth of Schizosaccharomyces pombe at metaphase.
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Programmed proteolysis of proteins such as mitotic cyclins and Cut2/Pds1p requires a 9-residue conserved motif known as the destruction box (D-box).