The modification of proteins with ubiquitin is an important cellular mechanism for targeting abnormal or short-lived proteins for degradation. Ubiquitination involves at least three classes of enzymes: ubiquitin-activating enzymes, or E1s, ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, or E2s, and ubiquitin-protein ligases, or E3s. This gene encodes a member of the E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme family. Studies in mouse suggest that this protein plays a role in DNA postreplication repair.[2]
↑Yamaguchi T, Kim NS, Sekine S, Seino H, Osaka F, Yamao F, Kato S (February 1997). "Cloning and expression of cDNA encoding a human ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme similar to the Drosophila bendless gene product". J Biochem. 120 (3): 494–97. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021440. PMID8902611.
↑Ewart-Toland A, Briassouli P, de Koning JP, Mao JH, Yuan J, Chan F, MacCarthy-Morrogh L, Ponder BA, Nagase H, Burn J, Ball S, Almeida M, Linardopoulos S, Balmain A (August 2003). "Identification of Stk6/STK15 as a candidate low-penetrance tumor-susceptibility gene in mouse and human". Nat. Genet. 34 (4): 403–12. doi:10.1038/ng1220. PMID12881723.
↑ 5.05.15.2Deng L, Wang C, Spencer E, Yang L, Braun A, You J, Slaughter C, Pickart C, Chen ZJ (October 2000). "Activation of the IkappaB kinase complex by TRAF6 requires a dimeric ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme complex and a unique polyubiquitin chain". Cell. 103 (2): 351–61. doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)00126-4. PMID11057907.
Further reading
Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID8889548.
Hofmann RM, Pickart CM (1999). "Noncanonical MMS2-encoded ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme functions in assembly of novel polyubiquitin chains for DNA repair". Cell. 96 (5): 645–53. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80575-9. PMID10089880.
Deng L, Wang C, Spencer E, Yang L, Braun A, You J, Slaughter C, Pickart C, Chen ZJ (2000). "Activation of the IkappaB kinase complex by TRAF6 requires a dimeric ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme complex and a unique polyubiquitin chain". Cell. 103 (2): 351–61. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)00126-4. PMID11057907.
Ashley C, Pastushok L, McKenna S, Ellison MJ, Xiao W (2002). "Roles of mouse UBC13 in DNA postreplication repair and Lys63-linked ubiquitination". Gene. 285 (1–2): 183–91. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00409-2. PMID12039045.
McKenna S, Moraes T, Pastushok L, Ptak C, Xiao W, Spyracopoulos L, Ellison MJ (2003). "An NMR-based model of the ubiquitin-bound human ubiquitin conjugation complex Mms2.Ubc13. The structural basis for lysine 63 chain catalysis". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (15): 13151–8. doi:10.1074/jbc.M212353200. PMID12569095.
Anandasabapathy N, Ford GS, Bloom D, Holness C, Paragas V, Seroogy C, Skrenta H, Hollenhorst M, Fathman CG, Soares L (2003). "GRAIL: an E3 ubiquitin ligase that inhibits cytokine gene transcription is expressed in anergic CD4+ T cells". Immunity. 18 (4): 535–47. doi:10.1016/S1074-7613(03)00084-0. PMID12705856.
Ewart-Toland A, Briassouli P, de Koning JP, Mao JH, Yuan J, Chan F, MacCarthy-Morrogh L, Ponder BA, Nagase H, Burn J, Ball S, Almeida M, Linardopoulos S, Balmain A (2003). "Identification of Stk6/STK15 as a candidate low-penetrance tumor-susceptibility gene in mouse and human". Nat. Genet. 34 (4): 403–12. doi:10.1038/ng1220. PMID12881723.
Bothos J, Summers MK, Venere M, Scolnick DM, Halazonetis TD (2003). "The Chfr mitotic checkpoint protein functions with Ubc13-Mms2 to form Lys63-linked polyubiquitin chains". Oncogene. 22 (46): 7101–7. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1206831. PMID14562038.
Zhou H, Wertz I, O'Rourke K, Ultsch M, Seshagiri S, Eby M, Xiao W, Dixit VM (2004). "Bcl10 activates the NF-kappaB pathway through ubiquitination of NEMO". Nature. 427 (6970): 167–71. doi:10.1038/nature02273. PMID14695475.
Sun L, Deng L, Ea CK, Xia ZP, Chen ZJ (2004). "The TRAF6 ubiquitin ligase and TAK1 kinase mediate IKK activation by BCL10 and MALT1 in T lymphocytes". Mol. Cell. 14 (3): 289–301. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(04)00236-9. PMID15125833.
Pastushok L, Moraes TF, Ellison MJ, Xiao W (2005). "A single Mms2 "key" residue insertion into a Ubc13 pocket determines the interface specificity of a human Lys63 ubiquitin conjugation complex". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (18): 17891–900. doi:10.1074/jbc.M410469200. PMID15749714.
Takeuchi T, Yokosawa H (2005). "ISG15 modification of Ubc13 suppresses its ubiquitin-conjugating activity". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 336 (1): 9–13. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.034. PMID16112642.
Zou W, Papov V, Malakhova O, Kim KI, Dao C, Li J, Zhang DE (2005). "ISG15 modification of ubiquitin E2 Ubc13 disrupts its ability to form thioester bond with ubiquitin". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 336 (1): 61–8. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.038. PMID16122702.