New mechanism of X-linked anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immunodeficiency: impairment of ubiquitin binding despite normal folding of NEMO protein.
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ABSTRACT: Nuclear factor-?B essential modulator (NEMO), the regulatory subunit of the I?B kinase complex, is a critical component of the NF-?B pathway. Hypomorphic mutations in the X-linked human NEMO gene cause various forms of anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia with immunodeficiency (EDA-ID). All known X-linked EDA-ID-causing mutations impair NEMO protein expression, folding, or both. We describe here 2 EDA-ID-causing missense mutations that affect the same residue in the CC2-LZ domain (D311N and D311G) that do not impair NEMO production or folding. Structural studies based on pull-down experiments showed a defect in noncovalent interaction with K63-linked and linear polyubiquitin chains for these mutant proteins. Functional studies on the patients' cells showed an impairment of the classic NF-?B signaling pathways after activation of 2 NEMO ubiquitin-binding-dependent receptors, the TNF and IL-1? receptors, and in the CD40-dependent NF-?B pathway. We report the first human NEMO mutations responsible for X-linked EDA-ID found to affect the polyubiquitin binding of NEMO rather than its expression and folding. These experiments demonstrate that the binding of human NEMO to polyubiquitin is essential for NF-?B activation. They also demonstrate that the normal expression and folding of NEMO do not exclude a pathogenic role for NEMO mutations in patients with EDA-ID.
SUBMITTER: Hubeau M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3251327 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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