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RNF111/Arkadia is a SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase that facilitates the DNA damage response.

ABSTRACT: Protein modifications by ubiquitin and small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) play key roles in cellular signaling pathways. SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligases (STUbLs) directly couple these modifications by selectively recognizing SUMOylated target proteins through SUMO-interacting motifs (SIMs), promoting their K48-linked ubiquitylation and degradation. Only a single mammalian STUbL, RNF4, has been identified. We show that human RNF111/Arkadia is a new STUbL, which used three adjacent SIMs for specific recognition of poly-SUMO2/3 chains, and used Ubc13-Mms2 as a cognate E2 enzyme to promote nonproteolytic, K63-linked ubiquitylation of SUMOylated target proteins. We demonstrate that RNF111 promoted ubiquitylation of SUMOylated XPC (xeroderma pigmentosum C) protein, a central DNA damage recognition factor in nucleotide excision repair (NER) extensively regulated by ultraviolet (UV)-induced SUMOylation and ubiquitylation. Moreover, we show that RNF111 facilitated NER by regulating the recruitment of XPC to UV-damaged DNA. Our findings establish RNF111 as a new STUbL that directly links nonproteolytic ubiquitylation and SUMOylation in the DNA damage response.

SUBMITTER: Poulsen SL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3678163 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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RNF111/Arkadia is a SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase that facilitates the DNA damage response.

Poulsen Sara L SL Hansen Rebecca K RK Wagner Sebastian A SA van Cuijk Loes L van Belle Gijsbert J GJ Streicher Werner W Wikström Mats M Choudhary Chunaram C Houtsmuller Adriaan B AB Marteijn Jurgen A JA Bekker-Jensen Simon S Mailand Niels N

The Journal of cell biology 20130601 6

Protein modifications by ubiquitin and small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) play key roles in cellular signaling pathways. SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligases (STUbLs) directly couple these modifications by selectively recognizing SUMOylated target proteins through SUMO-interacting motifs (SIMs), promoting their K48-linked ubiquitylation and degradation. Only a single mammalian STUbL, RNF4, has been identified. We show that human RNF111/Arkadia is a new STUbL, which used three adjacent SIMs for spec ...[more]

PMID: 23751493

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Project description:In eukaryotes many players in the DNA-damage response (DDR) catalyze protein sumoylation or ubiquitylation. Emphasis has been placed on how these modifications orchestrate the sequential recruitment of repair factors to sites of DNA damage or stalled replication forks. Here, we shed light on a pathway in which sumoylated factors are eliminated through the coupled action of Sumo-targeted ubiquitin ligases (STUbLs) and the ubiquitin-fusion degradation protein 1 (Ufd1). Ufd1 is a subunit of the Cdc48-Ufd1-Npl4 complex implicated in the sorting of ubiquitylated substrates for degradation by the proteasome. We find that in fission yeast, Ufd1 interacts physically and functionally with the Sumo-targeted ubiquitin ligase (STUbL) Rfp1, homologous to human RNF4, and with the Sumo E3 ligase Pli1, homologous to human PIAS1. Deleting a C-terminal domain of Ufd1 that mediates the interaction of Ufd1 with Rfp1, Pli1, and Sumo (ufd1?Ct(213-342) ) lead to an accumulation of high-molecular-weight Sumo conjugates and caused severe genomic instabilities. The spectrum of sensitivity of ufd1?Ct(213-342) cells to genotoxins, the epistatic relationships of ufd1?Ct(213-342) with mutations in DNA repair factors, and the localization of the repair factor Rad22 in ufd1?Ct(213-342) cells point to ufd1?Ct(213-342) cells accumulating aberrant structures during replication that require homologous recombination (HR) for their repair. We present evidence that HR is however often not successful in ufd1?Ct(213-342) cells and we identify Rad22 as one of the high-molecular-weight conjugates accumulating in the ufd1?Ct(213-342) mutant consistent with Rad22 being a STUbL/Ufd1 substrate. Suggesting a direct role of Ufd1 in the processing of Sumo-conjugates, Ufd1 formed nuclear foci colocalizing with Sumo during the DDR, and Sumo-conjugates accumulated in foci in the ufd1?Ct(213-342) mutant. Broader functional relationships between Ufd1 and STUbLs conceivably affect numerous cellular processes beyond the DDR.

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RNF111/Arkadia is a SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase that facilitates the DNA damage response.

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RNF111/Arkadia is a SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase that facilitates the DNA damage response.

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