A strategy for modulation of enzymes in the ubiquitin system.

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Authors:

Ernst, Andreas; Avvakumov, George; Tong, Jiefei; Fan, Yihui; Zhao, Yanling; Alberts, Philipp; Persaud, Avinash; Walker, John R; Neculai, Ana-Mirela; Neculai, Dante; Vorobyov, Andrew; Garg, Pankaj; Beatty, Linda; Chan, Pak-Kei; Juang, Yu-Chi; Landry, Marie-Claude; Yeh, Christina; Zeqiraj, Elton; Karamboulas, Konstantina; Allali-Hassani, Abdellah; Vedadi, Masoud; Tyers, Mike; Moffat, Jason; Sicheri, Frank; Pelletier, Laurence; Durocher, Daniel; Raught, Brian; Rotin, Daniela; Yang, Jianhua; Moran, Michael F; Dhe-Paganon, Sirano; Sidhu, Sachdev S

Source:

Science, Volume 339, Issue 6119, p.590-5 (2013)

Keywords:

Amino Acid Sequence, Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques, Conserved Sequence, Drug Design, Endopeptidases, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Protease Inhibitors, Protein Conformation, Protein Structure, Secondary, Small Molecule Libraries, Ubiquitin, Ubiquitin Thiolesterase, Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Ubiquitination

Abstract:

<p>The ubiquitin system regulates virtually all aspects of cellular function. We report a method to target the myriad enzymes that govern ubiquitination of protein substrates. We used massively diverse combinatorial libraries of ubiquitin variants to develop inhibitors of four deubiquitinases (DUBs) and analyzed the DUB-inhibitor complexes with crystallography. We extended the selection strategy to the ubiquitin conjugating (E2) and ubiquitin ligase (E3) enzymes and found that ubiquitin variants can also enhance enzyme activity. Last, we showed that ubiquitin variants can bind selectively to ubiquitin-binding domains. Ubiquitin variants exhibit selective function in cells and thus enable orthogonal modulation of specific enzymatic steps in the ubiquitin system.</p>

PDB: 
4I6L
Detector: 
Q315
Beamline: 
24-ID-E