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Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions
BACKGROUND: The Fbw7 ubiquitin ligase promotes the rapid degradation of several important oncogenes, such as cyclin E, c-Myc, c-Jun, and Notch. The two fission yeast homologs of Fbw7, pop1 and pop2, have previously been shown to dimerize. In this study, we asked whether Fbw7 can also dimerize and ho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17298674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-1028-2-7 |
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author | Welcker, Markus Clurman, Bruce E |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Fbw7 ubiquitin ligase promotes the rapid degradation of several important oncogenes, such as cyclin E, c-Myc, c-Jun, and Notch. The two fission yeast homologs of Fbw7, pop1 and pop2, have previously been shown to dimerize. In this study, we asked whether Fbw7 can also dimerize and how dimerization affects Fbw7 function. RESULTS: We found that Fbw7 binds efficiently to itself through a domain just upstream of its F-box. We further show that dimerization is essential for the stable interaction of Fbw7 with the cyclin E T380 phospho-degron. Surprisingly, the requirement for dimerization can be suppressed by an additional phosphorylation of this phospho-degron at the +4 position (S384), which creates a binding site with higher affinity for monomeric Fbw7. CONCLUSION: Degradation of cyclin E by the Fbw7 pathway can, thus, be conditionally regulated either by Fbw7 dimerization or by hyperphosphorylation of the T380 phospho-degron. Other substrates, which cannot accommodate an extra phosphate in their phospho-degrons, or which don't provide a negatively charged amino acid in the +4 position, may be absolutely dependent on Fbw7 dimerization for their turnover. Our results point to an additional level of regulation for substrate interaction and turnover by Fbw7. |
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spelling | pubmed-18027382007-02-22 Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions Welcker, Markus Clurman, Bruce E Cell Div Research BACKGROUND: The Fbw7 ubiquitin ligase promotes the rapid degradation of several important oncogenes, such as cyclin E, c-Myc, c-Jun, and Notch. The two fission yeast homologs of Fbw7, pop1 and pop2, have previously been shown to dimerize. In this study, we asked whether Fbw7 can also dimerize and how dimerization affects Fbw7 function. RESULTS: We found that Fbw7 binds efficiently to itself through a domain just upstream of its F-box. We further show that dimerization is essential for the stable interaction of Fbw7 with the cyclin E T380 phospho-degron. Surprisingly, the requirement for dimerization can be suppressed by an additional phosphorylation of this phospho-degron at the +4 position (S384), which creates a binding site with higher affinity for monomeric Fbw7. CONCLUSION: Degradation of cyclin E by the Fbw7 pathway can, thus, be conditionally regulated either by Fbw7 dimerization or by hyperphosphorylation of the T380 phospho-degron. Other substrates, which cannot accommodate an extra phosphate in their phospho-degrons, or which don't provide a negatively charged amino acid in the +4 position, may be absolutely dependent on Fbw7 dimerization for their turnover. Our results point to an additional level of regulation for substrate interaction and turnover by Fbw7. BioMed Central 2007-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC1802738/ /pubmed/17298674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-1028-2-7 Text en Copyright © 2007 Welcker and Clurman; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Welcker, Markus Clurman, Bruce E Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
title | Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
title_full | Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
title_fullStr | Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
title_full_unstemmed | Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
title_short | Fbw7/hCDC4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
title_sort | fbw7/hcdc4 dimerization regulates its substrate interactions |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802738/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17298674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-1028-2-7 |
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