The U-Box E3 Ligase SPL11/PUB13 Is a Convergence Point of Defense and Flowering Signaling in Plants
The U-Box E3 Ligase SPL11/PUB13 Is a Convergence Point of Defense and Flowering Signaling in Plants
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DOI:
10.1104/pp.112.199430
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发表时间:
2012-09-01
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影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
Wang, Guo-Liang
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作者:
Liu, Jinling;Li, Wei;Wang, Guo-Liang
The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is involved in the selective degradation of proteins in the cells of eukaryotic organisms and consists of three main enzymes: ubiquitin-activating enzymes (E1), ubiquitinconjugating enzymes (E2), and ubiquitin ligases (E3). In a typical ubiquitination reaction, E1, E2, and E3 enzymes participate in the transfer of the ubiquitin monomers to the e-amino group of a Lys residue in the target protein. In the first step of the reaction, E1 catalyzes the activation of ubiquitin via ATP, creating a high-energy thiol intermediate. After activation, ubiquitin is transferred to the E2 and then to the E3 ligase for the final step in the process, which involves the creation of an isopeptide bond between the C-terminal Gly of ubiquitin and a Lys residue in the substrate protein (for review, see Vierstra, 2009; Ye and Rape, 2009). The UPS in plants has a hierarchical structure for the three enzymes: there are few E1s, about 50 E2s, but over 1,000 E3s. For example, the rice (Oryza sativa) genome encodes six E1 genes, 49 E2 and E2-like genes, and over 1,300 E3 genes (Du et al., 2009). The abundance of the E3 proteins in the UPS system allows plants to target substrates for many biological processes, because each E3 ubiquitin ligase acts for the ubiquitination of only one or a few target proteins. Based on the subunit component and action modes, E3 ligases can be divided into two major types: the singlesubunit type (Homology to E6 carboxyl terminus [HECT] and RING/U-box) and the multisubunit type (Skp1 [for S-phase kinase-associated protein1]-CUL1 [for Cullin1]-F-box [SCF], Anaphase promoting complex [APC], CUL3-BTB [for Bric-a-Brac, tramtrack broad complex], CUL4-DDB [for damage-specific