title: E3-ubiquitin ligase/E6-AP links multicopy maintenance protein 7 to the ubiquitination pathway by a novel motif, the L2G box.
abstract: Ubiquitin ligases are generally assumed to play a major role in substrate recognition and thus provide specificity to a particular ubiquitin modification system. The multicopy maintenance protein (Mcm) 7 subunit of the replication licensing factor-M was identified as a substrate of the E3-ubiquitin ligase/E6-AP by its interaction with human papillomavirus-18E6. Mcm7 is ubiquitinated in vivo in both an E6-AP-dependent and -independent manner. E6-AP functions in these reactions independently of the viral oncogene E6. We show that recognition of Mcm7 by E6-AP is mediated by a homotypic interaction motif present in both proteins, called the L2G box. These findings served as the basis for the definition of substrate specificity for E6-AP. A small cluster of proteins whose function is intimately associated with the control of cell growth and/or proliferation contains the L2G box and is thereby implicated in an E6-AP and, by default, HPV-E6-dependent ubiquitination pathway.
authors.affiliation: International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste, Italy. kuehne@icgeb.trieste.it
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kühne
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Banks
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000906:Antibodies; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D004261:DNA Replication; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008025:Ligases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D064168:Minichromosome Maintenance Complex Component 7; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D027383:Papillomaviridae / Q000378:metabolism*; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; D014452:Ubiquitins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D009687:Nuclear Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014452:Ubiquitins; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases; C491088:MCM7 protein, S cerevisiae; C101624:MCM7 protein, human; D064168:Minichromosome Maintenance Complex Component 7; D008025:Ligases