title: Structural basis for the function of DCN-1 in protein Neddylation.
abstract: Covalent modification by Nedd8 (neddylation) stimulates the ubiquitin-protein isopeptide ligase (E3) activities of Cullins. DCN-1, an evolutionarily conserved protein, promotes neddylation of Cullins in vivo, binds directly to Nedd8, and associates with Cdc53 in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The 1.9A resolution structure of yeast DCN-1 shows that the region encompassing residues 66-269 has a rectangular parallelepiped-like all alpha-helical structures, consisting of an EF-hand motif N-terminal domain and a closely juxtaposed C-terminal domain with six alpha-helices. The EF-hand motif structure is highly similar to that of the c-Cbl ubiquitin E3 ligase. We also demonstrate that DCN-1 directly binds to Rbx-1, a factor important for protein neddylation. The structural and biochemical results are consistent with the role of DCN-1 as a scaffold protein in a multisubunit neddylation E3 ligase complex.
authors.affiliation: National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Zhiyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Jianying
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Weimin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Rui-Ming
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Zihe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Yingfang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D044842:Cullin Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D000075687:NEDD8 Protein; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases / Q000378:metabolism; D014452:Ubiquitins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: C100988:Cdc53 protein, S cerevisiae; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D044842:Cullin Proteins; C502135:Dcn1 protein, S cerevisiae; D000075687:NEDD8 Protein; C082860:NEDD8 protein, human; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014452:Ubiquitins; D044767:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases