Post-translational modification by SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) regulates the enzymatic activity, subcellular localization, and protein-protein interactions of modified target proteins. SUMO has also been implicated in proteasome-dependent protein degradation with the identification of a special class of enzymes termed, SUMO-Targeted Ubiquitin Ligases (STUbLs). These conserved enzymes typically possess multiple, tandem SUMO-Interaction Motifs and a RING domain that together facilitate the conjugation of ubiquitin to SUMO-modified target proteins. Originally discovered as essential gene pair for the viability of RecQ helicase-deficient yeast, SLX5 and SLX8 code for a heterodimeric STUbL. Two novel alleles of SLX5 were isolated in a forward genetic screen for suppressors of genome instability. A combination of genetic and biochemical experiments indicate that these alleles disrupt a conserved lysine desert, unique to STUbLs, leading to Slx5’s auto-ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation. The results are consistent with the idea that STUbLs employ a lysine desert as a defense against self-destruction.
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Biochemistry
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Lysine
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Ubiquitin
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Yeast
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by Pragati Sharma
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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