In:
Scientific Reports, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 7, No. 1 ( 2017-12-12)
Abstract:
The negatively charged amino acid-dependent sumoylation motif (NDSM) carries an additional stretch of acidic residues downstream of the consensus Ψ-K-x-E/D sumoylation motif. We have previously shown that acetylation of the SUMO E2 conjugase enzyme, Ubc9, at K65 downregulates its binding to the NDSM and renders a selective decrease in sumoylation of substrates with the NDSM motif. Here, we provide detailed structural, thermodynamic, and kinetics results of the interactions between Ubc9 and its K65 acetylated variant (Ac-Ubc9 K65 ) with three NDSMs derived from Elk1, CBP, and Calpain2 to rationalize the mechanism beneath this reduced binding. Our nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data rule out a direct interaction between the NDSM and the K65 residue of Ubc9. Similarly, we found that NDSM binding was entropy-driven and unlikely to be affected by the negative charge by K65 acetylation. Moreover our NMR, mutagenesis and molecular dynamics simulation studies defined the sequence of the NDSM as Ψ-K-x-E/D-x 1 -x 2 -(x 3 /E/D)-(x 4 /E/D)-x n and determined that K74 and K76 were critical Ubc9 residues interacting with the negatively charged residues of the NDSM.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
2045-2322
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-017-17465-0
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2017
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2615211-3
