Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme
| Ubiquitin—protein ligase | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC number | 6.3.2.19 | ||||||||
| CAS number | 74812-49-0 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
| Gene Ontology | AmiGO / EGO | ||||||||
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| Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme, E2 | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | UBQ-conjugat_E2 | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF00179 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR000608 | ||||||||
| SMART | SM00212 | ||||||||
| PROSITE | PDOC00163 | ||||||||
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Ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, also known as E2 enzymes and more rarely as ubiquitin-carrier enzymes, perform the second step in the ubiquitination reaction that targets a protein for degradation via the proteasome. The ubiquitination process covalently attaches ubiquitin, a short protein of 76 amino acids, to a lysine residue on the target protein. Once a protein has been tagged with one ubiquitin molecule, additional rounds of ubiquitination form a polyubiquitin chain that is recognized by the proteasome's 19S regulatory particle, triggering the ATP-dependent unfolding of the target protein that allows passage into the proteasome's 20S core particle, where proteases degrade the target into short peptide fragments for recycling by the cell.
Relationships
A ubiquitin-activating enzyme, or E1, first activates the ubiquitin by covalently attaching the molecule to its active site cysteine residue. The activated ubiquitin is then transferred to an E2 cysteine. Once conjugated to ubiquitin, the E2 molecule binds one of several ubiquitin ligases or E3s via a structurally conserved binding region. The E3 molecule is responsible for binding the target protein substrate and transferring the ubiquitin from the E2 cysteine to a lysine residue on the target protein.[1]
Schematic diagram of the ubiquitylation system.
A particular cell usually contains only a few types of E1 molecule, a greater diversity of E2s, and a very large variety of E3s. The E3 molecules responsible for substrate identification and binding are thus the mechanisms of substrate specificity in proteasomal degradation. Each type of E2 can associate with many E3s.[2]
Isozymes
The following human genes encode ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes:
- UBE2A
- UBE2B
- UBE2C
- UBE2D1, UBE2D2, UBE2D3, UBE2D4 (the latter putative)
- UBE2E1, UBE2E2, UBE2E3
- UBE2F (putative)
- UBE2G1, UBE2G2
- UBE2H
- UBE2I
- UBE2J1, UBE2J2
- UBE2K
- UBE2L3, UBE2L6; (UBE2L1, UBE2L2, UBE2L4 are pseudogenes)
- UBE2M
- UBE2N
- UBE2O
- UBE2Q1, UBE2Q2
- UBE2R1 (CDC34), UBE2R2
- UBE2S
- UBE2T (putative)
- UBE2U (putative)
- UBE2V1, UBE2V2
- UBE2W (putative)
- UBE2Z
- ATG3
- BIRC6
- UFC1
See also
References
- ↑ Nandi D, Tahiliani P, Kumar A, Chandu D (2006). "The ubiquitin-proteasome system". Journal of biosciences. 31 (1): 137–55. PMID 16595883. doi:10.1007/BF02705243.
- ↑ Risseeuw EP, Daskalchuk TE, Banks TW, Liu E, Cotelesage J, Hellmann H, Estelle M, Somers DE, Crosby WL (2003). "Protein interaction analysis of SCF ubiquitin E3 ligase subunits from Arabidopsis". The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology. 34 (6): 753–67. PMID 12795696. doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01768.x.
External links
- Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource motif class MOD_SUMO
- Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)