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- Title
Structure of an E6AP-UbcH7 complex: insights into ubiquitination by the E2-E3 enzyme cascade.
- Authors
Huang, L; Kinnucan, E; Wang, G; Beaudenon, S; Howley, P M; Huibregtse, J M; Pavletich, N P
- Abstract
The E6AP ubiquitin-protein ligase (E3) mediates the human papillomavirus-induced degradation of the p53 tumor suppressor in cervical cancer and is mutated in Angelman syndrome, a neurological disorder. The crystal structure of the catalytic hect domain of E6AP reveals a bilobal structure with a broad catalytic cleft at the junction of the two lobes. The cleft consists of conserved residues whose mutation interferes with ubiquitin-thioester bond formation and is the site of Angelman syndrome mutations. The crystal structure of the E6AP hect domain bound to the UbcH7 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) reveals the determinants of E2-E3 specificity and provides insights into the transfer of ubiquitin from the E2 to the E3.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1999, Vol 286, Issue 5443, p1321
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.286.5443.1321