N-Terminally arginylated ubiquitin is attached to histone H2A by RING1B E3 ligase in human cells.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications(2023)
Abstract
Ubiquitin (Ub) is highly conserved in all eukaryotic organisms and begins at the N-terminus with Met and Gln. Our recent research demonstrates that N-terminally (Nt-) arginylated Ub can be produced in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, the existence of Nt-arginylated Ub in multicellular organisms remains unknown. Here we explore the mechanism for creating Nt-arginylated Ub using human embryonic kidney HEK293 cells that express various Nt-modified Ubs. We found that Gln-starting Q-Ub was converted into Glu-starting E-Ub by NTAQ1 Nt-deamidase and subsequently Nt-arginylated by ATE1 arginyltransferase in HEK293 cells. We also found that the resulting Arg-Glu-starting RE-Ub was mainly deposited on the Lys119 residue of histone H2A. Furthermore, RING1B E3 Ub ligase mediated the attachment of RE-Ub to H2A. These findings reveal a previously unknown type of histone ubiquitylation which greatly increases the combinatorial complexity of histone and ubiquitin codes.
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Key words
Code,Histone,Methionine excision,N-degron,N-terminal arginylation,N-terminal deamination,Ubiquitin
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