A Modular Turn-On Strategy to Profile E2-Specific Ubiquitination Events in Living Cells.

A cascade of three enzymes, E1-E2-E3, is responsible for transferring ubiquitin to target proteins, which controls many different aspects of cellular signaling. The role of the E2 has been largely overlooked, despite influencing substrate identity, chain multiplicity, and topology. Here we report a method-targeted charging of ubiquitin to E2 (tCUbE)-that can track a tagged ubiquitin through its entire enzymatic cascade in living mammalian cells. We use this approach to reveal new targets whose ubiquitination depends on UbcH5a E2 activity. We demonstrate that tCUbE can be broadly applied to multiple E2s and in different human cell lines. tCUbE is uniquely suited to examine E2-E3-substrate cascades of interest and/or piece together previously unidentified cascades, thereby illuminating entire branches of the UPS and providing critical insight that will be useful for identifying new therapeutic targets in the UPS. © 2024 Wiley-VCH GmbH.

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Caitlin J Hill, Suprama Datta, Nicholas P McCurtin, Hannah Z Kimball, Molly C Kingsley, Abraham L Bayer, Alexander C Martin, Qianni Peng, Eranthie Weerapana, Rebecca A Scheck. A Modular Turn-On Strategy to Profile E2-Specific Ubiquitination Events in Living Cells. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 2024 Mar 22;63(13):e202319579

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PMID: 38291002

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