Ubiquitin conjugating enzyme

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Function

Ubiquitin conjugating enzyme (Ubc) or E2 enzyme catalyzes the second step in the ubiquitination of a protein tagged to be degraded by the proteasome. Ubiquitin activating enzyme (E1) and ATP produce a C-terminal acyl adenylated ubiquitin molecule which binds to ubiquitin conjugating enzyme (E2) (Ubc) cysteine[1]. The Ubc then binds to ubiquitin ligase (E3) via a conserved binding region. E3 catalyzes the transfer of ubiquitin from the Ubc-ubiquitin complex to a lysine residue of the target protein. Ubc13 makes a catalytically active heterodimer with MMS2[2].

For more details on Ubc13 see UBC13 MMS2.

For more details on Ubc9 see Ubc9.

Structural highlights

The active site of Ubc contains a cysteine residue. The [3].

Structure of human ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 (green) complex with ubiquitin (deepskyblue) (PDB entry 3ptf)

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3D Structures of ubiquitin conjugating enzyme3D Structures of ubiquitin conjugating enzyme

Updated on 03-October-2018

ReferencesReferences

  1. Markson G, Kiel C, Hyde R, Brown S, Charalabous P, Bremm A, Semple J, Woodsmith J, Duley S, Salehi-Ashtiani K, Vidal M, Komander D, Serrano L, Lehner P, Sanderson CM. Analysis of the human E2 ubiquitin conjugating enzyme protein interaction network. Genome Res. 2009 Oct;19(10):1905-11. Epub 2009 Jun 23. PMID:19549727 doi:http://dx.doi.org/gr.093963.109
  2. Eddins MJ, Carlile CM, Gomez KM, Pickart CM, Wolberger C. Mms2-Ubc13 covalently bound to ubiquitin reveals the structural basis of linkage-specific polyubiquitin chain formation. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2006 Oct;13(10):915-20. Epub 2006 Sep 17. PMID:16980971 doi:10.1038/nsmb1148
  3. Bosanac I, Phu L, Pan B, Zilberleyb I, Maurer B, Dixit VM, Hymowitz SG, Kirkpatrick DS. Modulation of K11-Linkage Formation by Variable Loop Residues within UbcH5A. J Mol Biol. 2011 May 6;408(3):420-31. Epub 2011 Mar 10. PMID:21396940 doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2011.03.011

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