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PMID:17962185

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Citation

Cooper, SE, Murawsky, CM, Lowe, N and Travers, AA (2008) Two modes of degradation of the tramtrack transcription factors by Siah homologues. J. Biol. Chem. 283:1076-83

Abstract

The Siah proteins, mammalian homologues of the Drosophila Sina protein, function as ubiquitin-protein isopeptide ligase enzymes to target a wide range of cellular proteins for degradation. We report here a novel Drosophila protein that is homologous to Sina, named Sina-Homologue (SinaH). We show that it can direct the degradation of the transcriptional repressor Tramtrack (Ttk) using two different mechanisms. One is similar to Sina and requires the adaptor Phyllopod, and the other is a novel mechanism of recognition. This novel mode of targeting for degradation is specific for the 69-kDa Ttk isoform, Ttk69. Ttk69 contains a region that is required for binding of SinaH and for SinaH-directed degradation. This region contains an AXVXP motif, which is the consensus sequence found in Siah substrate proteins. These results suggest that degradation directed by SinaH differs from that directed by Sina and is more similar to that found in vertebrates. We speculate that SinaH may be involved in regulating the levels of developmentally important transcription factors.

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PubMed PMC2655653 Online version:10.1074/jbc.M707765200

Keywords

Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Base Sequence; Conserved Sequence; DNA Primers; Drosophila/genetics; Drosophila Proteins/chemistry; Drosophila Proteins/genetics; Drosophila Proteins/pharmacology; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Nuclear Proteins/genetics; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism; Repressor Proteins/chemistry; Repressor Proteins/genetics; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Transcription Factors/metabolism; Transcription, Genetic/drug effects; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/genetics; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/metabolism

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