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The ubiquitin ligase Triad1 inhibits myelopoiesis through UbcH7 and Ubc13 interacting domains

Leukemia volume 23, pages 1480–1489 (2009)Cite this article

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Ubiquitination plays a major role in many aspects of hematopoiesis. Alterations in ubiquitination have been implicated in hematological cancer. The ubiquitin ligase Triad1 controls the proliferation of myeloid cells. Here, we show that two RING (really interesting new gene) domains in Triad1 differentially bind ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, UbcH7 and Ubc13. UbcH7 and Ubc13 are known to catalyze the formation of different poly-ubiquitin chains. These chains mark proteins for proteasomal degradation or serve crucial non-proteolytic functions, respectively. In line with the dual Ubc interactions, we observed that Triad1 catalyzes the formation of both types of ubiquitin chains. The biological relevance of this finding was studied by testing Triad1 mutants in myeloid clonogenic assays. Full-length Triad1 and three mutants lacking conserved domains inhibited myeloid colony formation by over 50%. Strikingly, deletion of either RING finger completely abrogated the inhibitory effect of Triad1 in clonogenic growth. We conclude that Triad1 exhibits dual ubiquitin ligase activity and that both of its RING domains are crucial to inhibit myeloid cell proliferation. The differential interaction of the RINGs with Ubcs strongly suggests that the ubiquitination mediated through UbcH7 as well as Ubc13 plays a major role in myelopoiesis.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Knipscheer, Dr Notenboom (Dutch Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for large-scale His-Triad1 production and Ubc13–Mms2, respectively, Dr Thomsom (Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) for sharing the Ubc13-flag construct, Dr Timmers (University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands) for UbcH7.

This work was supported by grants of the Dutch Cancer Society (KUN2001-2395) and the Vanderes Foundation.

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  2. J A Marteijn and L T van der Meer: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Central Hematology Laboratory, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    J A Marteijn, L T van der Meer, S M Noordermeer, W Wissink, P Jansen, T de Witte, J H Jansen & B A van der Reijden

  2. Division of Biochemistry, The Netherlands Cancer Institute and Center for Biomedical Genetics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    J J Smit, R G Hibbert & T K Sixma

  3. Department of Biochemistry, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    H G Swarts

  4. Department of Hematology, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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Marteijn, J., van der Meer, L., Smit, J. et al. The ubiquitin ligase Triad1 inhibits myelopoiesis through UbcH7 and Ubc13 interacting domains. Leukemia 23, 1480–1489 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2009.57

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