Journal
JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 126, Issue 9, Pages 2042-2051Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.122945
Keywords
RAD6; RNF168; Ubiquitination; DNA damage response
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- National Institutes of Health [CA132755, CA130899]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81171954]
- Department of Defense
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Protein ubiquitination plays an important role in initiating the DNA damage response. Following DNA damage, E2 ubiquitin conjugating enzymes are crucial for catalyzing substrate ubiquitination that recruits downstream DNA repair factors to DNA lesions. To identify novel E2 conjugating enzymes important for initiating the DNA-damage-induced ubiquitination cascade, we screened most of the known E2 enzymes and found that RAD6A and RAD6B function together with RNF168 in the ionizing radiation (IR)-induced DNA damage response. Similarly to RNF168-deficient cells, RAD6A- or RAD6B-deficient cells exhibit a reduction in DNA-damage-induced protein ubiquitination. Correspondingly, DNA-damage-induced foci formation of DNA damage repair proteins, such as BRCA1 and 53BP1, is impaired in the absence of RAD6A or RAD6B. Moreover, the RNF168-RAD6 complex targeted histone H1.2 for ubiquitination in vitro and regulated DNA-damage-induced histone H1.2 ubiquitination in vivo. Collectively, these data demonstrate that RNF168, in complex with RAD6A or RAD6B, is activated in the DNA-damage-induced protein ubiquitination cascade.
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