Journal
BIOLOGY OPEN
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages 777-785Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/bio.018440
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Smc5/6 complex; SUMO; Ubc9; PIAS E3 SUMO ligases
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- Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Genetics [MOP-82736, MOP-137062]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [418122]
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The Smc5/6 complex in Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains six essential non-Smc elements, Nse1-6. With the exception of Nse2 (also known as Mms21), which is an E3 small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) ligase, very little is understood about the role of these components or their contribution to Smc5/6 functionality. Our characterization of Nse5 establishes a previously unidentified relationship between the Smc5/6 complex and factors of the SUMO pathway. Nse5 physically associates with the E2 conjugating enzyme, Ubc9, where contacts are stabilized by non-covalent interactions with SUMO. SUMO also mediates the interactions between Nse5 and the two PIAS family E3 SUMO ligases, Siz1 and Siz2. Cells carrying the nse5-ts1 allele or lacking either SIZ1 or SIZ2 exhibit a reduction in Smc5 sumoylation upon MMS treatment and demonstrate functional redundancy for SUMO mediated events in the presence of DNA damage. Overall, given the extensive connection between Nse5 and components of the SUMO pathway, we speculate that one function of the Smc5/6 complex might be as a scaffold center to enable sumoylation events in budding yeast.
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