Damage-Induced Ubiquitylation of Human RNA Polymerase II by the Ubiquitin Ligase Nedd4, but Not Cockayne Syndrome Proteins or BRCA1
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UV-induced RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) ubiquitylation and degradation are important DNA damage responses, conserved from yeast to man. However, the identity of the human enzymes that mediate these responses has been unclear. Previously, Cockayne syndrome proteins and BRCA1 were implicated in the process. Surprisingly, using a recently developed assay system, we found that these factors are not directly involved in RNAPII ubiquitylation. The defects in RNAPII ubiquitylation observed in CS cells are caused by an indirect mechanism: these cells shut down transcription in response to DNA damage, effectively depleting the substrate for ubiquitylation, namely elongating RNAPII. Instead, we identified Nedd4 as an E3 that associates with and ubiquitylates RNAPII in response to UV-induced DNA damage in human cells. Nedd4-dependent RNAPII ubiquitylation could also be reconstituted with highly purified proteins. Together, our results indicate that transcriptional arrest at DNA lesions triggers Nedd4 recruitment and RNAPII ubiquitylation.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Molecular Cell |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 386-397 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISSN | 1097-2765 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 9 Nov 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from Cancer Research UK, the EU, and the Association for International Cancer Research (to J.Q.S.). We thank Drs. Stefan Roberts, Pete Snyder, Paul Biensiasz, Hideki Kobayashi, Tony Pawson, Annie Angers, Fiona McDonald, Allan Weissman, Takeshi Imamura, Stanley Cohen, and Azzedine Atfi for kind gifts of plasmids. We thank Stefan Sigurdsson for experimental help and Svejstrup lab members for helpful discussion. Peter Verrijzer and Tomas Lindahl are thanked for comments on the manuscript.
- DNA, PROTEINS
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