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Vol. 12, Issue 12, 3839-3851, December 2001

APC2 Cullin Protein and APC11 RING Protein Comprise the Minimal Ubiquitin Ligase Module of the Anaphase-promoting Complex

Zhanyun Tang,* Bing Li,* Rajnish Bharadwaj,* Haizhen Zhu,* Engin Özkan,dagger Kevin Hakala,* Johann Deisenhofer,dagger Dagger and Hongtao Yu*§

 *Departments of Pharmacology and  dagger Biochemistry, and  Dagger Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390-9041

In mitosis, the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) regulates the onset of sister-chromatid separation and exit from mitosis by mediating the ubiquitination and degradation of the securin protein and mitotic cyclins. With the use of a baculoviral expression system, we have reconstituted the ubiquitin ligase activity of human APC. In combination with Ubc4 or UbcH10, a heterodimeric complex of APC2 and APC11 is sufficient to catalyze the ubiquitination of human securin and cyclin B1. However, the minimal APC2/11 ubiquitin ligase module does not possess substrate specificity, because it also ubiquitinates the destruction box deletion mutants of securin and cyclin B1. Both APC11 and UbcH10 bind to the C-terminal cullin homology domain of APC2, whereas Ubc4 interacts with APC11 directly. Zn2+-binding and mutagenesis experiments indicate that APC11 binds Zn2+ at a 1:3 M ratio. Unlike the two Zn2+ ions of the canonical RING-finger motif, the third Zn2+ ion of APC11 is not essential for its ligase activity. Surprisingly, with Ubc4 as the E2 enzyme, Zn2+ ions alone are sufficient to catalyze the ubiquitination of cyclin B1. Therefore, the Zn2+ ions of the RING finger family of ubiquitin ligases may be directly involved in catalysis.


§ Corresponding author. E-mail address: hongtao.yu{at}utsouthwestern.edu.


Molecular Biology of the Cell
Vol. 12, 3839-3851, December 2001
Copyright © 2001 by The American Society for Cell Biology



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