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Vol. 15, Issue 3, 1124-1133, March 2004

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Rac GTPase Instructs Nuclear Factor-B Activation by Conveying the SCF Complex and IkB to the Ruffling Membranes

Laurent Boyer ^*, Sara Travaglione  , Loredana Falzano  , Nils C. Gauthier ^*, Michel R. Popoff , Emmanuel Lemichez ^*, Carla Fiorentini   ^||, and Alessia Fabbri   ^|| ¶

^* Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U452, IFR50, Faculté de Médecine, 06107 Nice, France; Laboratory of Ultrastructures, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy; and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Anaerobies, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris, France

Submitted May 15, 2003; Revised August 13, 2003; Accepted October 24, 2003
Monitoring Editor: Mark Ginsberg

Nuclear factor-B (NF-B) is a ubiquitously expressed transcription factor that plays a central role in directing a vast range of cellular functions. Its activation is controlled by the Rac GTPase and relies on the coordinated cooperation of the E3–ligase complex SCF^TrCP, composed by Skp-1/Cullin-1, Rbx/Roc1, and the -TrCP proteins. Recently, Cullin-1 has been reported to form a complex with the activated Rac GTPase. Here, we show that the specific activation of the Rac GTPase, besides directing its own positioning, induces the relocalization of the SCF component Cullin-1 to the ruffling membranes. This occurred only if the ruffles were stimulated by the Rac GTPase and was accompanied by the repositioning to the same intracellular compartment of the SCF protein Skp-1 and the ubiquitin-like molecule Nedd-8. The SCF substrate IkB was also directed to the ruffling membranes in a Rac-dependent way. The novelty of these findings is in respect to the demonstration that the correct positioning at the ruffling membranes is crucial for the subsequent series of events that leads to IkB proteasomal degradation and the resultant activation of NF-B. Consequently, this points to the role of Rac as a docking molecule in NF-B activation.

Present address: Department of Drug Research and Evaluation,

Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00161 Rome, Italy.

^|| C.F. and A.F. are principal investigators.

^¶ Corresponding author. E-mail address: alessia.fabbri{at}iss.it.

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