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Mol. Biol. Cell 10.1091/mbc.E06-08-0753

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Submitted on August 25, 2006
Revised on October 11, 2006
Accepted on October 18, 2006

The NHR1 Domain of Neuralized Binds Delta and Mediates Delta Trafficking and Notch Signaling

Cosimo Commisso and Gabrielle L. Boulianne

The Hospital for Sick Children, Program in Developmental Biology and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8

Monitoring Editor: William Tansey

Notch signaling, which is crucial to metazoan development, requires endocytosis of Notch ligands, such as Delta and Serrate. Neuralized is a plasma membrane-associated ubiquitin ligase that is required for neural development and Delta internalization. Neuralized is comprised of three domains that include a C-terminal RING domain and two Neuralized Homology Repeat (NHR) domains. All three domains are conserved between organisms, suggesting that these regions of Neuralized are functionally important. While the Neuralized RING domain has been shown to be required for Delta ubiquitination, the function of the NHR domains remains elusive. Here we show that neuralized1, a well-characterized neurogenic allele, exhibits a mutation in a conserved residue of the NHR1 domain that results in mislocalization of Neuralized and defects in Delta binding and internalization. Furthermore, we describe a novel isoform of Neuralized and show that it is recruited to the plasma membrane by Delta and that this is mediated by the NHR1 domain. Finally, we show that the NHR1 domain of Neuralized is both necessary and sufficient to bind Delta. Altogether, our data demonstrates that NHR domains can function in facilitating protein-protein interactions and in the case of Neuralized, mediate binding to its ubiquitination target, Delta.

Address correspondence to: Gabrielle L. Boulianne (gboul{at}sickkids.on.ca)




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