Role of Ubiquitin in signalling pathways basically Proteolytic pathway involved in degradation of non functional proteins produced during stress conditions.
2. What happens during Stress?
An external factor that exerts a disadvantageous influence on plant
Protein damage is a key event in the stress condition
protein damage can be highly toxic
causes the loss of function of that specific molecule
the improper exposure of hydrophobic amino acid side chains, lead to the
aggregation of other proteins.
3. How plants face protein degradation problem?
inducing the transcription of a set of genes whose products,
known as stress proteins, enhance survival under stress
conditions
Levels of damaged proteins can be reduced in two ways
On the one hand, specific molecular chaperones can prevent
the aggregation of damaged proteins, and catalyze their
refolding
On the other hand, specific proteases can degrade damaged
proteins
5. Ubiquitin
Consists of 76 amino
acids, 8.5 kDa
Found in all eukaryotic
cells (ubiquitously)
Highly Conserved
Used in post-
translational
modification
6. Small protein with big function
small, heat-stable, compact globular protein
(76 AA)
Found only in eukaryotic organisms
Highly conserved
10. Monoubiquitination
Adds one ubiquitin molecule to one substrate
protein residue
Required before a poly chain can begin to form
Membrane Trafficking, Transcription, Endocytosis
11.
12. Polyubiquitination
Requires one Ub linked to substrate before chain
begins to form.
Chains made by linking Glysine residue of Ub to a
Lysine of a Ub bound to a substrate.
Linking to different position on Ub leads to different
results.
13. Lysine 48-linked polyubiquitination
Linked by 48th amino acid
(Lysine)
Marks proteins for
destruction
Requires at least 4 Ub to be
recognized by proteasome
14.
15. E3 ligases
The most varied of the three enzymes.
Each E3 can attach to many different substrate proteins.
Different E2, E3 pairings will recognize different proteins by
distinct degradation signals.
16. 26S Proteasome
Abundant in nucleus
and cytoplasm
destroys proteins
marked by Ubiquitin
through Lysine 48-linked
polyubiquitination
17. 26S Proteasome
Consists of central
hollow cylinder (20S)
4 stacked “rings” of 7
proteins each
Capped by regulatory
particles (19S) that
recognize ubiquitin
through ubiquitin
binding domains (UBDs)
19. Deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB)
Around 100 in the human
genome
Some cleave the whole
chain, some only cleave a
set amount of Ubs
DUB USP5 selectively
binds a 4-ubiquitin chain
and severs it.
20. Regulation of Protein Degradation
One means of
controlling
Ubiquitination is
regulating the
activation of E3 ligases.
Editor's Notes
There are only 3 differences in the sequence when Ub from yeast is compared to human Ub. This strong sequence conservation suggests that the vast majority of amino acids that make up Ub are essential as apparently any mutations that have occurred over evolutionary history have been removed by natural selection.
Titin , largest protein - connectin, molecular spring >30,000 AA
7 lysines – epsilon amino group participates in isopeptide bond
C-terminal glycine binds to epsilon amino group of lysine.
Ubiquitin Binding Domains exist to interpret signals from Ubiquitinated substrates. ~20 different UBDs exist to bind to different specific shapes of Ubiquitin chains and different monoubiquitinated locations on a protein..
This polarised residue lowers the pKa of the cysteine, allowing it to perform a nucleophilic attack on the isopeptide bond between the ubiquitin C-terminus and the substrate lysine.
Unanchored M1-linked ubiquitin chains are also the primary gene product of several genes transcribed in response to genotoxic stress. Normally, however, levels of M1-linked ubiquitin chains in cells are very low, in part because the primary gene product is cleaved to monomeric ubiquitin as it’s being transcribed at the ribosome and because of the presence of a large amount of USP5, the enzyme responsible for disassembling polyubiquitin intermediates that might otherwise accumulate in the cell.