Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology – Enzyme – proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for... – Transferase other than ribonuclease
Patent
1995-10-04
1999-12-14
Prouty, Rebecca E.
Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Enzyme , proenzyme; compositions thereof; process for...
Transferase other than ribonuclease
536 232, C12N 910, C12N 1554
Patent
active
060016191
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to the discovery in eukaryotic cells of a ubiquitin ligases. These proteins are referred to herein collectively as "pub" proteins for Protein UBiquitin ligase, and individually as h-pub1, h-pub2 and s-pub1 for the human pub1 and pub2 and Schizosaccharomyces pombe pub1 clones, respectively. Pub1 proteins apparently play a role in the ubiquitination of the mitotic activating tyrosine phosphatase cdc25, and thus they may regulate the progression of proliferation in eukaryotic cells by activating the cyclin dependent kinase complexes. In S. pombe, disruption of s-pub1 elevates the level of cdc25 protein in vivo increasing the activity of the tyrosine kinases, wee1 and mik1, required to arrest the cell-cycle. Loss of wee1 function in an S. pombe cell carrying a disruption in the s-pub1 gene results in a lethal premature entry into mitosis; such lethal phenotype can be rescued by the loss of cdc25 function. An ubiquitin thioester adduct of s-pub1 can be isolated from S. pombe and disruption of s-pub1 dramatically reduces ubiquitination of cdc25.
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Beach David
Caligiuri Maureen G.
Nefsky Bradley
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Prouty Rebecca E.
Varma Anita
Vincent Matthew P.
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