• Yiyang Wang
  • Shuai Fang
  • Geng Chen
  • Rakhee Ganti
  • Tatiana A. Chernova
  • Li Zhou
  • Duc Duong
  • Hiroaki Kiyokawa
  • Ming Li
  • Bo Zhao
  • Natalia Shcherbik
  • Yury O. Chernoff
  • Jun Yin

Attachment of the ubiquitin (UB) peptide to proteins via the E1-E2-E3 enzymatic machinery regulates diverse biological pathways, yet identification of the substrates of E3 UB ligases remains a challenge. We overcame this challenge by constructing an “orthogonal UB transfer” (OUT) cascade with yeast E3 Rsp5 to enable the exclusive delivery of an engineered UB (xUB) to Rsp5 and its substrate proteins. The OUT screen uncovered new Rsp5 substrates in yeast, such as Pal1 and Pal2, which are partners of endocytic protein Ede1, and chaperones Hsp70-Ssb, Hsp82, and Hsp104 that counteract protein misfolding and control self-perpetuating amyloid aggregates (prions), resembling those involved in human amyloid diseases. We showed that prion formation and effect of Hsp104 on prion propagation are modulated by Rsp5. Overall, our work demonstrates the capacity of OUT to deconvolute the complex E3-substrate relationships in crucial biological processes such as endocytosis and protein assembly disorders through protein ubiquitination. We generated a substrate profile of yeast E3 ubiquitin ligase Rsp5 by following the exclusive transfer of an engineered xUB to Rsp5 substrates through an orthogonal ubiquitin transfer (OUT) cascade. Based on ubiquitination of disaggregase Hsp104 by Rsp5, we uncovered a role for Rsp5 in regulating prion formation and propagation.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8
Pages (from-to)1283-1297.e8
Number of pages23
JournalCell Chemical Biology
Volume28
Issue number9
Early online date4 Mar 2021
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Sep 2021

    Scopus subject areas

  • Drug Discovery
  • Molecular Medicine
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biochemistry
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Pharmacology

    Research areas

  • amyloid, chaperone, endocytosis, Hsp104, protein engineering, Ssb, Sup35, ubiquitin ligase, yeast cell surface display, yeast prion, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/metabolism, Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology, Endocytosis, Prions/metabolism, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes/metabolism, Molecular Chaperones/metabolism, Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport/metabolism, Ubiquitin/metabolism, RIBOSOMAL-RNA, SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE, MESSENGER-RNA, GENE-EXPRESSION, HEXOSE TRANSPORTERS, RNA-POLYMERASE-II, CLATHRIN-MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS, PSI+ PRION, PROTEIN LIGASE, PROMOTER SYSTEM

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