Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire.
Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) catalyze the ubiquitylation of substrates many of which are degraded by the 26S proteasome. Their modular architecture enables recognition of numerous substrates via exchangeable substrate receptors that competitively bind to a cullin scaffold with high affinity....
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| author | Ronny Straube Meera Shah Dietrich Flockerzi Dieter A Wolf |
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| description | Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) catalyze the ubiquitylation of substrates many of which are degraded by the 26S proteasome. Their modular architecture enables recognition of numerous substrates via exchangeable substrate receptors that competitively bind to a cullin scaffold with high affinity. Due to the plasticity of these interactions there is ongoing uncertainty how cells maintain a flexible CRL repertoire in view of changing substrate loads. Based on a series of in vivo and in vitro studies, different groups proposed that the exchange of substrate receptors is mediated by a protein exchange factor named Cand1. Here, we have performed mathematical modeling to provide a quantitative underpinning of this hypothesis. First we show that the exchange activity of Cand1 necessarily leads to a trade-off between high ligase activity and fast receptor exchange. Supported by measurements we argue that this trade-off yields an optimal Cand1 concentration in cells where the time scale for substrate degradation becomes minimal. In a second step we show through simulations that (i) substrates bias the CRL repertoire leading to preferential assembly of ligases for which substrates are available and (ii) differences in binding affinities or substrate receptor abundances create a temporal hierarchy for the degradation of substrates. Finally, we compare the Cand1-mediated exchange cycle with an alternative architecture lacking Cand1 which indicates superiority of a system with exchange factor if substrate receptors bind substrates and the cullin scaffold in a random order. Together, our results provide general constraints for the operating regimes of molecular exchange systems and suggest that Cand1 endows the CRL network with the properties of an "on demand" system allowing cells to dynamically adjust their CRL repertoire to fluctuating substrate abundances. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2d331ef288a54ae08817fb3043afd06c2022-12-21T19:21:49ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582017-11-011311e100586910.1371/journal.pcbi.1005869Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire.Ronny StraubeMeera ShahDietrich FlockerziDieter A WolfCullin-RING ubiquitin ligases (CRLs) catalyze the ubiquitylation of substrates many of which are degraded by the 26S proteasome. Their modular architecture enables recognition of numerous substrates via exchangeable substrate receptors that competitively bind to a cullin scaffold with high affinity. Due to the plasticity of these interactions there is ongoing uncertainty how cells maintain a flexible CRL repertoire in view of changing substrate loads. Based on a series of in vivo and in vitro studies, different groups proposed that the exchange of substrate receptors is mediated by a protein exchange factor named Cand1. Here, we have performed mathematical modeling to provide a quantitative underpinning of this hypothesis. First we show that the exchange activity of Cand1 necessarily leads to a trade-off between high ligase activity and fast receptor exchange. Supported by measurements we argue that this trade-off yields an optimal Cand1 concentration in cells where the time scale for substrate degradation becomes minimal. In a second step we show through simulations that (i) substrates bias the CRL repertoire leading to preferential assembly of ligases for which substrates are available and (ii) differences in binding affinities or substrate receptor abundances create a temporal hierarchy for the degradation of substrates. Finally, we compare the Cand1-mediated exchange cycle with an alternative architecture lacking Cand1 which indicates superiority of a system with exchange factor if substrate receptors bind substrates and the cullin scaffold in a random order. Together, our results provide general constraints for the operating regimes of molecular exchange systems and suggest that Cand1 endows the CRL network with the properties of an "on demand" system allowing cells to dynamically adjust their CRL repertoire to fluctuating substrate abundances.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005869 |
| spellingShingle | Ronny Straube Meera Shah Dietrich Flockerzi Dieter A Wolf Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire. |
| title_full | Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire. |
| title_fullStr | Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire. |
| title_short | Trade-off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin-RING ubiquitin ligase repertoire. |
| title_sort | trade off and flexibility in the dynamic regulation of the cullin ring ubiquitin ligase repertoire |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005869 |
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