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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
The E3 ligase RNF8 regulates KU80 removal and NHEJ repair.
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 2012 January 23
The ubiquitination cascade has a key role in the assembly of repair and signaling proteins at sites of double-strand DNA breaks. The E3 ubiquitin ligase RING finger protein 8 (RNF8) triggers the initial ubiquitination at double-strand DNA breaks, whereas sustained ubiquitination requires the downstream E3 ligase RING finger protein 168 (RNF168). It is not known whether RNF8 and RNF168 have discrete substrates and/or form different ubiquitin chains. Here we show that RNF168 acts with the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme E2 13 (UBC13) and specifically synthesizes Lys63-linked chains, whereas RNF8 primarily forms Lys48-linked chains on chromatin, which promote substrate degradation. We also find that RNF8 regulates the abundance of the nonhomologous end-joining (NHEJ) repair protein KU80 at sites of DNA damage, and that RNF8 depletion results in prolonged retention of KU80 at damage sites and impaired nonhomologous end-joining repair. These findings reveal a distinct feature of RNF8 and indicate the involvement of the ubiquitination-mediated degradation pathway in DNA damage repair.
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