1. Nonhydrolyzable ubiquitin-isopeptide isosteres as deubiquitinating enzyme probes.
- Author
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Shanmugham A, Fish A, Luna-Vargas MP, Faesen AC, El Oualid F, Sixma TK, and Ovaa H
- Subjects
- Amino Acid Sequence, Models, Molecular, Molecular Sequence Data, Peptides chemistry, Protein Conformation, Substrate Specificity, Ubiquitin chemistry, Biosensing Techniques methods, Endopeptidases metabolism, Peptides metabolism, Ubiquitin metabolism
- Abstract
We demonstrate that oxime ligation is an efficient, straightforward, and generally applicable strategy for generating nonhydrolyzable ubiquitin (Ub)-isopeptide isosteres. We synthesized nonhydrolyzable K48- and K63-linked Ub-isopeptide isosteres to investigate the selectivity of deubiquitinating enzymes for specific linkages employing surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. The results indicate that deubiquitinating enzymes specifically recognize the local peptide sequence flanking Ub-branched lysine residues in target proteins. The described strategy allows the systematic investigation of sequence requirements for substrate selectivity of deubiquitinating enzymes.
- Published
- 2010
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