Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Oligomerization-primed coiled-coil domain interaction with Ubc13 confers processivity to TRAF6 ubiquitin ligase activity

  • Lin Hu,
  • Jiafeng Xu,
  • Xiaomei Xie,
  • Yiwen Zhou,
  • Panfeng Tao,
  • Haidong Li,
  • Xu Han,
  • Chong Wang,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Pinglong Xu,
  • Dante Neculai,
  • Zongping Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01290-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Ubiquitin ligase TRAF6 catalyzes assembly of free polyubiquitin chains for TAK1 activation in the IL-1R/TLR pathways, but the mechanism underlying its processivity is unclear. Here, the authors show that TRAF6 coiled-coil oligomerization domain primes its interaction with Ubc13/Ub~Ubc13 to confer processivity.