RESUMO
In mammals, â¼100 deubiquitinases act on â¼20,000 intracellular ubiquitination sites. Deubiquitinases are commonly regarded as constitutively active, with limited regulatory and targeting capacity. The BRCA1-A and BRISC complexes serve in DNA double-strand break repair and immune signaling and contain the lysine-63 linkage-specific BRCC36 subunit that is functionalized by scaffold subunits ABRAXAS and ABRO1, respectively. The molecular basis underlying BRCA1-A and BRISC function is currently unknown. Here we show that in the BRCA1-A complex structure, ABRAXAS integrates the DNA repair protein RAP80 and provides a high-affinity binding site that sequesters the tumor suppressor BRCA1 away from the break site. In the BRISC structure, ABRO1 binds SHMT2α, a metabolic enzyme enabling cancer growth in hypoxic environments, which we find prevents BRCC36 from binding and cleaving ubiquitin chains. Our work explains modularity in the BRCC36 DUB family, with different adaptor subunits conferring diversified targeting and regulatory functions.
Assuntos
Proteína BRCA1/genética , Reparo do DNA/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Enzimas Desubiquitinantes/genética , Chaperonas de Histonas/genética , Neoplasias/genética , Sítios de Ligação/genética , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Núcleo Celular/genética , Núcleo Celular/imunologia , Citoplasma/genética , Citoplasma/imunologia , Quebras de DNA de Cadeia Dupla , Reparo do DNA/imunologia , Enzimas Desubiquitinantes/imunologia , Células HeLa , Humanos , Imunidade Celular/genética , Complexos Multiproteicos/química , Complexos Multiproteicos/genética , Neoplasias/imunologia , Proteínas Associadas à Matriz Nuclear/genética , Ligação Proteica/genética , Ubiquitina/genética , Proteases Específicas de Ubiquitina/genética , Ubiquitinação/genéticaRESUMO
Abraxas brother protein 1 (ABRO1) is a subunit of the deubiquitinating enzyme BRCC36-containing isopeptidase complex and plays important roles in cellular responses to stress by interacting with its binding partners, such as ubiquitin-specific peptidase 7, p53, activating transcription factor 4, THAP-domain containing 5, and serine hydroxymethyltransferase. However, the transcriptional regulation of ABRO1 remains unexplored. In this study, we identified and characterized the core regulatory elements of the human ABRO1 gene and mapped them to the ABRO1 promoter region. Additionally, 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends revealed that the transcriptional start site (TSS) was located -13 bp upstream from the start codon. Reporter gene, chromatin immunoprecipitation, and electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated that ABRO1 transcription was regulated through cis-acting elements located in the region -89 to -59 bp upstream of the ABRO1 TSS and that these elements were targeted by yin yang 1 transcription factor (YY1). Moreover, YY1 overexpression increased human ABRO1 mRNA and protein expression, and small-interfering RNA-mediated downregulation of YY1 attenuated ABRO1 expression. These results suggested that YY1 positively regulated human ABRO1 expression by binding to cis-acting elements located in the ABRO1 TSS.