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. 1990 May 1;267(3):751–757. doi: 10.1042/bj2670751

Auto-ubiquitination of ubiquitin-activating enzymes from chicken breast muscle.

J E Arnold 1, W Gevers 1
PMCID: PMC1131362  PMID: 2160236

Abstract

A soluble ubiquitin-depleted fraction from chicken skeletal muscle (fraction II), when incubated at neutral pH for several hours with 125I-ubiquitin and ATP, formed small amounts of a ubiquitin derivative (Mr 115,000) of the ubiquitin-activating enzyme E1 as well as certain similarly modified E2 species (Mr 37,000, 34,000 and 24,000). Treatment of such mixtures with NaOH during the incubations, even at early times, greatly enhanced the appearance of these entities; up to two-thirds of the thiolesters of ubiquitin bound to these proteins before alkali treatment were thus converted. The bonds involved had properties compatible with their being peptidic in nature, suggesting that auto-ubiquitination had occurred in each case. The protease inhibitor and alkylating agent tosyl-lysylchloromethane ('TLCK'), when preincubated at 50 microM with fraction II for 2 h at 37 degrees C before the addition of 125I-ubiquitin and ATP, promoted the subsequent auto-ubiquitination of E1 and inhibited its adenylate-forming and thiolester-transferring activities. The findings have a bearing on the physiological substrate- and site-specificity of ubiquitin-conjugating reactions.

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