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Huwe1-mediated ubiquitylation of dishevelled defines a negative feedback loop in the wnt signaling pathway.

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DE GROOT Reinoud E. A. GANJI Sri Ranjani BERNATÍK Ondřej LLOYD-LEWIS Bethan SEIPEL Katja ŠEDOVÁ Kateřina ZDRÁHAL Zbyněk DHOPLE Vishnu M. DALE Trevor C KORSWAGEN Hendrik C. BRYJA Vítězslav

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Science Signaling
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Faculty of Science

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Web http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Huwe1-mediated+ubiquitylation+of+Dvl+defines+a+novel+negative+feedback+loop+in+the+Wnt+signaling+pathway.
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2004985
Field Genetics and molecular biology
Keywords Huwe1-mediated ubiquitylation of dishevelled defines a negative feedback loop in the wnt signaling pathway.
Description Wnt signaling plays a central role in development, adult tissue homeostasis, and cancer. Several steps in the canonical Wnt/beta-catenin signaling cascade are regulated by ubiquitylation, a protein modification that influences the stability, subcellular localization, or interactions of target proteins. To identify regulators of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway, we performed an RNA interference screen in Caenorhabditis elegans and identified the HECT domain-containing ubiquitin ligase EEL-1 as an inhibitor of Wnt signaling. In human embryonic kidney 293T cells, knockdown of the EEL-1 homolog Huwe1 enhanced the activity of a Wnt reporter in cells stimulated with Wnt3a or in cells that overexpressed casein kinase 1 (CK1) or a constitutively active mutant of the Wnt co-receptor low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 6 (LRP6). However, knockdown of Huwe1 had no effect on reporter gene expression in cells expressing constitutively active beta-catenin, suggesting that Huwe1 inhibited Wnt signaling upstream of beta-catenin and downstream of CK1 and LRP6. Huwe1 bound to and ubiquitylated the cytoplasmic Wnt pathway component Dishevelled (Dvl) in a Wnt3a- and CK1 epsilon-dependent manner. Mass spectrometric analysis showed that Huwe1 promoted K63-linked, but not K48-linked, polyubiquitination of Dvl. Instead of targeting Dvl for degradation, ubiquitylation of the DIX domain of Dvl by Huwe1 inhibited Dvl multimerization, which is necessary for its function. Our findings indicate that Huwe1 is part of an evolutionarily conserved negative feedback loop in the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway.
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