F-Box Only Protein 31 (FBXO31) Negatively Regulates p38 Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase (MAPK) Signaling by Mediating Lysine 48-linked Ubiquitination and Degradation of Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase 6 (MKK6) |
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Authors: | Jia Liu Liang Han Bin Li Jie Yang Michael S. Y. Huen Xin Pan Sai Wah Tsao Annie L. M. Cheung |
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Affiliation: | From the ‡Department of Anatomy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China and ;the §Center for Molecular Medicine, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 |
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Abstract: | The p38 MAPK signal transduction pathway plays an important role in inflammatory and stress responses. MAPKK6 (MKK6), a dual specificity protein kinase, is a p38 activator. Activation of the MKK6-p38 pathway is kept in check by multiple layers of regulations, including autoinhibition, dimerization, scaffold proteins, and Lys-63-linked polyubiquitination. However, the mechanisms underlying deactivation of MKK6-p38, which is crucial for maintaining the magnitude and duration of signal transduction, are not well understood. Lys-48-linked ubiquitination, which marks substrates for proteasomal degradation, is an important negative posttranslational regulatory machinery for signal pathway transduction. Here we report that the accumulation of F-box only protein 31 (FBXO31), a component of Skp1·Cul1·F-box protein E3 ligase, negatively regulated p38 activation in cancer cells upon genotoxic stresses. Our results show that FBXO31 binds to MKK6 and mediates its Lys-48-linked polyubiquitination and degradation, thereby functioning as a negative regulator of MKK6-p38 signaling and protecting cells from stress-induced cell apoptosis. Taken together, our findings uncover a new mechanism of deactivation of MKK6-p38 and substantiate a novel regulatory role of FBXO31 in stress response. |
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Keywords: | Apoptosis Cancer p38 MAPK Protein Degradation Stress Response Ubiquitination F-box Protein FBXO31 MKK6 |
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