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ArticlePLoS computational biology2011

Switches, excitable responses and oscillations in the Ring1B/Bmi1 ubiquitination system.

Lan K Nguyen, Javier Muñoz-García, Helene Maccario, Aaron Ciechanover, Walter Kolch, Boris N Kholodenko

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Lan K NguyenSystems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.
Javier Muñoz-García
Helene Maccario
Aaron Ciechanover
Walter Kolch
Boris N Kholodenko
University College Dublin · IETechnion – Israel Institute of Technology · IL

Funding

Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling NetworksR01GM059570 · NIGMS · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · PI HOEK, JOANNES B · 2000 to 2010
$3.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM059570NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM059570
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In an active, self-ubiquitinated state, the Ring1B ligase monoubiquitinates histone H2A playing a critical role in Polycomb-mediated gene silencing. Following ubiquitination by external ligases, Ring1B is targeted for proteosomal degradation. Using biochemical data and computational modeling, we show that the Ring1B ligase can exhibit abrupt switches, overshoot transitions and self-perpetuating oscillations between its distinct ubiquitination and activity states. These different Ring1B states display canonical or multiply branched, atypical polyubiquitin chains and involve association with the Polycomb-group protein Bmi1. Bistable switches and oscillations may lead to all-or-none histone H2A monoubiquitination rates and result in discrete periods of gene (in)activity. Switches, overshoots and oscillations in Ring1B catalytic activity and proteosomal degradation are controlled by the abundances of Bmi1 and Ring1B, and the activities and abundances of external ligases and deubiquitinases, such as E6-AP and USP7.

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Computer SimulationGene SilencingNuclear ProteinsPolycomb-Group ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexRepressor ProteinsUbiquitinUbiquitinationUbiquitin-Protein LigasesNuclear ProteinsPolycomb-Group ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexRepressor ProteinsUbiquitinUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID22194680
PMCPMC3240587
OpenAlexW2164001388

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