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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2019

Identification and Characterization of Mutations in Ubiquitin Required for Non-covalent Dimer Formation.

Mads Gabrielsen, Lori Buetow, Dominika Kowalczyk, Wei Zhang, Sachdev S Sidhu, Danny T Huang

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Inhibiting Infectious Bronchitis Virus PLpro Using Ubiquitin Variants.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
    Article
  2. Ubiquitin ligases: guardians of mammalian development.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2022
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mads GabrielsenCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.
Lori BuetowCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.
Dominika KowalczykCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK.
Wei ZhangDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada.
Sachdev S SidhuDonnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada.
Danny T HuangCancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK. Electronic address: d.huang@beatson.gla.ac.uk.
Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute · GBUniversity of Glasgow · GBUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

Cancer Research UK 23278Cancer Research UK A23278
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ubiquitin (Ub) is a small protein that post-translationally modifies a variety of substrates in eukaryotic cells to modulate substrate function. The ability of Ub to interact with numerous protein domains makes Ub an attractive scaffold for engineering ubiquitin variants (UbVs) with high target specificity. Previously, we identified a UbV that formed a non-covalent stable dimer via a β-strand exchange, and in the current work we identified and characterized the minimal substitutions in the primary sequence of Ub required to form a higher ordered complex. Using solution angle scattering and X-ray crystallography, we show that a single substitution of residue Gly10 to either Ala or Val is sufficient to convert Ub from a monomer to a dimer. We also investigate contributions to dimer formation by the residues in the surrounding sequence. These results can be used to develop next-generation phage-display libraries of UbVs to engineer new interfaces for protein recognition.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SubstitutionCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularProtein MultimerizationProtein Structure, SecondaryUbiquitinUbiquitinationUbiquitindimermonomernon-covalentSAXSubiquitinubiquitin variantsX-ray crystallography

Identifiers

PMID31303481
PMCPMC6720194
OpenAlexW2958903980

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