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ArticleScientific reports2021

Mono-ubiquitination of Rabphilin 3A by UBE3A serves a non-degradative function.

Rossella Avagliano Trezza, A Mattijs Punt, Edwin Mientjes, Marlene van den Berg, F Isabella Zampeta, Ilona J de Graaf, Yana van der Weegen, Jeroen A A Demmers, Ype Elgersma, Ben Distel

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rossella Avagliano Trezza *Department of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1857-5449
A Mattijs Punt *Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-7666
Edwin MientjesDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Marlene van den BergDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
F Isabella ZampetaDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0419-5864
Ilona J de GraafDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Yana van der WeegenDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jeroen A A DemmersProteomics Center, Erasmus MC, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Ype ElgersmaDepartment of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, 3015 CN, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. y.elgersma@erasmusmc.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3758-1297
Ben DistelDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. b.distel@amsterdamumc.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3046-205X
Erasmus MC · NLAmsterdam University Medical Centers · NL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Angelman syndrome (AS) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder caused by brain-specific loss of UBE3A, an E3 ubiquitin protein ligase. A substantial number of possible ubiquitination targets of UBE3A have been identified, although evidence of being direct UBE3A substrates is often lacking. Here we identified the synaptic protein Rabphilin-3a (RPH3A), an effector of the RAB3A small GTPase involved in axonal vesicle priming and docking, as a ubiquitination target of UBE3A. We found that the UBE3A and RAB3A binding sites on RPH3A partially overlap, and that RAB3A binding to RPH3A interferes with UBE3A binding. We confirmed previous observations that RPH3A levels are critically dependent on RAB3A binding but, rather surprisingly, we found that the reduced RPH3A levels in the absence of RAB3A are not mediated by UBE3A. Indeed, while we found that RPH3A is ubiquitinated in a UBE3A-dependent manner in mouse brain, UBE3A mono-ubiquitinates RPH3A and does not facilitate RPH3A degradation. Moreover, we found that an AS-linked UBE3A missense mutation in the UBE3A region that interacts with RPH3A, abrogates the interaction with RPH3A. In conclusion, our results identify RPH3A as a novel target of UBE3A and suggest that UBE3A-dependent ubiquitination of RPH3A serves a non-degradative function.

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