The Cullin 3 substrate adaptor KLHL20 mediates DAPK ubiquitination to control interferon responses
Open Access
- 13 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in The EMBO Journal
- Vol. 29 (10), 1748-1761
- https://doi.org/10.1038/emboj.2010.62
Abstract
Death‐associated protein kinase (DAPK) was identified as a mediator of interferon (IFN)‐induced cell death. How IFN controls DAPK activation remains largely unknown. Here, we identify the BTB–Kelch protein KLHL20 as a negative regulator of DAPK. KLHL20 binds DAPK and Cullin 3 (Cul3) via its Kelch‐repeat domain and BTB domain, respectively. The KLHL20–Cul3–ROC1 E3 ligase complex promotes DAPK polyubiquitination, thereby inducing the proteasomal degradation of DAPK. Accordingly, depletion of KLHL20 diminishes DAPK ubiquitination and degradation. The KLHL20‐mediated DAPK ubiquitination is suppressed in cells receiving IFN‐α or IFN‐γ, which induces an enrichment/sequestration of KLHL20 in the PML nuclear bodies, thereby separating KLHL20 from DAPK. Consequently, IFN triggers the stabilization of DAPK. This mechanism of DAPK stabilization is crucial for determining IFN responsiveness of tumor cells and contributes to IFN‐induced autophagy. This study identifies KLHL20–Cul3–ROC1 as an E3 ligase for DAPK ubiquitination and reveals a regulatory mechanism of DAPK, through blocking its accessibility to this E3 ligase, in IFN‐induced apoptotic and autophagic death. Our findings may be relevant to the problem of IFN resistance in cancer therapy.Keywords
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