UBA protein domain

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The NMR structure of a UBA domain from the protein ubiquilin-1 (top, cyan) bound to ubiquitin (bottom, orange), illustrating the three-helix bundle structure of the UBA domain. Isoleucine 44, the center of a hydrophobic patch on the ubiquitin surface that interacts with a number of ubiquitin-binding domains, is highlighted in blue. Rendered from PDB: 2JY6 ​. [1]
Identifiers
SymbolUBA
Pfam PF00627
Pfam clan CL0214
ECOD 103.1.1
InterPro IPR015940
PROSITE PDOC50030
SCOP2 1efu / SCOPe / SUPFAM
CDD cd00194
Available protein structures:
Pfam   structures / ECOD  
PDB RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum structure summary

Ubiquitin-associated (UBA) domains are protein domains that non-covalently interact with ubiquitin through protein-protein interactions. Ubiquitin is a small protein that is covalently linked to other proteins as part of intracellular signaling pathways, often as a signal for protein degradation. UBA domains are among the most common ubiquitin-binding domains. [2] [3]

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Function

Proteins containing UBA domains are involved in a variety of additional cell processes, such as nucleotide excision repair (NER), spindle pole body duplication, and cell growth. [4]

Protein degradation via the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) allows the cell to selectively negatively regulate intracellular proteins. Protein degradation helps to maintain protein quality control, signalling, and cell cycle progression. [5] [6] UBA has been proposed to limit ubiquitin chain elongation and to target polyubiquitinated proteins to the 26S proteasome for degradation. [7] They have been identified in modular proteins involved in protein trafficking, DNA repair, proteasomal degradation, and cell cycle regulation.

Structure

UBA domains have a common sequence motif of approximately 45 amino acid residues. [8] They fold into three-helix bundle structures. [2]

Examples

The structure of the prokaryotic elongation factor EF-Ts bound to EF-Tu. Rendered from PDB: 1EFU . PDB 1efu EBI.jpg
The structure of the prokaryotic elongation factor EF-Ts bound to EF-Tu. Rendered from PDB: 1EFU ​.

The human homologue of yeast Rad23A is one example of a nucleotide excision-repair protein that contains both an internal and a C-terminal UBA domain. The solution structure of human Rad23A UBA(2) showed that the domain forms a compact three-helix bundle. [10]

Comparison of the structures of UBA(1) and UBA(2) reveals that both form very similar folds and have a conserved large hydrophobic surface patch which may be a common protein-interacting surface present in diverse UBA domains. Evidence that ubiquitin binds to UBA domains leads to the prediction that the hydrophobic surface patch of UBA domains interacts with the hydrophobic surface on the five-stranded beta-sheet of ubiquitin. [11]

This domain is similar in sequence to the N-terminal domain of translation elongation factor EF1B (or EF-Ts) from bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts. [9]

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UBXD8 is a protein in the Ubiquitin regulatory X (UBX) domain-containing protein family. The UBX domain contains many eukaryotic proteins that have similarities in amino acid sequence to the tiny protein modifier ubiquitin. UBXD8 engages in a molecular interaction with p97, a protein that is essential for the degradation of membrane proteins associated with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) through the proteasome. Ubxd8 possesses a UBA domain, alongside the UBX domain, that could interact with polyubiquitin chains. Additionally, it possesses a UAS domain of undetermined function, and this protein is used as a protein sensor that detects long chain unsaturated fatty acids (FAs), having a vital function in regulating the balance of Fatty Acids within cells to maintain cellular homeostasis.

References

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  5. ↑ Gomez TA, Kolawa N, Gee M, Sweredoski MJ, Deshaies RJ (May 2011). "Identification of a functional docking site in the Rpn1 LRR domain for the UBA-UBL domain protein Ddi1". BMC Biology. 9: 33. doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-9-33 . PMC   3126750 . PMID   21627799.
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