A Protein Engineering Approach for Uncovering Cryptic Ubiquitin-binding Sites: from a Ubiquitin-Variant Inhibitor of APC/C to K48 Chain Binding
E. R. Watson, C. R. R. Grace, W. Zhang, D. J. Miller, I. F. Davidson, J. R. Prabu, S. Yu, D. L. Bolhuis, E. T. Kulko, R. Vollrath, D. Haselbach, H. Stark, J.-M. Peters, N. G. Brown, S. S. Sidhu, B. A. Schulman
The paper identifies a cryptic ubiquitin-binding site on APC/C using ubiquitin variants, revealing its preference for K48-linked chains and demonstrating a method for uncovering such sites in large complexes.
bioRxiv · Jun 12, 2019 · PreprintBiochemistry