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"Building on our previous work for computational development of UCH selective UbV-ABPs, we applied a rational design approach to incorporate mutations to the Ub-UCHL3 protein-protein interaction (PPI) interface that would improve binding affinity and impart selectivity over UCHL1 and other DUBs."
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"To do this a binding analysis of the interactions at the PPI interface of both the Ub-UCHL3 (PDB: 1XD3 [ xref ]) and Ub-UCHL1 (PDB: 3KW5 [ xref ]) crystal structure complexes was carried out using BioLuminate (Schrödinger, LLC, New York, NY, USA) in an effort to identify interactions Ub makes that are different between the two DUBs."
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"Yeast OTU1, for instance, shows no binding up to 2 mM ubiquitin while UCH-L3 binds ubiquitin with an affinity of 100–500 μM. As in other DUBs, the affinity of ataxin-3 will be increased by avidity thanks to the multiple binding sites, thus explaining the need of such redundancy."
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"Analysis of UCHL3 mutants showed that the aspartic acid residue at position 33 and the cysteine residue at position 95 are key sites for the interaction between UCHL3 and ubiquitin. xref To restore the knockdown effects of UCHL3 shRNAs, we re-expressed wild-type UCHL3 and the inactive mutants UCHL3-C95S and UCHL3-D33A in H358 cells with stable UCHL3 knockdown."
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"Furthermore, X-ray crystal structures of Ub bound to UCH-L3 reveal extensive protein-protein interactions that may only exist in the native folded form of Ub ( xref ).[ xref ]Thus, our methodology yields site-specifically ubiquitylated and SUMOylated peptides that adopt a native fold and are suitable for in vitro biochemical studies."