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Taken together, these assays demonstrate that SUMOD positioning is essential for all E3 ligases but dispensable for E2 and S*E2 sumoylation reactions. Thus, we propose SUMOD positioning as a key criterion to describe the enzymatic function of SUMO E3 ligases that distinguishes them from other enhancing activities like cofactors or the S*E2.
Summary and conclusions In vitro sumoylation assays offer powerful tools to study sumoylation. They can be used to address several aspects, such as identification and analysis of SUMO substrates, mapping their specific sumoylation sites or determining their specific conjugating and deconjugating enzymes. In addition, these assays allow the functional characterization of the 5(S),6(R)-7-trihydroxymethyl Heptanoate themselves, like which surfaces are important for certain functions, including E1–E2, E2–substrate, E3–substrate, and E2–E3 interactions. They further permit conclusions about the stoichiometric ratio between the substrate and the enzymes required for efficient substrate modification. A stoichiometric modifier/substrate ratio rather describes a cofactor, while potent activity at substoichiometric ratios points to what we define as E3 ligases. However, there can be some ambiguity in such an assignment as we demonstrate for S*E2. S*E2 definitely shows enhanced catalytic activation compared to the unmodified E2 and is activated in a substrate-specific manner. However, the enhancing role of the additional SUMO is better described as a cofactor function that stabilizes the interaction of the substrate with the E2, and no additional catalytic activity appears to be involved (Knipscheer et al., 2008). Thus, seminal vesicles is important to also investigate other characteristics of SUMO E3 ligases, like the dependence of a scaffold SUMOB binding to the backside of the E2 that is important for all known SUMO E3 ligases except for RanBP2. Ultimately, the most conclusive assay to demonstrate SUMO E3 ligase activity is by demonstrating dependence of donor SUMOD positioning for the discharge of the E2 and the SUMOD transfer to the substrate.
Introduction The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) is an exquisite enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate, and the subsequent acetylation of coenzyme A (CoA) to acetyl-CoA.1, 2 The overall reaction of oxidative decarboxylation can be simply exhibited in Fig. 1. The above reactions are carried out by PDHc complex, which is comprised of three different enzyme components: pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1), dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2), dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3). The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex E1 component (PDHc E1) catalyzes the first step (rate-limiting and irreversible step) of multistep process, under condition of using thiamine diphosphate (ThDP) and Mg2+ as cofactors.4, 5, 6 The cofactor of ThDP plays an important role in the enzyme reaction and the catalysis mechanism. As would be expected, blocking the active site of cofactor, for example, by replacing it with ThDP analogue, inactivates the PDHc. Therefore, we selected PDHc E1 as the target enzyme to design new cofactor ThDP analogs as PDHc E1 inhibitors.