CUL4

Summary

Gene Symbol: CUL4
Description: cullin4
Alias: ATCUL4, MDE13.3, MDE13_3, cullin4, cullin4
Species: thale cress

Top Publications

  1. Bernhardt A, Lechner E, Hano P, Schade V, Dieterle M, Anders M, et al. CUL4 associates with DDB1 and DET1 and its downregulation affects diverse aspects of development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 2006;47:591-603 pubmed
    ..In addition, by using T-DNA insertion and CUL4 antisense lines we demonstrate that corresponding mutants are severely affected in different aspects of development...
  2. Chen H, Shen Y, Tang X, Yu L, Wang J, Guo L, et al. Arabidopsis CULLIN4 Forms an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase with RBX1 and the CDD Complex in Mediating Light Control of Development. Plant Cell. 2006;18:1991-2004 pubmed
    ..Here, we demonstrate that Arabidopsis CULLIN4 (CUL4) associates with the CDD complex and a common catalytic subunit to form an active E3 ubiquitin ligase both ..
  3. Roodbarkelari F, Bramsiepe J, Weinl C, Marquardt S, Novak B, Jakoby M, et al. Cullin 4-ring finger-ligase plays a key role in the control of endoreplication cycles in Arabidopsis trichomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010;107:15275-80 pubmed publisher
    ..are of central importance for the progression through endoreplication cycles; in particular, we have identified CULLIN4 as a major regulator of endoreplication in Arabidopsis trichomes...
  4. Lee J, Terzaghi W, Deng X. DWA3, an Arabidopsis DWD protein, acts as a negative regulator in ABA signal transduction. Plant Sci. 2011;180:352-7 pubmed publisher
    ..DWA3 interacted with DDB1, which has been proposed to be an adaptor protein of the CUL4 E3 ligase complex, in yeast two-hybrid assays...
  5. Castells E, Molinier J, Benvenuto G, Bourbousse C, Zabulon G, Zalc A, et al. The conserved factor DE-ETIOLATED 1 cooperates with CUL4-DDB1DDB2 to maintain genome integrity upon UV stress. EMBO J. 2011;30:1162-72 pubmed publisher
    ..Evidence is provided that plant DET1 acts with CULLIN4-based ubiquitin E3 ligase, and that appropriate dosage of DET1 protein is necessary for efficient removal of UV ..
  6. Chen H, Huang X, Gusmaroli G, Terzaghi W, Lau O, Yanagawa Y, et al. Arabidopsis CULLIN4-damaged DNA binding protein 1 interacts with CONSTITUTIVELY PHOTOMORPHOGENIC1-SUPPRESSOR OF PHYA complexes to regulate photomorphogenesis and flowering time. Plant Cell. 2010;22:108-23 pubmed publisher
    ..The finding that CULLIN4 (CUL4)-Damaged DNA Binding Protein1 (DDB1) interacts with DDB1 binding WD40 (DWD) proteins to act as E3 ligases ..
  7. Dohmann E, Levesque M, De Veylder L, Reichardt I, Jurgens G, Schmid M, et al. The Arabidopsis COP9 signalosome is essential for G2 phase progression and genomic stability. Development. 2008;135:2013-22 pubmed publisher
    ..DNA damage is also apparent in mutants of the NEDD8 conjugation pathway and in mutants of the E3 ligase subunits CULLIN4, COP1 and DET1, which share phenotypes with csn mutants...
  8. Lee J, Yoon H, Terzaghi W, Martinez C, Dai M, Li J, et al. DWA1 and DWA2, two Arabidopsis DWD protein components of CUL4-based E3 ligases, act together as negative regulators in ABA signal transduction. Plant Cell. 2010;22:1716-32 pubmed publisher
    To elucidate potential roles of CUL4-DDB1-DWD (for Cullin 4-Damaged DNA Binding1-DDB1 binding WD40) E3 ligases in abscisic acid (ABA) signaling, we examined ABA sensitivities of T-DNA mutants of a number of Arabidopsis thaliana DWD genes, ..
  9. Lechner E, Xie D, Grava S, Pigaglio E, Planchais S, Murray J, et al. The AtRbx1 protein is part of plant SCF complexes, and its down-regulation causes severe growth and developmental defects. J Biol Chem. 2002;277:50069-80 pubmed
    ..that AtRbx1 protein interacts physically with at least two members of the Arabidopsis cullin family (AtCul1 and AtCul4)...

More Information

Publications17

  1. Dumbliauskas E, Lechner E, Jaciubek M, Berr A, Pazhouhandeh M, Alioua M, et al. The Arabidopsis CUL4-DDB1 complex interacts with MSI1 and is required to maintain MEDEA parental imprinting. EMBO J. 2011;30:731-43 pubmed publisher
    ..Recent work identified a novel class of cullin-containing ubiquitin ligases (E3s) composed of CUL4, DDB1, and one WD40 protein, believed to act as a substrate receptor...
  2. Bjerkan K, Jung Roméo S, Jurgens G, Genschik P, Grini P. Arabidopsis WD repeat domain55 Interacts with DNA damaged binding protein1 and is required for apical patterning in the embryo. Plant Cell. 2012;24:1013-33 pubmed publisher
    b>CUL4-RING ubiquitin E3 ligases (CRL4s) were recently shown to exert their specificity through the binding of various substrate receptors, which bind the CUL4 interactor DNA damaged binding protein1 (DDB1) through a WDxR motif...
  3. Huang X, Ouyang X, Yang P, Lau O, Chen L, Wei N, et al. Conversion from CUL4-based COP1-SPA E3 apparatus to UVR8-COP1-SPA complexes underlies a distinct biochemical function of COP1 under UV-B. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013;110:16669-74 pubmed publisher
    ..constitutive photomorphogenesis 1 (COP1) is a RING and WD40 protein that functions as a substrate receptor of CULLIN4-damaged DNA binding protein 1 (CUL4-DDB1)-based E3 ubiquitin ligases in both plants and animals...
  4. Zhu L, Bu Q, Xu X, Paik I, Huang X, Hoecker U, et al. CUL4 forms an E3 ligase with COP1 and SPA to promote light-induced degradation of PIF1. Nat Commun. 2015;6:7245 pubmed publisher
    ..Photomorphogenesis, a light-adapted programme is repressed in the dark by the synergistic actions of CUL4(COP1-SPA) E3 ubiquitin ligase and a subset of basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors called phytochrome ..
  5. Zhang C, Guo H, Zhang J, Guo G, Schumaker K, Guo Y. Arabidopsis cockayne syndrome A-like proteins 1A and 1B form a complex with CULLIN4 and damage DNA binding protein 1A and regulate the response to UV irradiation. Plant Cell. 2010;22:2353-69 pubmed publisher
    ..Coimmunoprecipitation assays demonstrated that CSAat1A and B associate with the CULLIN4 (CUL4)-DDB1A complex in Arabidopsis...
  6. Molinier J, Lechner E, Dumbliauskas E, Genschik P. Regulation and role of Arabidopsis CUL4-DDB1A-DDB2 in maintaining genome integrity upon UV stress. PLoS Genet. 2008;4:e1000093 pubmed publisher
    ..Here we investigated the regulation and the function of the recently described CUL4-DDB1-DDB2 E3 ligase in the maintenance of genome integrity upon UV-stress using the model plant Arabidopsis...
  7. Seo K, Lee J, Nezames C, Zhong S, Song E, Byun M, et al. ABD1 is an Arabidopsis DCAF substrate receptor for CUL4-DDB1-based E3 ligases that acts as a negative regulator of abscisic acid signaling. Plant Cell. 2014;26:695-711 pubmed publisher
    ..DCAFs) family directly bind to DAMAGED DNA BINDING PROTEIN1 (DDB1) and function as the substrate receptors in CULLIN4-based E3 (CUL4) ubiquitin ligases, which regulate the selective ubiquitination of proteins...
  8. Irigoyen M, Iniesto E, Rodriguez L, Puga M, Yanagawa Y, Pick E, et al. Targeted degradation of abscisic acid receptors is mediated by the ubiquitin ligase substrate adaptor DDA1 in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2014;26:712-28 pubmed publisher
    b>CULLIN4-RING E3 ubiquitin ligases (CRL4s) regulate key developmental and stress responses in eukaryotes...