作者: Katia Zanier , Abdellahi ould M'hamed ould Sidi , Charlotte Boulade-Ladame , Vladimir Rybin , Anne Chappelle
DOI: 10.1016/J.STR.2012.02.001
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摘要: The viral oncoprotein E6 is an essential factor for cervical cancers induced by “high-risk” mucosal HPV. Among other oncogenic activities, E6 recruits the ubiquitin ligase E6AP to promote the ubiquitination and subsequent proteasomal degradation of p53. E6 is prone to self-association, which long precluded its structural analysis. Here we found that E6 specifically dimerizes through its N-terminal domain and that disruption of the dimer interface strongly increases E6 solubility. This allowed us to raise structural data covering …