BRE1-B; RING finger protein 40; Syntaxin-1-interacting RING finger protein; Protein staring
Gene Name
Rnf40
Gene Synonyms/Alias
Bre1b
Created Date
July 27, 2013
Organism
Rattus norvegicus (Rat)
NCBI Taxa ID
10116
Lysine Modification
Position
Peptide
Type
References
20
GGSGPPEKKLNREEK
acetylation
[1]
499
QNHNHQLKGDAQRYK
acetylation
[1]
Reference
[1] Proteomic analysis of lysine acetylation sites in rat tissues reveals organ specificity and subcellular patterns. Lundby A, Lage K, Weinert BT, Bekker-Jensen DB, Secher A, Skovgaard T, Kelstrup CD, Dmytriyev A, Choudhary C, Lundby C, Olsen JV. Cell Rep. 2012 Aug 30;2(2):419-31. [PMID: 22902405]
Functional Description
Component of the RNF20/40 E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase complex that mediates monoubiquitination of 'Lys-120' of histone H2B (H2BK120ub1). H2BK120ub1 gives a specific tag for epigenetic transcriptional activation and is also prerequisite for histone H3 'Lys-4' and 'Lys-79' methylation (H3K4me and H3K79me, respectively). It thereby plays a central role in histone code and gene regulation. The RNF20/40 complex forms a H2B ubiquitin ligase complex in cooperation with the E2 enzyme UBE2A or UBE2B; reports about the cooperation with UBE2E1/UBCH are contradictory. Required for transcriptional activation of Hox genes (By similarity).