Arginine methylation of the c-Jun coactivator RACO-1 is required for c-Jun/AP-1 activation.
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Davies CC, Chakraborty A, Diefenbacher ME, Skehel M, Behrens A
Arginine methylation of the c-Jun coactivator RACO-1 is required for c-Jun/AP-1 activation.
EMBO J. 2013 May 29;32(11):1556-67. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2013.98. Epub 2013 Apr 26.
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c-Jun, the major component of the AP-1 transcription factor complex, has important functions in cellular proliferation and oncogenic transformation. The RING domain-containing protein RACO-1 functions as a c-Jun coactivator that molecularly links growth factor signalling to AP-1 transactivation. Here we demonstrate that RACO-1 is present as a nuclear dimer and that c-Jun specifically interacts with dimeric RACO-1. Moreover, RACO-1 is identified as a substrate of the arginine methyltransferase PRMT1, which methylates RACO-1 on two arginine residues. Arginine methylation of RACO-1 promotes a conformational change that stabilises RACO-1 by facilitating K63-linked ubiquitin chain formation, and enables RACO-1 dimerisation and c-Jun interaction. Abrogation of PRMT1 function impairs AP-1 activity and results in decreased expression of a large percentage of c-Jun target genes. These results demonstrate that arginine methylation of RACO-1 is required for efficient transcriptional activation by c-Jun/AP-1 and thus identify PRMT1 as an important regulator of c-Jun/AP-1 function.