The ubiquitin signaling pathway consists of hundreds of enzymes that are tightly regulated for the maintenance of cell homeostasis. Parkin is an E3 ubiquitin ligase responsible for conjugating ubiquitin onto a substrate protein, which itself can be ubiquitinated. Ataxin-3 performs the opposing function as a deubiquitinating enzyme that can remove ubiquitin from parkin. In this work, we have identified the mechanism of interaction between the ubiquitin-like (Ubl) domain from parkin and three C-terminal ubiquitin-interacting motifs (UIMs) in ataxin-3. 1H–15N heteronuclear single-quantum coherence titration experiments revealed that there are weak direct interactions between all three individual UIM regions of ataxin-3 and the Ubl domain. Each UIM utilizes the exposed β-grasp surface of the Ubl domain centered around the I44 patch that did not vary in the residues involved or the surface size as a function of the number of ataxin-3 UIMs involved. Further, the apparent dissociation constant for ataxin-3 decreased as a function of the number of UIM regions used in experiments. A global multisite fit of the nuclear magnetic resonance titration data, based on three identical binding ligands, resulted in a KD of 669 ± 62 μM for each site. Our observations support a multivalent ligand binding mechanism employed by the parkin Ubl domain to recruit multiple UIM regions in ataxin-3 and provide insight into how these two proteins function together in ubiquitination–deubiquitination pathways.
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