Gene interactions and pathways from curated databases and text-mining
Biochim Biophys Acta 2013, PMID: 23820376

E3 ubiquitin ligase Fbw7 negatively regulates granulocytic differentiation by targeting G-CSFR for degradation.

Lochab, Savita; Pal, Pooja; Kapoor, Isha; Kanaujiya, Jitendra Kumar; Sanyal, Sabyasachi; Behre, Gerhard; Trivedi, Arun Kumar

Tight control between activation and attenuation of granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptor (G-CSFR) signaling is essential to regulate survival, proliferation and differentiation of myeloid progenitor cells. Previous studies demonstrated negative regulation of G-CSFR through endosomal-lysosomal routing and ubiquitin-proteasome mediated degradation. However, very few E3 ubiquitin ligases are known to target G-CSFR for ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Here we identified F-box and WD repeat domain-containing 7 (Fbw7), a substrate recognizing component of Skp-Cullin-F box (SCF) E3 ubiquitin Ligase physically associates with G-CSFR and promotes its ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation. Our data shows that Fbw7 also interacts with and degrades G-CSFR-T718 (a truncated mutant of G-CSFR found in severe congenital neutropenia/acute myeloid leukemia (SCN/AML patients)) though at a quite slower rate compared to G-CSFR. We further show that glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK3β), like Fbw7 also targets G-CSFR and G-CSFR-T718 for degradation; however, Fbw7 and GSK3β are interdependent in targeting G-CSFR/G-CSFR-T718 for degradation because they are unable to degrade G-CSFR individually when either of them is knocked down. We further show that Fbw7 mediated downregulation of G-CSFR inhibits signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) phosphorylation which is required for G-CSF dependent granulocytic differentiation. In addition, our data also shows that inhibition of Fbw7 restores G-CSFR signaling leading to enhanced STAT3 activity resulting in massive granulocytic differentiation. These data indicate that Fbw7 together with GSK3β negatively regulates G-CSFR expression and its downstream signaling.

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Manually curated Databases

  • IRef Biogrid Interaction: UBC — CSF3R (physical association, affinity chromatography technology)
  • IRef Biogrid Interaction: GSK3B — CSF3R (physical association, affinity chromatography technology)
  • IRef Biogrid Interaction: CSF3R — FBXW7 (physical association, affinity chromatography technology)
In total, 3 gene pairs are associated to this article in curated databases