Journal
NUCLEUS
Volume 2, Issue 4, Pages 264-270Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.2.4.16118
Keywords
ubiquitin ligase; intrinsic disorder; unstructured; protein quality control; ubiquitin; San1; proteasome
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- NIH/NIGMS [T32GM007750]
- NIH/NIA [R01AG031136]
- NIH/NCRR [R21RR025787]
- Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award in Aging
- Marian E. Smith Junior Faculty Award
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Cells use protein quality control (PQC) systems to protect themselves from potentially harmful misfolded proteins. Many misfolded proteins are repaired by molecular chaperones, but irreparably damaged proteins must be destroyed. Eukaryotes predominantly destroy these abnormally folded proteins through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, which requires compartment-specific ubiquitin ligase complexes that mark substrates with ubiquitin for proteasome degradation. In the yeast nucleus, misfolded proteins are targeted for degradation by the ubiquitin ligase San1, which binds misfolded nuclear proteins directly and does not appear to require chaperones for substrate binding. San1 is also remarkably adaptable, as it is capable of ubiquitinating a structurally diverse assortment of abnormally folded substrates. We attribute this adaptability to San1's high degree of structural disorder, which provides flexibility and allows San1 to conform to differently shaped substrates. Here we review our recent work characterizing San1's distinctive mode of substrate recognition and the associated implications for PQC in the nucleus.
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