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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 38, Pages 34760-34765Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M204750200
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The proteasome can actively unfold proteins by sequentially unraveling their substrates from the attachment point of the degradation signal. To investigate the steric constraints imposed on substrate proteins during their degradation by the proteasome, we constructed a model protein in which specific parts of the polypeptide chain were covalently connected through disulfide bridges. The cross-linked model proteins were fully degraded by the proteasome, but two or more cross-links retarded the degradation slightly. These results suggest that the pore of the proteasome allows the concurrent passage of at least three stretches of a polypeptide chain. A degradation channel that can tolerate some steric bulk may reconcile the two opposing needs for degradation that is compartmentalized to avoid aberrant proteolysis yet able to handle a range of substrates of various sizes.
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