Characterizing the role of UBE3C in proteasome processivity
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- To maintain protein homeostasis, cells must balance protein synthesis with protein degradation. Accumulation of misfolded or partially degraded proteins can lead to the formation of pathological protein aggregates. Here we report the use of destabilizing domains, proteins whose folding state can be reversibly tuned using a high-affinity ligand, as model substrates to interrogate cellular protein quality control mechanisms in mammalian cells using a forward genetic screen. Upon knockdown of UBE3C, an E3 ubiquitin ligase, a reporter protein consisting of a destabilizing domain fused to GFP is degraded more slowly and incompletely by the proteasome. Partial proteolysis is also observed when UBE3C is present but cannot ubiquitinate substrates because its active site has been mutated, it is unable to bind to the proteasome, or the substrate lacks lysine residues. UBE3C knockdown also results in less substrate polyubiquitination. Finally, knockdown renders cells more susceptible to the Hsp90 inhibitor 17-AAG, suggesting that UBE3C protects against the harmful accumulation of protein fragments arising from incompletely degraded proteasome substrates.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Chu, Bernard Wen-Bao | |
|---|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology. | |
| Primary advisor | Wandless, Thomas | |
| Thesis advisor | Wandless, Thomas | |
| Thesis advisor | Ferrell, James Ellsworth | |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, Tobias | |
| Thesis advisor | Wysocka, Joanna, Ph. D | |
| Advisor | Ferrell, James Ellsworth | |
| Advisor | Meyer, Tobias | |
| Advisor | Wysocka, Joanna, Ph. D |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Bernard Wen-Bao Chu. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2013 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Bernard Wen-Bao Chu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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