SGD Paper 
Nillegoda NB, et al. (2010) Ubr1 and ubr2 function in a quality control pathway for degradation of unfolded cytosolic proteins. Mol Biol Cell 21(13):2102-16
Abstract: Monitoring Editor: Jeffrey L. Brodsky Quality control systems facilitate polypeptide folding and degradation to maintain protein homeostasis. Molecular chaperones promote folding, while the ubiquitin/proteasome system mediates degradation. We show here that S. cerevisiae Ubr1 and Ubr2 ubiquitin ligases promote degradation of unfolded or misfolded cytosolic polypeptides. Ubr1 also catalyzes ubiquitinylation of denatured but not native luciferase in a purified system. This activity is based on the direct interaction of denatured luciferase with Ubr1, although Hsp70 stimulates polyubiquitinylation of the denatured substrate. We also report that loss of Ubr1 and Ubr2 function suppressed the growth arrest phenotype resulting from chaperone mutation. This correlates with increased protein kinase maturation and indicates partitioning of foldable conformers toward the proteasome. Based on the efficiency of this quality control system, our findings suggest that the cell trades growth potential to avert the potential toxicity associated with accumulation of unfolded or misfolded proteins. Ubr1 and Ubr2 therefore represent E3 components of a novel quality control pathway for proteins synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 20462952 |
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