title: ER degradation of a misfolded luminal protein by the cytosolic ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
abstract: Secretion of proteins is initiated by their uptake into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which possesses a proteolytic system able to degrade misfolded and nonassembled proteins. The ER degradation system was studied with yeast mutants defective in the breakdown of a mutated soluble vacuolar protein, carboxypeptidase yscY (CPY*). The ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc7p participated in the degradation process, which was mediated by the cytosolic 26S proteasome. It is likely that CPY* entered the ER, was glycosylated, and was then transported back out of the ER lumen to the cytoplasmic side of the organelle, where it was conjugated with ubiquitin and degraded.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biochemie der Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 55, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hiller
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Finger
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schweiger
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Wolf
mesh_terms: D001692:Biological Transport; D002268:Carboxypeptidases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D043402:Cathepsin A; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases / Q000378:metabolism*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004721:Endoplasmic Reticulum / Q000378:metabolism*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006031:Glycosylation; D008025:Ligases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes / Q000378:metabolism*; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D017510:Protein Folding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes; D014452:Ubiquitins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D005656:Fungal Proteins; D009097:Multienzyme Complexes; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D014452:Ubiquitins; C082461:UBC6 protein, S cerevisiae; C489967:UBE2J1 protein, human; C079437:UBE2L3 protein, human; D044763:Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; D043402:Cathepsin A; C499283:PRC1 protein, S cerevisiae; C022633:serine carboxypeptidase; D003546:Cysteine Endopeptidases; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D008025:Ligases