title: Delivery of ubiquitinated substrates to protein-unfolding machines.
abstract: Recent work has shown that ubiquitination leads to recognition of target proteins by diverse ubiquitin receptors. One family of receptors delivers the ubiquitinated proteins to the proteasome resulting in ATP-dependent substrate unfolding and proteolysis. A related family of ubiquitin-binding proteins seems to recruit ubiquitinated proteins to Cdc48, an ATPase ring complex that can also unfold proteins. Some targets seem to dock at Cdc48 before the proteasome does, in an ordered pathway. The intimate interplay between the proteasome and Cdc48, mediated in part by loosely associated ubiquitin receptors, has important functions in cellular regulation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elsasser
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Finley
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex / Q000378:metabolism*; D017510:Protein Folding; D021381:Protein Transport / Q000502:physiology; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D025801:Ubiquitin / Q000378:metabolism; D043743:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes / Q000378:metabolism*; D014452:Ubiquitins / Q000378:metabolism; D000074405:Valosin Containing Protein
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D025801:Ubiquitin; D014452:Ubiquitins; D043743:Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes; D046988:Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases; C000614177:CDC48 protein, S cerevisiae; D000074405:Valosin Containing Protein