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The Yeast Ubr1 Ubiquitin Ligase Participates in a Prominent Pathway That Targets Cytosolic Thermosensitive Mutants for Degradation

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Khosrow-Khavar, Farzin, Fang, Nancy N, Ng, Alex H M, Winget, Jason M, Comyn, Sophie A, Mayor, Thibault·2012·G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics

Abstract

Mutations causing protein misfolding and proteolysis are associated with many genetic diseases. The degradation of these aberrant proteins typically is mediated by protein-quality control pathways that recognize misfolded domains. Several E3 ubiquitin ligases have been shown to target cytosolic misfolded proteins to the proteasome. In this study, we characterized a panel of more than 20 cytosolic thermosensitive mutants from six essential genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. These wild-type proteins are stable at restrictive temperature. In contrast, we found that a large portion of the mutants is degraded at nonpermissive temperature in a proteasome-dependent manner. Approximately one-third of the assessed unstable mutants are targeted by the Ubr1 ubiquitin ligase. In two cases, efficient degradation of the thermosensitive mutants is abrogated in the absence of Ubr1 alone, whereas in a third case it is reliant on the dual deletion of Ubr1 and the nuclear E3 ligase San1. We found that the impairment of the degradation of these quality control substrates at the restrictive temperature is associated with the suppression of thermosensitive phenotype. This study confirms that Ubr1 plays an important role in the degradation of cytosolic misfolded proteins and indicates that degradation mediated by protein quality control is a major cause for the conditional lethality of mutated essential genes.

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Khosrow-Khavar, F., Fang, N. N., Ng, A. H. M., Winget, J. M., Comyn, S. A., & Mayor, T.
Affiliations
  • Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for High-Throughput Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
Mayor, Thibault
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G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
Published
2012-05-01
Volume
2
Issue
5
Pages
619-628
ISSN
2160-1836 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2123438831
Cited by
42
References
51
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FWCI
1.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP89838)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Heat shock proteins research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
Keywords
protein quality control, protein degradation, proteasome, protein misfolding, essential genes, conditional lethality, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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