Short-lived green fluorescent proteins for quantifying ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent proteolysis in living cells
- PMID: 10802622
- DOI: 10.1038/75406
Short-lived green fluorescent proteins for quantifying ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent proteolysis in living cells
Abstract
The ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent proteolytic pathway is an attractive target for therapeutics because of its critical involvement in cell cycle progression and antigen presentation. However, dissection of the pathway and development of modulators are hampered by the complexity of the system and the lack of easily detectable authentic substrates. We have developed a convenient reporter system by producing N-end rule and ubiquitin fusion degradation (UFD)-targeted green fluorescent proteins that allow quantification of ubiquitin/proteasome-dependent proteolysis in living cells. Accumulation of these reporters serves as an early predictor of G2/M arrest and apoptosis in cells treated with proteasome inhibitors. Comparison of reporter accumulation and cleavage of fluorogenic substrates demonstrates that the rate-limiting chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome can be substantially curtailed without significant effect on ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis. These reporters provide a new powerful tool for elucidation of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway and for high throughput screening of compounds that selectively modify proteolysis in vivo.
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Probing the proteasome pathway.Nat Biotechnol. 2000 May;18(5):494-6. doi: 10.1038/75349. Nat Biotechnol. 2000. PMID: 10802613 No abstract available.
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