1. OS-9 and GRP94 deliver mutant alpha1-antitrypsin to the Hrd1-SEL1L ubiquitin ligase complex for ERAD.
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Christianson JC, Shaler TA, Tyler RE, and Kopito RR
- Subjects
- Humans, Lectins, Models, Biological, Protein Binding, Protein Denaturation, Protein Folding, Receptor, IGF Type 2 chemistry, Ubiquitin chemistry, Endoplasmic Reticulum metabolism, Gene Expression Regulation, Membrane Glycoproteins physiology, Mutation, Neoplasm Proteins physiology, Proteins metabolism, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases metabolism, alpha 1-Antitrypsin metabolism
- Abstract
Terminally misfolded or unassembled proteins in the early secretory pathway are degraded by a ubiquitin- and proteasome-dependent process known as ER-associated degradation (ERAD). How substrates of this pathway are recognized within the ER and delivered to the cytoplasmic ubiquitin-conjugating machinery is unknown. We report here that OS-9 and XTP3-B/Erlectin are ER-resident glycoproteins that bind to ERAD substrates and, through the SEL1L adaptor, to the ER-membrane-embedded ubiquitin ligase Hrd1. Both proteins contain conserved mannose 6-phosphate receptor homology (MRH) domains, which are required for interaction with SEL1L, but not with substrate. OS-9 associates with the ER chaperone GRP94 which, together with Hrd1 and SEL1L, is required for the degradation of an ERAD substrate, mutant alpha(1)-antitrypsin. These data suggest that XTP3-B and OS-9 are components of distinct, partially redundant, quality control surveillance pathways that coordinate protein folding with membrane dislocation and ubiquitin conjugation in mammalian cells.
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- 2008
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