Peroxisomal protein import and ERAD: variations on a common theme |
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Authors: | Schliebs Wolfgang Girzalsky Wolfgang Erdmann Ralf |
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Institution: | Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Medizinische Fakult?t, Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Abteilung für Systembiochemie, Universit?tsstra?e 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Despite their distinct biological functions, there is a surprising similarity between the composition of the machinery that imports proteins into peroxisomes and the machinery that degrades endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated proteins. The basis of this similarity lies in the fact that both machineries make use of the same basic mechanistic principle: the tagging of a substrate by monoubiquitylation or polyubiquitylation and its subsequent recognition and ATP-dependent removal from a membrane by ATPases of the ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA) family of proteins. We propose that the ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD)-like removal of the peroxisomal import receptor is mechanically coupled to protein translocation into the organelle, giving rise to a new concept of export-driven import. |
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