Disease-linked mutations trigger exposure of a protein quality control degron in the DHFR protein
biorxiv(2021)
摘要
Degrons are short stretches of amino acids or structural motifs that are embedded in proteins. They mediate recognition by E3 ubiquitin-protein ligases and thus confer protein degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome system. Well-described degrons include the N-degrons, destruction boxes, and the PIP degrons, which mediate the controlled degradation of various proteins including signaling components and cell cycle regulators. In comparison, the so-called protein quality control (PQC) degrons that mediate the degradation of structurally destabilized or misfolded proteins are not well described. Here, we show that disease-linked DHFR missense variants are structurally destabilized and chaperone-dependent proteasome targets. We systematically mapped regions within DHFR to assess those that act as cytosolic PQC degrons in yeast cells. Two regions, DHFR-Deg13-36 (here Deg1) and DHFR-Deg61-84 (here Deg2), act as degrons and conferred degradation to unrelated fusion partners. The proteasomal turnover of Deg2 was dependent on the molecular chaperone Hsp70. Structural analyses by NMR and hydrogen/deuterium exchange revealed that Deg2 is buried in wild-type DHFR, but becomes transiently exposed in the disease-linked missense variants.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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protein quality control degron,mutations trigger exposure,disease-linked
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