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KMID : 0616620040100010089
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Journal of Soonchunhyang Medical College
2004 Volume.10 No. 1 p.89 ~ p.103
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Studies on degradative products of proteins by mammalian 26S and 20S proteasomes
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Woo Kee-Min
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Knowledge about the sizes of peptides generated by proteasomes during protein degradation is essential to fully understand their degradative mechanism and the subsequent steps in protein turnover and generation of major histocompatibility complex class I antigenic peptides. We demonstrate here that 26S and activated 20S proteasomes from rabbit muscle degrade denatured nonubiquitinated proteins in a highly processive fashion but generate different patterns of peptides (despite their containing identical proteolytic sites). With both enzymes, products range in length from 3 to 22 residues, and their abundance decreases with increasing length according to a log-normal distribution. Less than 15% of the products are the length of class I presented peptides (8 or 9 residues), and two-thirds are too short to function in antigen presentation. Surprisingly, these mammalian proteasomes, which contain two "chymotryptc", two "tryptic," and two "post-acidic." active sites, generate peptides with a similar size distribution as do archaeal 20S proteasomes, which have 14 identical sites. Furthermore, inactivation of the "tryptic" sites altered the peptides produced without significantly affecting their size distribution. Therefore, this distribution is not determined by the number, specificity, or arrangement of the active sites (as proposed by the "molecular ruler" model); instead, we propose that proteolysis continues until products are small enough to diffuse out of the proteasomes.
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