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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Studies on cellular basis of the endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation and intracellular aggregation of misfolded proteins

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13680695
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Structural biochemistry
Research InstitutionOsaka City University (2002)
Himeji Institute of Technology (2001)

Principal Investigator

TOKUNAGA Fuminori  Osaka City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Associated Professor, 大学院・医学研究科, 助教授 (00212069)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KOIDE Takehiko  Himeji Institute of Technology, Department of Life Science, Professor, 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (60018695)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
KeywordsERAD / proteasome / N-linked oligosaccharide / ubiquitin ligase
Research Abstract

The endoplasmic reticuium (ER) is known to function as a quality control machinery of nascent proteins, and various misfolded or unassembled proteins in the ER are targeted to ubiquitin/proteasome-mediated degradation after retrotranslocation to the cytosol through the Sec61 translocon. We have shown that not only proteasome inhibitors such as lactacystin and carbobenzoxy-leucyl-leucyl-leucinal (LLL), but also inhibitors of ER mannosidase I such as kifunensine and deoxyrnannojirimycin, strongly inhibit the ERAD of various misfolded proteins, suggesting that processing of N-linked oligosaccharide plays an important role on ERAD. In this study, collaborating with Dr. Yoshida in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, we found that N-glycan serves as a signal for degradation by the Skpl-Cullin1-Fbx2-Rbx1 (SCF^<Fbx2>) ubiquitin ligase complex. The F-box protein Fbx2 binds specifically to proteins attached to N-inked high-mannose oligosaccharides and subsequently contributes to ubiquitination of N-glycosylated proteins. In addition, expression of the mutant Fbx2ΔF, which lacks the F-box domain that is essential for forming the SCF complex, appreciably blocks degradation of typical substrates of the ERAD pathway. Our results indicate that SCF^<Fbx2> ubiquitinates N-glycosylated proteins that are translocated from the ER to the cytosol by the quality control mechanism.

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  • [Publications] Koji Yamanaka: "Identification of the ubiquitin-protein ligase that recognizes oxidized IRP2"Nature Cell Biology. April issue(in press). (2003)

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  • [Publications] Fuminori Tokunaga: "N-Linked oligosaccharide processing, but not association with calnexin/calreticulin is highly correlated with endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation of antithrombin Glu313-deleted mutant"Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 411. 235-243 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 徳永文稔: "小胞体関連分解と品質管理ユビキチンリガーゼ"実験医学. 21・3. 365-371 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Yukiko Yoshida: "E3 ubiquitin ligase that recognizes sugar chains"Nature. 418. 422-438 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Tsukasa Osaki: "Proline-rich cell surface antigens of horseshoe crab hemocytes are substrates for protein cross-linking with a clotting protein coagulin"Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277. 40084-40090 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 徳永文稔: "廣川タンパク質化学 第7巻 制御タンパク質 インヒビター"廣川書店. 199 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Yamanaka, K., Ishikawa, H., Megumi, Y., Tokunaga, F., Kanie, M., Rouault, T.A., Morishima, I., Minato, N., Ishimori, K., and Iwai, K.: "Identification of the Ubiquitin-protein Ligase that Recognizes Oxidized IRP2"Nature Cell Biol.. 5. 336-340 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Tokunaga. F., Hara, K., and Koide, T.: "N-Linked oligosaccharide processiag, but not association with calnexin/calreticutin is highly correlated wilh endoplasmic reticulun-associated degradation of antithrombin Glu313-deleted mutant"Arch. Biochem. Biophys.. 411. 235-243 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Osaki T., Okino N., Tokuaga, E., Iwanaga, S., and Kawabata, S.: "Proline-rich cell surface antigens of horseshoe crab hemocytes are substrates for protein cross-linking with a clotting protein coagulin."J. Biol. Chem.. 277. 40084-40090 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Yoshida, Y., Chiba, T., Tokunaga, F., Kawasaki, H., Iwai, K., Suzuki, T., Ito, Y., Matsuoka, K., Yoshida, M.,Tanaka, K., and Tai T.: "E3 ubiquitin ligase that recognizes sugar chains."Nature. 418. 438-442 (2002)

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Published: 2004-04-14  

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