Furin-mediated processing in the early secretory pathway: Sequential cleavage and degradation of misfolded insulin receptors
Furin-mediated processing in the early secretory pathway: Sequential cleavage and degradation of misfolded insulin receptors
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.97.22.11905
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发表时间:
2000-10-24
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Steiner, DF
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作者:
Bass, J;Turck, C;Steiner, DF
Improperly folded membrane proteins are retained in the endoplasmic reticulum and then diverted to a degradative pathway by a network of molecular chaperones and intracellular proteases, Here we report that mutant insulin proreceptors (Pro(62)) retained in the early secretory pathway undergo proteolytic cleavage at a tetrabasic concensus site for the subtilisin-like protease furin (SPC 1), generating two unstable proteolytic intermediates of 80/120 kDa corresponding to alpha>(*) over bar * (135 kDa) and beta (90 kDa) subunits. These are degraded more rapidly than the uncleaved proreceptor protein. Site-directed mutagenesis of the normal RKRR processing site prevented cleavage. Use of inhibitors and furin-deficient cell lines confirmed that furin is responsible for proreceptor cleavage; furin overexpression increased the degradation of mutant but not wildtype receptors. Together, these results suggest that processing and degradation occur sequentially for mutant proreceptors.