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SUBMITTER: Fortmann KT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4685248 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fortmann Karen T KT Lewis Russell D RD Ngo Kim A KA Fagerlund Riku R Hoffmann Alexander A
Journal of molecular biology 20150717 17
Whereas ubiquitin-dependent degrons have been characterized in some detail, how proteins may be targeted to ubiquitin-independent proteasomal degradation remains unclear. Here we show that IκBα contains an ubiquitin-independent degron whose activity is portable to heterologous proteins such as the globular protein GFP (green fluorescent protein) via a proteasome-dependent, ubiquitin-independent, non-lysosomal pathway. The ubiquitin-independent degradation signal resides in an 11-amino-acid seque ...[more]