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Introduction<br />

expressed subunit, called β5t, has been found. Its expression is restricted exclu-<br />

sively to cortical thymic epi<strong>the</strong>lial cells, which are responsible for <strong>the</strong> positive<br />

selection <strong>of</strong> develop<strong>in</strong>g thymocytes (Murata et al., 2007).<br />

The 26S Proteasome<br />

The 26S proteasome is a 2.4 MDa supercomplex which consists <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 20S core <strong>and</strong><br />

two 19S regulatory subunits which cap both ends <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> core particle (Fig. 1). The<br />

latter are responsible for mediat<strong>in</strong>g functions associated with substrate recogni-<br />

tion <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>sertion, conta<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>tr<strong>in</strong>sic unfoldase activity, which is ATP-dependent<br />

(Liu et al., 2002), <strong>and</strong> serve as a dock<strong>in</strong>g platform for substoichiometric com-<br />

ponents <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> proteasome. The 19S regulatory complex, which is also known<br />

as PA700, can be fur<strong>the</strong>r subdivided <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> proximal “base”, which directly<br />

abuts to <strong>the</strong> α-r<strong>in</strong>gs, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> distal “lid”. The “base” consists <strong>of</strong> six AAA-family<br />

ATPases (Rpt1-Rpt6) <strong>and</strong> four non-ATPase subunits (Rpn1, 2, 10 <strong>and</strong> 13). The<br />

ATPases form a hexameric r<strong>in</strong>g which mediates ATP-dependent open<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

pores formed by <strong>the</strong> α-subunit r<strong>in</strong>gs <strong>and</strong> unfold<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> substrate prote<strong>in</strong>s (Glickman<br />

et al., 1999). The rema<strong>in</strong>der <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> approximately 20 PA700 subunits make up <strong>the</strong><br />

“lid”; <strong>and</strong> while some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m could be shown to display deubiquitylat<strong>in</strong>g activity<br />

– among <strong>the</strong>m Rpn11/S13 – most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir functions rema<strong>in</strong> unknown (Smith et al.,<br />

2006).<br />

The majority <strong>of</strong> prote<strong>in</strong>s is targeted for proteasomal <strong>degradation</strong> through cova-<br />

lent attachment <strong>of</strong> a small prote<strong>in</strong> called <strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong>. This <strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong>-tag is <strong>the</strong>n<br />

recognized by <strong>the</strong> 26S proteasome, which leads to <strong>the</strong> subsequent unfold<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>degradation</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> target prote<strong>in</strong>. Five components <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 19S regulator have been<br />

implicated <strong>in</strong> <strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong>-recognition, although this list is <strong>in</strong> all <strong>like</strong>lihood far from<br />

complete. These <strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong>-receptors employ two different modes <strong>of</strong> operation:<br />

<strong>the</strong> subunits S5a/Rpn10 (Deveraux et al., 1994), S6’/Rpt5 (Lam et al., 2002) <strong>and</strong><br />

ADRM1/Rpn13 (Husnjak et al., 2008; Schre<strong>in</strong>er et al., 2008) are able to b<strong>in</strong>d to<br />

<strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong> directly, whereas S1/Rpn2 <strong>and</strong> S2/Rpn1 recognize substrates <strong>in</strong>directly<br />

by b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g to l<strong>in</strong>ker prote<strong>in</strong>s such as hHR23/Rad23 <strong>and</strong> hPLIC/Dsk2 (Elsasser<br />

et al., 2002; Saeki et al., 2002b; Seeger et al., 2003). Interest<strong>in</strong>gly, Rpn13 is also<br />

responsible for te<strong>the</strong>r<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> deubiquitylat<strong>in</strong>g enzyme UCH37 to <strong>the</strong> proteasome<br />

through a second doma<strong>in</strong> (Yao et al., 2006).<br />

Apart from <strong>the</strong> 19S regulator, <strong>the</strong> 20S proteasome can pair with several alterna-<br />

tive regulatory particles to form a number <strong>of</strong> structurally different proteasome-<br />

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