Role of the ubiquitin-like modifier FAT10 in protein degradation and ...
Role of the ubiquitin-like modifier FAT10 in protein degradation and ...
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Contents<br />
Acknowledgements 3<br />
Summary / Zusammenfassung 4<br />
English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
Deutsch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
Introduction 9<br />
Prote<strong>in</strong> Degradation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
The Ubiquit<strong>in</strong>-Proteasome-System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
The Proteasome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
The 20S Proteasome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
The 26S Proteasome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Ubiquit<strong>in</strong> <strong>and</strong> Ubiquit<strong>in</strong>-Like Prote<strong>in</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Ubiquit<strong>in</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Ubiquit<strong>in</strong>-Like Prote<strong>in</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Ubiquit<strong>in</strong>-Like Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
<strong>FAT10</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
Ubiquit<strong>in</strong> Doma<strong>in</strong> Prote<strong>in</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
NUB1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />
The Autophagy-Lysosome System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
Misfolded Prote<strong>in</strong> Stress, Aggresomes <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Connection between Au-<br />
tophagy <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
HDAC6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
Chapter 1: The UBA doma<strong>in</strong>s <strong>of</strong> NUB1L are required for b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g but not for<br />
accelerated <strong>degradation</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong>-<strong>like</strong> <strong>modifier</strong> <strong>FAT10</strong> 36<br />
Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
Experimental Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />
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