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Chapter 2<br />

Comb<strong>in</strong>ed with our studies on <strong>FAT10</strong> <strong>degradation</strong> <strong>in</strong> UBE1 mutant ts20 cells<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> fact that deletion <strong>of</strong> all lys<strong>in</strong>es <strong>of</strong> <strong>FAT10</strong> abolished <strong>the</strong> prom<strong>in</strong>ent mono-<br />

ubiquitylation <strong>and</strong> fa<strong>in</strong>t poly-ubiquitylation <strong>of</strong> wild-type <strong>FAT10</strong> <strong>in</strong> HEK293 cells<br />

but never<strong>the</strong>less had not effect on <strong>FAT10</strong> <strong>degradation</strong> (Hipp et al., 2005), <strong>the</strong><br />

present <strong>in</strong> vitro studies establish <strong>FAT10</strong> as <strong>the</strong> second member <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>ubiquit<strong>in</strong></strong><br />

family that serves as an autonomous signal for target<strong>in</strong>g prote<strong>in</strong>s for <strong>degradation</strong><br />

by <strong>the</strong> 26S proteasome.<br />

Materials <strong>and</strong> methods<br />

Proteasome purification. Purification <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> 20S proteasome was performed<br />

exactly as described elsewhere (Schmidtke et al., 1996). 26S proteasome was pu-<br />

rified as described (Ben-Shahar et al., 1999) with <strong>the</strong> follow<strong>in</strong>g modifications: all<br />

<strong>in</strong>itial purification procedures were performed at 4°C. 26S proteasome was pre-<br />

pared from 10 livers <strong>of</strong> 8-13 week old C57BL/6 mice. The livers were cut <strong>and</strong> ho-<br />

mogenized <strong>in</strong> 10 ml/liver <strong>of</strong> buffer A (20 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 1 mM DTT, 1 mM<br />

EDTA, 1.5 mM ATP, <strong>and</strong> 0.25 M Sucrose) us<strong>in</strong>g a blender <strong>and</strong> a Potter-Elvehjem<br />

gr<strong>in</strong>der. After ammonium sulfate precipitation as described (Ben-Shahar et al.,<br />

1999), gel filtration chromatography was performed at 15°C on a Sepharose 6B<br />

fast-flow column (1.6 × 100 cm, GE Healthcare) equilibrated <strong>in</strong> buffer B (20 mM<br />

Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 1 mM DTT, 1 mM ATP, <strong>and</strong> 20% (v/v) glycerol). The pellet <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

38% ammonium sulfate precipitation was dissolved <strong>in</strong> 10 ml <strong>of</strong> buffer B <strong>and</strong> was<br />

loaded onto <strong>the</strong> column. 10 ml fractions were collected, <strong>and</strong> 26S proteasome ac-<br />

tivity was assayed with 50 µl samples <strong>of</strong> column fractions as described previously<br />

(Schmidtke et al., 2000). The fractions with proteasome peak activity were com-<br />

b<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>and</strong> loaded onto a 6 ml Resource-Q column (GE Healthcare) equilibrated <strong>in</strong><br />

buffer B. The column was <strong>the</strong>n washed with 5 column volumes <strong>of</strong> buffer B <strong>and</strong><br />

developed with a l<strong>in</strong>ear gradient from 0 to 0.8 M NaCl <strong>in</strong> buffer B over 60 ml.<br />

The 26S proteasome eluted from <strong>the</strong> column between 0.35 <strong>and</strong> 0.4 M salt. The<br />

proteolytically active fractions from <strong>the</strong> ion exchange column were concentrated<br />

to 500 µl by ultrafiltration <strong>in</strong> a Centricon 100 device (Amicon). The sample was<br />

loaded onto a 20-40% (v/v) glycerol gradient <strong>in</strong> buffe B (12.5 ml <strong>in</strong> a 14 × 89 mM<br />

tube). After centrifugation at 28,000rpm for 18 h at 4°C, fractions <strong>of</strong> 0.6 ml were<br />

collected, <strong>and</strong> 26S proteasome activity was assayed <strong>in</strong> 20 µl samples. The qual-<br />

ity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> preparation was tested with <strong>in</strong> vitro transcribed/translated ODC <strong>and</strong><br />

recomb<strong>in</strong>ant antizyme. The proteasome preparation was stored <strong>in</strong> aliquots at<br />

80°C.<br />

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