Ubiquitination of stalled ribosome triggers ribosome-associated quality control

oleh: Yoshitaka Matsuo, Ken Ikeuchi, Yasushi Saeki, Shintaro Iwasaki, Christian Schmidt, Tsuyoshi Udagawa, Fumiya Sato, Hikaru Tsuchiya, Thomas Becker, Keiji Tanaka, Nicholas T. Ingolia, Roland Beckmann, Toshifumi Inada

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01

Deskripsi

Several protein quality control mechanisms are in place to trigger the rapid degradation of aberrant polypeptides and mRNAs. Here the authors describe a mechanism of ribosome-mediated quality control that involves the ubiquitination of ribosomal proteins by the E3 ubiquitin ligase Hel2/RQT1.