Furin-mediated processing in the early secretory pathway: Sequential cleavage and degradation of misfolded insulin receptors

AUTOR(ES)

Bass, Joseph

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Improperly folded membrane proteins are retained in the endoplasmic reticulum and then diverted to a degradative pathway by a network of molecular chaperones and intracellular proteases. Here we report that mutant insulin proreceptors (Pro62) retained in the early secretory pathway undergo proteolytic cleavage at a tetrabasic concensus site for the subtilisin-like protease furin (SPC 1), generating two unstable proteolytic intermediates of 80/120 kDa corresponding to α (135 kDa) and β (90 kDa) subunits. These are degraded more rapidly than the uncleaved proreceptor protein. Site-directed mutagenesis of the normal RKRR processing site prevented cleavage. Use of inhibitors and furin-deficient cell lines confirmed that furin is responsible for proreceptor cleavage; furin overexpression increased the degradation of mutant but not wild-type receptors. Together, these results suggest that processing and degradation occur sequentially for mutant proreceptors.

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