Selective Degradation of Abnormal Proteins in Mammalian Tissue Culture Cells
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 71 (12) , 4732-4736
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.71.12.4732
Abstract
The degradation rates of several missense mutants of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (EC 2.4.2.8) in mouse L cells are compared to those of the wild-type enzyme. Although the rates of total protein breakdown in the mutant cell lines are identical to that of the parental L cell line, defective molecules of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase present in the mutant cell lines are degraded much faster than the wild-type enzyme. The level of defective phosphoribosyltransferase molecules present in the mutant cell lines is inversely proportional to the breakdown rate. This observation indicates that the major factor determining the concentrations of the defective phosphoribosyltransferases is their specific degradation rate. These results strongly support the hypothesis that abnormal proteins are selectively degraded in mammalian cells.Keywords
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