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Vol. 12, Issue 8, 2546-2555, August 2001

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*Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts 02115; The human cytomegalovirus protein US11 induces the dislocation of
MHC class I heavy chains from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) into the
cytosol for degradation by the proteasome. With the use of a
fractionated, permeabilized cell system, we find that US11 activity is
needed only in the cell membranes and that additional cytosolic factors
are required for heavy chain dislocation. We identify ubiquitin as one
of the required cytosolic factors. Cytosol depleted of ubiquitin does
not support heavy chain dislocation from the ER, and activity can be
restored by adding back purified ubiquitin. Methylated-ubiquitin or a
ubiquitin mutant lacking all lysine residues does not substitute for
wild-type ubiquitin, suggesting that polyubiquitination is required for
US11-dependent dislocation. We propose a new function for ubiquitin in
which polyubiquitination prevents the lumenal domain of the MHC class I
heavy chain from moving back into the ER lumen. A similar mechanism may
be operating in the dislocation of misfolded proteins from the ER in
the cellular quality control pathway.
Department of Pathology, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115;
Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Department of Cell
Biology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; and
Department of
Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Pennsylvania State University
College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033
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