A giant protease with potential to substitute for some functions of the 
proteasome

Geier, E.; Pfeifer, G.; Wilm, M.; Lucchiari-Hartz, M.; Baumeister, W.; Eichmann, K.; Niedermann, G.

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A giant protease with potential to substitute for some functions of the proteasome

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Geier, E., Pfeifer, G., Wilm, M., Lucchiari-Hartz, M., Baumeister, W., Eichmann, K., et al. (1999). A giant protease with potential to substitute for some functions of the proteasome. Science, 283(5404), 978-981.

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Abstract

An alanyl-alanyl-phenylalanyl-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin-hydrolyzing protease particle copurifying with 265 proteasomes was isolated and identified as tripeptidyl peptidase II(TPPII), a cytosolic subtilisin-like peptidase of unknown function. The particle is larger than the 265 proteasome and has a rod-shaped, dynamic supramolecular structure. TPPII exhibits enhanced activity in proteasome inhibitor-adapted cells and degrades polypeptides by exo- as well as predominantly trypsin-like endoproteolytic cleavage. TPPII may thus participate in extralysosomal polypeptide degradation and may in part account for nonproteasomal epitope generation as postulated for certain major histocompatibility complex class I alleles, In addition, TPPII may be able to substitute for some metabolic functions of the proteasome. [References: 28]