Intramembrane protease SPP defines a cholesterol-regulated abundance control of the mevalonate pathway enzyme squalene synthase.
J Biol Chem
; 300(2): 105644, 2024 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-38218226
ABSTRACT
Intramembrane proteolysis regulates important processes such as signaling and transcriptional and posttranslational abundance control of proteins with key functions in metabolic pathways. This includes transcriptional control of mevalonate pathway genes, thereby ensuring balanced biosynthesis of cholesterol and other isoprenoids. Our work shows that, at high cholesterol levels, signal peptide peptidase (SPP) cleaves squalene synthase (SQS), an enzyme that defines the branching point for allocation of isoprenoids to the sterol and nonsterol arms of the mevalonate pathway. This intramembrane cleavage releases SQS from the membrane and targets it for proteasomal degradation. Regulation of this mechanism is achieved by the E3 ubiquitin ligase TRC8 that, in addition to ubiquitinating SQS in response to cholesterol levels, acts as an allosteric activator of SPP-catalyzed intramembrane cleavage of SQS. Cellular cholesterol levels increase in the absence of SPP activity. We infer from these results that, SPP-TRC8 mediated abundance control of SQS acts as a regulation step within the mevalonate pathway.
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Collection:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Farnesyl-Diphosphate Farnesyltransferase
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Mevalonic Acid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Biol Chem
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J. biol. chem
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Journal of biological chemistry
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Country of publication:
Estados Unidos