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Yeast strains lacking functional copies of the two genes SSA1 and SSA2, which encode cytosolic molecular chaperones, are temperature-sensitive. In this report, we describe the isolation of a high-copy suppressor of this temperature sensitivity, UBP3, which encodes a de-ubiquitinating enzyme. We show that ubp3 mutant yeast strains have a mild slow-growth phenotype and accumulate ubiquitin-protein conjugates. We propose a model in which Ubp3p acts in vivo to reverse the ubiquitination of substrate proteins, allowing temporarily misfolded proteins an opportunity to fold correctly.
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Received: 9 January / 11 March 1998
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Baxter, B., Craig, E. Isolation of UBP3, encoding a de-ubiquitinating enzyme, as a multicopy suppressor of a heat-shock mutant strain of S. cerevisiae. Curr Genet 33, 412–419 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002940050354
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002940050354