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Intracellular proteolytic processing of these proteins is not well understood. In particular, it is unclear whether long polyglutamine fragments resulting from the proteolysis of these proteins can be potentially cleaved by the proteasome. Here, we studied the susceptibility of the glutamine-glutamine bond to proteolysis by the proteasome using oligoglutamine-containing peptides with a fluorophore\/quencher pair. We found that the addition of the 11S proteasomal regulator (also known as PA28) significantly accelerated the hydrolysis of oligoglutamine-containing peptides by the 20S proteasome. Unexpectedly, a similar effect was observed for the 26S proteasome in the presence of the 11S regulator. LC\/MS data revealed that the hydrolysis of our peptides with both 20S and 26S proteasomes leads to N-terminal fragments containing two or three glutamine residues and that the hydrolysis site does not change after the addition of the 11S regulator. This was confirmed by the docking experiment, which shows that the preferred hydrolysis site is located after the second\/third glutamine residue. Inhibitory analysis revealed that trypsin-like specificity is mainly responsible for the proteasomal hydrolysis of the glutamine-glutamine bond. Together, our results indicate that both 20S and 26S proteasomes are capable of degrading the N-terminal part of oligoglutamine fragments, while the 11S regulator significantly accelerates the hydrolysis without changing its specificity. This data suggests that proteasome activity may be enhanced in relation to polyglutamine substrates present in neurons in the early stages of polyglutamine disorders.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms241713275","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,28]],"date-time":"2023-08-28T01:56:57Z","timestamp":1693187817000},"page":"13275","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Brain-Derived 11S Regulator (PA28\u03b1\u03b2) Promotes Proteasomal Hydrolysis of Elongated Oligoglutamine-Containing Peptides"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4285-8470","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Viacheslav A.","family":"Kriachkov","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Natalia N.","family":"Gotmanova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vadim N.","family":"Tashlitsky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2169-211X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna V.","family":"Bacheva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"862","DOI":"10.3390\/biom4030862","article-title":"Regulating the 20S Proteasome Ubiquitin-Independent Degradation Pathway","volume":"4","author":"Sharon","year":"2014","journal-title":"Biomolecules"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"185","DOI":"10.3389\/fnins.2017.00185","article-title":"Protein Quality Control by Molecular Chaperones in Neurodegeneration","volume":"11","author":"Ciechanover","year":"2017","journal-title":"Front. 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