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. 2021 Oct 26;12:6173. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26427-0

Fig. 3. Conjugated ubiquitin is proteolyzed by purified 20S proteasome in vitro.

Fig. 3

a TetraUb-Cyclin B1-NT was incubated with purified 20S or 26S proteasomes at 1:150 (proteasome:substrate) molar ratio at 37 °C for indicated time periods. The reaction mixture was resolved by Tris-Tricine PAGE and stained with Coomassie. Brotezomib was added to reactions to inhibit the proteasome activity. b MonoUb- or DiUb-Cyclin B1-NT were incubated at 37 °C with purified 20S or 26S proteasomes at 1:150 (proteasome:substrate) molar ratio for indicated time periods and separated in Tris-Tricine PAGE followed by Coomassie staining. c The illustration represents the ubiquitin peptides obtained from TetraUb-Cyclin B1-NT proteolyzed by the 20S proteasome detected by MS/MS analysis overlaid on the primary sequences of the ubiquitin units in the chain. Purple-colored residues represent the Flag-tag sequence on the distal ubiquitin unit, while green represents the Myc-tag sequence on the proximal ubiquitin. d The illustration represents the branched peptides at the isopeptide linkage of the C-terminus of ubiquitin to the K64 residue of cyclin B1 identified by non-tryptic MS/MS of reaction products. Three major types of branched peptides at K64 of Cyclin B1 were detected with variants of ubiquitin remnants: K64—GG, K64—GGR, and K64—GGRL. e MS/MS spectra of one of the detected branched peptides ARLPLPKE with a GGR branch on K. Source data are provided as a Source data file.