A gated channel into the proteasome core particle.
Groll, M., Bajorek, M., Kohler, A., Moroder, L., Rubin, D.M., Huber, R., Glickman, M.H., Finley, D.(2000) Nat Struct Biol 7: 1062-1067
- PubMed: 11062564 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/80992
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
1G0U - PubMed Abstract: 
The core particle (CP) of the yeast proteasome is composed of four heptameric rings of subunits arranged in a hollow, barrel-like structure. We report that the CP is autoinhibited by the N-terminal tails of the outer (alpha) ring subunits. Crystallographic analysis showed that deletion of the tail of the alpha 3-subunit opens a channel into the proteolytically active interior chamber of the CP, thus derepressing peptide hydrolysis ...