Simeon A, van der Klei I J, Veenhuis M, Wolf D H
Institut für Biochemie, Universität Stuttgart, Germany.
FEBS Lett. 1992 Apr 20;301(2):231-5. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)81254-j.
Ubiquitin, an evolutionary highly conserved protein, is known to be involved in selective proteolysis in the cytoplasm. Here we show that ubiquitin-protein conjugates are also found in the yeast vacuole. Mutants defective in the major vacuolar endopeptidases, proteinase yscA and yscB, lead to accumulation of ubiquitin-protein conjugates in this cellular organelle.