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Dysregulation of the proteasome has been documented in a variety of human diseases such as Alzheimer, muscle atrophy, cataracts etc. Proteolytic activity of 26 S proteasome is ATP- and ubiquitin-dependent. O-GlcNAcylation of Rpt2, one of the AAA ATPases in the 19 S regulatory cap, shuts off the proteasome through the inhibition of ATPase activity. Thus, through control of the flux of glucose into O-GlcNAc, the function of the proteasome is coupled to glucose metabolism. In the present study we found another metabolic control of the proteasome via cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). Contrary to O-Glc-NAcylation, PKA activated proteasomes both in vitro and in vivo in association with the phosphorylation at Ser120 of another AAA ATPase subunit, Rpt6. Mutation of Ser120 to Ala blocked proteasome function. The stimulatory effect of PKA and the phosphorylation of Rpt6 were reversible by protein phosphatase 1γ. Thus, hormones using the PKA system can also regulate proteasomes often in concert with glucose metabolism. This finding might lead to novel strategies for the treatment of proteasome-related diseases. Dysregulation of the proteasome has been documented in a variety of human diseases such as Alzheimer, muscle atrophy, cataracts etc. Proteolytic activity of 26 S proteasome is ATP- and ubiquitin-dependent. O-GlcNAcylation of Rpt2, one of the AAA ATPases in the 19 S regulatory cap, shuts off the proteasome through the inhibition of ATPase activity. Thus, through control of the flux of glucose into O-GlcNAc, the function of the proteasome is coupled to glucose metabolism. In the present study we found another metabolic control of the proteasome via cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). Contrary to O-Glc-NAcylation, PKA activated proteasomes both in vitro and in vivo in association with the phosphorylation at Ser120 of another AAA ATPase subunit, Rpt6. Mutation of Ser120 to Ala blocked proteasome function. The stimulatory effect of PKA and the phosphorylation of Rpt6 were reversible by protein phosphatase 1γ. Thus, hormones using the PKA system can also regulate proteasomes often in concert with glucose metabolism. This finding might lead to novel strategies for the treatment of proteasome-related diseases. The proteome is in a dynamic state of synthesis and degradation. Although synthesis plays a role in controlling the concentration of many proteins, many other protein concentrations are controlled by the rate of degradation. Indeed controlling protein half-life by destruction has emerged as a major cellular regulatory mechanism. The destruction process is carried out by diverse proteases in the cell. The two major proteolytic pathways involve either the lysosomes or the ubiquitin-proteasome system. The proteasome is an abundant giant major cellular organelle with protease activities that degrades intracellular proteins in an ATP-dependent manner. Not only does it remove abnormal proteins that may be misfolded, aged, or damaged by oxidation, it also regulates the half-life of the short lived regulatory proteins such as cyclins involved in the control of cell cycle (1Hershko A. Cell Death Differ. 2005; 12: 1191-1197Crossref PubMed Scopus (278) Google Scholar, 2Sudakin V. Ganoth D. Dahan A. Heller H. Hershko J. Luca F.C. Ruderman J.V. Hershko A. Mol. Biol. Cell. 1995; 6: 185-197Crossref PubMed Scopus (643) Google Scholar, 3Richter-Ruoff B. Wolf D.H. FEBS Lett. 1993; 336: 34-36Crossref PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar) and transcription regulators like β-catenin (4Aberle H. Bauer A. Stappert J. Kispert A. Kemler R. EMBO J. 1997; 16: 3797-3804Crossref PubMed Scopus (2157) Google Scholar) and p53 (5Maki C.G. Huibregtse J.M. Howley P.M. 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This core particle in the eukaryotic proteasome has three distinct catalytic activities: a chymotrypsin-like activity with preference for tyrosine or phenylalanine at the P1 position, a trypsin-like activity with preference for arginine or lysine at the P1 position, and a post-glutamyl hydrolyzing activity with a preference for glutamate or aspartate at the P1 position. These catalytic activities each require an N-terminal threonine residue on their respective β-subunit to act as a nucleophile to coordinately cleave long proteins (13Liu C.W. Corboy M.J. DeMartino G.N. Thomas P.J. Science. 2003; 299: 408-411Crossref PubMed Scopus (347) Google Scholar, 14Kierszenbaum A.L. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 2000; 57: 109-110Crossref PubMed Scopus (22) Google Scholar, 15Myung J. Kim K.B. Crews C.M. Med. Res. Rev. 2001; 21: 245-273Crossref PubMed Scopus (369) Google Scholar). 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