Neuron Article The EBAX-type Cullin-RING E3 Ligase and Hsp90 Guard the Protein Quality of the SAX-3/Robo Receptor in Developing Neurons Zhiping Wang,1 Yanli Hou,4,6 Xing Guo,2,6 Monique van der Voet,5 Mike Boxem,5 Jack E. Dixon,2,3 Andrew D. Chisholm,1 and Yishi Jin1,3,* 1Neurobiology Section, Division of Biological Sciences 2Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine 3Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA 4Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 5Department of Biology, Utrecht University, 3584 CH Utrecht, the Netherlands 6These authors contributed equally to this work *Correspondence:
[email protected] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.06.035 SUMMARY ucts. Cells have developed sophisticated compartment-specific protein quality control (PQC) strategies to restrict aberrant pro- Although protein quality control (PQC) is generally teins to harmless levels through molecular chaperone-facilitated perceived as important for the development of folding/refolding and protein degradation (Tyedmers et al., the nervous system, the specific mechanisms of 2010). By suppressing background noise caused by stochastic neuronal PQC have remained poorly understood. environmental variations and translational errors, PQC is essen- Here, we report that C. elegans Elongin BC-binding tial to ensure the robustness of genetically designed develop- axon regulator (EBAX-1), a conserved BC-box mental programs (Jarosz et al., 2010). Processes that require extensive protein turnover impose protein, regulates axon guidance through PQC of intense pressure on the biosynthesis and PQC pathways. The the SAX-3/Robo receptor.