Proteasome workshop at Colorado State University. Fort Collins, Colo., July 1-3, 1995. Report and abstracts

An international workshop on the proteasome was held on the campus of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, July 1-3, 1995. The program consisted of five oral sessions and one poster session. The abstracts of the posters and many of the oral presentations appear in this issue of Enzyme and Protein. The oral sessions were organized around four themes: structure and catalytic properties; allosteric regulators and synthetic inhibitors; the 26S proteasome; and physiological functions, developmental expression, and endogenous substrates. Since entire issues of Enzyme and Protein [vol. 47, No. 4-6, 1993] and Molecular Biology Reports [vol. 21, No. 1, 1995] have been devoted to the proteasome, this summary emphasizes recent results and current research of many of the laboratories studying this fascinating complex.