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Intrinsically disordered proteins and membranes: a marriage of convenience for cell signalling? Biochem Soc Trans 2021; 48:2669-2689. [PMID: 33155649 PMCID: PMC7752083 DOI: 10.1042/bst20200467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The structure-function paradigm has guided investigations into the molecules involved in cellular signalling for decades. The peripheries of this paradigm, however, start to unravel when considering the co-operation between proteins and the membrane in signalling processes. Intrinsically disordered regions hold distinct advantages over folded domains in terms of their binding promiscuity, sensitivity to their particular environment and their ease of modulation through post-translational modifications. Low sequence complexity and bias towards charged residues are also favourable for the multivalent electrostatic interactions that occur at the surfaces of lipid bilayers. This review looks at the principles behind the successful marriage between protein disorder and membranes in addition to the role of this partnership in modifying and regulating signalling in cellular processes. The HVR (hypervariable region) of small GTPases is highlighted as a well-studied example of the nuanced role a short intrinsically disordered region can play in the fine-tuning of signalling pathways.
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Jamecna D, Antonny B. Intrinsically disordered protein regions at membrane contact sites. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2021; 1866:159020. [PMID: 34352388 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2021.159020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Membrane contact sites (MCS) are regions of close apposition between membrane-bound organelles. Proteins that occupy MCS display various domain organisation. Among them, lipid transfer proteins (LTPs) frequently contain both structured domains as well as regions of intrinsic disorder. In this review, we discuss the various roles of intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) in LTPs as well as in other proteins that are associated with organelle contact sites. We distinguish the following functions: (i) to act as flexible tethers between two membranes; (ii) to act as entropic barriers to prevent protein crowding and regulate membrane tethering geometry; (iii) to define the action range of catalytic domains. These functions are added to other functions of IDPRs in membrane environments, such as mediating protein-protein and protein-membrane interactions. We suggest that the overall efficiency and fidelity of contact sites might require fine coordination between all these IDPR activities.
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- Denisa Jamecna
- Université Côte d'Azur et CNRS, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 660 route des lucioles, 06560 Valbonne, France; Biochemistry Center (BZH), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université Côte d'Azur et CNRS, Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 660 route des lucioles, 06560 Valbonne, France.
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Recent developments in membrane curvature sensing and induction by proteins. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2021; 1865:129971. [PMID: 34333084 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2021.129971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Revised: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Membrane-bound intracellular organelles have characteristic shapes attributed to different local membrane curvatures, and these attributes are conserved across species. Over the past decade, it has been confirmed that specific proteins control the large curvatures of the membrane, whereas many others due to their specific structural features can sense the curvatures and bind to the specific geometrical cues. Elucidating the interplay between sensing and induction is indispensable to understand the mechanisms behind various biological processes such as vesicular trafficking and budding. SCOPE OF REVIEW We provide an overview of major classes of membrane proteins and the mechanisms of curvature sensing and induction. We then discuss the importance of membrane elastic characteristics to induce the membrane shapes similar to intracellular organelles. Finally, we survey recently available assays developed for studying the curvature sensing and induction by many proteins. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Recent theoretical/computational modeling along with experimental studies have uncovered fascinating connections between lipid membrane and protein interactions. However, the phenomena of protein localization and synchronization to generate spatiotemporal dynamics in membrane morphology are yet to be fully understood. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE The understanding of protein-membrane interactions is essential to shed light on various biological processes. This further enables the technological applications of many natural proteins/peptides in therapeutic treatments. The studies of membrane dynamic shapes help to understand the fundamental functions of membranes, while the medicinal roles of various macromolecules (such as proteins, peptides, etc.) are being increasingly investigated.
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Kolel-Veetil M, Sen A, Buehler MJ. Surface adhesion of viruses and bacteria: Defend only and/or vibrationally extinguish also?! A perspective. MRS ADVANCES 2021; 6:355-361. [PMID: 34150335 PMCID: PMC8204927 DOI: 10.1557/s43580-021-00079-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Coronaviruses COVID-19, SARS-CoV and NL63 use spikes in their corona to bind to angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) sites on cytoskeletal membranes of host cells to deliver their viral payload. While groups such as disulfides in ACE2's zinc metallopeptidase, and also in COVID-19's spikes, facilitate such binding, it is worth exploring how similar complementary sites on materials such as polymers, metals, ceramics, fabrics, and biomaterials promote binding of viruses and bacteria and how they could be further engineered to prevent bioactivity, or to act as agents to collect viral payloads in filters or similar devices. In that vein, this article offers a perspective on novel tools and approaches for chemically and topologically modifying most utilitarian surfaces via defensive topological vibrational engineering to either prevent such adhesion or to enhance adhesion and elicit vibrational characteristics/'musical signatures' from the surfaces so that the structure of the binding sites of viruses and bacteria is permanently altered and/or their cellular machinery is permanently disabled by targeted chemical transformations. Graphic abstract Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1557/s43580-021-00079-0.
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- Manoj Kolel-Veetil
- Chemistry Division, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 USA
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- Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA
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- Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA
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Barrett J, Girr P, Mackinder LCM. Pyrenoids: CO 2-fixing phase separated liquid organelles. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2021; 1868:118949. [PMID: 33421532 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2021.118949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Pyrenoids are non-membrane bound organelles found in chloroplasts of algae and hornwort plants that can be seen by light-microscopy. Pyrenoids are formed by liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of Rubisco, the primary CO2 fixing enzyme, with an intrinsically disordered multivalent Rubisco-binding protein. Pyrenoids are the heart of algal and hornwort biophysical CO2 concentrating mechanisms, which accelerate photosynthesis and mediate about 30% of global carbon fixation. Even though LLPS may underlie the apparent convergent evolution of pyrenoids, our current molecular understanding of pyrenoid formation comes from a single example, the model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In this review, we summarise current knowledge about pyrenoid assembly, regulation and structural organization in Chlamydomonas and highlight evidence that LLPS is the general principle underlying pyrenoid formation across algal lineages and hornworts. Detailed understanding of the principles behind pyrenoid assembly, regulation and structural organization within diverse lineages will provide a fundamental understanding of this biogeochemically important organelle and help guide ongoing efforts to engineer pyrenoids into crops to increase photosynthetic performance and yields.2.
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- James Barrett
- Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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Tarasenko D, Meinecke M. Protein-dependent membrane remodeling in mitochondrial morphology and clathrin-mediated endocytosis. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL : EBJ 2021; 50:295-306. [PMID: 33527201 PMCID: PMC8071792 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-021-01501-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cellular membranes can adopt a plethora of complex and beautiful shapes, most of which are believed to have evolved for a particular physiological reason. The closely entangled relationship between membrane morphology and cellular physiology is strikingly seen in membrane trafficking pathways. During clathrin-mediated endocytosis, for example, over the course of a minute, a patch of the more or less flat plasma membrane is remodeled into a highly curved clathrin-coated vesicle. Such vesicles are internalized by the cell to degrade or recycle plasma membrane receptors or to take up extracellular ligands. Other, steadier, membrane morphologies can be observed in organellar membranes like the endoplasmic reticulum or mitochondria. In the case of mitochondria, which are double membrane-bound, ubiquitous organelles of eukaryotic cells, especially the mitochondrial inner membrane displays an intricated ultrastructure. It is highly folded and consequently has a much larger surface than the mitochondrial outer membrane. It can adopt different shapes in response to cellular demands and changes of the inner membrane morphology often accompany severe diseases, including neurodegenerative- and metabolic diseases and cancer. In recent years, progress was made in the identification of molecules that are important for the aforementioned membrane remodeling events. In this review, we will sum up recent results and discuss the main players of membrane remodeling processes that lead to the mitochondrial inner membrane ultrastructure and in clathrin-mediated endocytosis. We will compare differences and similarities between the molecular mechanisms that peripheral and integral membrane proteins use to deform membranes.
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- Daryna Tarasenko
- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Humboldtallee 23, 37073, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen, Humboldtallee 23, 37073, Göttingen, Germany.
- Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften - GZMB, 37077, Göttingen, Germany.
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Cavin1 intrinsically disordered domains are essential for fuzzy electrostatic interactions and caveola formation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:931. [PMID: 33568658 PMCID: PMC7875971 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21035-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Caveolae are spherically shaped nanodomains of the plasma membrane, generated by cooperative assembly of caveolin and cavin proteins. Cavins are cytosolic peripheral membrane proteins with negatively charged intrinsically disordered regions that flank positively charged α-helical regions. Here, we show that the three disordered domains of Cavin1 are essential for caveola formation and dynamic trafficking of caveolae. Electrostatic interactions between disordered regions and α-helical regions promote liquid-liquid phase separation behaviour of Cavin1 in vitro, assembly of Cavin1 oligomers in solution, generation of membrane curvature, association with caveolin-1, and Cavin1 recruitment to caveolae in cells. Removal of the first disordered region causes irreversible gel formation in vitro and results in aberrant caveola trafficking through the endosomal system. We propose a model for caveola assembly whereby fuzzy electrostatic interactions between Cavin1 and caveolin-1 proteins, combined with membrane lipid interactions, are required to generate membrane curvature and a metastable caveola coat.
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Gao C, Ma C, Wang H, Zhong H, Zang J, Zhong R, He F, Yang D. Intrinsic disorder in protein domains contributes to both organism complexity and clade-specific functions. Sci Rep 2021; 11:2985. [PMID: 33542394 PMCID: PMC7862400 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82656-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Interestingly, some protein domains are intrinsically disordered (abbreviated as IDD), and the disorder degree of same domains may differ in different contexts. However, the evolutionary causes and biological significance of these phenomena are unclear. Here, we address these issues by genome-wide analyses of the evolutionary and functional features of IDDs in 1,870 species across the three superkingdoms. As the result, there is a significant positive correlation between the proportion of IDDs and organism complexity with some interesting exceptions. These phenomena may be due to the high disorder of clade-specific domains and the different disorder degrees of the domains shared in different clades. The functions of IDDs are clade-specific and the higher proportion of post-translational modification sites may contribute to their complex functions. Compared with metazoans, fungi have more IDDs with a consecutive disorder region but a low disorder ratio, which reflects their different functional requirements. As for disorder variation, it’s greater for domains among different proteins than those within the same proteins. Some clade-specific ‘no-variation’ or ‘high-variation’ domains are involved in clade-specific functions. In sum, intrinsic domain disorder is related to both the organism complexity and clade-specific functions. These results deepen the understanding of the evolution and function of IDDs.
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- Chao Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental and Viral Oncology, College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental and Viral Oncology, College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, 38 Science Park Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China.
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Clathrin senses membrane curvature. Biophys J 2021; 120:818-828. [PMID: 33524373 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.12.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 11/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The ability of proteins to assemble at sites of high membrane curvature is essential to diverse membrane remodeling processes, including clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Multiple adaptor proteins within the clathrin pathway have been shown to sense regions of high membrane curvature, leading to local recruitment of the clathrin coat. Because clathrin triskelia do not bind to the membrane directly, it has remained unclear whether the clathrin coat plays an active role in sensing membrane curvature or is passively recruited by adaptor proteins. Using a synthetic tag to assemble clathrin directly on membrane surfaces, here we show that clathrin is a strong sensor of membrane curvature, comparable with previously studied adaptor proteins. Interestingly, this sensitivity arises from clathrin assembly rather than from the properties of unassembled triskelia, suggesting that triskelia have preferred angles of interaction, as predicted by earlier structural data. Furthermore, when clathrin is recruited by adaptors, its curvature sensitivity is amplified by 2- to 10-fold, such that the resulting protein complex is up to 100 times more likely to assemble on a highly curved surface compared with a flatter one. This exquisite sensitivity points to a synergistic relationship between the coat and its adaptor proteins, which enables clathrin to pinpoint sites of high membrane curvature, an essential step in ensuring robust membrane traffic. More broadly, these findings suggest that protein networks, rather than individual protein domains, are likely the most potent drivers of membrane curvature sensing.
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Csizmadia G, Erdős G, Tordai H, Padányi R, Tosatto S, Dosztányi Z, Hegedűs T. The MemMoRF database for recognizing disordered protein regions interacting with cellular membranes. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:D355-D360. [PMID: 33119751 PMCID: PMC7778998 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Protein and lipid membrane interactions play fundamental roles in a large number of cellular processes (e.g. signalling, vesicle trafficking, or viral invasion). A growing number of examples indicate that such interactions can also rely on intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs), which can form specific reversible interactions not only with proteins but also with lipids. We named IDRs involved in such membrane lipid-induced disorder-to-order transition as MemMoRFs, in an analogy to IDRs exhibiting disorder-to-order transition upon interaction with protein partners termed Molecular Recognition Features (MoRFs). Currently, both the experimental detection and computational characterization of MemMoRFs are challenging, and information about these regions are scattered in the literature. To facilitate the related investigations we generated a comprehensive database of experimentally validated MemMoRFs based on manual curation of literature and structural data. To characterize the dynamics of MemMoRFs, secondary structure propensity and flexibility calculated from nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shifts were incorporated into the database. These data were supplemented by inclusion of sentences from papers, functional data and disease-related information. The MemMoRF database can be accessed via a user-friendly interface at https://memmorf.hegelab.org, potentially providing a central resource for the characterization of disordered regions in transmembrane and membrane-associated proteins.
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- Georgina Csizmadia
- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest 1094, Hungary
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- MTA-ELTE Lendület Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 1117, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest 1094, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest 1094, Hungary
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua 35131, Italy
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- MTA-ELTE Lendület Bioinformatics Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 1117, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest 1094, Hungary
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Laidlaw KME, Bisinski DD, Shashkova S, Paine KM, Veillon MA, Leake MC, MacDonald C. A glucose-starvation response governs endocytic trafficking and eisosomal retention of surface cargoes in budding yeast. J Cell Sci 2021; 134:jcs257733. [PMID: 33443082 PMCID: PMC7860119 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.257733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic cells adapt their metabolism to the extracellular environment. Downregulation of surface cargo proteins in response to nutrient stress reduces the burden of anabolic processes whilst elevating catabolic production in the lysosome. We show that glucose starvation in yeast triggers a transcriptional response that increases internalisation from the plasma membrane. Nuclear export of the Mig1 transcriptional repressor in response to glucose starvation increases levels of the Yap1801 and Yap1802 clathrin adaptors, which is sufficient to increase cargo internalisation. Beyond this, we show that glucose starvation results in Mig1-independent transcriptional upregulation of various eisosomal factors. These factors serve to sequester a portion of nutrient transporters at existing eisosomes, through the presence of Ygr130c and biochemical and biophysical changes in Pil1, allowing cells to persist throughout the starvation period and maximise nutrient uptake upon return to replete conditions. This provides a physiological benefit for cells to rapidly recover from glucose starvation. Collectively, this remodelling of the surface protein landscape during glucose starvation calibrates metabolism to available nutrients.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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- Kamilla M E Laidlaw
- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
- Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
- Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, York, UK
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Gan WJ, Motegi F. Mechanochemical Control of Symmetry Breaking in the Caenorhabditis elegans Zygote. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 8:619869. [PMID: 33537308 PMCID: PMC7848089 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.619869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Cell polarity is the asymmetric organization of cellular components along defined axes. A key requirement for polarization is the ability of the cell to break symmetry and achieve a spatially biased organization. Despite different triggering cues in various systems, symmetry breaking (SB) usually relies on mechanochemical modulation of the actin cytoskeleton, which allows for advected movement and reorganization of cellular components. Here, the mechanisms underlying SB in Caenorhabditis elegans zygote, one of the most popular models to study cell polarity, are reviewed. A zygote initiates SB through the centrosome, which modulates mechanics of the cell cortex to establish advective flow of cortical proteins including the actin cytoskeleton and partitioning defective (PAR) proteins. The chemical signaling underlying centrosomal control of the Aurora A kinase–mediated cascade to convert the organization of the contractile actomyosin network from an apolar to polar state is also discussed.
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- Wan Jun Gan
- Temasek Life-Sciences Laboratory, Singapore, Singapore
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- Temasek Life-Sciences Laboratory, Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Institute of Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Cellular membranes are anything but flat structures. They display a wide variety of complex and beautiful shapes, most of which have evolved for a particular physiological reason and are adapted to accommodate certain cellular demands. In membrane trafficking events, the dynamic remodelling of cellular membranes is apparent. In clathrin-mediated endocytosis for example, the plasma membrane undergoes heavy deformation to generate and internalize a highly curved clathrin-coated vesicle. This process has become a model system to study proteins with the ability to sense and induce membrane curvature and over the last two decades numerous membrane remodelling molecules and molecular mechanisms have been identified in this process. In this review, we discuss the interaction of epsin1 ENTH domain with membranes, which is one of the best-studied examples of a peripheral and transiently membrane bending protein important for clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
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- Claudia Steinem
- Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 2, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Joseph JG, Osorio C, Yee V, Agrawal A, Liu AP. Complimentary action of structured and unstructured domains of epsin supports clathrin-mediated endocytosis at high tension. Commun Biol 2020; 3:743. [PMID: 33293652 PMCID: PMC7722716 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01471-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Membrane tension plays an inhibitory role in clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) by impeding the transition of flat plasma membrane to hemispherical clathrin-coated structures (CCSs). Membrane tension also impedes the transition of hemispherical domes to omega-shaped CCSs. However, CME is not completely halted in cells under high tension conditions. Here we find that epsin, a membrane bending protein which inserts its N-terminus H0 helix into lipid bilayer, supports flat-to-dome transition of a CCS and stabilizes its curvature at high tension. This discovery is supported by molecular dynamic simulation of the epsin N-terminal homology (ENTH) domain that becomes more structured when embedded in a lipid bilayer. In addition, epsin has an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) C-terminus domain which induces membrane curvature via steric repulsion. Insertion of H0 helix into lipid bilayer is not sufficient for stable epsin recruitment. Epsin's binding to adaptor protein 2 and clathrin is critical for epsin's association with CCSs under high tension conditions, supporting the importance of multivalent interactions in CCSs. Together, our results support a model where the ENTH and unstructured IDP region of epsin have complementary roles to ensure CME initiation and CCS maturation are unimpeded under high tension environments.
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- Jophin G Joseph
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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González-Obeso C, González-Pérez M, Mano JF, Alonso M, Rodríguez-Cabello JC. Complex Morphogenesis by a Model Intrinsically Disordered Protein. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2020; 16:e2005191. [PMID: 33216415 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202005191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The development of intricate and complex self-assembling structures in the micrometer range, such as biomorphs, is a major challenge in materials science. Although complex structures can be obtained from self-assembling materials as they segregate from solution, their size is usually in the nanometer range or requires accessory techniques. Previous studies with intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) have shown that the active interplay of different molecular interactions provides access to new and more complex nanostructures. As such, it is hypothesized that enriching the variety of intra- and intermolecular interactions in a model IDP will widen the landscape of sophisticated intermediate structures that can be accessed. In this study, a model silk-elastin-like recombinamer capable of interacting via three non-covalent interactions, namely hydrophobic, ion-pairing, and H-bonding is built. This model material is shown to self-assemble into complex stable micrometer-sized biomorphs. Variation of the block composition, pH, and temperature demonstrates the necessary interplay of all three interactions for the formation of such complex structures.
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- Constancio González-Obeso
- BIOFORGE (Group for Advanced Materials and Nanobiotechnology), University of Valladolid-CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Belén 19, Valladolid, 47011, Spain
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, MA, 02155, USA
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- BIOFORGE (Group for Advanced Materials and Nanobiotechnology), University of Valladolid-CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Belén 19, Valladolid, 47011, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal
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- BIOFORGE (Group for Advanced Materials and Nanobiotechnology), University of Valladolid-CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Belén 19, Valladolid, 47011, Spain
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- BIOFORGE (Group for Advanced Materials and Nanobiotechnology), University of Valladolid-CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Belén 19, Valladolid, 47011, Spain
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Tanaka M, Komikawa T, Yanai K, Okochi M. Proteomic Exploration of Membrane Curvature Sensors Using a Series of Spherical Supported Lipid Bilayers. Anal Chem 2020; 92:16197-16203. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Masayoshi Tanaka
- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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Su M, Zhuang Y, Miao X, Zeng Y, Gao W, Zhao W, Wu M. Comparative Study of Curvature Sensing Mediated by F-BAR and an Intrinsically Disordered Region of FBP17. iScience 2020; 23:101712. [PMID: 33205024 PMCID: PMC7649350 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Membrane curvature has emerged as an intriguing physical principle underlying biological signaling and membrane trafficking. The CIP4/FBP17/Toca-1 F-BAR subfamily is unique in the BAR family because its structurally folded F-BAR domain does not contain any hydrophobic motifs that insert into membrane. Although widely assumed so, whether the banana-shaped F-BAR domain alone can sense curvature has never been experimentally demonstrated. Using a nanobar-supported lipid bilayer system, we found that the F-BAR domain of FBP17 displayed minimal curvature sensing in vitro. In comparison, an alternatively spliced intrinsically disordered region (IDR) adjacent to the F-BAR domain has the membrane curvature-sensing ability greatly exceeding that of F-BAR domain alone. In living cells, the presence of the IDR delayed the recruitment of FBP17 in curvature-coupled cortical waves. Collectively, we propose that contrary to the common belief, FBP17's curvature-sensing capability largely originates from IDR, and not the F-BAR domain alone.
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- Maohan Su
- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8002, USA.,Centre for BioImaging Sciences, Mechanobiology Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117411
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8002, USA.,School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637457
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637457
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637457
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- School of Physics and Mathematical Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637371
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637457
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8002, USA.,Centre for BioImaging Sciences, Mechanobiology Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117411
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Chen Z, Schmid SL. Evolving models for assembling and shaping clathrin-coated pits. J Cell Biol 2020; 219:e202005126. [PMID: 32770195 PMCID: PMC7480099 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202005126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Clathrin-mediated endocytosis occurs via the assembly of clathrin-coated pits (CCPs) that invaginate and pinch off to form clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs). It is well known that adaptor protein 2 (AP2) complexes trigger clathrin assembly on the plasma membrane, and biochemical and structural studies have revealed the nature of these interactions. Numerous endocytic accessory proteins collaborate with clathrin and AP2 to drive CCV formation. However, many questions remain as to the molecular events involved in CCP initiation, stabilization, and curvature generation. Indeed, a plethora of recent evidence derived from cell perturbation, correlative light and EM tomography, live-cell imaging, modeling, and high-resolution structural analyses has revealed more complexity and promiscuity in the protein interactions driving CCP maturation than anticipated. After briefly reviewing the evidence supporting prevailing models, we integrate these new lines of evidence to develop a more dynamic and flexible model for how redundant, dynamic, and competing protein interactions can drive endocytic CCV formation and suggest new approaches to test emerging models.
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- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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Day KJ, Stachowiak JC. Biophysical forces in membrane bending and traffic. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2020; 65:72-77. [PMID: 32229366 PMCID: PMC7529674 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2020.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2019] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Intracellular trafficking requires extensive changes in membrane morphology. Cells use several distinct molecular factors and physical cues to remodel membranes. Here, we highlight recent advances in identifying the biophysical mechanisms of membrane curvature generation. In particular, we focus on the cooperation of molecular and physical drivers of membrane bending during three stages of vesiculation: budding, cargo selection, and scission. Taken together, the studies reviewed here emphasize that, rather than a single dominant mechanism, several mechanisms typically work in parallel during each step of membrane remodeling. Important challenges for the future of this field are to understand how multiple mechanisms work together synergistically and how a series of stochastic events can be combined to achieve a deterministic result-assembly of the trafficking vesicle.
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- Kasey J Day
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, 107 W. Dean Keeton St., C0800, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, 107 W. Dean Keeton St., C0800, Austin, TX, 78712, USA; Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Norman Hackerman Building, 100 East 24th St., NHB 4500, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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Many critical biological events, including biochemical signaling, membrane traffic, and cell motility, originate at membrane surfaces. Each such event requires that members of a specific group of proteins and lipids rapidly assemble together at a specific site on the membrane surface. Understanding the biophysical mechanisms that stabilize these assemblies is critical to decoding and controlling cellular functions. In this article, we review progress toward a quantitative biophysical understanding of the mechanisms that drive membrane heterogeneity and organization. We begin from a physical perspective, reviewing the fundamental principles and key experimental evidence behind each proposed mechanism. We then shift to a biological perspective, presenting key examples of the role of heterogeneity in biology and asking which physical mechanisms may be responsible. We close with an applied perspective, noting that membrane heterogeneity provides a novel therapeutic target that is being exploited by a growing number of studies at the interface of biology, physics, and engineering.
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- Wade F Zeno
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA;
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA;
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- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
- Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA;
- Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Nepal B, Sepehri A, Lazaridis T. Mechanisms of negative membrane curvature sensing and generation by ESCRT III subunit Snf7. Protein Sci 2020; 29:1473-1485. [PMID: 32142182 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Revised: 03/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Certain proteins have the propensity to bind to negatively curved membranes and generate negative membrane curvature. The mechanism of action of these proteins is much less studied and understood than those that sense and generate positive curvature. In this work, we use implicit membrane modeling to explore the mechanism of an important negative curvature sensing and generating protein: the main ESCRT III subunit Snf7. We find that Snf7 monomers alone can sense negative curvature and that curvature sensitivity increases for dimers and trimers. We have observed spontaneous bending of Snf7 oligomers into circular structures with preferred radius of ~20 nm. The preferred curvature of Snf7 filaments is further confirmed by the simulations of preformed spirals on a cylindrical membrane surface. Snf7 filaments cannot bind with the same interface to flat and curved membranes. We find that even when a filament has the preferred radius, it is always less stable on the flat membrane surface than on the interior cylindrical membrane surface. This provides an additional energy for membrane bending which has not been considered in the spiral spring model. Furthermore, the rings on the cylindrical spirals are bridged together by helix 4 and hence are extra stabilized compared to the spirals on the flat membrane surface.
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- Binod Nepal
- Department of Chemistry, City College of New York, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, City College of New York, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, City College of New York, New York, New York, USA.,Graduate Programs in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA
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Kim J, Lee J, Jang J, Ye F, Hong SJ, Petrich BG, Ulmer TS, Kim C. Topological Adaptation of Transmembrane Domains to the Force-Modulated Lipid Bilayer Is a Basis of Sensing Mechanical Force. Curr Biol 2020; 30:1614-1625.e5. [PMID: 32169208 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.02.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cells can sense and respond to various mechanical stimuli from their surrounding environment. One of the explanations for mechanosensitivity, a lipid-bilayer model, suggests that a stretch of the membrane induced by mechanical force alters the physical state of the lipid bilayer, driving mechanosensors to assume conformations better matched to the altered membrane. However, mechanosensors of this class are restricted to ion channels. Here, we reveal that integrin αIIbβ3, a prototypic adhesion receptor, can be activated by various mechanical stimuli including stretch, shear stress, and osmotic pressure. The force-induced integrin activation was not dependent on its known intracellular activation signaling events and was even observed in reconstituted cell-free liposomes. Instead, these mechanical stimuli were found to alter the lipid embedding of the integrin β3 transmembrane domain (TMD) and subsequently weaken the αIIb-β3 TMD interaction, which results in activation of the receptor. Moreover, artificial modulation of the membrane curvature near integrin αIIbβ3 can induce its activation in cells as well as in lipid nanodiscs, suggesting that physical deformation of the lipid bilayer, either by mechanical force or curvature, can induce integrin activation. Thus, our results establish the adhesion receptor as a bona fide mechanosensor that directly senses and responds to the force-modulated lipid environment. Furthermore, this study expands the lipid-bilayer model by suggesting that the force-induced topological change of TMDs and subsequent alteration in the TMD interactome is a molecular basis of sensing mechanical force transmitted via the lipid bilayer.
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- Jiyoon Kim
- Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pediatrics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.
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Baudier J, Deloulme JC, Shaw GS. The Zn 2+ and Ca 2+ -binding S100B and S100A1 proteins: beyond the myths. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2020; 95:738-758. [PMID: 32027773 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The S100 genes encode a conserved group of 21 vertebrate-specific EF-hand calcium-binding proteins. Since their discovery in 1965, S100 proteins have remained enigmatic in terms of their cellular functions. In this review, we summarize the calcium- and zinc-binding properties of the dimeric S100B and S100A1 proteins and highlight data that shed new light on the extracellular and intracellular regulation and functions of S100B. We point out that S100B and S100A1 homodimers are not functionally interchangeable and that in a S100A1/S100B heterodimer, S100A1 acts as a negative regulator for the ability of S100B to bind Zn2+ . The Ca2+ and Zn2+ -dependent interactions of S100B with a wide array of proteins form the basis of its activities and have led to the derivation of some initial rules for S100B recognition of protein targets. However, recent findings have strongly suggested that these rules need to be revisited. Here, we describe a new consensus S100B binding motif present in intracellular and extracellular vertebrate-specific proteins and propose a new model for stable interactions of S100B dimers with full-length target proteins. A chaperone-associated function for intracellular S100B in adaptive cellular stress responses is also discussed. This review may help guide future studies on the functions of S100 proteins in general.
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- Jacques Baudier
- Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-UMR CNRS 7288, Aix Marseille Université, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France
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- Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, INSERM U1216, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000, Grenoble, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A5C1, Canada
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Breuer A, Lauritsen L, Bertseva E, Vonkova I, Stamou D. Quantitative investigation of negative membrane curvature sensing and generation by I-BARs in filopodia of living cells. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:9829-9839. [PMID: 31728468 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01185d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Membrane curvature has recently been recognized as an active regulator of cellular function, with several protein families identified as sensors and generators of membrane curvature. Amongst them, the inverse Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (I-BAR) domain family has been implicated in the sensing and generation of membrane structures with negative membrane curvature e.g. filopodia or dendritic spines. However, to date, quantitative biophysical investigations of I-BAR domains have mostly taken place in reconstitution. Here, we use fluorescence microscopy to quantitatively investigate membrane curvature sensing and generation by I-BARs in filopodia of living cells. As a model system, we selected two prototypic members of the I-BAR family, the insulin receptor substrate p53 and missing-in-metastasis. Our data demonstrated how I-BARs sense negative membrane curvature in the complex environment of live cells by revealing a dependence on membrane curvature for both their binding affinity to membranes and their saturation density. The non-monotonic dependence of protein sorting with negative membrane curvature allowed us to apply previously developed thermodynamic models to provide estimates of the effective intrinsic curvature and bending rigidity of the two I-BARs bound at the plasma membrane. Our results agree with studies performed on the insulin receptor substrate p53 in reconstitution. To quantitate membrane curvature generation by I-BARs we measured how their overexpression reduces the peak and the width of the size distribution of filopodia, resulting in filopodia populations with smaller and more uniform diameters. Our findings provide a quantitative biophysical insight in the ability of I-BARs to sense and generate negative membrane curvature in the crowded environment of living cells.
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- Artù Breuer
- Bionanotechnology and Nanomedicine Laboratory, Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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MglA functions as a three-state GTPase to control movement reversals of Myxococcus xanthus. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5300. [PMID: 31757955 PMCID: PMC6876712 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13274-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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In Myxococcus xanthus, directed movement is controlled by pole-to-pole oscillations of the small GTPase MglA and its GAP MglB. Direction reversals require that MglA is inactivated by MglB, yet paradoxically MglA and MglB are located at opposite poles at reversal initiation. Here we report the complete MglA/MglB structural cycle combined to GAP kinetics and in vivo motility assays, which uncovers that MglA is a three-state GTPase and suggests a molecular mechanism for concerted MglA/MglB relocalizations. We show that MglA has an atypical GTP-bound state (MglA-GTP*) that is refractory to MglB and is re-sensitized by a feedback mechanism operated by MglA-GDP. By identifying and mutating the pole-binding region of MglB, we then provide evidence that the MglA-GTP* state exists in vivo. These data support a model in which MglA-GDP acts as a soluble messenger to convert polar MglA-GTP* into a diffusible MglA-GTP species that re-localizes to the opposite pole during reversals. In Myxococcus xanthus, directed movement is controlled by pole-to-pole oscillations of the small GTPase MglA and its GAP MglB. Here authors report the complete MglA/MglB structural cycle and uncover that MglA is a three-state GTPase that adopts an atypical GTP-bound state that is refractory to inactivation by MglB.
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Zeno WF, Snead WT, Thatte AS, Stachowiak JC. Structured and intrinsically disordered domains within Amphiphysin1 work together to sense and drive membrane curvature. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:8706-8717. [PMID: 31621751 PMCID: PMC6934260 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01495k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Cellular membranes undergo remodeling during many cellular processes including endocytosis, cytoskeletal protrusion, and organelle biogenesis. During these events, specialized proteins sense and amplify fluctuations in membrane curvature to create stably curved architectures. Amphiphysin1 is a multi-domain protein containing an N-terminal crescent-shaped BAR (Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs) domain and a C-terminal domain that is largely disordered. When studied in isolation, the BAR domain of Amphiphysin1 senses membrane curvature and generates membrane tubules. However, the disordered domain has been largely overlooked in these studies. Interestingly, our recent work has demonstrated that the disordered domain is capable of substantially amplifying the membrane remodeling ability of the BAR domain. However, the physical mechanisms responsible for these effects are presently unclear. Here we elucidated the functional role of the disordered domain by gradually truncating it, creating a family of mutant proteins, each of which contained the BAR domain and a fraction of the disordered domain. Using quantitative fluorescence and electron microscopy, our results indicate that the disordered domain contributes to membrane remodeling by making it more difficult for the protein to bind to and assemble on flat membrane surfaces. Specifically, we found that the disordered domain began to significantly impact membrane remodeling when its projected area exceeded that of the BAR domain. Once this threshold was crossed, steric interactions with the membrane surface and with neighboring disordered domains gave rise to increased curvature sensing and membrane vesiculation, respectively. These findings provide insight into the synergy between structured and disordered domains, each of which play important biophysical roles in membrane remodeling.
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- Wade F Zeno
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA. and Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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Fakhree MAA, Blum C, Claessens MMAE. Shaping membranes with disordered proteins. Arch Biochem Biophys 2019; 677:108163. [PMID: 31672499 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.108163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Membrane proteins control and shape membrane trafficking processes. The role of protein structure in shaping cellular membranes is well established. However, a significant fraction of membrane proteins is disordered or contains long disordered regions. It becomes more and more clear that these disordered regions contribute to the function of membrane proteins. While the fold of a structured protein is essential for its function, being disordered seems to be a crucial feature of membrane bound intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions. Here we outline the motifs that encode function in disordered proteins and discuss how these functional motifs enable disordered proteins to modulate membrane properties. These changes in membrane properties facilitate and regulate membrane trafficking processes which are highly abundant in eukaryotes.
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- Nanobiophysics Group, University of Twente, 7522, NB, Enschede, the Netherlands
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Goychuk A, Frey E. Protein Recruitment through Indirect Mechanochemical Interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:178101. [PMID: 31702232 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.178101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Some of the key proteins essential for important cellular processes are capable of recruiting other proteins from the cytosol to phospholipid membranes. The physical basis for this cooperativity of binding is, surprisingly, still unclear. Here, we suggest a general feedback mechanism that explains cooperativity through mechanochemical coupling mediated by the mechanical properties of phospholipid membranes. Our theory predicts that protein recruitment, and therefore also protein pattern formation, involves membrane deformation and is strongly affected by membrane composition.
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- Andriy Goychuk
- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstraße 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Das T, Eliezer D. Membrane interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins: The example of alpha-synuclein. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2019; 1867:879-889. [PMID: 31096049 PMCID: PMC6661188 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2019.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2019] [Accepted: 05/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Peripheral membrane proteins associate reversibly with biological membranes that, compared to protein binding partners, are structurally labile and devoid of specific binding pockets. Membranes in different subcellular compartments vary primarily in their chemical composition and physical properties, and recognition of these features is therefore critical for allowing such proteins to engage their proper membrane targets. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are well-suited to accomplish this task using highly specific and low- to moderate-affinity interactions governed by recognition principles that are both similar to and different from those that mediate the membrane interactions of rigid proteins. IDPs have also evolved multiple mechanisms to regulate membrane (and other) interactions and achieve their impressive functional diversity. Moreover, IDP-membrane interactions may have a kinetic advantage in fast processes requiring rapid control of such interactions, such as synaptic transmission or signaling. Herein we review the biophysics, regulation and functional implications of IDP-membrane interactions and include a brief overview of some of the methods that can be used to study such interactions. At each step, we use the example of alpha-synuclein, a protein involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and one of the best characterized membrane-binding IDP, to illustrate some of the principles discussed.
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- Tapojyoti Das
- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America.
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Vanuytsel S, Carniello J, Wallace MI. Artificial Signal Transduction across Membranes. Chembiochem 2019; 20:2569-2580. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201900254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Revised: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Steven Vanuytsel
- Department of ChemistryKing's College London Britannia House 7 Trinity Street London SE1 1DB UK
- London Centre for Nanotechnology Strand London WC2R 2LS UK
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- Department of ChemistryKing's College London Britannia House 7 Trinity Street London SE1 1DB UK
- London Centre for Nanotechnology Strand London WC2R 2LS UK
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- Department of ChemistryKing's College London Britannia House 7 Trinity Street London SE1 1DB UK
- London Centre for Nanotechnology Strand London WC2R 2LS UK
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Le Roux AL, Quiroga X, Walani N, Arroyo M, Roca-Cusachs P. The plasma membrane as a mechanochemical transducer. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 374:20180221. [PMID: 31431176 PMCID: PMC6627014 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cells are constantly submitted to external mechanical stresses, which they must withstand and respond to. By forming a physical boundary between cells and their environment that is also a biochemical platform, the plasma membrane (PM) is a key interface mediating both cellular response to mechanical stimuli, and subsequent biochemical responses. Here, we review the role of the PM as a mechanosensing structure. We first analyse how the PM responds to mechanical stresses, and then discuss how this mechanical response triggers downstream biochemical responses. The molecular players involved in PM mechanochemical transduction include sensors of membrane unfolding, membrane tension, membrane curvature or membrane domain rearrangement. These sensors trigger signalling cascades fundamental both in healthy scenarios and in diseases such as cancer, which cells harness to maintain integrity, keep or restore homeostasis and adapt to their external environment. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Forces in cancer: interdisciplinary approaches in tumour mechanobiology'.
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- Anabel-Lise Le Roux
- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- LaCàN, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona 08028, Spain
- LaCàN, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Spain
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- Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona 08028, Spain
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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Wang S, Zhao Z, Rodal AA. Higher-order assembly of Sorting Nexin 16 controls tubulation and distribution of neuronal endosomes. J Cell Biol 2019; 218:2600-2618. [PMID: 31253649 PMCID: PMC6683739 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201811074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Endosomal maturation and distribution, driven by membrane remodeling, are critical for receptor traffic and signaling. Using both in vitro and in vivo approaches, Wang et al. reveal an unexpected coiled-coil–mediated membrane remodeling activity of SNX16 that controls neuronal endosomal tubulation, distribution, and receptor traffic. The activities of neuronal signaling receptors depend heavily on the maturation state of the endosomal compartments in which they reside. However, it remains unclear how the distribution of these compartments within the uniquely complex morphology of neurons is regulated and how this distribution itself affects signaling. Here, we identified mechanisms by which Sorting Nexin 16 (SNX16) controls neuronal endosomal maturation and distribution. We found that higher-order assembly of SNX16 via its coiled-coil (CC) domain drives membrane tubulation in vitro and endosome association in cells. In Drosophila melanogaster motor neurons, activation of Rab5 and CC-dependent self-association of SNX16 lead to its endosomal enrichment, accumulation in Rab5- and Rab7-positive tubulated compartments in the cell body, and concomitant depletion of SNX16-positive endosomes from the synapse. This results in accumulation of synaptic growth–promoting bone morphogenetic protein receptors in the cell body and correlates with increased synaptic growth. Our results indicate that Rab regulation of SNX16 assembly controls the endosomal distribution and signaling activities of receptors in neurons.
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- ShiYu Wang
- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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- Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Zeno WF, Thatte AS, Wang L, Snead WT, Lafer EM, Stachowiak JC. Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Curvature Sensing by a Disordered Protein. J Am Chem Soc 2019; 141:10361-10371. [PMID: 31180661 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b03927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The ability of proteins to sense membrane curvature is essential for the initiation and assembly of curved membrane structures. Established mechanisms of curvature sensing rely on proteins with specific structural features. In contrast, it has recently been discovered that intrinsically disordered proteins, which lack a defined three-dimensional fold, can also be potent sensors of membrane curvature. How can an unstructured protein sense the structure of the membrane surface? Many disordered proteins that associate with membranes have two key physical features: a high degree of conformational entropy and a high net negative charge. Binding of such proteins to membrane surfaces results simultaneously in a decrease in conformational entropy and an increase in electrostatic repulsion by anionic lipids. Here we show that each of these effects gives rise to a distinct mechanism of curvature sensing. Specifically, as the curvature of the membrane increases, the steric hindrance between the disordered protein and membrane is reduced, leading to an increase in chain entropy. At the same time, increasing membrane curvature increases the average separation between anionic amino acids and lipids, creating an electrostatic preference for curved membranes. Using quantitative imaging of membrane vesicles, our results demonstrate that long disordered amino acid chains with low net charge sense curvature predominately through the entropic mechanism. In contrast, shorter, more highly charged amino acid chains rely largely on the electrostatic mechanism. These findings provide a roadmap for predicting and testing the curvature sensitivity of the large and diverse set of disordered proteins that function at cellular membranes.
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- Wade F Zeno
- Department of Biomedical Engineering , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology , The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio , San Antonio , Texas 78229 , United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States.,Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology , The University of Texas at Austin , Austin , Texas 78712 , United States
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Vidavsky N, Kunitake JAMR, Diaz-Rubio ME, Chiou AE, Loh HC, Zhang S, Masic A, Fischbach C, Estroff LA. Mapping and Profiling Lipid Distribution in a 3D Model of Breast Cancer Progression. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2019; 5:768-780. [PMID: 31139713 PMCID: PMC6535773 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Aberrant lipid accumulation and marked changes in cellular lipid profiles are related to breast cancer metabolism and disease progression. In vitro, these phenomena are primarily studied using cells cultured in monolayers (2D). Here, we employ multicellular spheroids, generated using the MCF10A cell line series of increasing malignancy potential, to better recapitulate the 3D microenvironmental conditions that cells experience in vivo. Breast cancer cell lipid compositions were assessed in 2D and 3D culture models as a function of malignancy using liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. Further, the spatial distribution of lipids was examined using Raman chemical imaging and lipid staining. We show that with changes in the cellular microenvironment when moving from 2D to 3D cell cultures, total lipid amounts decrease significantly, while the ratio of acylglycerols to membrane lipids increases. This ratio increase could be associated with the formation of large lipid droplets (>10 μm) that are spatially evident throughout the spheroids but absent in 2D cultures. Additionally, we found a significant difference in lipid profiles between the more and less malignant spheroids, including changes that support de novo sphingolipid production and a reduction in ether-linked lipid fractions in the invasive spheroids. These differences in lipid profiles as a function of cell malignancy and microenvironment highlight the importance of coupled spatial and lipidomic studies to better understand the connections between lipid metabolism and cancer.
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- Netta Vidavsky
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Metabolomics
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Nancy
E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Metabolomics
Facility, Institute of Biotechnology, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Nancy
E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
- Kavli
Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
- Kavli
Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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Mohammad IL, Mateos B, Pons M. The disordered boundary of the cell: emerging properties of membrane-bound intrinsically disordered proteins. Biomol Concepts 2019; 10:25-36. [DOI: 10.1515/bmc-2019-0003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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AbstractWe define the disordered boundary of the cell (DBC) as the system formed by membrane tethered intrinsically disordered protein regions, dynamically coupled to the underlying membrane.The emerging properties of the DBC makes it a global system of study, which cannot be understood from the individual properties of their components. Similarly, the properties of lipid bilayers cannot be understood from just the sum of the properties of individual lipid molecules.The highly anisotropic confined environment, restricting the position and orientation of interacting sites, is affecting the properties of individual disordered proteins. In fact, the collective effect caused by high concentrations of disordered proteins extend beyond the sum of individual effects.Examples of emerging properties of the DBC include enhanced protein-protein interactions, protein-driven phase separations, Z-compartmentalization, and protein modulated electrostatics.
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- Irrem-Laareb Mohammad
- BioNMR Laboratory, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Department, University of Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, 08028Barcelona, Spain
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- Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Department of Computational and Structural Biology, University of Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter 5, 1030Vienna, Austria
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- BioNMR Laboratory, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Department, University of Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, 08028Barcelona, Spain
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Abbasi R, Mousa R, Dekel N, Amartely H, Danieli T, Lebendiker M, Levi‐Kalisman Y, Shalev DE, Metanis N, Chai L. The Bacterial Extracellular Matrix Protein TapA Is a Two‐Domain Partially Disordered Protein. Chembiochem 2018; 20:355-359. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Razan Abbasi
- Institute of ChemistryThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
- The Center for Nanoscience and NanotechnologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Institute of ChemistryThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural BiologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural BiologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural BiologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural BiologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- The Center for Nanoscience and NanotechnologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
- Institute of Life SciencesThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural BiologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Edmond J. Safra Jerusalem 91904 Israel
- Department of Pharmaceutical EngineeringAzrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem Jerusalem 9371207 Israel
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- Institute of ChemistryThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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- Institute of ChemistryThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
- The Center for Nanoscience and NanotechnologyThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem 91904 Israel
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