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Background Molecular chaperones help to restore the native states of proteins after their destabilization by external stress. It has been proposed that another function of chaperones is to maintain the activity of proteins destabilized by mutation, weakening the selection against suboptimal protein variants. This would allow for the accumulation of genetic variation which could then be exposed during environmental perturbation and facilitate rapid adaptation. Results We focus on studies describing interactions of chaperones with mutated polypeptides. There are some examples that chaperones can alleviate the deleterious effects of mutations through increased assistance of destabilized proteins. These experiments are restricted to bacteria and typically involve overexpression of chaperones. In eukaryotes, it was found that the malfunctioning of chaperones aggravated phenotypic aberrations associated with mutations. This effect could not be linked to chaperone-mediated stabilization of mutated proteins. More likely, the insufficient activity of chaperones inflicted a deregulation of multiple cellular systems, including those responsible for signaling and therefore important in development. As to why the assistance of mutated proteins by chaperones seems difficult to demonstrate, we note that chaperone-assisted folding can often co-exist with chaperone-assisted degradation. There is growing evidence that some chaperones, including those dependent on Hsp90, can detect potentially functional but excessively unstable proteins and direct them towards degradation instead of folding. This implies that at least some mutations are exposed rather than masked by the activity of molecular chaperones. Conclusion It is at present impossible to determine whether molecular chaperones are mostly helpers or examiners of mutated proteins because experiments showing either of these roles are very few. Depending on whether assistance or disposal prevails, molecular chaperones could speed up or slow down evolution of protein sequences. Similar uncertainties arise when the concept of chaperones (mostly Hsp90) as general regulators of evolvability is considered. If the two roles of chaperones are antagonistic, then any (even small) modification of the chaperone activities to save mutated polypeptides could lead to increased misfolding and aggregation of other proteins. This would be a permanent burden, different from the stochastic cost arising from indiscriminate buffering of random mutations of which many are maladaptive. Reviewers This article was reviewed by A. S. Kondrashov, J. Höhfeld (nominated by A. Eyre-Walker) and D. A. Drummond (nominated by C. Adami). For the full reviews, please go to the Reviewers' comments section.
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RpoS regulation of gene expression during exponential growth of Escherichia coli K12. Mol Genet Genomics 2007; 279:267-77. [PMID: 18158608 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0311-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2007] [Accepted: 12/03/2007] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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RpoS is a major regulator of genes required for adaptation to stationary phase in E. coli. However, the exponential phase expression of some genes is affected by rpoS mutation, suggesting RpoS may also have an important physiological role in growing cells. To test this hypothesis, we examined the regulatory role of RpoS in exponential phase using both genomic and biochemical approaches. Microarray expression data revealed that, in the rpoS mutant, the expression of 268 genes was attenuated while the expression of 24 genes was enhanced. Genes responsible for carbon source transport (the mal operon for maltose), protein folding (dnaK and mopAB), and iron acquisition (fepBD, entCBA, fecI, and exbBD) were positively controlled by RpoS. The importance of RpoS-mediated control of iron acquisition was confirmed by cellular metal analysis which revealed that the intracellular iron content of wild type cells was two-fold higher than in rpoS mutant cells. Surprisingly, many previously identified RpoS stationary-phase dependent genes were not controlled by RpoS in exponential phase and several genes were RpoS-regulated only in exponential phase, suggesting the involvement of other regulators. The expression of RpoS-dependent genes osmY, tnaA and malK was controlled by Crl, a transcriptional regulator that modulates RpoS activity. In summary, the identification of a group of exponential phase genes controlled by RpoS reveals a novel aspect of RpoS function.
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Chaperonins are large ring assemblies that assist protein folding to the native state by binding nonnative proteins in their central cavities and then, upon binding ATP, release the substrate protein into a now-encapsulated cavity to fold productively. Two families of such components have been identified: type I in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and the bacterial cytosol, which rely on a detachable "lid" structure for encapsulation, and type II in archaea and the eukaryotic cytosol, which contain a built-in protrusion structure. We discuss here a number of issues under current study. What is the range of substrates acted on by the two classes of chaperonin, in particular by GroEL in the bacterial cytoplasm and CCT in the eukaryotic cytosol, and are all these substrates subject to encapsulation? What are the determinants for substrate binding by the type II chaperonins? And is the encapsulated chaperonin cavity a passive container that prevents aggregation, or could it be playing an active role in polypeptide folding?
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- Arthur L Horwich
- Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
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García-Fruitós E, Martínez-Alonso M, Gonzàlez-Montalbán N, Valli M, Mattanovich D, Villaverde A. Divergent genetic control of protein solubility and conformational quality in Escherichia coli. J Mol Biol 2007; 374:195-205. [PMID: 17920630 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2007] [Revised: 09/03/2007] [Accepted: 09/04/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In bacteria, protein overproduction results in the formation of inclusion bodies, sized protein aggregates showing amyloid-like properties such as seeding-driven formation, amyloid-tropic dye binding, intermolecular beta-sheet architecture and cytotoxicity on mammalian cells. During protein deposition, exposed hydrophobic patches force intermolecular clustering and aggregation but these aggregation determinants coexist with properly folded stretches, exhibiting native-like secondary structure. Several reports indicate that inclusion bodies formed by different enzymes or fluorescent proteins show detectable biological activity. By using an engineered green fluorescent protein as reporter we have examined how the cell quality control distributes such active but misfolded protein species between the soluble and insoluble cell fractions and how aggregation determinants act in cells deficient in quality control functions. Most of the tested genetic deficiencies in different cytosolic chaperones and proteases (affecting DnaK, GroEL, GroES, ClpB, ClpP and Lon at different extents) resulted in much less soluble but unexpectedly more fluorescent polypeptides. The enrichment of aggregates with fluorescent species results from a dramatic inhibition of ClpP and Lon-mediated, DnaK-surveyed green fluorescent protein degradation, and it does not perturb the amyloid-like architecture of inclusion bodies. Therefore, the Escherichia coli quality control system promotes protein solubility instead of conformational quality through an overcommitted proteolysis of aggregation-prone polypeptides, irrespective of their global conformational status and biological properties.
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- Elena García-Fruitós
- Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Department of Genetics and Microbiology and CIBER-BBN Networking Centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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Osterhout RE, Figueroa IA, Keasling JD, Arkin AP. Global analysis of host response to induction of a latent bacteriophage. BMC Microbiol 2007. [PMID: 17764558 DOI: 10.1186/1471–2180-7-82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The transition from viral latency to lytic growth involves complex interactions among host and viral factors, and the extent to which host physiology is buffered from the virus during induction of lysis is not known. A reasonable hypothesis is that the virus should be evolutionarily selected to ensure host health throughout induction to minimize its chance of reproductive failure. To address this question, we collected transcriptional profiles of Escherichia coli and bacteriophage lambda throughout lysogenic induction by UV light. RESULTS We observed a temporally coordinated program of phage gene expression, with distinct early, middle and late transcriptional classes. Our study confirmed known host-phage interactions of induction of the heat shock regulon, escape replication, and suppression of genes involved in cell division and initiation of replication. We identified 728 E. coli genes responsive to prophage induction, which included pleiotropic stress response pathways, the Arc and Cpx regulons, and global regulators crp and lrp. Several hundred genes involved in central metabolism, energy metabolism, translation and transport were down-regulated late in induction. Though statistically significant, most of the changes in these genes were mild, with only 140 genes showing greater than two-fold change. CONCLUSION Overall, we observe that prophage induction has a surprisingly low impact on host physiology. This study provides the first global dynamic picture of how host processes respond to lambda phage induction.
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- Robin E Osterhout
- Department of Bioengineering and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Osterhout RE, Figueroa IA, Keasling JD, Arkin AP. Global analysis of host response to induction of a latent bacteriophage. BMC Microbiol 2007; 7:82. [PMID: 17764558 PMCID: PMC2147009 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2006] [Accepted: 08/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background The transition from viral latency to lytic growth involves complex interactions among host and viral factors, and the extent to which host physiology is buffered from the virus during induction of lysis is not known. A reasonable hypothesis is that the virus should be evolutionarily selected to ensure host health throughout induction to minimize its chance of reproductive failure. To address this question, we collected transcriptional profiles of Escherichia coli and bacteriophage lambda throughout lysogenic induction by UV light. Results We observed a temporally coordinated program of phage gene expression, with distinct early, middle and late transcriptional classes. Our study confirmed known host-phage interactions of induction of the heat shock regulon, escape replication, and suppression of genes involved in cell division and initiation of replication. We identified 728 E. coli genes responsive to prophage induction, which included pleiotropic stress response pathways, the Arc and Cpx regulons, and global regulators crp and lrp. Several hundred genes involved in central metabolism, energy metabolism, translation and transport were down-regulated late in induction. Though statistically significant, most of the changes in these genes were mild, with only 140 genes showing greater than two-fold change. Conclusion Overall, we observe that prophage induction has a surprisingly low impact on host physiology. This study provides the first global dynamic picture of how host processes respond to lambda phage induction.
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- Robin E Osterhout
- Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Farr GW, Fenton WA, Horwich AL. Perturbed ATPase activity and not "close confinement" of substrate in the cis cavity affects rates of folding by tail-multiplied GroEL. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:5342-7. [PMID: 17372195 PMCID: PMC1828711 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700820104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Folding of substrate proteins inside the sequestered and hydrophilic GroEL-GroES cis cavity favors production of the native state. Recent studies of GroEL molecules containing volume-occupying multiplications of the flexible C-terminal tail segments have been interpreted to indicate that close confinement of substrate proteins in the cavity optimizes the rate of folding: the rate of folding of a larger protein, Rubisco (51 kDa), was compromised by multiplication, whereas that of a smaller protein, rhodanese (33 kDa), was increased by tail duplication. Here, we report that this latter effect does not extend to the subunit of malate dehydrogenase (MDH), also 33 kDa. In addition, single-ring versions of tail-duplicated and triplicated molecules, comprising stable cis complexes, did not produce any acceleration of folding of rhodanese or MDH, nor did they show significant retardation of the folding of Rubisco. Tail quadruplication produced major reduction in recovery of native protein with both systems, the result of strongly reduced binding of all three substrates. When steady-state ATPase of the tail-multiplied double-ring GroELs was examined, it scaled directly with the number of tail segments, with more than double the normal ATPase rate upon tail triplication. As previously observed, disturbance of ATPase activity of the cycling double-ring system, and thus of "dwell time" for the folding protein in the cis cavity, produces effects on folding rates. We conclude that, within the limits of the approximately 10% decrease of cavity volume produced by tail triplication, there does not appear to be an effect of "close confinement" on folding in the cis cavity.
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- George W. Farr
- *Department of Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, Boyer Center, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510; and
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- Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- *Department of Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, Boyer Center, 295 Congress Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510; and
- Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Ullers RS, Ang D, Schwager F, Georgopoulos C, Genevaux P. Trigger Factor can antagonize both SecB and DnaK/DnaJ chaperone functions in Escherichia coli. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:3101-6. [PMID: 17360615 PMCID: PMC1805596 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608232104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Polypeptides emerging from the ribosome are assisted by a pool of molecular chaperones and targeting factors, which enable them to efficiently partition as cytoplasmic, integral membrane, or exported proteins. In Escherichia coli, the chaperones SecB, Trigger Factor (TF), and DnaK are key players in this process. Here, we report that, as with dnaK or dnaJ mutants, a secB null strain exhibits a strong cold-sensitive (Cs) phenotype. Through suppressor analyses, we found that inactivating mutations in the tig gene encoding TF fully relieve both the Cs phenotype and protein aggregation observed in the absence of SecB. This antagonistic effect of TF depends on its ribosome-binding and chaperone activities but unrelated to its peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase (PPIase) activity. Furthermore, in contrast to the previously known synergistic action of TF and DnaK/DnaJ above 30 degrees C, a tig null mutation partially suppresses the Cs phenotype exhibited by a compromised DnaK/DnaJ chaperone machine. The antagonistic role of TF is further exemplified by the fact that the secB dnaJ double mutant is viable only in the absence of TF. Finally, we show that, in the absence of TF, more SecA and ribosomes are associated with the inner membrane, suggesting that the presence of TF directly or indirectly interferes with the process of cotranslational protein targeting to the Sec translocon.
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- Ronald S. Ullers
- *Département de Microbiologie et Médecine Moléculaire, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; and
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- *Département de Microbiologie et Médecine Moléculaire, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; and
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- *Département de Microbiologie et Médecine Moléculaire, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; and
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- *Département de Microbiologie et Médecine Moléculaire, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; and
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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- *Département de Microbiologie et Médecine Moléculaire, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel-Servet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; and
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires, Institut de Biologie Cellulaire et de Génétique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul-Sabatier, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 09, France
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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Schumann W. Production of Recombinant Proteins in Bacillus subtilis. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2007; 62:137-89. [PMID: 17869605 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(07)62006-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Wolfgang Schumann
- Institute of Genetics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth D-95440, Germany
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Easton JA, Thompson P, Crowder MW. Time-dependent translational response of E. coli to excess Zn(II). J Biomol Tech 2006; 17:303-7. [PMID: 17122063 PMCID: PMC2291802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Zinc homeostasis is not well understood beyond methods of import and export. In order to better understand zinc homeostasis in Escherichia coli by identifying Zn(II)-responsive proteins, a proteomic approach was taken. Through the use of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, we were able to show that the levels of OmpF, AspC, YcdO, Eno, and CysE increased after 30 min of Zn(II) stress, while the levels of Tig, TufA, SelA, and LeuC decreased relative to non-stressed controls. After 4 h of Zn(II) stress, the levels of three proteins (DnaK, YeaU, and Mdh) were found to be up-regulated, while the levels of seven amino acid importers (HisJ, ArgT, LivJ, DppA, OppA, RbsB, and GinH) were found to be decreased. None of these proteins had been reported to be up- or down-regulated in any previously published cDNA microarray experiments. This result raises questions about the validity of cDNA arrays when they are used to make assumptions concerning protein levels within bacterial cells. These data also suggest that time is a factor when characterizing how the E. coli proteome responds to Zn(II) stress.
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- J Allen Easton
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 160 Hughes Hall, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
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Chapman E, Farr GW, Usaite R, Furtak K, Fenton WA, Chaudhuri TK, Hondorp ER, Matthews RG, Wolf SG, Yates JR, Pypaert M, Horwich AL. Global aggregation of newly translated proteins in an Escherichia coli strain deficient of the chaperonin GroEL. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:15800-5. [PMID: 17043235 PMCID: PMC1613232 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607534103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In a newly isolated temperature-sensitive lethal Escherichia coli mutant affecting the chaperonin GroEL, we observed wholesale aggregation of newly translated proteins. After temperature shift, transcription, translation, and growth slowed over two to three generations, accompanied by filamentation and accretion (in approximately 2% of cells) of paracrystalline arrays containing mutant chaperonin complex. A biochemically isolated inclusion body fraction contained the collective of abundant proteins of the bacterial cytoplasm as determined by SDS/PAGE and proteolysis/MS analyses. Pulse-chase experiments revealed that newly made proteins, but not preexistent ones, were recruited to this insoluble fraction. Although aggregation of "stringent" GroEL/GroES-dependent substrates may secondarily produce an "avalanche" of aggregation, the observations raise the possibility, supported by in vitro refolding experiments, that the widespread aggregation reflects that GroEL function supports the proper folding of a majority of newly translated polypeptides, not just the limited number indicated by interaction studies and in vitro experiments.
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- Eli Chapman
- *The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Departments of Genetics and
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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- *The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
- Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Departments of Genetics and
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and
- **Biophysics Research Division and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and
- **Biophysics Research Division and Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Electron Microscopy Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- *The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037
- Departments of Genetics and
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510
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Shin EJ, Park SL, Jeon SJ, Lee JW, Kim YT, Kim YH, Nam SW. Effect of molecular chaperones on the soluble expression of alginate lyase inE. coli. BIOTECHNOL BIOPROC E 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02932308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Gould P, Maguire M, Lund PA. Distinct mechanisms regulate expression of the two major groEL homologues in Rhizobium leguminosarum. Arch Microbiol 2006; 187:1-14. [PMID: 16944097 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-006-0164-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2006] [Revised: 07/25/2006] [Accepted: 08/04/2006] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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We investigated the regulation of the two of the three groE operons (cpn.1 and cpn.2) of the root-nodulating bacterium R. leguminosarum strain A34. Both are heat inducible, and both have a CIRCE sequence in their upstream regions, suggesting regulation by an HrcA repressor. Mutagenesis of the CIRCE sequence upstream of cpn.1 led to an increase in the levels of cpn.1 mRNA, and knock-out of the hrcA gene increased the level of Cpn60.1 protein (the GroEL homologue encoded by the cpn.1 operon). Inactivation of the hrcA gene also caused increased expression of a 29 kDa protein that was identified as RhiA, a component of a quorum-sensing system. However, neither loss of the upstream CIRCE sequence, nor loss of HrcA function, had any effect on expression from the cpn.2 promoter. Further analysis of the cpn.2 upstream region suggested regulation could be mediated by an RpoH system, and this was confirmed by deleting the rpoH gene from the chromosome, which led to a decreased level of Cpn60.2 expression. Inactivation of RpoH led to a reduction in growth rate which could be partly compensated for by inactivation of HrcA, indicating an overlap in the in vivo function of the proteins regulated by these two systems.
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- Phillip Gould
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK,
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Rassow J, Pfanner N. Molecular chaperones and intracellular protein translocation. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 2006; 126:199-264. [PMID: 7886379 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0049777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- J Rassow
- Biochemisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Birringer MS, Perozzo R, Kut E, Stillhart C, Surber W, Scapozza L, Folkers G. High-level expression and purification of human thymidine kinase 1: Quaternary structure, stability, and kinetics. Protein Expr Purif 2006; 47:506-15. [PMID: 16473525 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2006.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2005] [Revised: 12/21/2005] [Accepted: 01/04/2006] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Human cytosolic thymidine kinase (hTK1) is the key enzyme of the pyrimidine salvage pathway and phosphorylates thymidine to thymidine monophosphate, a precursor building block of the DNA. Wild-type hTK1 (hTK1W) as well as a truncated form of the enzyme (hTK1M) carrying deletions at the N- and C-terminal regions were cloned as His(6)-tagged fusion proteins. Expression, isolation, and purification protocols have been established, leading to high yields of soluble and active wild type (approximately 35 mg) and truncated hTK1 (approximately 23 mg) per liter of culture. The protein was purified to near homogeneity. The chaperone DnaK was identified to be the major contaminant that could be removed by applying an additional ATP-MgCl(2) incubation and washing step. hTK1W was a permanent tetramer in solution, whereas the truncated construct hTK1M appears to be a dimer in absence and presence of substrates. Both hTK1W and hTK1M exhibit pronounced thermal stability with transition temperatures (T(m)) of 71.7 and 73.4 degrees C, respectively, when measured without adding substrates. The presence of substrates stabilized both hTK1W (DeltaT(m) ranging from 5.6 to 12.5 degrees C) and hTK1M (DeltaT(m) ranging from 0.8 to 5.3 degrees C). Both enzymes show high activity over a broad range of pH, temperature, and ionic strength. Kinetic studies determined a K(M) of 0.51 microM and a k(cat) of 0.28 s(-1) for wild-type hTK1. The truncated hTK1M has a K(M) of 0.87 microM and k(cat) of 1.65 s(-1), thus exhibiting increased catalytic efficiency. The availability of recombinant human TK1 will facilitate further biochemical and crystallographic studies.
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- Markus S Birringer
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
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Maximizing the expression yields of recombinant whole antibodies and antibody fragments such as Fabs, single-chain Fvs and single-domain antibodies is highly desirable since it leads to lower production costs. Various eukaryotic and prokaryotic expression systems have been exploited to accommodate antibody expression but Escherichia coli systems have enjoyed popularity, in particular with respect to antibody fragments, because of their low cost and convenience. In many instances, product yields have been less than adequate and intrinsic and extrinsic variables have been investigated in an effort to improve yields. This review deals with various aspects of antibody expression in E. coli with a particular focus on single-domain antibodies.
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- Mehdi Arbabi-Ghahroudi
- Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
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Segura A, Godoy P, van Dillewijn P, Hurtado A, Arroyo N, Santacruz S, Ramos JL. Proteomic analysis reveals the participation of energy- and stress-related proteins in the response of Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E to toluene. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:5937-45. [PMID: 16109935 PMCID: PMC1196166 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.17.5937-5945.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E is tolerant to toluene and other toxic hydrocarbons through extrusion of the toxic compounds from the cell by means of three efflux pumps, TtgABC, TtgDEF, and TtgGHI. To identify other cellular factors that allow the growth of P. putida DOT-T1E in the presence of high concentrations of toluene, we performed two-dimensional gel analyses of proteins extracted from cultures grown on glucose in the presence and in the absence of the organic solvent. From a total of 531 spots, 134 proteins were observed to be toluene specific. In the absence of toluene, 525 spots were clearly separated and 117 proteins were only present in this condition. Moreover, 35 proteins were induced by at least twofold in the presence of toluene whereas 26 were repressed by at least twofold under these conditions. We reasoned that proteins that were highly induced could play a role in toluene tolerance. These proteins, identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry, were classified into four categories: 1, proteins involved in the catabolism of toluene; 2, proteins involved in the channeling of metabolic intermediates to the Krebs cycle and activation of purine biosynthesis; 3, proteins involved in sugar transport; 4, stress-related proteins. The set of proteins in groups 2 and 3 suggests that the high energy demand required for solvent tolerance is achieved via activation of cell metabolism. The role of chaperones that facilitate the proper folding of newly synthesized proteins under toluene stress conditions was analyzed in further detail. Knockout mutants revealed that CspA, XenA, and Tuf-1 play a role in solvent tolerance in Pseudomonas, although this role is probably not specific to toluene, as indicated by the fact that all mutants grew more slowly than the wild type without toluene.
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- Ana Segura
- EEZ-CSIC, C/Prof. Albareda, 1, E-18008 Granada, Spain.
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Xu HM, Zhang GY, Ji XD, Cao L, Shu L, Hua ZC. Expression of soluble, biologically active recombinant human endostatin in Escherichia coli. Protein Expr Purif 2005; 41:252-8. [PMID: 15866710 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2004.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2004] [Revised: 09/29/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Endostatin, a 20kDa C-terminal fragment of collagen XVIII, is a potent anti-angiogenic protein and inhibitor of tumor growth. Recombinant endostatin was prepared from Escherichia coli deposited as insoluble, inactive inclusion bodies. In the present study, we produced soluble and biologically active recombinant human endostatin (rhEndostatin) in E. coli by employing both co-expression of the molecular chaperones and lower temperature fermentation. Two groups of chaperones Trigger factor and GroEL-GroES (GroEL/ES), DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE and GroEL/ES, were co-expressed, respectively, with rhEndostatin at different temperatures (37, 25, and 16 degrees C). It revealed that low temperature or molecular chaperones alone could enhance the production of active rhEndostatin; meanwhile, combinational employment of low temperature cultivation (16 degrees C) together with co-expression of DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE and GroEL/ES was more effective to prevent aggregation of rhEndostatin. The production of soluble rhEndostatin was about 36 mg/L, and at least 16 mg of rhEndostatin was purified from 1L flask culture. The purified rhEndostatin specifically inhibited the proliferation of endothelial cell-bovine capillary endothelial cell in a dose-dependent manner, and it showed potent anti-angiogenic capability on the chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryo in vivo. Our study provides a feasible and convenient approach to produce soluble and biologically active rhEndostatin.
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- Han-Mei Xu
- The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China
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Bohl CE, Miller DD, Chen J, Bell CE, Dalton JT. Structural basis for accommodation of nonsteroidal ligands in the androgen receptor. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:37747-54. [PMID: 16129672 PMCID: PMC2072880 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m507464200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mechanism by which the androgen receptor (AR) distinguishes between agonist and antagonist ligands is poorly understood. AR antagonists are currently used to treat prostate cancer. However, mutations commonly develop in patients that convert these compounds to agonists. Recently, our laboratory discovered selective androgen receptor modulators, which structurally resemble the nonsteroidal AR antagonists bicalutamide and hydroxyflutamide but act as agonists for the androgen receptor in a tissue-selective manner. To investigate why subtle structural changes to both the ligand and the receptor (i.e. mutations) result in drastic changes in activity, we studied structure-activity relationships for nonsteroidal AR ligands through crystallography and site-directed mutagenesis, comparing bound conformations of R-bicalutamide, hydroxyflutamide, and two previously reported nonsteroidal androgens, S-1 and R-3. These studies provide the first crystallographic evidence of the mechanism by which nonsteroidal ligands interact with the wild type AR. We have shown that changes induced to the positions of Trp-741, Thr-877, and Met-895 allow for ligand accommodation within the AR binding pocket and that a water-mediated hydrogen bond to the backbone oxygen of Leu-873 and the ketone of hydroxyflutamide is present when bound to the T877A AR variant. Additionally, we demonstrated that R-bicalutamide stimulates transcriptional activation in AR harboring the M895T point mutation. As a whole, these studies provide critical new insight for receptor-based drug design of nonsteroidal AR agonists and antagonists.
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- Casey E Bohl
- Division of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
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Zhao K, Liu M, Burgess RR. The Global Transcriptional Response of Escherichia coli to Induced σ32 Protein Involves σ32 Regulon Activation Followed by Inactivation and Degradation of σ32 in Vivo. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:17758-68. [PMID: 15757896 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m500393200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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sigma(32) is the first alternative sigma factor discovered in Escherichia coli and can direct transcription of many genes in response to heat shock stress. To define the physiological role of sigma(32), we have used transcription profiling experiments to identify, on a genome-wide basis, genes under the control of sigma(32) in E. coli by moderate induction of a plasmid-borne rpoH gene under defined, steady-state growth conditions. Together with a bioinformatics approach, we successfully confirmed genes known previously to be directly under the control of sigma(32) and also assigned many additional genes to the sigma(32) regulon. In addition, to understand better the functional relevance of the increased amount of sigma(32) to changes in the transcriptional level of sigma(32)-dependent genes, we measured the protein level of sigma(32) both before and after induction by a newly developed quantitative Western blot method. At a normal constant growth temperature (37 degrees C), we found that the sigma(32) protein level rapidly increased, plateaued, and then gradually decreased after induction, indicating sigma(32) can be regulated by genes in its regulon and that the mechanisms of sigma(32) synthesis, inactivation, and degradation are not strictly temperature-dependent. The decrease in the transcriptional level of sigma(32)-dependent genes occurs earlier than the decrease in full-length sigma(32) in the wild type strain, and the decrease in the transcriptional level of sigma(32)-dependent genes is greatly diminished in a DeltaDnaK strain, suggesting that DnaK can act as an anti-sigma factor to functionally inactivate sigma(32) and thus reduce sigma(32)-dependent transcription in vivo.
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- Kai Zhao
- McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
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Faux NG, Bottomley SP, Lesk AM, Irving JA, Morrison JR, de la Banda MG, Whisstock JC. Functional insights from the distribution and role of homopeptide repeat-containing proteins. Genome Res 2005; 15:537-51. [PMID: 15805494 PMCID: PMC1074368 DOI: 10.1101/gr.3096505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Expansion of "low complex" repeats of amino acids such as glutamine (Poly-Q) is associated with protein misfolding and the development of degenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease. The mechanism by which such regions promote misfolding remains controversial, the function of many repeat-containing proteins (RCPs) remains obscure, and the role (if any) of repeat regions remains to be determined. Here, a Web-accessible database of RCPs is presented. The distribution and evolution of RCPs that contain homopeptide repeats tracts are considered, and the existence of functional patterns investigated. Generally, it is found that while polyamino acid repeats are extremely rare in prokaryotes, several eukaryote putative homologs of prokaryote RCP-involved in important housekeeping processes-retain the repetitive region, suggesting an ancient origin for certain repeats. Within eukarya, the most common uninterrupted amino acid repeats are glutamine, asparagines, and alanine. Interestingly, while poly-Q repeats are found in vertebrates and nonvertebrates, poly-N repeats are only common in more primitive nonvertebrate organisms, such as insects and nematodes. We have assigned function to eukaryote RCPs using Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), the Human Reference Protein Database (HRPD), FlyBase, and Wormpep. Prokaryote RCPs were annotated using BLASTp searches and Gene Ontology. These data reveal that the majority of RCPs are involved in processes that require the assembly of large, multiprotein complexes, such as transcription and signaling.
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- Noel G Faux
- Protein Crystallography Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
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Gur E, Katz C, Ron EZ. All three J-domain proteins of theEscherichia coliDnaK chaperone machinery are DNA binding proteins. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:1935-9. [PMID: 15792799 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.01.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2004] [Revised: 01/30/2005] [Accepted: 01/31/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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DnaJ, DjlA and CbpA are the J-domain proteins of DnaK, the major Hsp70 of Escherichia coli. CbpA was originally discovered as a DNA binding protein. Here, we show that DNA binding is a property of DnaJ and DjlA as well. Of special interest in this respect is DjlA, as this cytoplasmic protein is membrane bound and, as shown here, its affinity for DNA is extremely high. The finding that all the three J-proteins of DnaK are DNA binding proteins sheds new light on the cellular activity of these proteins.
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- Eyal Gur
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
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Gur E, Biran D, Shechter N, Genevaux P, Georgopoulos C, Ron EZ. The Escherichia coli DjlA and CbpA proteins can substitute for DnaJ in DnaK-mediated protein disaggregation. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:7236-42. [PMID: 15489435 PMCID: PMC523209 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.21.7236-7242.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The DnaJ (Hsp40) protein of Escherichia coli serves as a cochaperone of DnaK (Hsp70), whose activity is involved in protein folding, protein targeting for degradation, and rescue of proteins from aggregates. Two other E. coli proteins, CbpA and DjlA, which exhibit homology with DnaJ, are known to interact with DnaK and to stimulate its chaperone activity. Although it has been shown that in dnaJ mutants both CbpA and DjlA are essential for growth at temperatures above 37 degrees C, their in vivo role is poorly understood. Here we show that in a dnaJ mutant both CbpA and DjlA are required for efficient protein dissaggregation at 42 degrees C.
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- Eyal Gur
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
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Westers L, Westers H, Quax WJ. Bacillus subtilis as cell factory for pharmaceutical proteins: a biotechnological approach to optimize the host organism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2004; 1694:299-310. [PMID: 15546673 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2004.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 307] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2003] [Revised: 02/13/2004] [Accepted: 02/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Bacillus subtilis is a rod-shaped, Gram-positive soil bacterium that secretes numerous enzymes to degrade a variety of substrates, enabling the bacterium to survive in a continuously changing environment. These enzymes are produced commercially and this production represents about 60% of the industrial-enzyme market. Unfortunately, the secretion of heterologous proteins, originating from Gram-negative bacteria or from eukaryotes, is often severely hampered. Several bottlenecks in the B. subtilis secretion pathway, such as poor targeting to the translocase, degradation of the secretory protein, and incorrect folding, have been revealed. Nevertheless, research into the mechanisms and control of the secretion pathways will lead to improved Bacillus protein secretion systems and broaden the applications as industrial production host. This review focuses on studies that aimed at optimizing B. subtilis as cell factory for commercially interesting heterologous proteins.
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- Lidia Westers
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
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Zietkiewicz S, Krzewska J, Liberek K. Successive and synergistic action of the Hsp70 and Hsp100 chaperones in protein disaggregation. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:44376-83. [PMID: 15302880 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m402405200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Proteins belonging to the B-subtype of the Hsp100/Clp chaperone family execute a crucial role in cellular thermotolerance. They cooperate with the Hsp70 chaperones in reactivation of thermally aggregated protein substrates. We investigated the initial events of the disaggregation reaction in real time using denatured, aggregated green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a substrate. Bacterial Hsp70 (DnaK), its co-chaperones (DnaJ and GrpE), and Hsp100 (ClpB) were incubated with aggregated GFP, and the increase in GFP fluorescence was monitored. Incubation of aggregated GFP with DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE but not with ClpB resulted in the rapid initiation of the disaggregation reaction. Under the same conditions a complex between DnaK, DnaJ, and GFP, but not ClpB, was formed as demonstrated by sedimentation analysis and light scattering experiments. Chaperone-dependent disaggregation of chemically denatured aggregated luciferase showed that, similar to GFP disaggregation, incubation with Hsp70 results in the rapid start of the reactivation reaction. For both aggregated GFP and luciferase, incubation with Hsp70 chaperones changes the initial rate but not the overall efficiency or rate of the refolding reaction. Our results clearly demonstrate that the interaction of DnaK and its co-chaperones with aggregated substrate is the rate-limiting reaction at the initial steps of disaggregation.
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- Szymon Zietkiewicz
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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Sung N, Takayama K, Collins MT. Possible association of GroES and antigen 85 proteins with heat resistance of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:1688-97. [PMID: 15006794 PMCID: PMC368355 DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.3.1688-1697.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2003] [Accepted: 11/26/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Conflicting reports on the heat resistance of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis prompted an examination of the effect of culture medium on this property of the organism. M. paratuberculosis was cultured in three types of media (fatty acid-containing medium 7H9-OADC (oleic acid-albumin-dextrose-catalase supplement) and glycerol-containing media WR-GD and 7H9-GD [glycerol-dextrose supplement]) at pH 6.0. M. paratuberculosis grown under these three culture conditions was then tested for heat resistance in distilled water at 65 degrees C. Soluble proteins and mycolic acids of M. paratuberculosis were evaluated by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) and thin-layer chromatography (TLC), respectively. The type of culture medium used significantly affected the heat resistance of M. paratuberculosis. The decimal reduction times at 65 degrees C (D(65 degrees C) values; times required to reduce the concentration of bacteria by a factor of 10 at 65 degrees C) for M. paratuberculosis strains grown in 7H9-OADC were significantly higher than those for the organisms grown in WR-GD medium (P < 0.01). When the glycerol-dextrose supplement of WR was substituted for the fatty acid supplement (OADC) in 7H9 medium (resulting in 7H9-GD), the D(65 degrees C) value was significantly lower than that for the organism grown in 7H9-OADC medium (P = 0.022) but higher than that when it was cultured in WR-GD medium (P = 0.005). Proteomic analysis by 2-DE of soluble proteins extracted from M. paratuberculosis grown without heat stress in the three media (7H9-OADC, 7H9-GD, and WR-GD) revealed that seven proteins were more highly expressed in 7H9-OADC medium than in the other two media. When the seven proteins were subjected to matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-mass spectrometric analysis, four of the seven protein spots were unidentifiable. The other three proteins were identified as GroES heat shock protein, alpha antigen, and antigen 85 complex B (Ag85B; fibronectin-binding protein). These proteins may be associated with the heat resistance of M. paratuberculosis. Alpha antigen and Ag85B are both trehalose mycolyltransferases involved in mycobacterial cell wall assembly. TLC revealed that 7H9-OADC medium supported production of more trehalose dimycolates and cell wall-bound mycolic acids than did WR-GD medium. The present study shows that in vitro culture conditions significantly affect heat resistance, cell wall synthesis, and protein expression of M. paratuberculosis and emphasize the importance of culture conditions on in vitro and ex vivo studies to estimate heat resistance.
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- Nackmoon Sung
- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Genevaux P, Keppel F, Schwager F, Langendijk-Genevaux PS, Hartl FU, Georgopoulos C. In vivo analysis of the overlapping functions of DnaK and trigger factor. EMBO Rep 2004; 5:195-200. [PMID: 14726952 PMCID: PMC1298978 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2003] [Revised: 11/14/2003] [Accepted: 11/18/2003] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Trigger factor (TF) is a ribosome-bound protein that combines catalysis of peptidyl-prolyl isomerization and chaperone-like activities in Escherichia coli. TF was shown to cooperate with the DnaK (Hsp70) chaperone machinery in the folding of newly synthesized proteins, and the double deletion of the corresponding genes (tig and dnaK) exhibited synthetic lethality. We used a detailed genetic approach to characterize various aspects of this functional cooperation in vivo. Surprisingly, we showed that under specific growth conditions, one can delete both dnaK and tig, indicating that bacterial survival can be maintained in the absence of these two major cytosolic chaperones. The strain lacking both DnaK and TF exhibits a very narrow temperature range of growth and a high level of aggregated proteins when compared to either of the single mutants. We found that, in the absence of DnaK, both the N-terminal ribosome-binding domain and the C-terminal domain of unknown function are essential for TF chaperone activity. In contrast, the central PPIase domain is dispensable. Taken together, our data indicate that under certain conditions, folding of newly synthesized proteins in E. coli is not totally dependent on an interaction with either TF and/or DnaK, and suggest that additional chaperones may be involved in this essential process.
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- Pierre Genevaux
- Département de Biochimie Médicale, Centre Médical Universitaire, Genève, Switzerland.
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Weiner J, Zimmerman CU, Göhlmann HWH, Herrmann R. Transcription profiles of the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae grown at different temperatures. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:6306-20. [PMID: 14576319 PMCID: PMC275481 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Applying microarray technology, we have investigated the transcriptome of the small bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae grown at three different temperature conditions: 32, 37 and 32 degrees C followed by a heat shock for 15 min at 43 degrees C, before isolating the RNA. From 688 proposed open-reading frames, 676 were investigated and 564 were found to be expressed (P < 0.001; 606 with P < 0.01) and at least 33 (P < 0.001; 77 at P < 0.01) regulated. By quantitative real-time PCR of selected mRNA species, the expression data could be linked to absolute molecule numbers. We found M.pneumoniae to be regulated at the transcriptional level. Forty-seven genes were found to be significantly up-regulated after heat shock (P < 0.01). Among those were the conserved heat shock genes like dnaK, lonA and clpB, but also several genes coding for ribosomal proteins and 10 genes of unassigned functions. In addition, 30 genes were found to be down-regulated under the applied heat shock conditions. Further more, we have compared different methods of cDNA synthesis (random hexamer versus gene-specific primers, different RNA concentrations) and various normalization strategies of the raw microarray data.
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- J Weiner
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Reischl S, Wiegert T, Schumann W. Isolation and analysis of mutant alleles of the Bacillus subtilis HrcA repressor with reduced dependency on GroE function. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:32659-67. [PMID: 12082092 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m201372200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The hrcA gene of Bacillus subtilis codes for a transcriptional repressor protein that negatively regulates expression of the heptacistronic dnaK and the bicistronic groE operon by binding to an operator-element called CIRCE. Recently, we have published data suggesting that the activity of HrcA is modulated by the GroE chaperonin system. Biochemical analyses of the HrcA protein have been hampered so far by its strong tendency to aggregate. Here, a genetic method was used to isolate mutant forms of HrcA with increased activity under conditions of decreased GroE function. One of these mutant forms (HrcA114) containing five amino acid replacements exhibited enhanced solubility when overexpressed. HrcA114 purified under native conditions produced two retarded CIRCE-containing DNA fragments in band shift experiments. The amount of the larger fragment increased after addition of GroEL, GroES, and ATP but decreased when ATP was replaced by the nonhydrolyzable ATP analog ATPgammaS. DNase I footprinting experiments exhibited full protection of the CIRCE element and neighboring nucleotides in an asymmetric way. An in vitro binding assay using affinity chromatography showed direct and specific interaction between HrcA114 and GroEL. All these experimental data are in full agreement with our previously published model that HrcA needs the GroE chaperonin system for activation.
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- Silke Reischl
- Institute of Genetics, University of Bayreuth, Universitaetsstrasse 30, Bayreuth D-95440, Germany
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Bochkareva ES, Girshovich AS, Bibi E. Identification and characterization of the Escherichia coli stress protein UP12, a putative in vivo substrate of GroEL. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2002; 269:3032-40. [PMID: 12071968 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.02978.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Many groups of proteins play important roles in the cell's response to various stresses. The molecular chaperone GroEL of Escherichia coli represents one such highly conserved family of stress proteins. We have observed that isolated GroEL complexes from stationary cultures contain various polypeptides that can be released from the chaperonin by GroES and/or ATP, and identified two such polypeptides as the proteins GatY and UP12. Whereas GatY had been isolated previously, as an in vivo substrate of GroEL, the isolation of UP12 in a complex with GroEL was intriguing, because based on sequence similarity it was suggested that UP12 might also be a functional stress protein. UP12 belongs to a family of universal stress proteins (UspA family), of which UspA itself, and three additional paralogues, have been characterized previously. Here we show that UP12 accumulates under various growth inhibitory conditions and induced by heat shock. Furthermore, unlike wild-type cells, a UP12 deletion mutant recovers slowly from late stationary growth conditions, and has a marked sensitivity to the toxic agent carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenyl hydrazone (CCCP). Finally, coimmunoprecipitation experiments confirmed the initial observation that UP12 interacts with GroEL. Therefore, we suggest that UP12 may function as a universal stress protein, interaction of which with GroEL possibly ensures its proper folding state.
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- Elena S Bochkareva
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Kedzierska S, Jezierski G, Taylor A. DnaK/DnaJ chaperone system reactivates endogenous E. coli thermostable FBP aldolase in vivo and in vitro; the effect is enhanced by GroE heat shock proteins. Cell Stress Chaperones 2001. [PMID: 11525240 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0029:ddcsre>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Thermally aggregated, endogenous proteins in Escherichia coli cells form the S fraction, which is separable by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. To date, relatively little is known about the mechanisms of elimination of the heat-aggregated proteins from E. coli cells and the composition of the S fraction. We have identified several proteins of the S fraction using 2D-gel electrophoresis and microsequencing. A thermostable II class fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (Fda protein) appeared to be one of numerous proteins of the S fraction. Fda was purified from E. coli overproducer strain and used as a model substrate for investigation of the role of Hsps in prevention and repair of thermal denaturation of proteins both in vivo and in vitro. We found that the heat inactivation of Fda was reversible and that its reactivation in vivo and in vitro required mainly the assistance of the DnaK/DnaJ chaperone system. The dnaK756 and dnaJ259 mutations had a negative effect on the reactivation of thermally inactivated Fda. Moreover, we showed that the reactivation process in vitro was enhanced when GroEL/GroES were added together with DnaK/DnaJ. GroEL/GroES alone were inefficient in the resolubilization or reactivation of the heat-aggregated Fda. It is supposed that the denaturation of the thermostable Fda in vivo results rather from a temporary and transient deficit of Hsps than from the direct heat effect.
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- S Kedzierska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
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Kagawa N, Cao Q. Osmotic stress induced by carbohydrates enhances expression of foreign proteins in Escherichia coli. Arch Biochem Biophys 2001; 393:290-6. [PMID: 11556816 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.2001.2516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Arabinose has been serendipitously observed to enhance the expression of P450s in Escherichia coli. To understand the mechanism of this arabinose-dependent enhancement, the effects of various carbohydrates were investigated. Surprisingly, a series of sugars, including pentoses and hexoses, enhanced the foreign gene expression in a manner similar to arabinose. Furthermore, glycerol, a poor carbon source, also enhanced P450 expression. These results indicate that the enhancement is independent of the specific efficiency of the carbon source and also suggest the involvement of osmotic stress. Therefore, the effect of the sigma(s) (also termed sigma(38)) factor, a sigma subunit of RNA polymerase that plays a central role in regulating the expression of osmotic stress response genes, has been examined. We found that the glycerol-dependent increase in P450 expression was not observed in sigma(s)-deficient E. coli, indicating that carbohydrates enhance the foreign gene expression in E. coli via the induction of the osmotic stress response. The results suggest the important role of the osmotic stress response in posttranscriptional processes required for producing functional proteins.
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- N Kagawa
- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-0146, USA.
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Vargas-Parada L, Solís CF, Laclette JP. Heat shock and stress response of Taenia solium and T. crassiceps (Cestoda). Parasitology 2001; 122:583-8. [PMID: 11393832 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182001007764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Heat shock and stress responses are documented for the first time in larval stages of the cestodes Taenia solium and Taenia crassiceps. Radioactive metabolic labelling after in vitro incubation of cysts at 43 degrees C, revealed the induction of heat shock proteins. In T. crassiceps, the major heat shock proteins were 80, 70 and 60 kDa. After prolonged incubation, a set of low molecular weight heat shock proteins (27, 31, 33 and 38 kDa), were also induced. In vitro incubation of cysts at 4 degrees C, induced the synthesis of stress proteins ranging from 31 to 80 kDa, indicating the parasite is also able to respond to cold shock. T. solium cysts exposure to temperature stress also resulted in an increased synthesis of 2 major heat shock proteins of 80 and 70 kDa. Western blots using the excretory-secretory products of T. solium showed that 2 heat shock proteins were recognized by antibodies in the sera of cysticercotic patients: one of 66 kDa and another migrating close to the run front. The T. solium 66 kDa protein was also recognized by specific antibodies directed to a 60 kDa bacterial heat shock protein, suggesting that it belongs to this family of proteins.
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- L Vargas-Parada
- Department of Immunology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Cd. Universitaria, México DF, México
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Tomoyasu T, Mogk A, Langen H, Goloubinoff P, Bukau B. Genetic dissection of the roles of chaperones and proteases in protein folding and degradation in the Escherichia coli cytosol. Mol Microbiol 2001; 40:397-413. [PMID: 11309122 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02383.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 272] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We investigated the roles of chaperones and proteases in quality control of proteins in the Escherichia coli cytosol. In DeltarpoH mutants, which lack the heat shock transcription factor and therefore have low levels of all major cytosolic proteases and chaperones except GroEL and trigger factor, 5-10% and 20-30% of total protein aggregated at 30 degrees C and 42 degrees C respectively. The aggregates contained 350-400 protein species, of which 93 were identified by mass spectrometry. The aggregated protein species were similar at both temperatures, indicating that thermolabile proteins require folding assistance by chaperones already at 30 degrees C, and showed strong overlap with previously identified DnaK substrates. Overproduction of the DnaK system, or low-level production of the DnaK system and ClpB, prevented aggregation and provided thermotolerance to DeltarpoH mutants, indicating key roles for these chaperones in protein quality control and stress survival. In rpoH+ cells, DnaK depletion did not lead to protein aggregation at 30 degrees C, which is probably the result of high levels of proteases and thus suggests that DnaK is not a prerequisite for proteolysis of misfolded proteins. Lon was the most efficient protease in degrading misfolded proteins in DnaK-depleted cells. At 42 degrees C, ClpXP and Lon became essential for viability of cells with low DnaK levels, indicating synergistic action of proteases and the DnaK system, which is essential for cell growth at 42 degrees C.
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- T Tomoyasu
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 7, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Ang D, Keppel F, Klein G, Richardson A, Georgopoulos C. Genetic analysis of bacteriophage-encoded cochaperonins. Annu Rev Genet 2001; 34:439-456. [PMID: 11092834 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Early genetic studies identified the Escherichia coli groES and groEL genes because mutations in them blocked the growth of bacteriophages lambda and T4. Subsequent genetic and biochemical analyses have shown that GroES and GroEL constitute a chaperonin machine, absolutely essential for E. coli growth, because it is needed for the correct folding of many of its proteins. In spite of very little sequence identity to GroES, the bacteriophage T4-encoded Gp31 protein and the bacteriophage RB49-encoded CocO protein are bona fide GroEL cochaperonins, even capable of substituting for GroES in E. coli growth. A major functional distinction is that only Gp31 and CocO can assist GroEL in the correct folding of Gp23, the major bacteriophage capsid protein. Conserved structural features between CocO and Gp31, which are absent from GroES, highlight their potential importance in specific cochaperonin function.
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- D Ang
- Département de Biochimie Médicale, Centre Médical Universitaire, 1 rue Michel Servet, Genève 4, CH-1211 Switzerland.
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Goenka S, Rao CM. Expression of recombinant zeta-crystallin in Escherichia coli with the help of GroEL/ES and its purification. Protein Expr Purif 2001; 21:260-7. [PMID: 11237687 DOI: 10.1006/prep.2000.1359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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zeta-Crystallin is a taxon-specific crystallin found in the eye lens of guinea pig and other hystricomorph rodents and camelids. It is an NADPH:quinone oxidoreductase and is also present in low amounts in other tissues where it might act as a detoxifying enzyme. A lens-specific promoter confers lens-specific expression of the gene in high amounts where it is speculated to play a structural role in maintaining the transparency of the lens ensemble. A deletion mutation leads to autosomal dominant congenital cataract and also results in the loss of NADPH binding. In order to perform structural studies with the protein with an aim to delineate the cause of cataract in these mutant guinea pigs, recombinant zeta-crystallin was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The overexpression of the protein in E. coli resulted in a major fraction of it partitioning into inclusion bodies. The co-overexpression of the bacterial chaperone system GroEL/ES along with zeta-crystallin could significantly enhance the yield of soluble protein. Active zeta-crystallin could then be purified from the E. coli using Mono Q anion exchange FPLC and was found to be identical to the native zeta-crystallin isolated from the guinea pig lens with respect to size, spectral properties, and activity.
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- S Goenka
- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, 500007, India
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Huang HC, Sherman MY, Kandror O, Goldberg AL. The molecular chaperone DnaJ is required for the degradation of a soluble abnormal protein in Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:3920-8. [PMID: 11062236 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m002937200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In addition to promoting protein folding and translocation, molecular chaperones of Hsp70/DnaJ families are essential for the selective breakdown of many unfolded proteins. It has been proposed that chaperones function in degradation to maintain the substrates in a soluble form. In Escherichia coli, a nonsecreted alkaline phosphatase mutant that lacks its signal sequence (PhoADelta2-22) fails to fold in the cytosol and is rapidly degraded at 37 degrees C. We show that PhoADelta2-22 is degraded by two ATP-dependent proteases, La (Lon) and ClpAP, and breakdown by both is blocked in a dnaJ259-ts mutant at 37 degrees C. Both proteases could be immunoprecipitated with PhoA, but to a much lesser extent in the dnaJ mutant. Therefore, DnaJ appears to promote formation of protease-substrate complexes. DnaJ could be coimmunoprecipitated with PhoA, and the extent of this association directly correlated with its rate of degradation. Although PhoA was not degraded when DnaJ was inactivated, 50% or more of the PhoA remained soluble. PhoA breakdown and solubility did not require ClpB. PhoA degradation was reduced in a thioredoxin-reductase mutant (trxB), which allowed PhoADelta2-22 to fold into an active form in the cytosol. Introduction of the dnaJ mutation into trxB cells further stabilized PhoA, increased enzyme activity, and left PhoA completely soluble. Thus, DnaJ, although not necessary for folding (or preventing PhoA aggregation), is required for PhoA degradation and must play an active role in this process beyond maintaining the substrate in a soluble form.
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- H C Huang
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Kedzierska S, Jezierski G, Taylor A. DnaK/DnaJ chaperone system reactivates endogenous E. coli thermostable FBP aldolase in vivo and in vitro; the effect is enhanced by GroE heat shock proteins. Cell Stress Chaperones 2001; 6:29-37. [PMID: 11525240 PMCID: PMC434380 DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0029:ddcsre>2.0.co;2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Thermally aggregated, endogenous proteins in Escherichia coli cells form the S fraction, which is separable by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. To date, relatively little is known about the mechanisms of elimination of the heat-aggregated proteins from E. coli cells and the composition of the S fraction. We have identified several proteins of the S fraction using 2D-gel electrophoresis and microsequencing. A thermostable II class fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (Fda protein) appeared to be one of numerous proteins of the S fraction. Fda was purified from E. coli overproducer strain and used as a model substrate for investigation of the role of Hsps in prevention and repair of thermal denaturation of proteins both in vivo and in vitro. We found that the heat inactivation of Fda was reversible and that its reactivation in vivo and in vitro required mainly the assistance of the DnaK/DnaJ chaperone system. The dnaK756 and dnaJ259 mutations had a negative effect on the reactivation of thermally inactivated Fda. Moreover, we showed that the reactivation process in vitro was enhanced when GroEL/GroES were added together with DnaK/DnaJ. GroEL/GroES alone were inefficient in the resolubilization or reactivation of the heat-aggregated Fda. It is supposed that the denaturation of the thermostable Fda in vivo results rather from a temporary and transient deficit of Hsps than from the direct heat effect.
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- S Kedzierska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
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Mayer MP, Rüdiger S, Bukau B. Molecular basis for interactions of the DnaK chaperone with substrates. Biol Chem 2000; 381:877-85. [PMID: 11076019 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2000.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Hsp70 chaperones assist a large variety of protein folding processes in the cell by transient association with short peptide segments of proteins. The substrate binding and release cycle is driven by the switching between the low affinity ATP bound state and the high affinity ADP bound state of Hsp70. Considerable progress has been made recently by the identification of in vivo substrates for the Escherichia coli homolog, DnaK, and the molecular mechanisms which govern the DnaK-substrate interactions. Here we review the processes that generate DnaK substrates in vivo and the properties of these substrates, and we describe insights gained from structural and kinetic analysis of DnaK-substrate interaction.
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- M P Mayer
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Hickey RW, Zhu RL, Alexander HL, Jin KL, Stetler RA, Chen J, Kochanek PM, Graham SH. 10 kD mitochondrial matrix heat shock protein mRNA is induced following global brain ischemia in the rat. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 2000; 79:169-73. [PMID: 10925156 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(00)00113-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Heat shock proteins (HSP's) are a family of highly conserved proteins whose expression is increased by stress. The expression of many HSP's is induced in neurons by ischemia; however, the response of the 10 kDa mitochondrial matrix HSP (HSP10) is less well characterized. To address this issue, asphyxial cardiac arrest was induced in 28 male Sprague-Dawley rats. Northern blot analysis revealed that hsp10 mRNA was increased 2.7-fold in asphyxiated rats compared to sham-operated controls. In situ hybridization demonstrated increased mRNA in the cortex, septal nuclei, hippocampus, thalamic nuclei, purkinje cell layer of the cerebellum, and isolated brainstem nuclei of asphyxiated rats. The increase of mRNA was most robust 8 h after the injury but remained increased for 72 h. These results show that hsp10 mRNA is increased following asphyxial cardiac arrest in rats and suggest that hsp10 could be another determinate of neuronal survival after ischemia.
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- R W Hickey
- University of Pittsburgh, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2583, USA.
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Ohtsuka K, Hata M. Molecular chaperone function of mammalian Hsp70 and Hsp40--a review. Int J Hyperthermia 2000; 16:231-45. [PMID: 10830586 DOI: 10.1080/026567300285259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022] Open
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Virtually all organisms respond to up-shifts in temperature (heat shock) by synthesizing a set of proteins called heat shock proteins (HSPs). The HSPs are induced not only by heat shock but also by various other environmental stresses. Induction of HSPs is regulated by the trans-acting heat shock factors (HSFs) and cis-acting heat shock element (HSE) present at the promoter region of each heat shock gene. Usually, HSPs are also expressed constitutively at normal growth temperatures and have basic and indispensable functions in the life cycle of proteins as molecular chaperones, as well as playing a role in protecting cells from the deleterious stresses. Molecular chaperones are able to inhibit the aggregation of partially denatured proteins and refold them using the energy of ATP. Recently, there are expectations for the use of molecular chaperones for the protection against and therapeutic treatment of inherited diseases caused by protein misfolding. In this review, the focus will be on the mammalian Hsp40, a homologue of bacterial DnaJ heat shock protein, and the beneficial functions of molecular chaperones.
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- K Ohtsuka
- Laboratory of Experimental Radiology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan.
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Kandror O, Sherman M, Goldberg A. Rapid degradation of an abnormal protein in Escherichia coli proceeds through repeated cycles of association with GroEL. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:37743-9. [PMID: 10608834 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.53.37743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Molecular chaperones are necessary for the breakdown of many abnormal proteins, but their functions in this process have remained obscure. The rapid degradation of the abnormal fusion protein CRAG in Escherichia coli requires the molecular chaperones GroEL, GroES, and trigger factor and proceeds through the formation of a CRAG-GroEL-trigger factor complex. Also associated with GroEL are smaller discrete fragments of CRAG. Pulse-chase experiments showed that these fragments were short-lived intermediates in CRAG degradation formed by C-terminal cleavages. Thus, CRAG degradation is not highly processive. In cells lacking the ClpP protease, the generation of these fragments and their subsequent degradation were much slower than in the wild type. Dissociation of CRAG from GroEL was necessary for its digestion by the ClpP protease, because in a groES temperature-sensitive mutant, CRAG was stable and accumulated on GroEL. Furthermore, the expression of a dominant GroEL mutant defective in substrate dissociation slowed degradation of both CRAG and the fragments. Therefore, we suggest that CRAG degradation proceeds through multiple rounds of substrate binding to GroEL, followed by their GroES-dependent dissociation, which allows further digestion by the protease. In this multistep process, GroEL and GroES function repeatedly, apparently to allow further degradation of CRAG and its fragments by the protease.
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- O Kandror
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Kedzierska S, Staniszewska M, Potrykus J, Wegrzyn G. The effect of some antibiotic-resistance-conferring plasmids on the removal of the heat-aggregated proteins from Escherichia coli cells. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1999; 176:279-84. [PMID: 10427710 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb13673.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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We found that the presence of plasmids expressing tetracycline resistance or chloramphenicol resistance genes, but not those expressing ampicillin resistance or kanamycin resistance genes, in Escherichia coli led to the retardation of the process of removal of the heat-aggregated proteins (i.e. the S fraction) from the bacterial cells. The presence of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase in the S fraction is demonstrated. Moreover, we observed that the expression of T7 RNA polymerase gene had an influence on S fraction removal. These results suggest that high level production of some heterologous proteins which are accumulated in the cytoplasm, but not proteins exported through the cell membranes, may cause overloading of the S fraction and delay in the removal of heat-aggregated proteins from bacterial cells.
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- S Kedzierska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
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Craig TA, Lutz WH, Kumar R. Association of prokaryotic and eukaryotic chaperone proteins with the human 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) receptor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 260:446-52. [PMID: 10403788 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.0931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Steroid hormone receptors (SHR) form complexes with heat shock proteins (hsps). The 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) receptor (VDR) has not been previously shown to interact with hsps. During expression and purification of VDR-glutathione S-transferase (VDR-GST) fusion proteins encompassing full-length, DNA, and ligand-binding domains of the VDR (FL-VDR, DBD-VDR, and LBD-VDR), we observed binding of bacterial hsps with VDR-GST constructs. All VDR constructs bound DnaK in amounts greater than GST alone and bound smaller amounts of DnaJ or GrpE. GroEL bound only to FL-VDR. GroES did not bind to VDR. When VDR-GST constructs were incubated with a reticulocyte lysate system that has been used previously to examine SHR-hsp interactions, eukaryotic hsc70 was detected bound to FL-VDR and DBD-VDR. Binding of hsp90 to VDR was not detected. However, geldanamycin, an hsp90 inhibitor, reduced 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3)-mediated gene activation in osteoblasts. Our data show that the bacterial and eukaryotic hsps associate with the VDR and might be involved in VDR function.
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- T A Craig
- Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic/Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, 55905, USA
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Hiyama T, Nakamoto H. Heat-Shock Proteins and Temperature Stress. BOOKS IN SOILS, PLANTS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT 1999. [DOI: 10.1201/9780824746728.ch17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The folding of most newly synthesized proteins in the cell requires the interaction of a variety of protein cofactors known as molecular chaperones. These molecules recognize and bind to nascent polypeptide chains and partially folded intermediates of proteins, preventing their aggregation and misfolding. There are several families of chaperones; those most involved in protein folding are the 40-kDa heat shock protein (HSP40; DnaJ), 60-kDa heat shock protein (HSP60; GroEL), and 70-kDa heat shock protein (HSP70; DnaK) families. The availability of high-resolution structures has facilitated a more detailed understanding of the complex chaperone machinery and mechanisms, including the ATP-dependent reaction cycles of the GroEL and HSP70 chaperones. For both of these chaperones, the binding of ATP triggers a critical conformational change leading to release of the bound substrate protein. Whereas the main role of the HSP70/HSP40 chaperone system is to minimize aggregation of newly synthesized proteins, the HSP60 chaperones also facilitate the actual folding process by providing a secluded environment for individual folding molecules and may also promote the unfolding and refolding of misfolded intermediates.
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- A L Fink
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA
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Though the GroEL and DnaK heat shock proteins are well characterized in prokaryotes, only scanty and controversial information exist about their cellular localization. In the present study, the localization of the heat shock proteins DnaK and GroEL in normal and heat shocked cells of Vibrio cholerae, was investigated both by immunogold labeling of ultrathin sections and biochemical methods. Much of the DnaK was found to be localized at the inner membrane in unstressed cells, most probably at the Bayer's adhesion sites. Data suggested that upon heat shock, the DnaK associated with the membrane continued to remain there, but the newly synthesized DnaK appeared mostly in the cytoplasm. GroEL in both stressed and unstressed cells was found mainly in the cytoplasm.
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- J Jyot
- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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Kedzierska S, Staniszewska M, Wegrzyn A, Taylor A. The role of DnaK/DnaJ and GroEL/GroES systems in the removal of endogenous proteins aggregated by heat-shock from Escherichia coli cells. FEBS Lett 1999; 446:331-7. [PMID: 10100869 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00154-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The submission of Escherichia coli cells to heat-shock (45 degrees C, 15 min) caused the intracellular aggregation of endogenous proteins. In the wt cells the aggregates (the S fraction) disappeared 10 min after transfer to 37 degrees C. In contrast, the S fraction in the dnaK and dnaJ mutant strains was stable during approximately one generation time (45 min). This demonstrated that neither the renaturation nor the degradation of the denatured proteins was possible in the absence of DnaK and DnaJ. The groEL44 and groES619 mutations stabilised the aggregates to a lesser extent. It was shown by the use of cloned genes, dnaK/dnaJ or groEL/groES, producing the corresponding proteins in about 4-fold excess, that the appearance of the S fraction in the wt strain resulted from a transiently insufficient supply of the heat-shock proteins. Overproduction of the GroEL/GroES proteins in dnaK756 or dnaJ259 background prevented the aggregation, however, overproduction of the DnaK/DnaJ proteins did not prevent the aggregation in the groEL44 or groES619 mutant cells although it accelerated the disappearance of the aggregates. The properties of the aggregated proteins are discussed from the point of view of their competence to renaturation/degradation by the heat-shock system.
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- S Kedzierska
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Gdańsk, Poland
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Bertelsen EB, Zhou H, Lowry DF, Flynn GC, Dahlquist FW. Topology and dynamics of the 10 kDa C-terminal domain of DnaK in solution. Protein Sci 1999; 8:343-54. [PMID: 10048327 PMCID: PMC2144266 DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.2.343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Hsp70 molecular chaperones contain three distinct structural domains, a 44 kDa N-terminal ATPase domain, a 17 kDa peptide-binding domain, and a 10 kDa C-terminal domain. The ATPase and peptide binding domains are conserved in sequence and are functionally well characterized. The function of the 10 kDa variable C-terminal domain is less well understood. We have characterized the secondary structure and dynamics of the C-terminal domain from the Escherichia coli Hsp70, DnaK, in solution by high-resolution NMR. The domain was shown to be comprised of a rigid structure consisting of four helices and a flexible C-terminal subdomain of approximately 33 amino acids. The mobility of the flexible region is maintained in the context of the full-length protein and does not appear to be modulated by the nucleotide state. The flexibility of this region appears to be a conserved feature of Hsp70 architecture and may have important functional implications. We also developed a method to analyze 15N nuclear spin relaxation data, which allows us to extract amide bond vector directions relative to a unique diffusion axis. The extracted angles and rotational correlation times indicate that the helices form an elongated, bundle-like structure in solution.
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- E B Bertelsen
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403, USA
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