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Giglione C, Fieulaine S, Meinnel T. Cotranslational processing mechanisms: towards a dynamic 3D model. Trends Biochem Sci 2009; 34:417-26. [PMID: 19647435 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2009.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2009] [Revised: 04/14/2009] [Accepted: 04/29/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Recent major advances have been made in understanding how cotranslational events are achieved in the course of protein biosynthesis. Specifically, several studies have shed light into the dynamic process of how nascent chains emerging from the ribosome are supported by protein biogenesis factors to ensure both processing and folding mechanisms. To take into account the awareness that coordination is needed, a new 'concerted model' recently proposed simultaneous action of both processes on the ribosome. In the model, any emerging nascent chain is first encountered by the chaperone trigger factor (TF), which forms an open cradle underneath the ribosomal exit tunnel. This cradle serves as a passive router that channels the nascent chains to the first cotranslational event, the proteolysis event performed by the N-terminal methionine excision machinery. Although fascinating, this model clearly raises more questions than it answers. Does the data used to develop this model stand up to scrutiny and, if not, what are the alternative mechanisms that the data suggest?
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- Carmela Giglione
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Protein Maturation and Cell Fate, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Bât.23A, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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Jolivet P, Boulard C, Bellamy A, Larré C, Barre M, Rogniaux H, d'Andréa S, Chardot T, Nesi N. Protein composition of oil bodies from mature Brassica napus seeds. Proteomics 2009; 9:3268-84. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200800449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Martinez A, Traverso JA, Valot B, Ferro M, Espagne C, Ephritikhine G, Zivy M, Giglione C, Meinnel T. Extent of N-terminal modifications in cytosolic proteins from eukaryotes. Proteomics 2008; 8:2809-31. [PMID: 18655050 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200701191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Most proteins in all organisms undergo crucial N-terminal modifications involving N-terminal methionine excision, N-alpha-acetylation or N-myristoylation (N-Myr), or S-palmitoylation. We investigated the occurrence of these poorly annotated but essential modifications in proteomes, focusing on eukaryotes. Experimental data for the N-terminal sequences of animal, fungi, and archaeal proteins, were used to build dedicated predictive modules in a new software. In vitro N-Myr experiments were performed with both plant and animal N-myristoyltransferases, for accurate prediction of the modification. N-terminal modifications from the fully sequenced genome of Arabidopsis thaliana were determined by MS. We identified 105 new modified protein N-termini, which were used to check the accuracy of predictive data. An accuracy of more than 95% was achieved, demonstrating (i) overall conservation of the specificity of the modification machinery in higher eukaryotes and (ii) robustness of the prediction tool. Predictions were made for various proteomes. Proteins that had undergone both N-terminal methionine (Met) cleavage and N-acetylation were found to be strongly overrepresented among the most abundant proteins, in contrast to those retaining their genuine unblocked Met. Here we propose that the nature of the second residue of an ORF is a key marker of the abundance of the mature protein in eukaryotes.
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- Aude Martinez
- Institut des Sciences du Végétal, UPR2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Zybailov B, Rutschow H, Friso G, Rudella A, Emanuelsson O, Sun Q, van Wijk KJ. Sorting signals, N-terminal modifications and abundance of the chloroplast proteome. PLoS One 2008; 3:e1994. [PMID: 18431481 PMCID: PMC2291561 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 503] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2008] [Accepted: 03/06/2008] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Characterization of the chloroplast proteome is needed to understand the essential contribution of the chloroplast to plant growth and development. Here we present a large scale analysis by nanoLC-Q-TOF and nanoLC-LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometry (MS) of ten independent chloroplast preparations from Arabidopsis thaliana which unambiguously identified 1325 proteins. Novel proteins include various kinases and putative nucleotide binding proteins. Based on repeated and independent MS based protein identifications requiring multiple matched peptide sequences, as well as literature, 916 nuclear-encoded proteins were assigned with high confidence to the plastid, of which 86% had a predicted chloroplast transit peptide (cTP). The protein abundance of soluble stromal proteins was calculated from normalized spectral counts from LTQ-Obitrap analysis and was found to cover four orders of magnitude. Comparison to gel-based quantification demonstrates that ‘spectral counting’ can provide large scale protein quantification for Arabidopsis. This quantitative information was used to determine possible biases for protein targeting prediction by TargetP and also to understand the significance of protein contaminants. The abundance data for 550 stromal proteins was used to understand abundance of metabolic pathways and chloroplast processes. We highlight the abundance of 48 stromal proteins involved in post-translational proteome homeostasis (including aminopeptidases, proteases, deformylases, chaperones, protein sorting components) and discuss the biological implications. N-terminal modifications were identified for a subset of nuclear- and chloroplast-encoded proteins and a novel N-terminal acetylation motif was discovered. Analysis of cTPs and their cleavage sites of Arabidopsis chloroplast proteins, as well as their predicted rice homologues, identified new species-dependent features, which will facilitate improved subcellular localization prediction. No evidence was found for suggested targeting via the secretory system. This study provides the most comprehensive chloroplast proteome analysis to date and an expanded Plant Proteome Database (PPDB) in which all MS data are projected on identified gene models.
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- Boris Zybailov
- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Stockholm Bioinformatics Center, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Computation Biology Service Unit, Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Nagasaki N, Tomioka R, Maeshima M. A hydrophilic cation-binding protein of Arabidopsis thaliana, AtPCaP1, is localized to plasma membrane via N-myristoylation and interacts with calmodulin and the phosphatidylinositol phosphates PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 and PtdIns(3,5)P2. FEBS J 2008; 275:2267-82. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Meinnel T, Giglione C. Tools for analyzing and predicting N-terminal protein modifications. Proteomics 2008; 8:626-49. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Espagne C, Martinez A, Valot B, Meinnel T, Giglione C. Alternative and effective proteomic analysis in Arabidopsis. Proteomics 2007; 7:3788-99. [PMID: 17828791 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Various functional genomics platforms are required to define the phenotype associated with a mutant. Global protein analyses may be included in any study. We describe here a rapid method of protein sample preparation and analysis, suitable for all laboratories and using Arabidopsis plantlets as the starting material. This reliable and reproducible method for high yield protein extraction from small amounts of material can be used on even the most recalcitrant tissues. The proteins extracted are suitable for many types of protein analysis, including nondenaturing investigations. This method was validated by a rigorous 2-DE approach, coupled with unambiguous LC-MS/MS identifications featuring strong sequence coverage (average of 26% with eight different peptides/spot protein). The reproducibility of the method was demonstrated by multiple protein identifications from identical series of spots. An interactive map (http://www.isv.cnrsgif.fr/gel2d/), including 435 protein variants showed that (i) 38% of the proteins were yet unreported, (ii) reduced subfractionation, (iii) had frequent protein modifications (average of two spots/protein entry), and (iv) underwent no major proteolytic events other than leader peptide cleavage. Finally, a simple mobility shift method for the large subunit of RuBisCo (LS) in the first dimension made it possible to characterize previously masked protein spots.
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- Christelle Espagne
- Protein Maturation, Cell Fate and Therapeutics, Institut des Sciences du Végétal UPR2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Pierre M, Traverso JA, Boisson B, Domenichini S, Bouchez D, Giglione C, Meinnel T. N-myristoylation regulates the SnRK1 pathway in Arabidopsis. THE PLANT CELL 2007; 19:2804-21. [PMID: 17827350 PMCID: PMC2048702 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.107.051870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Cotranslational and posttranslational modifications are increasingly recognized as important in the regulation of numerous essential cellular functions. N-myristoylation is a lipid modification ensuring the proper function and intracellular trafficking of proteins involved in many signaling pathways. Arabidopsis thaliana, like human, has two tightly regulated N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) genes, NMT1 and NMT2. Characterization of knockout mutants showed that NMT1 was strictly required for plant viability, whereas NMT2 accelerated flowering. NMT1 impairment induced extremely severe defects in the shoot apical meristem during embryonic development, causing growth arrest after germination. A transgenic plant line with an inducible NMT1 gene demonstrated that NMT1 expression had further effects at later stages. NMT2 did not compensate for NMT1 in the nmt1-1 mutant, but NMT2 overexpression resulted in shoot and root meristem abnormalities. Various data from complementation experiments in the nmt1-1 background, using either yeast or human NMTs, demonstrated a functional link between the developmental arrest of nmt1-1 mutants and the myristoylation state of an extremely small set of protein targets. We show here that protein N-myristoylation is systematically associated with shoot meristem development and that SnRK1 (for SNF1-related kinase) is one of its essential primary targets.
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- Michèle Pierre
- Protein Maturation and Cell Fate, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Unité Propre de Recherche 2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, F-91198, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Meinnel T, Serero A, Giglione C. Impact of the N-terminal amino acid on targeted protein degradation. Biol Chem 2006; 387:839-51. [PMID: 16913833 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2006.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The N-terminus of any protein may be used as a destabilization signal for targeted protein degradation. In the eukaryotic cytosol, the signal - the so-called N-degron--is recognized for degradation by (i) the N-end rule, a well-described degradation process involving epsilon-ubiquitination; or (ii) N-terminal ubiquitination, a more recently described pathway. Dedicated E3 ubiquitin ligases known as N-recognins then act on the protein. The proteolytic pathways involve ATP-dependent chambered proteases, such as the 26S proteasome in the cytosol, which generate short oligopeptides. The N-terminus of the polypeptide chain is also important for post-proteasome degradation by specific aminopeptidases, which complete peptide cleavage to generate free amino acids. Finally, in each compartment of the eukaryotic cell, N-terminal methionine excision creates a variety of N-termini for mature proteins. It has recently been shown that the N-terminal methionine excision pathway has a major impact early in targeted protein degradation.
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- Thierry Meinnel
- Protein Maturation, Cell Fate and Therapeutics, Institut des Sciences du Végétal, UPR2355, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Bâtiment 23, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, F-91198 Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France.
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Kanno T, Kitano M, Kato R, Omori A, Endo Y, Tozawa Y. Sequence specificity and efficiency of protein N-terminal methionine elimination in wheat-embryo cell-free system. Protein Expr Purif 2006; 52:59-65. [PMID: 17123829 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2006.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2006] [Revised: 09/06/2006] [Accepted: 09/12/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Recent improvements in wheat-embryo cell-free translation resulted in a highly productive system for protein preparation. To clarify N-terminal processing of the cell-free system in a preparative-scale (> mg protein product per ml), 20 mutant variants of maltose-binding protein (MalE), each having a different penultimate residue in the sequence Met-Xaa-Ile-Glu-, and 20 glutathione S-transferase (GST) variants, having Met-Xaa-Pro-Ile-sequence, were designed and synthesized. The MalE and GST proteins were purified by amylose-resin and glutathione columns, respectively, followed by analysis of their N-terminal sequences. These investigations revealed that sequence specificity and efficiency of the N-terminal Met (N-Met) elimination in the cell-free system are similar to those reported from investigations in cellular systems or in the wheat-embryo cell-free protein expression system in analytical scale (approximately 10 microg protein product per ml). Cleavage of the N-Met is basically determined by the penultimate amino acid in the polypeptide sequence. In the case of MalE, the cleavage was efficient when the penultimate residue was Ala, Cys, Gly, Pro, Ser or Thr. But, in the case of GST with Pro as the antepenultimate residue, the efficiency was significantly reduced when the penultimate residue was Gly or Thr. We also confirmed that substitution of the antepenultimate residue in MalE to Pro drastically reduced the efficiency of N-Met cleavage when the penultimate residue was Ala, Gly, Pro, Ser or Thr, indicating inhibitory effects of antepenultimate residue Pro on N-Met elimination. These results clarified sequence-specific functions of the endogenous N-terminal processing machinery in the scaled-up wheat-embryo cell-free translation system.
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- Takuya Kanno
- Cell-Free Science and Technology Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan
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Walling LL. Recycling or regulation? The role of amino-terminal modifying enzymes. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2006; 9:227-33. [PMID: 16597508 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2006.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2006] [Accepted: 03/22/2006] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Post-translational modifications are essential for a variety of functions, such as the translocation, activation, regulation, and, ultimately, degradation of proteins. The amino-terminal (N-terminal) region is a particularly active area for such alterations. Three types of reactions predominate: limited proteolysis to remove one or more amino acids; modification of the alpha-amino group; and side-chain-specific changes. The N-terminal peptidases expose penultimate residues, providing new substrates for peptidase or transferase action. These enzymes can act sequentially or competitively to influence a protein's longevity, location or activity. N-terminal modifying enzymes (NTMEs) might target a protein for ubiquitination and degradation or protect a protein from rapid turnover. The N-terminal peptidases might also have important roles in processing the peptides that are released from the proteasome. Plant NTMEs have roles in senescence, meiosis and defense, and proposed roles in polar auxin transport.
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- Linda L Walling
- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA.
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Fieulaine S, Juillan-Binard C, Serero A, Dardel F, Giglione C, Meinnel T, Ferrer JL. The crystal structure of mitochondrial (Type 1A) peptide deformylase provides clear guidelines for the design of inhibitors specific for the bacterial forms. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:42315-24. [PMID: 16192279 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m507155200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Peptide deformylase (PDF) inhibitors have a strong potential to be used as a new class of antibiotics. However, recent studies have shown that the mitochondria of most eukaryotes, including humans, contain an essential PDF, PDF1A. The crystal structure of the Arabidopsis thaliana PDF1A (AtPDF1A), considered representative of PDF1As in general, has been determined. This structure displays several similarities to that of known bacterial PDFs. AtPDF1A behaves as a dimer, with the C-terminal residues responsible for linking the two subunits. This arrangement is similar to that of Leptospira interrogans PDF, the only other dimeric PDF identified to date. AtPDF1A is the first PDF for which zinc has been identified as the catalytic ion. However, the zinc binding pocket does not differ from the binding pockets of PDFs with iron rather than zinc. The crystal structure of AtPDF1A in complex with a substrate analog revealed that the substrate binding pocket of PDF1A displays strong modifications. The S1' binding pocket is significantly narrower, due to the creation of a floor from residues present in all PDF1As but not in bacterial PDFs. A true S3' pocket is created by the residues of a helical CD-loop, which is very long in PDF1As. Finally, these modified substrate binding pockets modify the position of the substrate in the active site. These differences provide guidelines for the design of bacterial PDF inhibitors that will not target mitochondrial PDFs.
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- Sonia Fieulaine
- Institut de Biologie Structurale J-P. Ebel CEA-CNRS-UJF, UMR5075, Laboratoire de Cristallographie et Cristallogenèse des Protéines (LCCP/GSY), 41 Rue Jules Horowitz, F-38027 Grenoble Cedex 1, France
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