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Regulation by a chaperone improves substrate selectivity during cotranslational protein targeting. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:E3169-78. [PMID: 26056263 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422594112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The ribosome exit site is a crowded environment where numerous factors contact nascent polypeptides to influence their folding, localization, and quality control. Timely and accurate selection of nascent polypeptides into the correct pathway is essential for proper protein biogenesis. To understand how this is accomplished, we probe the mechanism by which nascent polypeptides are accurately sorted between the major cotranslational chaperone trigger factor (TF) and the essential cotranslational targeting machinery, signal recognition particle (SRP). We show that TF regulates SRP function at three distinct stages, including binding of the translating ribosome, membrane targeting via recruitment of the SRP receptor, and rejection of ribosome-bound nascent polypeptides beyond a critical length. Together, these mechanisms enhance the specificity of substrate selection into both pathways. Our results reveal a multilayered mechanism of molecular interplay at the ribosome exit site, and provide a conceptual framework to understand how proteins are selected among distinct biogenesis machineries in this crowded environment.
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Latif H, Szubin R, Tan J, Brunk E, Lechner A, Zengler K, Palsson BO. A streamlined ribosome profiling protocol for the characterization of microorganisms. Biotechniques 2015; 58:329-32. [PMID: 26054770 DOI: 10.2144/000114302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Accepted: 03/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Ribosome profiling is a powerful tool for characterizing in vivo protein translation at the genome scale, with multiple applications ranging from detailed molecular mechanisms to systems-level predictive modeling. Though highly effective, this intricate technique has yet to become widely used in the microbial research community. Here we present a streamlined ribosome profiling protocol with reduced barriers to entry for microbial characterization studies. Our approach provides simplified alternatives during harvest, lysis, and recovery of monosomes and also eliminates several time-consuming steps, in particular size-selection steps during library construction. Furthermore, the abundance of rRNAs and tRNAs in the final library is drastically reduced. Our streamlined workflow enables greater throughput, cuts the time from harvest to the final library in half (down to 3-4 days), and generates a high fraction of informative reads, all while retaining the high quality standards of the existing protocol.
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- Haythem Latif
- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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- Fuels Synthesis Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA.,Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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- QB3 Institute, University of California, Emeryville, CA
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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- Bioengineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.,Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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Kramer G, Bukau B. 18 The busy life of nascent chains: mechanisms of folding of newly synthesized proteins. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2015.1032558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Michel AM, Ahern AM, Donohue CA, Baranov PV. GWIPS-viz as a tool for exploring ribosome profiling evidence supporting the synthesis of alternative proteoforms. Proteomics 2015; 15:2410-6. [PMID: 25736862 PMCID: PMC4832365 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201400603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2014] [Revised: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/26/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The boundaries of protein coding sequences are more difficult to define at the 5′ end than at the 3′ end due to potential multiple translation initiation sites (TISs). Even in the presence of phylogenetic data, the use of sequence information only may not be sufficient for the accurate identification of TISs. Traditional proteomics approaches may also fail because the N‐termini of newly synthesized proteins are often processed. Thus ribosome profiling (ribo‐seq), producing a snapshot of the ribosome distribution across the entire transcriptome, is an attractive experimental technique for the purpose of TIS location exploration. The GWIPS‐viz (Genome Wide Information on Protein Synthesis visualized) browser (http://gwips.ucc.ie) provides free access to the genomic alignments of ribo‐seq data and corresponding mRNA‐seq data along with relevant annotation tracks. In this brief, we illustrate how GWIPS‐viz can be used to explore the ribosome occupancy at the 5′ ends of protein coding genes to assess the activity of AUG and non‐AUG TISs responsible for the synthesis of proteoforms with alternative or heterogeneous N‐termini. The presence of ribo‐seq tracks for various organisms allows for cross‐species comparison of orthologous genes and the availability of datasets from multiple laboratories permits the assessment of the technical reproducibility of the ribosome densities.
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- Audrey M Michel
- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Naganathan A, Wood MP, Moore SD. The large ribosomal subunit protein L9 enables the growth of EF-P deficient cells and enhances small subunit maturation. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0120060. [PMID: 25879934 PMCID: PMC4399890 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2014] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The loss of the large ribosomal protein L9 causes a reduction in translation fidelity by an unknown mechanism. To identify pathways affected by L9, we identified mutants of E. coli that require L9 for fitness. In a prior study, we characterized L9-dependent mutations in the essential GTPase Der (EngA). Here, we describe a second class of L9-dependent mutations that either compromise or inactivate elongation factor P (EF-P, eIF5A in eukaryotes). Without L9, Δefp cells are practically inviable. Cell fractionation studies revealed that, in both the Der and EF-P mutant cases, L9's activity reduces immature 16S rRNA in 30S particles and partially restores the abundance of monosomes. Inspired by these findings, we discovered that L9 also enhances 16S maturation in wild-type cells. Surprisingly, although the amount of immature 16S in 30S particles was found to be elevated in ΔrplI cells, the amount in polysomes was low and inversely correlated with the immature 16S abundance. These findings provide an explanation for the observed fitness increases afforded by L9 in these mutants and reveal particular physiological conditions in which L9 becomes critical. Additionally, L9 may affect the partitioning of small subunits containing immature 16S rRNA.
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- Anusha Naganathan
- The Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States of America
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- Seattle Biomed, 307 Westlake Ave N, Suite 500, Seattle, WA, 98109, United States of America
- Department of Global Health, University of Washington, 1510 N.E. San Juan Road, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States of America
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- The Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, The University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, United States of America
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de Klerk E, Fokkema IFAC, Thiadens KAMH, Goeman JJ, Palmblad M, den Dunnen JT, von Lindern M, 't Hoen PAC. Assessing the translational landscape of myogenic differentiation by ribosome profiling. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:4408-28. [PMID: 25873627 PMCID: PMC4482065 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2014] [Accepted: 03/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The formation of skeletal muscles is associated with drastic changes in protein requirements known to be safeguarded by tight control of gene transcription and mRNA processing. The contribution of regulation of mRNA translation during myogenesis has not been studied so far. We monitored translation during myogenic differentiation of C2C12 myoblasts, using a simplified protocol for ribosome footprint profiling. Comparison of ribosome footprints to total RNA showed that gene expression is mostly regulated at the transcriptional level. However, a subset of transcripts, enriched for mRNAs encoding for ribosomal proteins, was regulated at the level of translation. Enrichment was also found for specific pathways known to regulate muscle biology. We developed a dedicated pipeline to identify translation initiation sites (TISs) and discovered 5333 unannotated TISs, providing a catalog of upstream and alternative open reading frames used during myogenesis. We identified 298 transcripts with a significant switch in TIS usage during myogenesis, which was not explained by alternative promoter usage, as profiled by DeepCAGE. Also these transcripts were enriched for ribosomal protein genes. This study demonstrates that differential mRNA translation controls protein expression of specific subsets of genes during myogenesis. Experimental protocols, analytical workflows, tools and data are available through public repositories (http://lumc.github.io/ribosome-profiling-analysis-framework/).
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- Eleonora de Klerk
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Postzone S4-P, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Postzone S4-P, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Hematopoiesis, Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory, AMC/UvA, 1066CX 125 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Biostatistics, Department for Health Evidence, Radboud University Medical Center, Postzone 133, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Postzone S4-P, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Hematopoiesis, Sanquin Research and Landsteiner Laboratory, AMC/UvA, 1066CX 125 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Postzone S4-P, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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Woolstenhulme CJ, Guydosh NR, Green R, Buskirk AR. High-precision analysis of translational pausing by ribosome profiling in bacteria lacking EFP. Cell Rep 2015; 11:13-21. [PMID: 25843707 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Revised: 02/17/2015] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Ribosome profiling is a powerful method for globally assessing the activity of ribosomes in a cell. Despite its application in many organisms, ribosome profiling studies in bacteria have struggled to obtain the resolution necessary to precisely define translational pauses. Here, we report improvements that yield much higher resolution in E. coli profiling data, enabling us to more accurately assess ribosome pausing and refine earlier studies of the impact of polyproline motifs on elongation. We comprehensively characterize pausing at proline-rich motifs in the absence of elongation factor EFP. We find that only a small fraction of genes with strong pausing motifs have reduced ribosome density downstream, and we identify features that explain this phenomenon. These features allow us to predict which proteins likely have reduced output in the efp-knockout strain.
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- Christopher J Woolstenhulme
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Burmann BM, Hiller S. Chaperones and chaperone-substrate complexes: Dynamic playgrounds for NMR spectroscopists. PROGRESS IN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY 2015; 86-87:41-64. [PMID: 25919198 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnmrs.2015.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Revised: 02/19/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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The majority of proteins depend on a well-defined three-dimensional structure to obtain their functionality. In the cellular environment, the process of protein folding is guided by molecular chaperones to avoid misfolding, aggregation, and the generation of toxic species. To this end, living cells contain complex networks of molecular chaperones, which interact with substrate polypeptides by a multitude of different functionalities: transport them towards a target location, help them fold, unfold misfolded species, resolve aggregates, or deliver them towards a proteolysis machinery. Despite the availability of high-resolution crystal structures of many important chaperones in their substrate-free apo forms, structural information about how substrates are bound by chaperones and how they are protected from misfolding and aggregation is very sparse. This lack of information arises from the highly dynamic nature of chaperone-substrate complexes, which so far has largely hindered their crystallization. This highly dynamic nature makes chaperone-substrate complexes good targets for NMR spectroscopy. Here, we review the results achieved by NMR spectroscopy to understand chaperone function in general and details of chaperone-substrate interactions in particular. We assess the information content and applicability of different NMR techniques for the characterization of chaperones and chaperone-substrate complexes. Finally, we highlight three recent studies, which have provided structural descriptions of chaperone-substrate complexes at atomic resolution.
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- Björn M Burmann
- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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An integrated approach reveals regulatory controls on bacterial translation elongation. Cell 2015; 159:1200-1211. [PMID: 25416955 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2014] [Revised: 08/18/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Ribosomes elongate at a nonuniform rate during translation. Theoretical models and experiments disagree on the in vivo determinants of elongation rate and the mechanism by which elongation rate affects protein levels. To resolve this conflict, we measured transcriptome-wide ribosome occupancy under multiple conditions and used it to formulate a whole-cell model of translation in E. coli. Our model predicts that elongation rates at most codons during nutrient-rich growth are not limited by the intracellular concentrations of aminoacyl-tRNAs. However, elongation pausing during starvation for single amino acids is highly sensitive to the kinetics of tRNA aminoacylation. We further show that translation abortion upon pausing accounts for the observed ribosome occupancy along mRNAs during starvation. Abortion reduces global protein synthesis, but it enhances the translation of a subset of mRNAs. These results suggest a regulatory role for aminoacylation and abortion during stress, and our study provides an experimentally constrained framework for modeling translation.
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Martens AT, Taylor J, Hilser VJ. Ribosome A and P sites revealed by length analysis of ribosome profiling data. Nucleic Acids Res 2015; 43:3680-7. [PMID: 25805170 PMCID: PMC4402525 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The high-throughput sequencing of nuclease-protected mRNA fragments bound to ribosomes, a technique known as ribosome profiling, quantifies the relative frequencies with which different regions of transcripts are translated. This technique has revealed novel translation initiation sites with unprecedented scope and has furthered investigations into the connections between codon biases and translation rates. Yet the location of the codon being decoded in ribosome footprints is still unknown, and has been complicated by the recent observation of footprints with non-canonical lengths. Here we show how taking into account the variations in ribosome footprint lengths can reveal the ribosome aminoacyl (A) and peptidyl (P) site locations. These location assignments are in agreement with the proposed mechanisms for various ribosome pauses and further enhance the resolution of the profiling data. We also show that GC-rich motifs at the 5' ends of footprints are found in yeast, calling into question the anti-Shine-Dalgarno effect's role in ribosome pausing.
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- Andrew T Martens
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Owing to the degeneracy of the genetic code, a protein sequence can be encoded by many different synonymous mRNA coding sequences. Synonymous codon usage was once thought to be functionally neutral, but evidence now indicates it is shaped by evolutionary selection and affects other aspects of protein biogenesis beyond specifying the amino acid sequence of the protein. Synonymous rare codons, once thought to have only negative impacts on the speed and accuracy of translation, are now known to play an important role in diverse functions, including regulation of cotranslational folding, covalent modifications, secretion, and expression level. Mutations altering synonymous codon usage are linked to human diseases. However, much remains unknown about the molecular mechanisms connecting synonymous codon usage to efficient protein biogenesis and proper cell physiology. Here we review recent literature on the functional effects of codon usage, including bioinformatics approaches aimed at identifying general roles for synonymous codon usage.
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Schmidpeter PAM, Schmid FX. Prolyl isomerization and its catalysis in protein folding and protein function. J Mol Biol 2015; 427:1609-31. [PMID: 25676311 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 01/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Prolyl isomerizations are intrinsically slow processes. They determine the rates of many protein folding reactions and control regulatory events in folded proteins. Prolyl isomerases are able to catalyze these isomerizations, and thus, they have the potential to assist protein folding and to modulate protein function. Here, we provide examples for how prolyl isomerizations limit protein folding and are accelerated by prolyl isomerases and how native-state prolyl isomerizations regulate protein functions. The roles of prolines in protein folding and protein function are closely interrelated because both of them depend on the coupling between cis/trans isomerization and conformational changes that can involve extended regions of a protein.
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- Philipp A M Schmidpeter
- Laboratorium für Biochemie und Bayreuther Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Laboratorium für Biochemie und Bayreuther Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany.
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How do bacteria tune translation efficiency? Curr Opin Microbiol 2015; 24:66-71. [PMID: 25636133 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2015.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 01/02/2015] [Accepted: 01/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bacterial proteins are translated with precisely determined rates to meet cellular demand. In contrast, efforts to express recombinant proteins in bacteria are often met with large unpredictability in their levels of translation. The disconnect between translation of natural and synthetic mRNA stems from the lack of understanding of the strategy used by bacteria to tune translation efficiency (TE). The development of array-based oligonucleotide synthesis and ribosome profiling provides new approaches to address this issue. Although the major determinant for TE is still unknown, these high-throughput studies point out a statistically significant but mild contribution from the mRNA secondary structure around the start codon. Here I summarize those findings and provide a theoretical framework for measuring TE.
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O'Brien EJ, Palsson BO. Computing the functional proteome: recent progress and future prospects for genome-scale models. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2015; 34:125-34. [PMID: 25576845 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.12.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Revised: 12/16/2014] [Accepted: 12/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Constraint-based models enable the computation of feasible, optimal, and realized biological phenotypes from reaction network reconstructions and constraints on their operation. To date, stoichiometric reconstructions have largely focused on metabolism, resulting in genome-scale metabolic models (M-Models). Recent expansions in network content to encompass proteome synthesis have resulted in models of metabolism and protein expression (ME-Models). ME-Models advance the predictions possible with constraint-based models from network flux states to the spatially resolved molecular composition of a cell. Specifically, ME-Models enable the prediction of transcriptome and proteome allocation and limitations, and basal expression states and regulatory needs. Continued expansion in reconstruction content and constraints will result in an increasingly refined representation of cellular composition and behavior.
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- Edward J O'Brien
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, United States
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- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, University of California, San Diego, United States; Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, United States; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, United States; Novo Nordisk Center for Biosustainability, The Danish Technical University, Denmark.
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Investigating Bacterial Protein Synthesis Using Systems Biology Approaches. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 883:21-40. [PMID: 26621460 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23603-2_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Protein synthesis is essential for bacterial growth and survival. Its study in Escherichia coli helped uncover features conserved among bacteria as well as universally. The pattern of discovery and the identification of some of the longest-known components of the protein synthesis machinery, including the ribosome itself, tRNAs, and translation factors proceeded through many stages of successively more refined biochemical purifications, finally culminating in the isolation to homogeneity, identification, and mapping of the smallest unit required for performing the given function. These early studies produced a wealth of information. However, many unknowns remained. Systems biology approaches provide an opportunity to investigate protein synthesis from a global perspective, overcoming the limitations of earlier ad hoc methods to gain unprecedented insights. This chapter reviews innovative systems biology approaches, with an emphasis on those designed specifically for investigating the protein synthesis machinery in E. coli.
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Bhandari V, Houry WA. Substrate Interaction Networks of the Escherichia coli Chaperones: Trigger Factor, DnaK and GroEL. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 883:271-94. [PMID: 26621473 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23603-2_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In the dense cellular environment, protein misfolding and inter-molecular protein aggregation compete with protein folding. Chaperones associate with proteins to prevent misfolding and to assist in folding to the native state. In Escherichia coli, the chaperones trigger factor, DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE, and GroEL/ES are the major chaperones responsible for insuring proper de novo protein folding. With multitudes of proteins produced by the bacterium, the chaperones have to be selective for their substrates. Yet, chaperone selectivity cannot be too specific. Recent biochemical and high-throughput studies have provided important insights highlighting the strategies used by chaperones in maintaining proteostasis in the cell. Here, we discuss the substrate networks and cooperation among these protein folding chaperones.
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- Vaibhav Bhandari
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Medical Sciences Building, Room 5308, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Medical Sciences Building, Room 5308, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A8, Canada.
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Eukaryotic cells contain a multitude of membrane structures that are connected through a highly dynamic and complex exchange of their constituents. The vibrant instability of these structures challenges the classical view of defined, static compartments that are connected by different types of vesicles. Despite this astonishing complexity, proteins and lipids are accurately transported into the different intracellular membrane systems. Over the past few decades many factors have been identified that either mediate or regulate intracellular membrane trafficking. Like in a modern parcel sorting system of a logistics center, the cargo typically passes through several sequential sorting stations until it finally reaches the location that is specified by its individual address label. While each membrane system employs specific sets of factors, the transport processes typically operate on common principles. With the advent of genome- and proteome-wide screens, the availability of mutant collections, exciting new developments in microscope technology and sophisticated methods to study their dynamics, the future promises a broad and comprehensive picture of the processes by which eukaryotic cells sort their proteins.
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Miettinen TP, Björklund M. Modified ribosome profiling reveals high abundance of ribosome protected mRNA fragments derived from 3' untranslated regions. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 43:1019-34. [PMID: 25550424 PMCID: PMC4333376 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Ribosome profiling identifies ribosome positions on translated mRNAs. A prominent feature of published datasets is the near complete absence of ribosomes in 3′ untranslated regions (3′UTR) although substantial ribosome density can be observed on non-coding RNAs. Here we perform ribosome profiling in cultured Drosophila and human cells and show that different features of translation are revealed depending on the nuclease and the digestion conditions used. Most importantly, we observe high abundance of ribosome protected fragments in 3′UTRs of thousands of genes without manipulation of translation termination. Affinity purification of ribosomes indicates that the 3′UTR reads originate from ribosome protected fragments. Association of ribosomes with the 3′UTR may be due to ribosome migration through the stop codon or 3′UTR mRNA binding to ribosomes on the coding sequence. This association depends primarily on the relative length of the 3′UTR and may be related to translational regulation or ribosome recycling, for which the efficiency is known to inversely correlate with 3′UTR length. Together our results indicate that ribosome profiling is highly dependent on digestion conditions and that ribosomes commonly associate with the 3′UTR, which may have a role in translational regulation.
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- Teemu P Miettinen
- Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, DD1 5EH Dundee, Scotland, UK
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- Division of Cell and Developmental Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, DD1 5EH Dundee, Scotland, UK
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Nakahigashi K, Takai Y, Shiwa Y, Wada M, Honma M, Yoshikawa H, Tomita M, Kanai A, Mori H. Effect of codon adaptation on codon-level and gene-level translation efficiency in vivo. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:1115. [PMID: 25512115 PMCID: PMC4378010 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 12/09/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background There is a significant difference between synonymous codon usage in many organisms, and it is known that codons used more frequently generally showed efficient decoding rate. At the gene level, however, there are conflicting reports on the existence of a correlation between codon adaptation and translation efficiency, even in the same organism. Results To resolve this issue, we cultured Escherichia coli under conditions designed to maintain constant levels of mRNA and protein and subjected the cells to ribosome profiling (RP) and mRNA-seq analyses. We showed that the RP results correlated more closely with protein levels generated under similar culture conditions than with the mRNA abundance from the mRNA-seq. Our result indicated that RP/mRNA ratio could be used as a measure of translation efficiency at gene level. On the other hand, the RP data showed that codon-specific ribosome density at the decoding site negatively correlated with codon usage, consistent with the hypothesis that preferred codons display lower ribosome densities due to their faster decoding rate. However, highly codon-adapted genes showed higher ribosome densities at the gene level, indicating that the efficiency of translation initiation, rather than higher elongation efficiency of preferred codons, exerted a greater effect on ribosome density and thus translation efficiency. Conclusions These findings indicate that evolutionary pressure on highly expressed genes influenced both codon bias and translation initiation efficiency and therefore explains contradictory findings that codon usage bias correlates with translation efficiency of native genes, but not with the artificially created gene pool, which was not subjected to evolution pressure. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-1115) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Kenji Nakahigashi
- Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata 997-0017, Japan.
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Sala A, Bordes P, Genevaux P. Multitasking SecB chaperones in bacteria. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:666. [PMID: 25538690 PMCID: PMC4257090 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Accepted: 11/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Protein export in bacteria is facilitated by the canonical SecB chaperone, which binds to unfolded precursor proteins, maintains them in a translocation competent state and specifically cooperates with the translocase motor SecA to ensure their proper targeting to the Sec translocon at the cytoplasmic membrane. Besides its key contribution to the Sec pathway, SecB chaperone tasking is critical for the secretion of the Sec-independent heme-binding protein HasA and actively contributes to the cellular network of chaperones that control general proteostasis in Escherichia coli, as judged by the significant interplay found between SecB and the trigger factor, DnaK and GroEL chaperones. Although SecB is mainly a proteobacterial chaperone associated with the presence of an outer membrane and outer membrane proteins, secB-like genes are also found in Gram-positive bacteria as well as in certain phages and plasmids, thus suggesting alternative functions. In addition, a SecB-like protein is also present in the major human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis where it specifically controls a stress-responsive toxin–antitoxin system. This review focuses on such very diverse chaperone functions of SecB, both in E. coli and in other unrelated bacteria.
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- Ambre Sala
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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Kannan K, Kanabar P, Schryer D, Florin T, Oh E, Bahroos N, Tenson T, Weissman JS, Mankin AS. The general mode of translation inhibition by macrolide antibiotics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:15958-63. [PMID: 25349425 PMCID: PMC4234590 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1417334111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Macrolides are clinically important antibiotics thought to inhibit bacterial growth by impeding the passage of newly synthesized polypeptides through the nascent peptide exit tunnel of the bacterial ribosome. Recent data challenged this view by showing that macrolide antibiotics can differentially affect synthesis of individual proteins. To understand the general mechanism of macrolide action, we used genome-wide ribosome profiling and analyzed the redistribution of ribosomes translating highly expressed genes in bacterial cells treated with high concentrations of macrolide antibiotics. The metagene analysis indicated that inhibition of early rounds of translation, which would be characteristic of the conventional view of macrolide action, occurs only at a limited number of genes. Translation of most genes proceeds past the 5'-proximal codons and can be arrested at more distal codons when the ribosome encounters specific short sequence motifs. The problematic sequence motifs are confined to the nascent peptide residues in the peptidyl transferase center but not to the peptide segment that contacts the antibiotic molecule in the exit tunnel. Therefore, it appears that the general mode of macrolide action involves selective inhibition of peptide bond formation between specific combinations of donor and acceptor substrates. Additional factors operating in the living cell but not functioning during in vitro protein synthesis may modulate site-specific action of macrolide antibiotics.
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- Krishna Kannan
- Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Center for Research Informatics (CRI), Research Resources Center, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612
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- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607; Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, D-14424 Potsdam, Germany; and
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Center for Research Informatics (CRI), Research Resources Center, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60612
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- Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607;
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Balakrishnan R, Oman K, Shoji S, Bundschuh R, Fredrick K. The conserved GTPase LepA contributes mainly to translation initiation in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:13370-83. [PMID: 25378333 PMCID: PMC4245954 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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LepA is a paralog of EF-G found in all bacteria. Deletion of lepA confers no obvious growth defect in Escherichia coli, and the physiological role of LepA remains unknown. Here, we identify nine strains (ΔdksA, ΔmolR1, ΔrsgA, ΔtatB, ΔtonB, ΔtolR, ΔubiF, ΔubiG or ΔubiH) in which ΔlepA confers a synthetic growth phenotype. These strains are compromised for gene regulation, ribosome assembly, transport and/or respiration, indicating that LepA contributes to these functions in some way. We also use ribosome profiling to deduce the effects of LepA on translation. We find that loss of LepA alters the average ribosome density (ARD) for hundreds of mRNA coding regions in the cell, substantially reducing ARD in many cases. By contrast, only subtle and codon-specific changes in ribosome distribution along mRNA are seen. These data suggest that LepA contributes mainly to the initiation phase of translation. Consistent with this interpretation, the effect of LepA on ARD is related to the sequence of the Shine–Dalgarno region. Global perturbation of gene expression in the ΔlepA mutant likely explains most of its phenotypes.
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- Rohan Balakrishnan
- Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Ohio State Biochemistry Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Noriega TR, Chen J, Walter P, Puglisi JD. Real-time observation of signal recognition particle binding to actively translating ribosomes. eLife 2014; 3. [PMID: 25358118 PMCID: PMC4213662 DOI: 10.7554/elife.04418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 10/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The signal recognition particle (SRP) directs translating ribosome-nascent chain complexes (RNCs) that display a signal sequence to protein translocation channels in target membranes. All previous work on the initial step of the targeting reaction, when SRP binds to RNCs, used stalled and non-translating RNCs. This meant that an important dimension of the co-translational process remained unstudied. We apply single-molecule fluorescence measurements to observe directly and in real-time E. coli SRP binding to actively translating RNCs. We show at physiologically relevant SRP concentrations that SRP-RNC association and dissociation rates depend on nascent chain length and the exposure of a functional signal sequence outside the ribosome. Our results resolve a long-standing question: how can a limited, sub-stoichiometric pool of cellular SRP effectively distinguish RNCs displaying a signal sequence from those that are not? The answer is strikingly simple: as originally proposed, SRP only stably engages translating RNCs exposing a functional signal sequence. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04418.001 Genes contain the instructions needed to make proteins from smaller building blocks called amino acids. These instructions are first transcribed to produce molecules of messenger RNA, which are then translated by a ribosome. This ‘molecular machine’ translates the instructions in the messenger RNA into the sequence of amino acids needed to make the protein. For some proteins to carry out their role, they need to be delivered to the outside of the cell, or inserted into one of the cell's membranes. As they are being built, these proteins are identified by a so-called ‘signal recognition particle’, which is often called an SRP for short. The SRP attaches to the new protein when it is still joined to the ribosome, and pulls the protein-ribosome complex to an opening in the target membrane. The new protein chain then enters this opening and either passes through to the other side of the membrane, or ends up embedded within it. To date, most studies that have investigated this process have involved scientists stalling the building of the new protein to see how SRP interacts with inactivated protein-ribosome complexes. Unfortunately, this means that some of the details of what happens during this process have likely been missed. Now, Noriega et al. have addressed this problem by developing a method to watch, in real-time, a single active protein-ribosome complex interacting with individual SRPs. This was achieved by attaching fluorescent molecules to SRP and protein-ribosome complexes purified from the bacterium E. coli. The distance between the two fluorescent molecules was then tracked over time. This revealed that the SRP typically binds to the protein-ribosome complex after 40–55 amino acids have been built into the protein. At this point, a so-called ‘signal sequence’ of amino acids has emerged from the complex and can be recognized by the SRP. Earlier studies had suggested that signal sequences might tell the SRP when to bind, but this had not been demonstrated in experiments using active protein-ribosome complexes. The strategy of using fluorescent molecules to follow single molecules undergoing this process in real-time could now be used by other scientists to re-examine and determine new properties of the protein-ribosome complex in action. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04418.002
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- Thomas R Noriega
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
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- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States
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The prevailing "plug-in-the-bottle" model suggests that macrolide antibiotics inhibit translation by binding inside the ribosome tunnel and indiscriminately arresting the elongation of every nascent polypeptide after the synthesis of six to eight amino acids. To test this model, we performed a genome-wide analysis of translation in azithromycin-treated Staphylococcus aureus. In contrast to earlier predictions, we found that the macrolide does not preferentially induce ribosome stalling near the 5' end of mRNAs, but rather acts at specific stalling sites that are scattered throughout the entire coding region. These sites are highly enriched in prolines and charged residues and are strikingly similar to other ligand-independent ribosome stalling motifs. Interestingly, the addition of structurally related macrolides had dramatically different effects on stalling efficiency. Our data suggest that ribosome stalling can occur at a surprisingly large number of low-complexity motifs in a fashion that depends only on a few arrest-inducing residues and the presence of a small molecule inducer.
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Starosta AL, Lassak J, Jung K, Wilson DN. The bacterial translation stress response. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2014; 38:1172-201. [PMID: 25135187 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Revised: 07/18/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Throughout their life, bacteria need to sense and respond to environmental stress. Thus, such stress responses can require dramatic cellular reprogramming, both at the transcriptional as well as the translational level. This review focuses on the protein factors that interact with the bacterial translational apparatus to respond to and cope with different types of environmental stress. For example, the stringent factor RelA interacts with the ribosome to generate ppGpp under nutrient deprivation, whereas a variety of factors have been identified that bind to the ribosome under unfavorable growth conditions to shut-down (RelE, pY, RMF, HPF and EttA) or re-program (MazF, EF4 and BipA) translation. Additional factors have been identified that rescue ribosomes stalled due to stress-induced mRNA truncation (tmRNA, ArfA, ArfB), translation of unfavorable protein sequences (EF-P), heat shock-induced subunit dissociation (Hsp15), or antibiotic inhibition (TetM, FusB). Understanding the mechanism of how the bacterial cell responds to stress will not only provide fundamental insight into translation regulation, but will also be an important step to identifying new targets for the development of novel antimicrobial agents.
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- Agata L Starosta
- Gene Center, Department for Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; Center for integrated Protein Science Munich (CiPSM), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Guo MS, Updegrove TB, Gogol EB, Shabalina SA, Gross CA, Storz G. MicL, a new σE-dependent sRNA, combats envelope stress by repressing synthesis of Lpp, the major outer membrane lipoprotein. Genes Dev 2014; 28:1620-34. [PMID: 25030700 PMCID: PMC4102768 DOI: 10.1101/gad.243485.114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In enteric bacteria, the transcription factor σE maintains membrane homeostasis by inducing the synthesis of membrane repair proteins as well as two small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) that down-regulate membrane porin synthesis. Here, Storz and colleagues identify a third σE-dependent sRNA, MicL, transcribed from the cutC gene coding sequence. MicL represses the outer membrane lipoprotein Lpp and is responsible for the copper sensitivity phenotype previously associated with cutC loss. This discovery is critical to understanding the networks that control outer membrane homeostasis in response to stress. In enteric bacteria, the transcription factor σE maintains membrane homeostasis by inducing synthesis of proteins involved in membrane repair and two small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) that down-regulate synthesis of abundant membrane porins. Here, we describe the discovery of a third σE-dependent sRNA, MicL (mRNA-interfering complementary RNA regulator of Lpp), transcribed from a promoter located within the coding sequence of the cutC gene. MicL is synthesized as a 308-nucleotide (nt) primary transcript that is processed to an 80-nt form. Both forms possess features typical of Hfq-binding sRNAs but surprisingly target only a single mRNA, which encodes the outer membrane lipoprotein Lpp, the most abundant protein of the cell. We show that the copper sensitivity phenotype previously ascribed to inactivation of the cutC gene is actually derived from the loss of MicL and elevated Lpp levels. This observation raises the possibility that other phenotypes currently attributed to protein defects are due to deficiencies in unappreciated regulatory RNAs. We also report that σE activity is sensitive to Lpp abundance and that MicL and Lpp comprise a new σE regulatory loop that opposes membrane stress. Together MicA, RybB, and MicL allow σE to repress the synthesis of all abundant outer membrane proteins in response to stress.
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- Monica S Guo
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20894, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Accurate folding, assembly, localization, and maturation of newly synthesized proteins are essential to all cells and require high fidelity in the protein biogenesis machineries that mediate these processes. Here, we review our current understanding of how high fidelity is achieved in one of these processes, the cotranslational targeting of nascent membrane and secretory proteins by the signal recognition particle (SRP). Recent biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies have elucidated how the correct substrates drive a series of elaborate conformational rearrangements in the SRP and SRP receptor GTPases; these rearrangements provide effective fidelity checkpoints to reject incorrect substrates and enhance the fidelity of this essential cellular pathway. The mechanisms used by SRP to ensure fidelity share important conceptual analogies with those used by cellular machineries involved in DNA replication, transcription, and translation, and these mechanisms likely represent general principles for other complex cellular pathways.
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- Xin Zhang
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125;
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Hersch SJ, Elgamal S, Katz A, Ibba M, Navarre WW. Translation initiation rate determines the impact of ribosome stalling on bacterial protein synthesis. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:28160-71. [PMID: 25148683 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.593277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Ribosome stalling during translation can be caused by a number of characterized mechanisms. However, the impact of elongation stalls on protein levels is variable, and the reasons for this are often unclear. To investigate this relationship, we examined the bacterial translation elongation factor P (EF-P), which plays a critical role in rescuing ribosomes stalled at specific amino acid sequences including polyproline motifs. In previous proteomic analyses of both Salmonella and Escherichia coli efp mutants, it was evident that not all proteins containing a polyproline motif were dependent on EF-P for efficient expression in vivo. The α- and β-subunits of ATP synthase, AtpA and AtpD, are translated from the same mRNA transcript, and both contain a PPG motif; however, proteomic analysis revealed that AtpD levels are strongly dependent on EF-P, whereas AtpA levels are independent of EF-P. Using these model proteins, we systematically determined that EF-P dependence is strongly influenced by elements in the 5'-untranslated region of the mRNA. By mutating either the Shine-Dalgarno sequence or the start codon, we find that EF-P dependence correlates directly with the rate of translation initiation where strongly expressed proteins show the greatest dependence on EF-P. Our findings demonstrate that polyproline-induced stalls exert a net effect on protein levels only if they limit translation significantly more than initiation. This model can be generalized to explain why sequences that induce pauses in translation elongation to, for example, facilitate folding do not necessarily exact a penalty on the overall production of the protein.
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- Steven J Hersch
- From the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada and
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- the Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- the Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- the Department of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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- From the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada and
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EF-P dependent pauses integrate proximal and distal signals during translation. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004553. [PMID: 25144653 PMCID: PMC4140641 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Elongation factor P (EF-P) is required for the efficient synthesis of proteins with stretches of consecutive prolines and other motifs that would otherwise lead to ribosome pausing. However, previous reports also demonstrated that levels of most diprolyl-containing proteins are not altered by the deletion of efp. To define the particular sequences that trigger ribosome stalling at diprolyl (PPX) motifs, we used ribosome profiling to monitor global ribosome occupancy in Escherichia coli strains lacking EF-P. Only 2.8% of PPX motifs caused significant ribosomal pausing in the Δefp strain, with up to a 45-fold increase in ribosome density observed at the pausing site. The unexpectedly low fraction of PPX motifs that produce a pause in translation led us to investigate the possible role of sequences upstream of PPX. Our data indicate that EF-P dependent pauses are strongly affected by sequences upstream of the PPX pattern. We found that residues as far as 3 codons upstream of the ribosomal peptidyl-tRNA site had a dramatic effect on whether or not a particular PPX motif triggered a ribosomal pause, while internal Shine Dalgarno sequences upstream of the motif had no effect on EF-P dependent translation efficiency. Increased ribosome occupancy at particular stall sites did not reliably correlate with a decrease in total protein levels, suggesting that in many cases other factors compensate for the potentially deleterious effects of stalling on protein synthesis. These findings indicate that the ability of a given PPX motif to initiate an EF-P-alleviated stall is strongly influenced by its local context, and that other indirect post-transcriptional effects determine the influence of such stalls on protein levels within the cell. Elongation factor P (EF-P) is a well-conserved bacterial protein. Although it can enhance protein synthesis in vitro, it is generally regarded as an ancillary factor required for robust translation of transcripts with stretches of consecutive prolines. In this work we performed ribosome profiling to better understand the role of EF-P during translation. Our data confirmed that translational effects due to lack of EF-P are mainly confined to PPX–encoding genes. Wide variations in EF-P dependent translation of these PPXs led us to investigate the effect of sequences upstream of diproline-containing motifs. We found that amino acids encoded upstream of PPX play a key role in EF-P-dependent translation. Finally, comparison of ribosome profiling data to existing proteomic data indicates that although many PPX-containing patterns have increased ribosome occupancies, this does not necessarily lead to altered protein levels. Taken together these data show a direct role for EF-P during synthesis of PPX motifs, and indirect effects on other post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression.
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Fluman N, Navon S, Bibi E, Pilpel Y. mRNA-programmed translation pauses in the targeting of E. coli membrane proteins. eLife 2014; 3. [PMID: 25135940 PMCID: PMC4359368 DOI: 10.7554/elife.03440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 08/16/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In all living organisms, ribosomes translating membrane proteins are targeted to membrane translocons early in translation, by the ubiquitous signal recognition particle (SRP) system. In eukaryotes, the SRP Alu domain arrests translation elongation of membrane proteins until targeting is complete. Curiously, however, the Alu domain is lacking in most eubacteria. In this study, by analyzing genome-wide data on translation rates, we identified a potential compensatory mechanism in E. coli that serves to slow down the translation during membrane protein targeting. The underlying mechanism is likely programmed into the coding sequence, where Shine-Dalgarno-like elements trigger elongation pauses at strategic positions during the early stages of translation. We provide experimental evidence that slow translation during targeting and improves membrane protein production fidelity, as it correlates with better folding of overexpressed membrane proteins. Thus, slow elongation is important for membrane protein targeting in E. coli, which utilizes mechanisms different from the eukaryotic one to control the translation speed.
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- Nir Fluman
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Schrader JM, Zhou B, Li GW, Lasker K, Childers WS, Williams B, Long T, Crosson S, McAdams HH, Weissman JS, Shapiro L. The coding and noncoding architecture of the Caulobacter crescentus genome. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004463. [PMID: 25078267 PMCID: PMC4117421 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Caulobacter crescentus undergoes an asymmetric cell division controlled by a genetic circuit that cycles in space and time. We provide a universal strategy for defining the coding potential of bacterial genomes by applying ribosome profiling, RNA-seq, global 5′-RACE, and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) data to the 4-megabase C. crescentus genome. We mapped transcript units at single base-pair resolution using RNA-seq together with global 5′-RACE. Additionally, using ribosome profiling and LC-MS, we mapped translation start sites and coding regions with near complete coverage. We found most start codons lacked corresponding Shine-Dalgarno sites although ribosomes were observed to pause at internal Shine-Dalgarno sites within the coding DNA sequence (CDS). These data suggest a more prevalent use of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence for ribosome pausing rather than translation initiation in C. crescentus. Overall 19% of the transcribed and translated genomic elements were newly identified or significantly improved by this approach, providing a valuable genomic resource to elucidate the complete C. crescentus genetic circuitry that controls asymmetric cell division. Caulobacter crescentus is a model system for studying asymmetric cell division, a fundamental process that, through differential gene expression in the two daughter cells, enables the generation of cells with different fates. To explore how the genome directs and maintains asymmetry upon cell division, we performed a coordinated analysis of multiple genomic and proteomic datasets to identify the RNA and protein coding features in the C. crescentus genome. Our integrated analysis identifies many new genetic regulatory elements, adding significant regulatory complexity to the C. crescentus genome. Surprisingly, 75.4% of protein coding genes lack a canonical translation initiation sequence motif (the Shine-Dalgarno site) which hybridizes to the 3′ end of the ribosomal RNA allowing translation initiation. We find Shine-Dalgarno sites primarily inside of genes where they cause translating ribosomes to pause, possibly allowing nascent proteins to correctly fold. With our detailed map of genomic transcription and translation elements, a systems view of the genetic network that controls asymmetric cell division is within reach.
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- Jared M. Schrader
- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, California Institute of Quantitative Biology, Center for RNA Systems Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, California Institute of Quantitative Biology, Center for RNA Systems Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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An essential nonredundant role for mycobacterial DnaK in native protein folding. PLoS Genet 2014; 10:e1004516. [PMID: 25058675 PMCID: PMC4109909 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2014] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Protein chaperones are essential in all domains of life to prevent and resolve protein misfolding during translation and proteotoxic stress. HSP70 family chaperones, including E. coli DnaK, function in stress induced protein refolding and degradation, but are dispensable for cellular viability due to redundant chaperone systems that prevent global nascent peptide insolubility. However, the function of HSP70 chaperones in mycobacteria, a genus that includes multiple human pathogens, has not been examined. We find that mycobacterial DnaK is essential for cell growth and required for native protein folding in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Loss of DnaK is accompanied by proteotoxic collapse characterized by the accumulation of insoluble newly synthesized proteins. DnaK is required for solubility of large multimodular lipid synthases, including the essential lipid synthase FASI, and DnaK loss is accompanied by disruption of membrane structure and increased cell permeability. Trigger Factor is nonessential and has a minor role in native protein folding that is only evident in the absence of DnaK. In unstressed cells, DnaK localizes to multiple, dynamic foci, but relocalizes to focal protein aggregates during stationary phase or upon expression of aggregating peptides. Mycobacterial cells restart cell growth after proteotoxic stress by isolating persistent DnaK containing protein aggregates away from daughter cells. These results reveal unanticipated essential nonredunant roles for mycobacterial DnaK in mycobacteria and indicate that DnaK defines a unique susceptibility point in the mycobacterial proteostasis network. All living organisms use protein chaperones to prevent proteins from becoming insoluble either spontaneously or during cellular stress that can damage proteins. The HSP70 chaperone DnaK has been well characterized in E. coli and is important for that bacterium to resist protein denaturation from heat, but is dispensable for cell growth in the absence of stress due to redundancy with other chaperone systems. However, the function of chaperones in bacterial pathogens, which are exposed to protein stress within the host, has received less attention. Here we examine the function of DnaK in mycobacteria, a genus that includes multiple human pathogens, and find that DnaK is required for cell growth. This essential function is due to a lack of redundancy with other chaperone systems for the folding of proteins, even in the absence of stress. These findings expand the paradigm of DnaK function and identify DnaK as a promising target for antibiotic development for mycobacteria.
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GroEL/ES chaperonin modulates the mechanism and accelerates the rate of TIM-barrel domain folding. Cell 2014; 157:922-934. [PMID: 24813614 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.03.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Revised: 02/04/2014] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The GroEL/ES chaperonin system functions as a protein folding cage. Many obligate substrates of GroEL share the (βα)8 TIM-barrel fold, but how the chaperonin promotes folding of these proteins is not known. Here, we analyzed the folding of DapA at peptide resolution using hydrogen/deuterium exchange and mass spectrometry. During spontaneous folding, all elements of the DapA TIM barrel acquire structure simultaneously in a process associated with a long search time. In contrast, GroEL/ES accelerates folding more than 30-fold by catalyzing segmental structure formation in the TIM barrel. Segmental structure formation is also observed during the fast spontaneous folding of a structural homolog of DapA from a bacterium that lacks GroEL/ES. Thus, chaperonin independence correlates with folding properties otherwise enforced by protein confinement in the GroEL/ES cage. We suggest that folding catalysis by GroEL/ES is required by a set of proteins to reach native state at a biologically relevant timescale, avoiding aggregation or degradation.
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Quantifying absolute protein synthesis rates reveals principles underlying allocation of cellular resources. Cell 2014; 157:624-35. [PMID: 24766808 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 894] [Impact Index Per Article: 89.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2013] [Revised: 12/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Quantitative views of cellular functions require precise measures of rates of biomolecule production, especially proteins-the direct effectors of biological processes. Here, we present a genome-wide approach, based on ribosome profiling, for measuring absolute protein synthesis rates. The resultant E. coli data set transforms our understanding of the extent to which protein synthesis is precisely controlled to optimize function and efficiency. Members of multiprotein complexes are made in precise proportion to their stoichiometry, whereas components of functional modules are produced differentially according to their hierarchical role. Estimates of absolute protein abundance also reveal principles for optimizing design. These include how the level of different types of transcription factors is optimized for rapid response and how a metabolic pathway (methionine biosynthesis) balances production cost with activity requirements. Our studies reveal how general principles, important both for understanding natural systems and for synthesizing new ones, emerge from quantitative analyses of protein synthesis.
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Dudek J, Pfeffer S, Lee PH, Jung M, Cavalié A, Helms V, Förster F, Zimmermann R. Protein transport into the human endoplasmic reticulum. J Mol Biol 2014; 427:1159-75. [PMID: 24968227 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2014.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Protein transport into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is essential for all eukaryotic cells and evolutionary related to protein transport into and across the cytoplasmic membrane of eubacteria and archaea. It is based on amino-terminal signal peptides in the precursor polypeptides plus various transport components in cytosol plus ER and can occur either cotranslationally or posttranslationally. The two mechanisms merge at the heterotrimeric Sec61 complex in the ER membrane, which forms an aqueous polypeptide-conducting channel. Since the mammalian ER is also the main intracellular calcium storage organelle, the Sec61 complex is tightly regulated in its dynamics between the open and closed conformations by various ligands, such as precursor polypeptides at the cytosolic face and the Hsp70-type molecular chaperone BiP at the ER lumenal face (Hsp, heat shock protein). Furthermore, BiP binding to the incoming precursor polypeptide contributes to unidirectionality and efficiency of transport. Recent insights into the structural dynamics of the Sec61 complex and related complexes in eubacteria and archaea have various mechanistic and functional implications.
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- Johanna Dudek
- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Computational Biology, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany
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- Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany
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- Computational Biology, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany.
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Interplay between trigger factor and other protein biogenesis factors on the ribosome. Nat Commun 2014; 5:4180. [PMID: 24939037 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Nascent proteins emerging from translating ribosomes in bacteria are screened by a number of ribosome-associated protein biogenesis factors, among them the chaperone trigger factor (TF), the signal recognition particle (SRP) that targets ribosomes synthesizing membrane proteins to the membrane and the modifying enzymes, peptide deformylase (PDF) and methionine aminopeptidase (MAP). Here, we examine the interplay between these factors both kinetically and at equilibrium. TF rapidly scans the ribosomes until it is stabilized on ribosomes presenting TF-specific nascent chains. SRP binding to those complexes is strongly impaired. Thus, TF in effect prevents SRP binding to the majority of ribosomes, except those presenting SRP-specific signal sequences, explaining how the small amount of SRP in the cell can be effective in membrane targeting. PDF and MAP do not interfere with TF or SRP binding to translating ribosomes, indicating that nascent-chain processing can take place before or in parallel with TF or SRP binding.
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Correcting direct effects of ethanol on translation and transcription machinery confers ethanol tolerance in bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:E2576-85. [PMID: 24927582 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1401853111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The molecular mechanisms of ethanol toxicity and tolerance in bacteria, although important for biotechnology and bioenergy applications, remain incompletely understood. Genetic studies have identified potential cellular targets for ethanol and have revealed multiple mechanisms of tolerance, but it remains difficult to separate the direct and indirect effects of ethanol. We used adaptive evolution to generate spontaneous ethanol-tolerant strains of Escherichia coli, and then characterized mechanisms of toxicity and resistance using genome-scale DNAseq, RNAseq, and ribosome profiling coupled with specific assays of ribosome and RNA polymerase function. Evolved alleles of metJ, rho, and rpsQ recapitulated most of the observed ethanol tolerance, implicating translation and transcription as key processes affected by ethanol. Ethanol induced miscoding errors during protein synthesis, from which the evolved rpsQ allele protected cells by increasing ribosome accuracy. Ribosome profiling and RNAseq analyses established that ethanol negatively affects transcriptional and translational processivity. Ethanol-stressed cells exhibited ribosomal stalling at internal AUG codons, which may be ameliorated by the adaptive inactivation of the MetJ repressor of methionine biosynthesis genes. Ethanol also caused aberrant intragenic transcription termination for mRNAs with low ribosome density, which was reduced in a strain with the adaptive rho mutation. Furthermore, ethanol inhibited transcript elongation by RNA polymerase in vitro. We propose that ethanol-induced inhibition and uncoupling of mRNA and protein synthesis through direct effects on ribosomes and RNA polymerase conformations are major contributors to ethanol toxicity in E. coli, and that adaptive mutations in metJ, rho, and rpsQ help protect these central dogma processes in the presence of ethanol.
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Ribosome profiling reveals sequence-independent post-initiation pausing as a signature of translation. Cell Res 2014; 24:842-51. [PMID: 24903108 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2014.74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Revised: 03/30/2014] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The journey of a newly synthesized polypeptide starts in the peptidyltransferase center of the ribosome, from where it traverses the exit tunnel. The interior of the ribosome exit tunnel is neither straight nor smooth. How the ribosome dynamics in vivo is influenced by the exit tunnel is poorly understood. Genome-wide ribosome profiling in mammalian cells reveals elevated ribosome density at the start codon and surprisingly the downstream 5th codon position as well. We found that the highly focused ribosomal pausing shortly after initiation is attributed to the geometry of the exit tunnel, as deletion of the loop region from ribosome protein L4 diminishes translational pausing at the 5th codon position. Unexpectedly, the ribosome variant undergoes translational abandonment shortly after initiation, suggesting that there exists an obligatory step between initiation and elongation commitment. We propose that the post-initiation pausing of ribosomes represents an inherent signature of the translation machinery to ensure productive translation.
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Saio T, Guan X, Rossi P, Economou A, Kalodimos CG. Structural basis for protein antiaggregation activity of the trigger factor chaperone. Science 2014; 344:1250494. [PMID: 24812405 DOI: 10.1126/science.1250494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Molecular chaperones prevent aggregation and misfolding of proteins, but scarcity of structural data has impeded an understanding of the recognition and antiaggregation mechanisms. We report the solution structure, dynamics, and energetics of three trigger factor (TF) chaperone molecules in complex with alkaline phosphatase (PhoA) captured in the unfolded state. Our data show that TF uses multiple sites to bind to several regions of the PhoA substrate protein primarily through hydrophobic contacts. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation experiments show that TF interacts with PhoA in a highly dynamic fashion, but as the number and length of the PhoA regions engaged by TF increase, a more stable complex gradually emerges. Multivalent binding keeps the substrate protein in an extended, unfolded conformation. The results show how molecular chaperones recognize unfolded polypeptides and, by acting as unfoldases and holdases, prevent the aggregation and premature (mis)folding of unfolded proteins.
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- Tomohide Saio
- Center for Integrative Proteomics Research and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Denks K, Vogt A, Sachelaru I, Petriman NA, Kudva R, Koch HG. The Sec translocon mediated protein transport in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Mol Membr Biol 2014; 31:58-84. [DOI: 10.3109/09687688.2014.907455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Van Damme P, Gawron D, Van Criekinge W, Menschaert G. N-terminal proteomics and ribosome profiling provide a comprehensive view of the alternative translation initiation landscape in mice and men. Mol Cell Proteomics 2014; 13:1245-61. [PMID: 24623590 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m113.036442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Usage of presumed 5'UTR or downstream in-frame AUG codons, next to non-AUG codons as translation start codons contributes to the diversity of a proteome as protein isoforms harboring different N-terminal extensions or truncations can serve different functions. Recent ribosome profiling data revealed a highly underestimated occurrence of database nonannotated, and thus alternative translation initiation sites (aTIS), at the mRNA level. N-terminomics data in addition showed that in higher eukaryotes around 20% of all identified protein N termini point to such aTIS, to incorrect assignments of the translation start codon, translation initiation at near-cognate start codons, or to alternative splicing. We here report on more than 1700 unique alternative protein N termini identified at the proteome level in human and murine cellular proteomes. Customized databases, created using the translation initiation mapping obtained from ribosome profiling data, additionally demonstrate the use of initiator methionine decoded near-cognate start codons besides the existence of N-terminal extended protein variants at the level of the proteome. Various newly identified aTIS were confirmed by mutagenesis, and meta-analyses demonstrated that aTIS reside in strong Kozak-like motifs and are conserved among eukaryotes, hinting to a possible biological impact. Finally, TargetP analysis predicted that the usage of aTIS often results in altered subcellular localization patterns, providing a mechanism for functional diversification.
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- Petra Van Damme
- Department of Medical Protein Research, VIB, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Chatzi KE, Sardis MF, Economou A, Karamanou S. SecA-mediated targeting and translocation of secretory proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2014; 1843:1466-74. [PMID: 24583121 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2014.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2013] [Revised: 02/12/2014] [Accepted: 02/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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More than 30 years of research have revealed that the dynamic nanomotor SecA is a central player in bacterial protein secretion. SecA associates with the SecYEG channel and transports polypeptides post-translationally to the trans side of the cytoplasmic membrane. It comprises a helicase-like ATPase core coupled to two domains that provide specificity for preprotein translocation. Apart from SecYEG, SecA associates with multiple ligands like ribosomes, nucleotides, lipids, chaperones and preproteins. It exerts its essential contribution in two phases. First, SecA, alone or in concert with chaperones, helps mediate the targeting of the secretory proteins from the ribosome to the membrane. Next, at the membrane it converts chemical energy to mechanical work and translocates preproteins through the SecYEG channel. SecA is a highly dynamic enzyme, it exploits disorder-order kinetics, swiveling and dissociation of domains and dimer to monomer transformations that are tightly coupled with its catalytic function. Preprotein signal sequences and mature domains exploit these dynamics to manipulate the nanomotor and thus achieve their export at the expense of metabolic energy. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Protein trafficking and secretion in bacteria. Guest Editors: Anastassios Economou and Ross Dalbey.
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- Katerina E Chatzi
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, University of Crete, PO Box 1385, GR-711 10 Iraklio, Crete, Greece; KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, University of Crete, PO Box 1385, GR-711 10 Iraklio, Crete, Greece; Department of Biology, University of Crete, PO Box 1385, GR-711 10 Iraklio, Crete, Greece; KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, University of Crete, PO Box 1385, GR-711 10 Iraklio, Crete, Greece; KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Laboratory of Molecular Bacteriology, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
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Ribosome profiling: new views of translation, from single codons to genome scale. Nat Rev Genet 2014; 15:205-13. [PMID: 24468696 DOI: 10.1038/nrg3645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 420] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Genome-wide analyses of gene expression have so far focused on the abundance of mRNA species as measured either by microarray or, more recently, by RNA sequencing. However, neither approach provides information on protein synthesis, which is the true end point of gene expression. Ribosome profiling is an emerging technique that uses deep sequencing to monitor in vivo translation. Studies using ribosome profiling have already provided new insights into the identity and the amount of proteins that are produced by cells, as well as detailed views into the mechanism of protein synthesis itself.
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Ingolia NT, Brar GA, Rouskin S, McGeachy AM, Weissman JS. Genome-wide annotation and quantitation of translation by ribosome profiling. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; Chapter 4:4.18.1-4.18.19. [PMID: 23821443 DOI: 10.1002/0471142727.mb0418s103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Recent studies highlight the importance of translational control in determining protein abundance, underscoring the value of measuring gene expression at the level of translation. A protocol for genome-wide, quantitative analysis of in vivo translation by deep sequencing is presented here. This ribosome-profiling approach maps the exact positions of ribosomes on transcripts by nuclease footprinting. The nuclease-protected mRNA fragments are converted into a DNA library suitable for deep sequencing using a strategy that minimizes bias. The abundance of different footprint fragments in deep sequencing data reports on the amount of translation of a gene. Additionally, footprints reveal the exact regions of the transcriptome that are translated. To better define translated reading frames, an adaptation that reveals the sites of translation initiation by pre-treating cells with harringtonine to immobilize initiating ribosomes is described. The protocol described requires 5 to 7 days to generate a completed ribosome profiling sequencing library. Sequencing and data analysis requires an additional 4 to 5 days.
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- Nicholas T Ingolia
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Vasquez JJ, Hon CC, Vanselow JT, Schlosser A, Siegel TN. Comparative ribosome profiling reveals extensive translational complexity in different Trypanosoma brucei life cycle stages. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:3623-37. [PMID: 24442674 PMCID: PMC3973304 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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While gene expression is a fundamental and tightly controlled cellular process that is regulated at multiple steps, the exact contribution of each step remains unknown in any organism. The absence of transcription initiation regulation for RNA polymerase II in the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei greatly simplifies the task of elucidating the contribution of translation to global gene expression. Therefore, we have sequenced ribosome-protected mRNA fragments in T. brucei, permitting the genome-wide analysis of RNA translation and translational efficiency. We find that the latter varies greatly between life cycle stages of the parasite and ∼100-fold between genes, thus contributing to gene expression to a similar extent as RNA stability. The ability to map ribosome positions at sub-codon resolution revealed extensive translation from upstream open reading frames located within 5' UTRs and enabled the identification of hundreds of previously un-annotated putative coding sequences (CDSs). Evaluation of existing proteomics and genome-wide RNAi data confirmed the translation of previously un-annotated CDSs and suggested an important role for >200 of those CDSs in parasite survival, especially in the form that is infective to mammals. Overall our data show that translational control plays a prevalent and important role in different parasite life cycle stages of T. brucei.
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- Juan-José Vasquez
- Research Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg 97080, Germany, Département Biologie cellulaire et infection, Institut Pasteur, Unité Biologie Cellulaire du Parasitisme, Paris 75015, France, INSERM U786, Paris 75015, France and Rudolf Virchow Center, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg 97080, Germany
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Subramaniam AR, DeLoughery A, Bradshaw N, Chen Y, O’Shea E, Losick R, Chai Y. A serine sensor for multicellularity in a bacterium. eLife 2013; 2:e01501. [PMID: 24347549 PMCID: PMC3862929 DOI: 10.7554/elife.01501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We report the discovery of a simple environmental sensing mechanism for biofilm formation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis that operates without the involvement of a dedicated RNA or protein. Certain serine codons, the four TCN codons, in the gene for the biofilm repressor SinR caused a lowering of SinR levels under biofilm-inducing conditions. Synonymous substitutions of these TCN codons with AGC or AGT impaired biofilm formation and gene expression. Conversely, switching AGC or AGT to TCN codons upregulated biofilm formation. Genome-wide ribosome profiling showed that ribosome density was higher at UCN codons than at AGC or AGU during biofilm formation. Serine starvation recapitulated the effect of biofilm-inducing conditions on ribosome occupancy and SinR production. As serine is one of the first amino acids to be exhausted at the end of exponential phase growth, reduced translation speed at serine codons may be exploited by other microbes in adapting to stationary phase. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01501.001.
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- Arvind R Subramaniam
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
- Department of Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, United States
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Gloge F, Becker AH, Kramer G, Bukau B. Co-translational mechanisms of protein maturation. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2013; 24:24-33. [PMID: 24721450 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2013] [Revised: 11/05/2013] [Accepted: 11/21/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Protein biogenesis integrates multiple finely regulated mechanisms, ensuring nascent polypeptide chains are correctly enzymatically processed, targeted to membranes and folded to native structure. Recent studies show that the cellular translation machinery serves as hub that coordinates the maturation events in space and time at various levels. The ribosome itself serves as docking site for a multitude of nascent chain-interacting factors. The movement of ribosomes along open reading frames is non-uniformous and includes pausing sites, which facilitates nascent chain folding and perhaps factor engagement. Here we summarize current knowledge and discuss emerging concepts underlying the critical interplay between translation and protein maturation in E. coli.
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- Felix Gloge
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, Heidelberg D-69120, Germany.
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Dunn JG, Foo CK, Belletier NG, Gavis ER, Weissman JS. Ribosome profiling reveals pervasive and regulated stop codon readthrough in Drosophila melanogaster. eLife 2013; 2:e01179. [PMID: 24302569 PMCID: PMC3840789 DOI: 10.7554/elife.01179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Ribosomes can read through stop codons in a regulated manner, elongating rather than terminating the nascent peptide. Stop codon readthrough is essential to diverse viruses, and phylogenetically predicted to occur in a few hundred genes in Drosophila melanogaster, but the importance of regulated readthrough in eukaryotes remains largely unexplored. Here, we present a ribosome profiling assay (deep sequencing of ribosome-protected mRNA fragments) for Drosophila melanogaster, and provide the first genome-wide experimental analysis of readthrough. Readthrough is far more pervasive than expected: the vast majority of readthrough events evolved within D. melanogaster and were not predicted phylogenetically. The resulting C-terminal protein extensions show evidence of selection, contain functional subcellular localization signals, and their readthrough is regulated, arguing for their importance. We further demonstrate that readthrough occurs in yeast and humans. Readthrough thus provides general mechanisms both to regulate gene expression and function, and to add plasticity to the proteome during evolution. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01179.001.
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- Joshua G Dunn
- California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, San Francisco, United States
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Castanié-Cornet MP, Bruel N, Genevaux P. Chaperone networking facilitates protein targeting to the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2013; 1843:1442-56. [PMID: 24269840 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2013.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2013] [Revised: 11/10/2013] [Accepted: 11/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Nascent polypeptides emerging from the ribosome are assisted by a pool of molecular chaperones and targeting factors, which enable them to efficiently partition as cytosolic, integral membrane or exported proteins. Extensive genetic and biochemical analyses have significantly expanded our knowledge of chaperone tasking throughout this process. In bacteria, it is known that the folding of newly-synthesized cytosolic proteins is mainly orchestrated by three highly conserved molecular chaperones, namely Trigger Factor (TF), DnaK (HSP70) and GroEL (HSP60). Yet, it has been reported that these major chaperones are strongly involved in protein translocation pathways as well. This review describes such essential molecular chaperone functions, with emphasis on both the biogenesis of inner membrane proteins and the post-translational targeting of presecretory proteins to the Sec and the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathways. Critical interplay between TF, DnaK, GroEL and other molecular chaperones and targeting factors, including SecB, SecA, the signal recognition particle (SRP) and the redox enzyme maturation proteins (REMPs) is also discussed. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Protein trafficking and secretion in bacteria. Guest Editors: Anastassios Economou and Ross Dalbey.
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- Marie-Pierre Castanié-Cornet
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire (LMGM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire (LMGM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire (LMGM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
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