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Melnyk A, Lang S, Sicking M, Zimmermann R, Jung M. Co-chaperones of the Human Endoplasmic Reticulum: An Update. Subcell Biochem 2023; 101:247-291. [PMID: 36520310 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14740-1_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
In mammalian cells, the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays central roles in the biogenesis of extracellular plus organellar proteins and in various signal transduction pathways. For these reasons, the ER comprises molecular chaperones, which are involved in import, folding, assembly, export, plus degradation of polypeptides, and signal transduction components, such as calcium channels, calcium pumps, and UPR transducers plus adenine nucleotide carriers/exchangers in the ER membrane. The calcium- and ATP-dependent ER lumenal Hsp70, termed immunoglobulin heavy-chain-binding protein or BiP, is the central player in all these activities and involves up to nine different Hsp40-type co-chaperones, i.e., ER membrane integrated as well as ER lumenal J-domain proteins, termed ERj or ERdj proteins, two nucleotide exchange factors or NEFs (Grp170 and Sil1), and NEF-antagonists, such as MANF. Here we summarize the current knowledge on the ER-resident BiP/ERj chaperone network and focus on the interaction of BiP with the polypeptide-conducting and calcium-permeable Sec61 channel of the ER membrane as an example for BiP action and how its functional cycle is linked to ER protein import and various calcium-dependent signal transduction pathways.
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- Armin Melnyk
- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.
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- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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Sicking M, Lang S, Bochen F, Roos A, Drenth JPH, Zakaria M, Zimmermann R, Linxweiler M. Complexity and Specificity of Sec61-Channelopathies: Human Diseases Affecting Gating of the Sec61 Complex. Cells 2021; 10:1036. [PMID: 33925740 PMCID: PMC8147068 DOI: 10.3390/cells10051036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 04/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of nucleated human cells has crucial functions in protein biogenesis, calcium (Ca2+) homeostasis, and signal transduction. Among the roughly one hundred components, which are involved in protein import and protein folding or assembly, two components stand out: The Sec61 complex and BiP. The Sec61 complex in the ER membrane represents the major entry point for precursor polypeptides into the membrane or lumen of the ER and provides a conduit for Ca2+ ions from the ER lumen to the cytosol. The second component, the Hsp70-type molecular chaperone immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein, short BiP, plays central roles in protein folding and assembly (hence its name), protein import, cellular Ca2+ homeostasis, and various intracellular signal transduction pathways. For the purpose of this review, we focus on these two components, their relevant allosteric effectors and on the question of how their respective functional cycles are linked in order to reconcile the apparently contradictory features of the ER membrane, selective permeability for precursor polypeptides, and impermeability for Ca2+. The key issues are that the Sec61 complex exists in two conformations: An open and a closed state that are in a dynamic equilibrium with each other, and that BiP contributes to its gating in both directions in cooperation with different co-chaperones. While the open Sec61 complex forms an aqueous polypeptide-conducting- and transiently Ca2+-permeable channel, the closed complex is impermeable even to Ca2+. Therefore, we discuss the human hereditary and tumor diseases that are linked to Sec61 channel gating, termed Sec61-channelopathies, as disturbances of selective polypeptide-impermeability and/or aberrant Ca2+-permeability.
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- Mark Sicking
- Department of Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg, Germany;
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg, Germany;
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, D-66421 Homburg, Germany; (F.B.); (M.L.)
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- Department of Neuropediatrics, Essen University Hospital, D-45147 Essen, Germany;
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- Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
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- Department of Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan;
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, D-66421 Homburg, Germany;
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, D-66421 Homburg, Germany; (F.B.); (M.L.)
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The site of protein folding and maturation for the majority of proteins that are secreted, localized to the plasma membrane or targeted to endomembrane compartments is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). It is essential that proteins targeted to the ER are properly folded in order to carry out their function, as well as maintain protein homeostasis, as accumulation of misfolded proteins could lead to the formation of cytotoxic aggregates. Because protein folding is an error-prone process, the ER contains protein quality control networks that act to optimize proper folding and trafficking of client proteins. If a protein is unable to reach its native state, it is targeted for ER retention and subsequent degradation. The protein quality control networks of the ER that oversee this evaluation or interrogation process that decides the fate of maturing nascent chains is comprised of three general types of families: the classical chaperones, the carbohydrate-dependent system, and the thiol-dependent system. The cooperative action of these families promotes protein quality control and protein homeostasis in the ER. This review will describe the families of the ER protein quality control network and discuss the functions of individual members.
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- Benjamin M Adams
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, 240 Thatcher Road, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, 240 Thatcher Road, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, 240 Thatcher Road, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
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Van Puyenbroeck V, Vermeire K. Inhibitors of protein translocation across membranes of the secretory pathway: novel antimicrobial and anticancer agents. Cell Mol Life Sci 2018; 75:1541-1558. [PMID: 29305616 PMCID: PMC5897483 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-017-2743-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 12/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Proteins routed to the secretory pathway start their journey by being transported across biological membranes, such as the endoplasmic reticulum. The essential nature of this protein translocation process has led to the evolution of several factors that specifically target the translocon and block translocation. In this review, various translocation pathways are discussed together with known inhibitors of translocation. Properties of signal peptide-specific systems are highlighted for the development of new therapeutic and antimicrobial applications, as compounds can target signal peptides from either host cells or pathogens and thereby selectively prevent translocation of those specific proteins. Broad inhibition of translocation is also an interesting target for the development of new anticancer drugs because cancer cells heavily depend on efficient protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum to support their fast growth.
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- Victor Van Puyenbroeck
- Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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Braakman I, Lamriben L, van Zadelhoff G, Hebert DN. Analysis of Disulfide Bond Formation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 90:14.1.1-14.1.21. [PMID: 29091273 DOI: 10.1002/cpps.43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In this unit, protocols are provided for detection of disulfide bond formation in cultures of intact cells and in an in vitro translation system containing isolated microsomes or semi-permeabilized cells. First, the newly synthesized protein of interest is biosynthetically labeled with radioactive amino acids in a short pulse. The labeled protein then is chased with unlabeled amino acids. At different times during the chase, a sample is collected, membranes are lysed with detergent, and the protein is isolated by immunoprecipitation, as described. A support protocol is provided for analysis of disulfide bonds in the immunoprecipitates by SDS-PAGE with and without prior reduction. The difference in mobility observed between the gels with nonreduced and reduced samples is due to disulfide bonds in the nonreduced protein. An additional support protocol is included that uses PEG-maleimide to modify free thiols and follow disulfide-bond formation by SDS-PAGE. © 2017 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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- Ineke Braakman
- Cellular Protein Chemistry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
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- Cellular Protein Chemistry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
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Rutz C, Klein W, Schülein R. N-Terminal Signal Peptides of G Protein-Coupled Receptors. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2015; 132:267-87. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2015.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In mammalian cells, the rough endoplasmic reticulum or ER plays a central role in the biogenesis of most extracellular plus many organellar proteins and in cellular calcium homeostasis. Therefore, this organelle comprises molecular chaperones that are involved in import, folding/assembly, export, and degradation of polypeptides in millimolar concentrations. In addition, there are calcium channels/pumps and signal transduction components present in the ER membrane that affect and are affected by these processes. The ER lumenal Hsp70, termed immunoglobulin-heavy chain binding protein or BiP, is the central player in all these activities and involves up to seven different co-chaperones, i.e. ER-membrane integrated as well as ER-lumenal Hsp40s, which are termed ERj or ERdj, and two nucleotide exchange factors.
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Song Z, Zhao D, Yang L. Metabolism of minor isoforms of prion proteins: Cytosolic prion protein and transmembrane prion protein. Neural Regen Res 2014; 8:2868-78. [PMID: 25206608 PMCID: PMC4146015 DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.30.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 09/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion disease is triggered by the conversion from cellular prion protein to pathogenic prion protein. Growing evidence has concentrated on prion protein configuration changes and their correlation with prion disease transmissibility and pathogenicity. In vivo and in vitro studies have shown that several cytosolic forms of prion protein with specific topological structure can destroy intracellular stability and contribute to prion protein pathogenicity. In this study, the latest molecular chaperone system associated with endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation, the endoplasmic reticulum resident protein quality-control system and the ubiquitination proteasome system, is outlined. The molecular chaperone system directly correlates with the prion protein degradation pathway. Understanding the molecular mechanisms will help provide a fascinating avenue for further investigations on prion disease treatment and prion protein-induced neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Zhiqi Song
- State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Jagannathan S, Hsu JCC, Reid DW, Chen Q, Thompson WJ, Moseley AM, Nicchitta CV. Multifunctional roles for the protein translocation machinery in RNA anchoring to the endoplasmic reticulum. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:25907-24. [PMID: 25063809 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.580688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Signal sequence-encoding mRNAs undergo translation-dependent localization to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and at the ER are anchored via translation on Sec61-bound ribosomes. Recent investigations into the composition and membrane association characteristics of ER-associated mRNAs have, however, revealed both ribosome-dependent (indirect) and ribosome-independent (direct) modes of mRNA association with the ER. These findings raise important questions regarding our understanding of how mRNAs are selected, localized, and anchored to the ER. Using semi-intact tissue culture cells, we performed a polysome solubilization screen and identified conditions that distinguish polysomes engaged in the translation of distinct cohorts of mRNAs. To gain insight into the molecular basis of direct mRNA anchoring to the ER, we performed RNA-protein UV photocross-linking studies in rough microsomes and demonstrate that numerous ER integral membrane proteins display RNA binding activity. Quantitative proteomic analyses of HeLa cytosolic and ER-bound polysome fractions identified translocon components as selective polysome-interacting proteins. Notably, the Sec61 complex was highly enriched in polysomes engaged in the translation of endomembrane organelle proteins, whereas translocon accessory proteins, such as ribophorin I, were present in all subpopulations of ER-associated polysomes. Analyses of the protein composition of oligo(dT)-selected UV photocross-linked ER protein-RNA adducts identified Sec61α,β and ribophorin I as ER-poly(A) mRNA-binding proteins, suggesting unexpected roles for the protein translocation and modification machinery in mRNA anchoring to the ER. In summary, we propose that multiple mechanisms of mRNA and ribosome association with ER operate to enable an mRNA transcriptome-wide function for the ER in protein synthesis.
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- From the Departments of Cell Biology and
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- the Duke Proteomics Core Facility, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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- the Duke Proteomics Core Facility, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Griesemer M, Young C, Robinson AS, Petzold L. BiP clustering facilitates protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum. PLoS Comput Biol 2014; 10:e1003675. [PMID: 24991821 PMCID: PMC4081015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The chaperone BiP participates in several regulatory processes within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER): translocation, protein folding, and ER-associated degradation. To facilitate protein folding, a cooperative mechanism known as entropic pulling has been proposed to demonstrate the molecular-level understanding of how multiple BiP molecules bind to nascent and unfolded proteins. Recently, experimental evidence revealed the spatial heterogeneity of BiP within the nuclear and peripheral ER of S. cerevisiae (commonly referred to as 'clusters'). Here, we developed a model to evaluate the potential advantages of accounting for multiple BiP molecules binding to peptides, while proposing that BiP's spatial heterogeneity may enhance protein folding and maturation. Scenarios were simulated to gauge the effectiveness of binding multiple chaperone molecules to peptides. Using two metrics: folding efficiency and chaperone cost, we determined that the single binding site model achieves a higher efficiency than models characterized by multiple binding sites, in the absence of cooperativity. Due to entropic pulling, however, multiple chaperones perform in concert to facilitate the resolubilization and ultimate yield of folded proteins. As a result of cooperativity, multiple binding site models used fewer BiP molecules and maintained a higher folding efficiency than the single binding site model. These insilico investigations reveal that clusters of BiP molecules bound to unfolded proteins may enhance folding efficiency through cooperative action via entropic pulling.
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- Marc Griesemer
- Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
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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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Haßdenteufel S, Klein MC, Melnyk A, Zimmermann R. Protein transport into the human ER and related diseases, Sec61-channelopathies. Biochem Cell Biol 2014; 92:499-509. [PMID: 24934166 DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2014-0043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Protein transport into the human endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is relevant to the biogenesis of most soluble and membrane proteins of organelles, which are involved in endo- or exo-cytsosis. It involves amino-terminal signal peptides in the precursor polypeptides and various transport components in the cytosol plus the ER, and can occur co- or post-translationally. The two mechanisms merge at the level of the ER membrane, specifically at the level of the heterotrimeric Sec61 complex, which forms a dynamic polypeptide-conducting channel in the ER membrane. Since the mammalian ER is also the main intracellular calcium storage organelle, and the Sec61 complex is calcium permeable, the Sec61 complex is tightly regulated in its equilibrium between the closed and open conformations, or "gated", by ligands, such as signal peptides of the transport substrates and the ER lumenal Hsp70-type molecular chaperone BiP. Furthermore, BiP binding to the incoming polypeptide contributes to the efficiency and unidirectionality of transport. Recent insights into the structure and dynamic equilibrium of the Sec61 complex have various mechanistic as well as medical implications.
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- Sarah Haßdenteufel
- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Building 44, Kirrbergerstr, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
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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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Park E, Ménétret JF, Gumbart JC, Ludtke SJ, Li W, Whynot A, Rapoport TA, Akey CW. Structure of the SecY channel during initiation of protein translocation. Nature 2013; 506:102-6. [PMID: 24153188 PMCID: PMC3948209 DOI: 10.1038/nature12720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 10/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Many secretory proteins are targeted by signal sequences to a protein-conducting channel, formed by prokaryotic SecY- or eukaryotic Sec61-complexes, and are translocated across the membrane during their synthesis1,2. Crystal structures of the inactive channel show that the SecY subunit of the heterotrimeric complex consists of two halves that form an hourglass-shaped pore with a constriction in the middle of the membrane and a lateral gate that faces the lipid phase3-5. The closed channel has an empty cytoplasmic funnel and an extracellular funnel that is filled with a small helical domain, called the plug. During initiation of translocation, a ribosome–nascent chain complex binds to the SecY/Sec61 complex, resulting in insertion of the nascent chain. However, the mechanism of channel opening during translocation is unclear. Here, we have addressed this question by determining structures of inactive and active ribosome–channel complexes with cryo-electron microscopy. Non-translating ribosome–SecY channel complexes derived from Methanococcus jannaschii or Escherichia coli show the channel in its closed state, and indicate that ribosome binding per se causes only minor changes. The structure of an active E. coli ribosome–channel complex demonstrates that the nascent chain opens the channel, causing mostly rigid body movements of the N- and C-terminal halves of SecY. In this early translocation intermediate, the polypeptide inserts as a loop into the SecY channel with the hydrophobic signal sequence intercalated into the open lateral gate. The nascent chain also forms a loop on the cytoplasmic surface of SecY rather than directly entering the channel.
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- Eunyong Park
- Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118-2526, USA
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02118-2526, USA
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Brodsky JL, McCracken AA. ER-associated and proteasomemediated protein degradation: how two topologically restricted events came together. Trends Cell Biol 2012; 7:151-6. [PMID: 17708933 DOI: 10.1016/s0962-8924(97)01020-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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A protein-degradation pathway associated with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) can selectively remove polypeptides from the secretory pathway. The mechanisms of this ER-associated protein degradation were obscure, but recent studies using both yeast and mammalian cells have indicated that substrates for degradation are targeted to the cytosol where proteolysis is catalysed by the proteasome. The degradation process is now known to comprise at least three distinct events: first, recognition of a polypeptide for degradation; second, efflux of this substrate from the ER to the cytosol; and, finally, degradation by the proteasome. This review summarizes recent advances in understanding how each of these steps is achieved.
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Schäuble N, Lang S, Jung M, Cappel S, Schorr S, Ulucan Ö, Linxweiler J, Dudek J, Blum R, Helms V, Paton AW, Paton JC, Cavalié A, Zimmermann R. BiP-mediated closing of the Sec61 channel limits Ca2+ leakage from the ER. EMBO J 2012; 31:3282-96. [PMID: 22796945 PMCID: PMC3411083 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2012.189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2011] [Accepted: 06/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In mammalian cells, signal peptide-dependent protein transport into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is mediated by a dynamic protein-conducting channel, the Sec61 complex. Previous work has characterized the Sec61 channel as a potential ER Ca(2+) leak channel and identified calmodulin as limiting Ca(2+) leakage in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner by binding to an IQ motif in the cytosolic aminoterminus of Sec61α. Here, we manipulated the concentration of the ER lumenal chaperone BiP in cells in different ways and used live cell Ca(2+) imaging to monitor the effects of reduced levels of BiP on ER Ca(2+) leakage. Regardless of how the BiP concentration was lowered, the absence of available BiP led to increased Ca(2+) leakage via the Sec61 complex. When we replaced wild-type Sec61α with mutant Sec61αY344H in the same model cell, however, Ca(2+) leakage from the ER increased and was no longer affected by manipulation of the BiP concentration. Thus, BiP limits ER Ca(2+) leakage through the Sec61 complex by binding to the ER lumenal loop 7 of Sec61α in the vicinity of tyrosine 344.
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- Nico Schäuble
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Neurobiology, Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Computational Biology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Research Centre for Infectious Disease, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Research Centre for Infectious Disease, School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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Lang S, Benedix J, Fedeles SV, Schorr S, Schirra C, Schäuble N, Jalal C, Greiner M, Hassdenteufel S, Tatzelt J, Kreutzer B, Edelmann L, Krause E, Rettig J, Somlo S, Zimmermann R, Dudek J. Different effects of Sec61α, Sec62 and Sec63 depletion on transport of polypeptides into the endoplasmic reticulum of mammalian cells. J Cell Sci 2012; 125:1958-69. [PMID: 22375059 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.096727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Co-translational transport of polypeptides into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) involves the Sec61 channel and additional components such as the ER lumenal Hsp70 BiP and its membrane-resident co-chaperone Sec63p in yeast. We investigated whether silencing the SEC61A1 gene in human cells affects co- and post-translational transport of presecretory proteins into the ER and post-translational membrane integration of tail-anchored proteins. Although silencing the SEC61A1 gene in HeLa cells inhibited co- and post-translational transport of signal-peptide-containing precursor proteins into the ER of semi-permeabilized cells, silencing the SEC61A1 gene did not affect transport of various types of tail-anchored protein. Furthermore, we demonstrated, with a similar knockdown approach, a precursor-specific involvement of mammalian Sec63 in the initial phase of co-translational protein transport into the ER. By contrast, silencing the SEC62 gene inhibited only post-translational transport of a signal-peptide-containing precursor protein.
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- Sven Lang
- Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany
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A calmodulin-dependent translocation pathway for small secretory proteins. Cell 2012; 147:1576-88. [PMID: 22196732 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.11.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2011] [Revised: 09/15/2011] [Accepted: 11/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Metazoans secrete an extensive array of small proteins essential for intercellular communication, defense, and physiologic regulation. Their synthesis takes mere seconds, leaving minimal time for recognition by the machinery for cotranslational protein translocation into the ER. The pathway taken by these substrates to enter the ER is not known. Here, we show that both in vivo and in vitro, small secretory proteins can enter the ER posttranslationally via a transient cytosolic intermediate. This intermediate contained calmodulin selectively bound to the signal peptides of small secretory proteins. Calmodulin maintained the translocation competence of small-protein precursors, precluded their aggregation and degradation, and minimized their inappropriate interactions with other cytosolic polypeptide-binding proteins. Acute inhibition of calmodulin specifically impaired small-protein translocation in vitro and in cells. These findings establish a mammalian posttranslational pathway for small-protein secretion and identify an unexpected role for calmodulin in chaperoning these precursors safely through the cytosol.
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Protein Quality Control, Retention, and Degradation at the Endoplasmic Reticulum. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2011; 292:197-280. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386033-0.00005-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Zimmermann R, Eyrisch S, Ahmad M, Helms V. Protein translocation across the ER membrane. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1808:912-24. [PMID: 20599535 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2010] [Revised: 06/11/2010] [Accepted: 06/14/2010] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the first and decisive step in the biogenesis of most extracellular and many soluble organelle proteins in eukaryotic cells. It is mechanistically related to protein export from eubacteria and archaea and to the integration of newly synthesized membrane proteins into the ER membrane and the plasma membranes of eubacteria and archaea (with the exception of tail anchored membrane proteins). Typically, protein translocation into the ER involves cleavable amino terminal signal peptides in precursor proteins and sophisticated transport machinery components in the cytosol, the ER membrane, and the ER lumen. Depending on the hydrophobicity and/or overall amino acid content of the precursor protein, transport can occur co- or posttranslationally. The respective mechanism determines the requirements for certain cytosolic transport components. The two mechanisms merge at the level of the ER membrane, specifically, at the heterotrimeric Sec61 complex present in the membrane. The Sec61 complex provides a signal peptide recognition site and forms a polypeptide conducting channel. Apparently, the Sec61 complex is gated by various ligands, such as signal peptides of the transport substrates, ribosomes (in cotranslational transport), and the ER lumenal molecular chaperone, BiP. Binding of BiP to the incoming polypeptide contributes to efficiency and unidirectionality of transport. Recent insights into the structure of the Sec61 complex and the comparison of the transport mechanisms and machineries in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the human parasite Trypanosoma brucei, and mammals have various important mechanistic as well as potential medical implications. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Protein translocation across or insertion into membranes.
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- Richard Zimmermann
- Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Saarland University, D-66041 Homburg, Germany.
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Haga Y, Totani K, Ito Y, Suzuki T. Establishment of a real-time analytical method for free oligosaccharide transport from the ER to the cytosol. Glycobiology 2009; 19:987-94. [PMID: 19494346 DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwp075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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During N-glycosylation of proteins, significant amounts of free unconjugated glycans are also generated in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). These ER-derived free glycans are translocated into the cytosol by a putative transporter on the ER membrane for further processing. However, the molecular nature of the transporter remains to be determined. Here, we report the establishment of a novel assay method for free oligosaccharide transport from the ER lumen using chemically synthesized fluorescence-labeled N-glycan derivatives. In this method, fluorescence-labeled glycan substrates were encapsulated inside mouse liver microsomes, followed by incubation with the cytosol and a fluorescence-quenching agent (anti-fluorophore antibody). The rate of substrate efflux was then monitored in real time by the decrease in the fluorescence intensity. The present data clearly demonstrated that the oligosaccharide transport activity under the current assay conditions was both ATP and cytosol dependent. The transporter activity was also found to be glycan structure specific because free glucosylated glycans were unable to be transported out of the microsomes. This new assay method will be a useful tool for identifying the transporter protein on the ER membrane.
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- Yoshimi Haga
- Glycometabolome Team, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Biological processes are regulated to provide cells with exquisite adaptability to changing environmental conditions and cellular demands. The mechanisms regulating secretory and membrane protein translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are unknown. A conceptual framework for translocational regulation is proposed based on our current mechanistic understanding of ER protein translocation and general principles of regulatory control.
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- Ramanujan S Hegde
- Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Klappa P, Freedman RB, Zimmermann R. Protein Disulphide Isomerase and a Lumenal Cyclophilin-Type Peptidyl Prolyl Cis-Trans Isomerase are in Transient Contact with Secretory Proteins During Late Stages of Translocation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.0755a.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Hamanaka R, Shinohara T, Yano S, Nakamura M, Yasuda A, Yokoyama S, Fan JQ, Kawasaki K, Watanabe M, Ishii S. Rescue of mutant α-galactosidase A in the endoplasmic reticulum by 1-deoxygalactonojirimycin leads to trafficking to lysosomes. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2008; 1782:408-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2008.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2007] [Revised: 03/05/2008] [Accepted: 03/05/2008] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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In this unit, protocols are provided for detection of disulfide bond formation in cultures of intact cells and in an in vitro translation system containing isolated microsomes. First, the newly synthesized protein of interest is biosynthetically labeled with radioactive amino acids in a short pulse. The labeled protein is then chased with unlabeled amino acids. At different times during the chase, a sample is collected, membranes are lysed with detergent, and the protein is isolated by immunoprecipitation, as described. A support protocol is provided for analysis of disulfide bonds in the immunoprecipitates by SDS-PAGE with and without prior reduction. The difference in mobility observed between the gels with unreduced and reduced samples is due to disulfide bonds in the unreduced protein.
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- I Braakman
- University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands
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Gilloteaux J, Kashouty R, Yono N. The perinuclear space of pancreatic acinar cells and the synthetic pathway of zymogen in Scorpaena scrofa L.: Ultrastructural aspects. Tissue Cell 2008; 40:7-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tice.2007.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Wahlman J, DeMartino GN, Skach WR, Bulleid NJ, Brodsky JL, Johnson A. Real-time fluorescence detection of ERAD substrate retrotranslocation in a mammalian in vitro system. Cell 2007; 129:943-55. [PMID: 17540174 PMCID: PMC1890003 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.03.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2006] [Revised: 02/19/2007] [Accepted: 03/20/2007] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Secretory proteins unable to assemble into their native states in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are transported back or "retrotranslocated" into the cytosol for ER-associated degradation (ERAD). To examine the roles of different components in ERAD, one fluorescence-labeled ERAD substrate was encapsulated with selected lumenal factors inside mammalian microsomes. After mixing microsomes with fluorescence-quenching agents and selected cytosolic proteins, the rate of substrate efflux was monitored continuously in real time by the decrease in fluorescence intensity as cytosolic quenchers contacted dye-labeled substrates. The retrotranslocation kinetics of nonglycosylated pro-alpha factor were not significantly altered by replacing all lumenal proteins with only protein disulfide isomerase or all cytosolic proteins with only PA700, the 19S regulatory particle of the 26S proteasome. Retrotranslocation was blocked by antibodies against a putative retrotranslocation channel protein, derlin-1, but not Sec61alpha. In addition, pro-alpha factor photocrosslinked derlin-1, but not Sec61alpha. Thus, derlin-1 appears to be involved in pro-alpha factor retrotranslocation.
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- Judit Wahlman
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843-1114, USA
- Corresponding author
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Rutkowski DT, Kang SW, Goodman AG, Garrison JL, Taunton J, Katze MG, Kaufman RJ, Hegde RS. The role of p58IPK in protecting the stressed endoplasmic reticulum. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:3681-91. [PMID: 17567950 PMCID: PMC1951758 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-03-0272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The preemptive quality control (pQC) pathway protects cells from acute endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress by attenuating translocation of nascent proteins despite their targeting to translocons at the ER membrane. Here, we investigate the hypothesis that the DnaJ protein p58(IPK) plays an essential role in this process via HSP70 recruitment to the cytosolic face of translocons for extraction of translocationally attenuated nascent chains. Our analyses revealed that the heightened stress sensitivity of p58-/- cells was not due to an impairment of the pQC pathway or elevated ER substrate burden during acute stress. Instead, the lesion was in the protein processing capacity of the ER lumen, where p58(IPK) was found to normally reside in association with BiP. ER lumenal p58(IPK) could be coimmunoprecipitated with a newly synthesized secretory protein in vitro and stimulated protein maturation upon overexpression in cells. These results identify a previously unanticipated location for p58(IPK) in the ER lumen where its putative function as a cochaperone explains the stress-sensitivity phenotype of knockout cells and mice.
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; and
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- *Howard Hughes Medical Institute and
- Departments of Biological Chemistry and Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0650
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Callan A, Bunning S, Jones O, High S, Swanton E. Biosynthesis of the dystonia-associated AAA+ ATPase torsinA at the endoplasmic reticulum. Biochem J 2007; 401:607-12. [PMID: 17037984 PMCID: PMC1820811 DOI: 10.1042/bj20061313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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TorsinA is a widely expressed AAA(+) (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) ATPase of unknown function. Previous studies have described torsinA as a type II protein with a cleavable signal sequence, a single membrane spanning domain, and its C-terminus located in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) lumen. However, in the present study we show that torsinA is not in fact an integral membrane protein. Instead we find that the mature protein associates peripherally with the ER membrane, most likely through an interaction with an integral membrane protein. Consistent with this model, we provide evidence that the signal peptidase complex cleaves the signal sequence of torsinA, and we show that the region previously suggested to form a transmembrane domain is translocated into the lumen of the ER. The finding that torsinA is a peripheral, and not an integral membrane protein as previously thought, has important implications for understanding the function of this novel ATPase.
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- Anna C. Callan
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, The Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, U.K
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, The Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, U.K
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, The Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, U.K
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, The Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, U.K
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- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, The Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, U.K
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Rassow J, Pfanner N. Molecular chaperones and intracellular protein translocation. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 2006; 126:199-264. [PMID: 7886379 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0049777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- J Rassow
- Biochemisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Dudek J, Greiner M, Müller A, Hendershot LM, Kopsch K, Nastainczyk W, Zimmermann R. ERj1p has a basic role in protein biogenesis at the endoplasmic reticulum. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2006; 12:1008-14. [PMID: 16244664 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2005] [Accepted: 09/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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ERj1p is a membrane protein of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that can recruit the ER lumenal chaperone BiP to translating ribosomes. ERj1p can also modulate protein synthesis at initiation and is predicted to be a membrane-tethered transcription factor. Here we attribute the various functions of ERj1p to distinct regions within its cytosolic domain. A highly positively charged nonapeptide within this domain is necessary and sufficient for binding to ribosomes. Binding of ERj1p to ribosomes involves the 28S ribosomal RNA and occurs at the tunnel exit. Additionally, ERj1p has a dual regulatory role in gene expression: ERj1p inhibits translation in the absence of BiP, and another charged oligopeptide within the cytosolic domain of ERj1p mediates binding of the nuclear import factor importin beta and import into the nucleus, thereby paving the way for subsequent action on genomic DNA.
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- Johanna Dudek
- Medizinische Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
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Yuki H, Hamanaka R, Shinohara T, Sakai K, Watanabe M. A novel approach for N-glycosylation studies using detergent extracted microsomes. Mol Cell Biochem 2005; 278:157-63. [PMID: 16180101 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-7282-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2005] [Accepted: 05/12/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Recently, it has become apparent that asparagine-linked (N-linked) oligosaccharide at an early stage of processing can play an important role in quality control of the secretory pathway. Here, we have developed a system for better understanding of the N-glycosylation machinery and its involvement in quality control in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Rough microsomes (RM) treated with 0.18% Tx-100 (TxRM) preserved translocation activities to a similar extent detected in RM. TxRM were depleted of many soluble proteins including glucosidase II, BiP and Erp72, but maintained approximately 80% of calnexin, a membrane protein. More importantly, TxRM revealed insufficient glycosylation of T cell receptor-alpha (TCR-alpha), suggesting that a factor or factors extracted with 0.18% Tx-100 is responsible for facilitating the transfer of oligosaccharides to the protein. In addition, the top band of TCR-alpha translated in TxRM migrated slower than that in RM, but faster than that in RM treated with castanospermine (CST), an inhibitor of glucosidase I/II. This suggests that the trimming of the inner two glucose sugars is impaired by the loss of glucosidase II. Furthermore, we demonstrated that TCR-alpha coprecipitated with calnexin migrated between unglucosylated and diglucosylated forms on SDS-PAGE. Thus, the treatment of RM with low concentration of detergent is a very powerful method for elucidating not only N-glycosylation processes but also other biological functions such as quality control in the ER.
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- Hideo Yuki
- Department of Anatomy, Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Oita, Japan
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Nicoll WS, Boshoff A, Ludewig MH, Hennessy F, Jung M, Blatch GL. Approaches to the isolation and characterization of molecular chaperones. Protein Expr Purif 2005; 46:1-15. [PMID: 16199180 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2005.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2005] [Revised: 08/02/2005] [Accepted: 08/04/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Molecular chaperones are integral components of the cellular machinery involved in ensuring correct protein folding and the continued maintenance of protein structure. An understanding of these ubiquitous molecules is key to finding cures to protein misfolding diseases such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jacob diseases. In addition, further understanding of chaperones will enhance our comprehension of the way the body copes with the environmental stresses that humans encounter daily. Our laboratory and our collaborators specialize in the production and characterization of chaperones from a wide variety of sources in order to gain a fuller understanding of how chaperones function in the cell. In this review, we primarily use the Hsp70/Hsp40 chaperone pair as an example to discuss recent advances in technology and reductions in cost that lend themselves to chaperone purification from both native and recombinant sources. Common assays to assess purified chaperone activity are also discussed.
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- William S Nicoll
- Chaperone Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Deprez P, Gautschi M, Helenius A. More Than One Glycan Is Needed for ER Glucosidase II to Allow Entry of Glycoproteins into the Calnexin/Calreticulin Cycle. Mol Cell 2005; 19:183-95. [PMID: 16039588 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.05.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2005] [Revised: 05/04/2005] [Accepted: 05/27/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nascent and newly synthesized glycoproteins enter the calnexin (Cnx)/calreticulin (Crt) cycle when two out of three glucoses in the core N-linked glycans have been trimmed sequentially by endoplasmic reticulum (ER) glucosidases I (GI) and II (GII). By analyzing arrested glycopeptides in microsomes, we found that GI removed the outermost glucose immediately after glycan addition. However, although GII associated with singly glycosylated nascent chains, trimming of the second glucose only occurred efficiently when a second glycan was present in the chain. Consistent with a requirement for multiple glycans to activate GII, pancreatic RNase in live cells needed more than one glycan to enter the Cnx/Crt cycle. Thus, whereas GI trimming occurs as an automatic extension of glycosylation, trimming by GII is a regulated process. By adjusting the number and location of glycans, glycoproteins can instruct the cell to engage them in an individually determined folding and quality control pathway.
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- Paola Deprez
- Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
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Alder NN, Shen Y, Brodsky JL, Hendershot LM, Johnson AE. The molecular mechanisms underlying BiP-mediated gating of the Sec61 translocon of the endoplasmic reticulum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 168:389-99. [PMID: 15684029 PMCID: PMC2171714 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200409174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Sec61 translocon of the endoplasmic reticulum membrane forms an aqueous pore that is gated by the lumenal Hsp70 chaperone BiP. We have explored the molecular mechanisms governing BiP-mediated gating activity, including the coupling between gating and the BiP ATPase cycle, and the involvement of the substrate-binding and J domain–binding regions of BiP. Translocon gating was assayed by measuring the collisional quenching of fluorescent probes incorporated into nascent chains of translocation intermediates engaged with microsomes containing various BiP mutants and BiP substrate. Our results indicate that BiP must assume the ADP-bound conformation to seal the translocon, and that the reopening of the pore requires an ATP binding–induced conformational change. Further, pore closure requires functional interactions between both the substrate-binding region and the J domain–binding region of BiP and membrane proteins. The mechanism by which BiP mediates translocon pore closure and opening is therefore similar to that in which Hsp70 chaperones associate with and dissociate from substrates.
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- Nathan N Alder
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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. JT, . ML, . WN, . RZ. Calumenin and Reticulocalbin are Associated with the Protein Translocase of the Mammalian Endoplasmic Reticulum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.3923/jbs.2005.70.75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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High S, Stirling CJ. Protein translocation across membranes: common themes in divergent organisms. Trends Cell Biol 2004; 3:335-9. [PMID: 14731902 DOI: 10.1016/0962-8924(93)90103-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Specific signal sequences are required for the translocation of proteins into and across both the endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotes and the plasma membrane of prokaryotes. The similar properties of these signals, together with their ability to function when transferred between systems, suggested that the mechanisms of translocation in the two cases may be fundamentally similar. Indeed, recent findings have revealed striking similarities between essential components of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic translocation systems, suggesting that both are derived from a common ancestor.
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- S High
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK M13 9PT
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Wirth A, Jung M, Bies C, Frien M, Tyedmers J, Zimmermann R, Wagner R. The Sec61p complex is a dynamic precursor activated channel. Mol Cell 2003; 12:261-8. [PMID: 12887911 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(03)00283-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Previous studies have shown that the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contains nascent precursor polypeptide gated channels. Circumstantial evidence suggests that these channels are formed by the Sec61p complex. We reconstituted the purified Sec61p complex in a lipid bilayer and characterized its dynamics and regulation. The Sec61p complex is sufficient to form the precursor polypeptide activated channel under co- and posttranslational transport conditions. Activity of the Sec61p channel in both transport modes is induced by direct interaction with precursor protein. The Sec61p complex comprises a highly dynamic pore covering conductances corresponding to channel openings from approximately 6 to 60 A. Its properties are indistinguishable from those we observed with native ER channels, directly demonstrating that these channels are formed by the Sec61p complex.
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- Andreas Wirth
- Biophysik, Universität Osnabrück, FB Biologie/Chemie, D-49034 Osnabrück, Germany
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Tyedmers J, Lerner M, Wiedmann M, Volkmer J, Zimmermann R. Polypeptide-binding proteins mediate completion of co-translational protein translocation into the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum. EMBO Rep 2003; 4:505-10. [PMID: 12704426 PMCID: PMC1319181 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2003] [Revised: 03/10/2003] [Accepted: 03/13/2003] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The first step in the secretion of most mammalian proteins is their transport into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Transport of pre-secretory proteins into the mammalian ER requires signal peptides in the precursor proteins and a protein translocase in the ER membrane. In addition, hitherto unidentified lumenal ER proteins have been shown to be required for vectorial protein translocation. This requirement was confirmed in this study by using proteoliposomes that were made from microsomal detergent extracts and contained either low or high concentrations of lumenal ER proteins. Furthermore, immunoglobulin-heavy-chain-binding protein (BiP) was shown to be able to substitute for the full set of lumenal proteins and, in the case of biotinylated precursor proteins, avidin was found to be able to substitute for lumenal proteins. Thus, the polypeptide-chain-binding protein BiP was identified as one lumenal protein that is involved in efficient vectorial protein translocation into the mammalian ER.
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- Jens Tyedmers
- Medizinische Biochemie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
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- Medizinische Biochemie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
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- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA
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- Medizinische Biochemie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
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- Medizinische Biochemie, Universität des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg, Germany
- Tel: +49 6841 1626510; fax: +49 6841 1626288;
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Kanner EM, Friedlander M, Simon SM. Co-translational targeting and translocation of the amino terminus of opsin across the endoplasmic membrane requires GTP but not ATP. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:7920-6. [PMID: 12486130 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m207462200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The tight coupling between ongoing translation and translocation across the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum has made it difficult to determine the requirements that are specific for translocation. We have developed an in vitro assay that faithfully mimics the co-translational targeting and translocation of the amino terminus of opsin without ongoing translation. Using this system we demonstrate that this post-translational targeting and translocation requires nucleotide triphosphates but not cytosolic proteins. The addition of GTP alone was sufficient to fully restore targeting. The addition of ATP was not specifically required, and non-hydrolyzable analogs of ATP that blocked 90% of the ATPase activity also had no inhibitory effect on translocation.
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- Elliott M Kanner
- Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Fayadat L, Kopito RR. Recognition of a single transmembrane degron by sequential quality control checkpoints. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:1268-78. [PMID: 12631739 PMCID: PMC151595 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-06-0363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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To understand the relationship between conformational maturation and quality control-mediated proteolysis in the secretory pathway, we engineered the well-characterized degron from the alpha-subunit of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCRalpha) into the alpha-helical transmembrane domain of homotrimeric type I integral membrane protein, influenza hemagglutinin (HA). Although the membrane degron does not appear to interfere with acquisition of native secondary structure, as assessed by the formation of native intrachain disulfide bonds, only approximately 50% of nascent mutant HA chains (HA(++)) become membrane-integrated and acquire complex N-linked glycans indicative of transit to a post-ER compartment. The remaining approximately 50% of nascent HA(++) chains fail to integrate into the lipid bilayer and are subject to proteasome-dependent degradation. Site-specific cleavage by extracellular trypsin and reactivity with conformation-specific monoclonal antibodies indicate that membrane-integrated HA(++) molecules are able to mature to the plasma membrane with a conformation indistinguishable from that of HA(wt). These apparently native HA(++) molecules are, nevertheless, rapidly degraded by a process that is insensitive to proteasome inhibitors but blocked by lysosomotropic amines. These data suggest the existence in the secretory pathway of at least two sequential quality control checkpoints that recognize the same transmembrane degron, thereby ensuring the fidelity of protein deployment to the plasma membrane.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Cell Line
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Cysteine Endopeptidases/metabolism
- Disulfides/chemistry
- Exocytosis/physiology
- Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/chemistry
- Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus/metabolism
- Humans
- Lysosomes/metabolism
- Membrane Proteins/chemistry
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism
- Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
- Protein Folding
- Protein Structure, Quaternary
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism
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- Laurence Fayadat
- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305-5020, USA
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Boisramé A, Chasles M, Babour A, Beckerich JM, Gaillardin C. Sbh1p, a subunit of the Sec61 translocon, interacts with the chaperone calnexin in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. J Cell Sci 2002; 115:4947-56. [PMID: 12432081 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The core component of the translocation apparatus, Sec61p or alpha, was previously cloned in Yarrowia lipolytica. Using anti-Sec61p antibodies, we showed that most of the translocation sites are devoted to co-translational translocation in this yeast, which is similar to the situation in mammalian cells but in contrast to the situation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where post-translational translocation is predominant. In order to characterize further the minimal translocation apparatus in Y. lipolytica, the beta Sec61 complex subunit, Sbh1p, was cloned by functional complementation of a Deltasbh1, Deltasbh2 S. cerevisiae mutant. The secretion of the reporter protein is not impaired in the Y. lipolytica sbh1 inactivated strain. We screened the Y. lipolytica two-hybrid library to look for partners of this translocon component. The ER-membrane chaperone protein, calnexin, was identified as an interacting protein. By a co-immunoprecipitation approach, we confirmed this association in Yarrowia and then showed that the S. cerevisiae Sbh2p protein was a functional homologue of YlSbh1p. The interaction of Sbh1p with calnexin was shown to occur between the lumenal domain of both proteins. These results suggest that the beta subunit of the Sec61 translocon may relay folding of nascent proteins to their translocation.
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- Anita Boisramé
- Laboratoire de Génétique moléculaire et cellulaire, INRA, CNRS, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.
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Meacock SL, Lecomte FJL, Crawshaw SG, High S. Different transmembrane domains associate with distinct endoplasmic reticulum components during membrane integration of a polytopic protein. Mol Biol Cell 2002; 13:4114-29. [PMID: 12475939 PMCID: PMC138620 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-04-0198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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We have been studying the insertion of the seven transmembrane domain (TM) protein opsin to gain insights into how the multiple TMs of polytopic proteins are integrated at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We find that the ER components associated with the first and second TMs of the nascent opsin polypeptide chain are clearly distinct. The first TM (TM1) is adjacent to the alpha and beta subunits of the Sec61 complex, and a novel component, a protein associated with the ER translocon of 10 kDa (PAT-10). The most striking characteristic of PAT-10 is that it remains adjacent to TM1 throughout the biogenesis and membrane integration of the full-length opsin polypeptide. TM2 is also found to be adjacent to Sec61alpha and Sec61beta during its membrane integration. However, TM2 does not form any adducts with PAT-10; rather, a transient association with the TRAM protein is observed. We show that the association of PAT-10 with opsin TM1 does not require the N-glycosylation of the nascent chain and occurs irrespective of the amino acid sequence and transmembrane topology of TM1. We conclude that the precise makeup of the ER membrane insertion site can be distinct for the different transmembrane domains of a polytopic protein. We find that the environment of a particular TM can be influenced by both the "stage" of nascent chain biosynthesis reached, and the TM's relative location within the polypeptide.
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- Suzanna L Meacock
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT United Kingdom
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Nicchitta CV. A platform for compartmentalized protein synthesis: protein translation and translocation in the ER. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2002; 14:412-6. [PMID: 12383790 DOI: 10.1016/s0955-0674(02)00353-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Recent advances in the study of protein translocation across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum include insights into the mechanism of signal-sequence function. Biochemical and genetic studies have provided further evidence that lumenal proteins perform direct roles in secretory protein translocation and in the regulation of protein-conducting-channel permeability during membrane protein integration. A hypothesis identifying the endoplasmic reticulum as a site of mRNA localization and compartmentalized protein synthesis has been suggested.
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Haigh NG, Johnson AE. A new role for BiP: closing the aqueous translocon pore during protein integration into the ER membrane. J Cell Biol 2002; 156:261-70. [PMID: 11807091 PMCID: PMC2199230 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200110074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In mammalian cells, most membrane proteins are inserted cotranslationally into the ER membrane at sites termed translocons. Although each translocon forms an aqueous pore, the permeability barrier of the membrane is maintained during integration, even when the otherwise tight ribosome-translocon seal is opened to allow the cytoplasmic domain of a nascent protein to enter the cytosol. To identify the mechanism by which membrane integrity is preserved, nascent chain exposure to each side of the membrane was determined at different stages of integration by collisional quenching of a fluorescent probe in the nascent chain. Comparing integration intermediates prepared with intact, empty, or BiP-loaded microsomes revealed that the lumenal end of the translocon pore is closed by BiP in an ATP-dependent process before the opening of the cytoplasmic ribosome-translocon seal during integration. This BiP function is distinct from its previously identified role in closing ribosome-free, empty translocons because of the presence of the ribosome at the translocon and the nascent membrane protein that extends through the translocon pore and into the lumen during integration. Therefore, BiP is a key component in a sophisticated mechanism that selectively closes the lumenal end of some, but not all, translocons occupied by a nascent chain. By using collisional quenchers of different sizes, the large internal diameter of the ribosome-bound aqueous translocon pore was found to contract when BiP was required to seal the pore during integration. Therefore, closure of the pore involves substantial conformational changes in the translocon that are coupled to a complex sequence of structural rearrangements on both sides of the ER membrane involving the ribosome and BiP.
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- Nora G Haigh
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843-1114, USA
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Fewell SW, Travers KJ, Weissman JS, Brodsky JL. The action of molecular chaperones in the early secretory pathway. Annu Rev Genet 2002; 35:149-91. [PMID: 11700281 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.35.102401.090313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) serves as a way-station during the biogenesis of nearly all secreted proteins, and associated with or housed within the ER are factors required to catalyze their import into the ER and facilitate their folding. To ensure that only properly folded proteins are secreted and to temper the effects of cellular stress, the ER can target aberrant proteins for degradation and/or adapt to the accumulation of misfolded proteins. Molecular chaperones play critical roles in each of these phenomena.
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- S W Fewell
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Lin J, Liang Z, Zhang Z, Li G. Membrane topography and topogenesis of prenylated Rab acceptor (PRA1). J Biol Chem 2001; 276:41733-41. [PMID: 11535589 PMCID: PMC1350924 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m103475200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mouse prenylated Rab acceptor (mPRA1) is associated with the Golgi membrane at steady state and interacts with Rab proteins. It contains two internal hydrophobic domains (34 residues each) that have enough residues to form four transmembrane (TM) segments. In this study, we have determined the membrane topography of mPRA1 in both intact cells and isolated microsomes. The putative TM segments of mPRA1 were used to substitute for a known TM segment of a model membrane protein to determine whether the mPRA1 segments integrate into the membrane. Furthermore, N-linked glycosylation scanning methods were used to distinguish luminal domains from cytoplasmic domains of mPRA1. The data demonstrate that mPRA1 is a polytopic membrane protein containing four TM segments. These TM segments act cooperatively during the translocation and integration at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. All hydrophilic domains are in the cytoplasm, including the N-terminal domain, the linker domain between the two hydrophobic domains, and the C-terminal domain. As a result, the bulk of mPRA1 is located in the cytoplasm, supporting its postulated role in regulating Rab membrane targeting and intracellular trafficking.
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- Jialing Lin
- ‡ To whom correspondence may be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 940 S. L. Young Blvd., BMSB 853, Oklahoma City, OK 73104. G. L.: Tel.: 405-271-2227 (ext. 1232); Fax: 405-271-3139; E-mail:; J.L.: Tel.: 405-271-2227 (ext. 1216); Fax: 405-271-3139; E-mail:
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- ‡ To whom correspondence may be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 940 S. L. Young Blvd., BMSB 853, Oklahoma City, OK 73104. G. L.: Tel.: 405-271-2227 (ext. 1232); Fax: 405-271-3139; E-mail:; J.L.: Tel.: 405-271-2227 (ext. 1216); Fax: 405-271-3139; E-mail:
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Our understanding of eukaryotic protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum has increased enormously over the last 5 years. In this review, we summarize some of the major research themes that have captivated researchers in this field during the last years of the 20th century. We follow the path of a typical protein as it emerges from the ribosome and enters the reticular environment. While many of these events are shared between different polypeptide chains, we highlight some of the numerous differences between proteins, between cell types, and between the chaperones utilized by different ER glycoproteins. Finally, we consider the likely advances in this field as the new century unfolds and we address the prospect of a unified understanding of how protein folding, degradation, and translation are coordinated within a cell.
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- A M Benham
- Department of Bio-Organic Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Dettenhofer M, Yu XF. Characterization of the biosynthesis of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Env from infected T-cells and the effects of glucose trimming of Env on virion infectivity. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:5985-91. [PMID: 11054427 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008933200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)-1 Env is displayed on the surface of infected cells and subsequently incorporated into virions, which is necessary for the initiation of a viral infection by recognition of the CD4 and the chemokine receptors (such as CCR5 or CXCR4) on the surface of new target cells. As a type 1 integral membrane glycoprotein, Env is cotranslationally translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum. In this report, we characterized the synthesis of Env, which did not occur at a constant rate but by translational/translocational pausing that has not previously been shown with a viral encoded glycoprotein. Overall translation was not impeded by the presence of the reducing agent dithiothreitol in vivo, although this did influence the cleavage of the precursor gp160 into its mature form, gp120. Env interacts transiently with resident components of the endoplasmic reticulum such as calnexin, which had maximal association at a 10-min post-translation. Addition of the glucosidase inhibitor, castanospermine, failed to significantly influence the association of Env with calnexin, consistent with the notion that calnexin recognizes components other than alpha-terminal glucose. Moreover, castanospermine treatment failed to affect the infectivity of virions. Taken together, this report demonstrates the existence of translational/translocational pausing for a viral glycoprotein and suggests that trimming of glucose from HIV-1 Env is not essential for the initiation of virus infection.
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- M Dettenhofer
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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