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Bulangalire N, Claeyssen C, Agbulut O, Cieniewski-Bernard C. Impact of MG132 induced-proteotoxic stress on αB-crystallin and desmin phosphorylation and O-GlcNAcylation and their partition towards cytoskeleton. Biochimie 2024:S0300-9084(24)00079-8. [PMID: 38636798 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2024.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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Small Heat Shock Proteins are considered as the first line of defense when proteostasis fails. Among them, αB-crystallin is expressed in striated muscles in which it interacts with desmin intermediate filaments to stabilize them, maintaining cytoskeleton's integrity and muscular functionalities. Desmin is a key actor for muscle health; its targeting by αB-crystallin is thus crucial, especially in stress conditions. αB-crystallin is phosphorylated and O-GlcNAcylated. Its phosphorylation increases consecutively to various stresses, correlated with its recruitment for cytoskeleton's safeguarding. However, phosphorylation as unique signal for cytoskeleton translocation remains controversial; indeed, O-GlcNAcylation was also proposed to be involved. Thus, there are still some gaps for a deeper comprehension of how αB-crystallin functions are finely regulated by post-translational modifications. Furthermore, desmin also bears both post-translational modifications; while desmin phosphorylation is closely linked to desmin intermediates filaments turnover, it is unclear whereas its O-GlcNAcylation could impact its proper function. In the herein paper, we aim at identifying whether phosphorylation and/or O-GlcNAcylation are involved in αB-crystallin targeting towards cytoskeleton in proteotoxic stress induced by proteasome inhibition in C2C12 myotubes. We demonstrated that proteotoxicity led to αB-crystallin's phosphorylation and O-GlcNAcylation patterns changes, both presenting a dynamic interplay depending on protein subfraction. Importantly, both post-translational modifications showed a spatio-temporal variation correlated with αB-crystallin translocation towards cytoskeleton. In contrast, we did not detect any change of desmin phosphorylation and O-GlcNAcylation. All together, these data strongly support that αB-crystallin phosphorylation/O-GlcNAcylation interplay rather than changes on desmin is a key regulator for its cytoskeleton translocation, preserving it towards stress.
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- Nathan Bulangalire
- Univ. Lille, Univ. Artois, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000, Lille, France; CHU Lille, Université de Lille, F-59000, Lille, France; Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, Inserm ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, 75005, Paris, France
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- Univ. Lille, Univ. Artois, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, Inserm ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, 75005, Paris, France
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- Univ. Lille, Univ. Artois, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000, Lille, France.
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Claeyssen C, Bulangalire N, Bastide B, Agbulut O, Cieniewski-Bernard C. Desmin and its molecular chaperone, the αB-crystallin: How post-translational modifications modulate their functions in heart and skeletal muscles? Biochimie 2024; 216:137-159. [PMID: 37827485 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2023.10.002] [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] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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Maintenance of the highly organized striated muscle tissue requires a cell-wide dynamic network through protein-protein interactions providing an effective mechanochemical integrator of morphology and function. Through a continuous and complex trans-cytoplasmic network, desmin intermediate filaments ensure this essential role in heart and in skeletal muscle. Besides their role in the maintenance of cell shape and architecture (permitting contractile activity efficiency and conferring resistance towards mechanical stress), desmin intermediate filaments are also key actors of cell and tissue homeostasis. Desmin participates to several cellular processes such as differentiation, apoptosis, intracellular signalisation, mechanotransduction, vesicle trafficking, organelle biogenesis and/or positioning, calcium homeostasis, protein homeostasis, cell adhesion, metabolism and gene expression. Desmin intermediate filaments assembly requires αB-crystallin, a small heat shock protein. Over its chaperone activity, αB-crystallin is involved in several cellular functions such as cell integrity, cytoskeleton stabilization, apoptosis, autophagy, differentiation, mitochondria function or aggresome formation. Importantly, both proteins are known to be strongly associated to the aetiology of several cardiac and skeletal muscles pathologies related to desmin filaments disorganization and a strong disturbance of desmin interactome. Note that these key proteins of cytoskeleton architecture are extensively modified by post-translational modifications that could affect their functional properties. Therefore, we reviewed in the herein paper the impact of post-translational modifications on the modulation of cellular functions of desmin and its molecular chaperone, the αB-crystallin.
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- Charlotte Claeyssen
- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France
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- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France; Université de Lille, CHU Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, Inserm ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, 75005, Paris, France
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- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France.
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Effects of Molecular Crowding and Betaine on HSPB5 Interactions, with Target Proteins Differing in the Quaternary Structure and Aggregation Mechanism. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232315392. [PMID: 36499725 PMCID: PMC9737104 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232315392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The aggregation of intracellular proteins may be enhanced under stress. The expression of heat-shock proteins (HSPs) and the accumulation of osmolytes are among the cellular protective mechanisms in these conditions. In addition, one should remember that the cell environment is highly crowded. The antiaggregation activity of HSPB5 and the effect on it of either a crowding agent (polyethylene glycol (PEG)) or an osmolyte (betaine), or their mixture, were tested on the aggregation of two target proteins that differ in the order of aggregation with respect to the protein: thermal aggregation of glutamate dehydrogenase and DTT-induced aggregation of lysozyme. The kinetic analysis of the dynamic light-scattering data indicates that crowding can decrease the chaperone-like activity of HSPB5. Nonetheless, the analytical ultracentrifugation shows the protective effect of HSPB5, which retains protein aggregates in a soluble state. Overall, various additives may either improve or impair the antiaggregation activity of HSPB5 against different protein targets. The mixed crowding arising from the presence of PEG and 1 M betaine demonstrates an extraordinary effect on the oligomeric state of protein aggregates. The shift in the equilibrium of HSPB5 dynamic ensembles allows for the regulation of its antiaggregation activity. Crowding can modulate HSPB5 activity by affecting protein-protein interactions.
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Chebotareva NA, Roman SG, Borzova VA, Eronina TB, Mikhaylova VV, Kurganov BI. Chaperone-Like Activity of HSPB5: The Effects of Quaternary Structure Dynamics and Crowding. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21144940. [PMID: 32668633 PMCID: PMC7404038 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21144940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 07/04/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs) are ATP-independent molecular chaperones that interact with partially unfolded proteins, preventing their aberrant aggregation, thereby exhibiting a chaperone-like activity. Dynamics of the quaternary structure plays an important role in the chaperone-like activity of sHSPs. However, relationship between the dynamic structure of sHSPs and their chaperone-like activity remains insufficiently characterized. Many factors (temperature, ions, a target protein, crowding etc.) affect the structure and activity of sHSPs. The least studied is an effect of crowding on sHSPs activity. In this work the chaperone-like activity of HSPB5 was quantitatively characterized by dynamic light scattering using two test systems, namely test systems based on heat-induced aggregation of muscle glycogen phosphorylase b (Phb) at 48 °C and dithiothreitol-induced aggregation of α-lactalbumin at 37 °C. Analytical ultracentrifugation was used to control the oligomeric state of HSPB5 and target proteins. The possible anti-aggregation functioning of suboligomeric forms of HSPB5 is discussed. The effect of crowding on HSPB5 anti-aggregation activity was characterized using Phb as a target protein. The duration of the nucleation stage was shown to decrease with simultaneous increase in the relative rate of aggregation of Phb in the presence of HSPB5 under crowded conditions. Crowding may subtly modulate sHSPs activity.
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Garvey M, Ecroyd H, Ray NJ, Gerrard JA, Carver JA. Functional Amyloid Protection in the Eye Lens: Retention of α-Crystallin Molecular Chaperone Activity after Modification into Amyloid Fibrils. Biomolecules 2017; 7:biom7030067. [PMID: 28895938 PMCID: PMC5618248 DOI: 10.3390/biom7030067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2017] [Revised: 08/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Amyloid fibril formation occurs from a wide range of peptides and proteins and is typically associated with a loss of protein function and/or a gain of toxic function, as the native structure of the protein undergoes major alteration to form a cross β-sheet array. It is now well recognised that some amyloid fibrils have a biological function, which has led to increased interest in the potential that these so-called functional amyloids may either retain the function of the native protein, or gain function upon adopting a fibrillar structure. Herein, we investigate the molecular chaperone ability of α-crystallin, the predominant eye lens protein which is composed of two related subunits αA- and αB-crystallin, and its capacity to retain and even enhance its chaperone activity after forming aggregate structures under conditions of thermal and chemical stress. We demonstrate that both eye lens α-crystallin and αB-crystallin (which is also found extensively outside the lens) retain, to a significant degree, their molecular chaperone activity under conditions of structural change, including after formation into amyloid fibrils and amorphous aggregates. The results can be related directly to the effects of aging on the structure and chaperone function of α-crystallin in the eye lens, particularly its ability to prevent crystallin protein aggregation and hence lens opacification associated with cataract formation.
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- Megan Garvey
- CSL Limited, 45 Poplar Road, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia.
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- School of Biological Sciences and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia.
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- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601, Australia.
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- School of Biological Science and School of Chemical Science, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.
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- Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601, Australia.
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Chebotareva NA, Eronina TB, Sluchanko NN, Kurganov BI. Effect of Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions on oligomeric state and chaperone-like activity of αB-crystallin in crowded media. Int J Biol Macromol 2015; 76:86-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2015.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Revised: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Elliott JL, Der Perng M, Prescott AR, Jansen KA, Koenderink GH, Quinlan RA. The specificity of the interaction between αB-crystallin and desmin filaments and its impact on filament aggregation and cell viability. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2013; 368:20120375. [PMID: 23530264 PMCID: PMC3638400 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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CRYAB (αB-crystallin) is expressed in many tissues and yet the R120G mutation in CRYAB causes tissue-specific pathologies, namely cardiomyopathy and cataract. Here, we present evidence to demonstrate that there is a specific functional interaction of CRYAB with desmin intermediate filaments that predisposes myocytes to disease caused by the R120G mutation. We use a variety of biochemical and biophysical techniques to show that plant, animal and ascidian small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs) can interact with intermediate filaments. Nevertheless, the mutation R120G in CRYAB does specifically change that interaction when compared with equivalent substitutions in HSP27 (R140G) and into the Caenorhabditis elegans HSP16.2 (R95G). By transient transfection, we show that R120G CRYAB specifically promotes intermediate filament aggregation in MCF7 cells. The transient transfection of R120G CRYAB alone has no significant effect upon cell viability, although bundling of the endogenous intermediate filament network occurs and the mitochondria are concentrated into the perinuclear region. The combination of R120G CRYAB co-transfected with wild-type desmin, however, causes a significant reduction in cell viability. Therefore, we suggest that while there is an innate ability of sHSPs to interact with and to bind to intermediate filaments, it is the specific combination of desmin and CRYAB that compromises cell viability and this is potentially the key to the muscle pathology caused by the R120G CRYAB.
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- Jayne L Elliott
- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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Basha E, Jones C, Blackwell AE, Cheng G, Waters ER, Samsel KA, Siddique M, Pett V, Wysocki V, Vierling E. An unusual dimeric small heat shock protein provides insight into the mechanism of this class of chaperones. J Mol Biol 2013; 425:1683-96. [PMID: 23416558 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2012] [Revised: 02/07/2013] [Accepted: 02/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are virtually ubiquitous stress proteins that are also found in many normal tissues and accumulate in diseases of protein folding. They generally act as ATP-independent chaperones to bind and stabilize denaturing proteins that can be later reactivated by ATP-dependent Hsp70/DnaK, but the mechanism of substrate capture by sHSPs remains poorly understood. A majority of sHSPs form large oligomers, a property that has been linked to their effective chaperone action. We describe AtHsp18.5 from Arabidopsis thaliana, demonstrating that it is dimeric and exhibits robust chaperone activity, which adds support to the model that suboligomeric sHSP forms are a substrate binding species. Notably, like oligomeric sHSPs, when bound to substrate, AtHsp18.5 assembles into large complexes, indicating that reformation of sHSP oligomeric contacts is not required for assembly of sHSP-substrate complexes. Monomers of AtHsp18.5 freely exchange between dimers but fail to coassemble in vitro with dodecameric plant cytosolic sHSPs, suggesting that AtHsp18.5 does not interact by coassembly with these other sHSPs in vivo. Data from controlled proteolysis and hydrogen-deuterium exchange coupled with mass spectrometry show that the N- and C-termini of AtHsp18.5 are highly accessible and lack stable secondary structure, most likely a requirement for substrate interaction. Chaperone activity of a series of AtHsp18.5 truncation mutants confirms that the N-terminal arm is required for substrate protection and that different substrates interact differently with the N-terminal arm. In total, these data imply that the core α-crystallin domain of the sHSPs is a platform for flexible arms that capture substrates to maintain their solubility.
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- Eman Basha
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Mainz A, Bardiaux B, Kuppler F, Multhaup G, Felli IC, Pierattelli R, Reif B. Structural and mechanistic implications of metal binding in the small heat-shock protein αB-crystallin. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:1128-38. [PMID: 22090033 PMCID: PMC3256888 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.309047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2011] [Revised: 11/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The human small heat-shock protein αB-crystallin (αB) rescues misfolded proteins from irreversible aggregation during cellular stress. Binding of Cu(II) was shown to modulate the oligomeric architecture and the chaperone activity of αB. However, the mechanistic basis of this stimulation is so far not understood. We provide here first structural insights into this Cu(II)-mediated modulation of chaperone function using NMR spectroscopy and other biophysical approaches. We show that the α-crystallin domain is the elementary Cu(II)-binding unit specifically coordinating one Cu(II) ion with picomolar binding affinity. Putative Cu(II) ligands are His(83), His(104), His(111), and Asp(109) at the dimer interface. These loop residues are conserved among different metazoans, but also for human αA-crystallin, HSP20, and HSP27. The involvement of Asp(109) has direct implications for dimer stability, because this residue forms a salt bridge with the disease-related Arg(120) of the neighboring monomer. Furthermore, we observe structural reorganization of strands β2-β3 triggered by Cu(II) binding. This N-terminal region is known to mediate both the intermolecular arrangement in αB oligomers and the binding of client proteins. In the presence of Cu(II), the size and the heterogeneity of αB multimers are increased. At the same time, Cu(II) increases the chaperone activity of αB toward the lens-specific protein β(L)-crystallin. We therefore suggest that Cu(II) binding unblocks potential client binding sites and alters quaternary dynamics of both the dimeric building block as well as the higher order assemblies of αB.
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- Andi Mainz
- From the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, Berlin-Buch 13125, Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
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- From the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, Berlin-Buch 13125, Germany
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- the Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Thielallee 63, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- the Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Thielallee 63, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- the Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi 6, Sesto Fiorentino 50019, Italy, and
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- the Magnetic Resonance Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Via L. Sacconi 6, Sesto Fiorentino 50019, Italy, and
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- From the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, Berlin-Buch 13125, Germany
- Helmholtz-Zentrum München, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Ingolstädter Landstrasse 1, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
- the Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich, Department of Chemie, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstrasse 4, Garching 85747, Germany
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Roman SG, Chebotareva NA, Eronina TB, Kleymenov SY, Makeeva VF, Poliansky NB, Muranov KO, Kurganov BI. Does the Crowded Cell-like Environment Reduce the Chaperone-like Activity of α-Crystallin? Biochemistry 2011; 50:10607-23. [DOI: 10.1021/bi201030y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Svetlana G. Roman
- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
- Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119992, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
- Kol’tsov Institute of Developmental
Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilova
st. 26, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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- Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin st. 4, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin st. 4, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
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Ruan Q, Han S, Jiang WG, Boulton ME, Chen ZJ, Law BK, Cai J. αB-crystallin, an effector of unfolded protein response, confers anti-VEGF resistance to breast cancer via maintenance of intracrine VEGF in endothelial cells. Mol Cancer Res 2011; 9:1632-43. [PMID: 21984182 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-11-0327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Effective inhibition of angiogenesis targeting the tumor endothelial cells requires identification of key cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with survival of vasculatures within the tumor microenvironment. Intracellular autocrine (intracrine) VEGF production by endothelial cells plays a critical role on the vasculature homeostasis. In vitro breast cancer cell-stimulated activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) of the endothelial cells contributes to maintenance of the intracrine VEGF levels in the endothelial cells through the upregulation of a previous undescribed downstream effector- αB-crystallin (CRYAB). siRNA-mediated knockdown of two major UPR proteins-inositol requiring kinase 1 and ATF6, led to attenuated CRYAB expression of the endothelial cells. Finally, inhibition of CRYAB blocked the breast cancer cell-stimulated increase in the endogenous VEGF levels of the endothelial cells. A VEGF limited proteolysis assay further revealed that CRYAB protected VEGF for proteolytic degradation. Here, we report that the molecular chaperone-CRYAB was significantly increased and colocalized with tumor vessels in a breast cancer xenograft. Specifically, neutralization of VEGF induced higher levels of CRYAB expression in the endothelial cells cocultured with MDA-MB-231 or the breast cancer xenograft with a significant survival benefit. However, knockdown of CRYAB had a greater inhibitory effect on endothelial survival. These findings underscore the importance of defining a role for intracrine VEGF signaling in sustaining aberrant tumor angiogenesis and strongly implicate UPR/CRYAB as dichotomous parts of a crucial regulation pathway for maintaining intracrine VEGF signaling.
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- Qing Ruan
- Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
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Lin S, Zhang B, Skoumal MJ, Ramunno B, Li X, Wesdemiotis C, Liu L, Jia L. Antifouling Poly(β-peptoid)s. Biomacromolecules 2011; 12:2573-82. [DOI: 10.1021/bm200368p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shaohui Lin
- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- Department of Polymer Science, ‡Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and §Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, 170 University Avenue, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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Karmakar S, Das KP. Stabilization of oligomeric structure of α-crystallin by Zn+2 through intersubunit bridging. Biopolymers 2010; 95:105-16. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.21540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2010] [Revised: 09/04/2010] [Accepted: 09/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Dynamic subunit exchange and the regulation of microtubule assembly by the stress response protein human alphaB crystallin. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11795. [PMID: 20668689 PMCID: PMC2909917 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2010] [Accepted: 06/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background The small heat shock protein (sHSP), human αB crystallin, forms large, polydisperse complexes that modulate the tubulin-microtubule equilibrium using a dynamic mechanism that is poorly understood. The interactive sequences in αB crystallin for tubulin are surface exposed, and correspond to interactive sites for the formation of αB crystallin complexes. Methodology/Principal Findings There is sequence homology between tubulin and the interactive domains in the β8-strand of the core domain and the C-terminal extension of αB crystallin. This study investigated the hypothesis that the formation of tubulin and αB crystallin quaternary structures was regulated through common interactive domains that alter the dynamics of their assembly. Size exclusion chromatography (SEC), SDS-PAGE, microtubule assembly assays, aggregation assays, multiple sequence alignment, and molecular modeling characterized the dynamic response of tubulin assembly to increasing concentrations of αB crystallin. Low molar ratios of αB crystallin∶tubulin were favorable for microtubule assembly and high molar ratios of αB crystallin∶tubulin were unfavorable for microtubule assembly. Interactions between αB crystallin and unassembled tubulin were observed using SEC and SDS-PAGE. Conclusions/Significance Subunits of αB crystallin that exchange dynamically with the αB crystallin complex can interact with tubulin subunits to regulate the equilibrium between tubulin and microtubules.
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Jaya N, Garcia V, Vierling E. Substrate binding site flexibility of the small heat shock protein molecular chaperones. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:15604-9. [PMID: 19717454 PMCID: PMC2773522 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902177106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) serve as a first line of defense against stress-induced cell damage by binding and maintaining denaturing proteins in a folding-competent state. In contrast to the well-defined substrate binding regions of ATP-dependent chaperones, interactions between sHSPs and substrates are poorly understood. Defining substrate-binding sites of sHSPs is key to understanding their cellular functions and to harnessing their aggregation-prevention properties for controlling damage due to stress and disease. We incorporated a photoactivatable cross-linker at 32 positions throughout a well-characterized sHSP, dodecameric PsHsp18.1 from pea, and identified direct interaction sites between sHSPs and substrates. Model substrates firefly luciferase and malate dehydrogenase form strong contacts with multiple residues in the sHSP N-terminal arm, demonstrating the importance of this flexible and evolutionary variable region in substrate binding. Within the conserved alpha-crystallin domain both substrates also bind the beta-strand (beta7) where mutations in human homologs result in inherited disease. Notably, these binding sites are poorly accessible in the sHSP atomic structure, consistent with major structural rearrangements being required for substrate binding. Detectable differences in the pattern of cross-linking intensity of the two substrates and the fact that substrates make contacts throughout the sHSP indicate that there is not a discrete substrate binding surface. Our results support a model in which the intrinsically-disordered N-terminal arm can present diverse geometries of interaction sites, which is likely critical for the ability of sHSPs to protect efficiently many different substrates.
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- Nomalie Jaya
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Study of subunit interactions of alpha A- and alpha B-crystallins and the effects of gamma-irradiation on their interactions by surface plasmon resonance. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2008; 1784:1507-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2008.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2007] [Revised: 06/05/2008] [Accepted: 06/06/2008] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Krushelnitsky A, Mukhametshina N, Gogolev Y, Tarasova N, Faizullin D, Zinkevich T, Gnezdilov O, Fedotov V. Subunit Mobility and the Chaperone Activity of Recombinant alphaB-Crystallin. Open Biochem J 2008; 2:116-20. [PMID: 18949083 PMCID: PMC2570560 DOI: 10.2174/1874091x00802010116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2008] [Revised: 08/05/2008] [Accepted: 08/06/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The comparison of the chaperone-like activity of native and covalently cross-linked human αB-crystallins has confirmed the important role of the subunit mobility in the chaperoning mechanism. Our data clearly demonstrate that the chaperone-like activity of α-crystallin is not only a surface phenomenon as was suggested by some researchers.
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- A Krushelnitsky
- Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia
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Ghosh JG, Houck SA, Clark JI. Interactive domains in the molecular chaperone human alphaB crystallin modulate microtubule assembly and disassembly. PLoS One 2007; 2:e498. [PMID: 17551579 PMCID: PMC1876262 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2007] [Accepted: 05/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Small heat shock proteins regulate microtubule assembly during cell proliferation and in response to stress through interactions that are poorly understood. Methodology Novel functions for five interactive sequences in the small heat shock protein and molecular chaperone, human αB crystallin, were investigated in the assembly/disassembly of microtubules and aggregation of tubulin using synthetic peptides and mutants of human αB crystallin. Principal Findings The interactive sequence 113FISREFHR120 exposed on the surface of αB crystallin decreased microtubule assembly by ∼45%. In contrast, the interactive sequences, 131LTITSSLSSDGV142 and 156ERTIPITRE164, corresponding to the β8 strand and the C-terminal extension respectively, which are involved in complex formation, increased microtubule assembly by ∼34–45%. The αB crystallin peptides, 113FISREFHR120 and 156ERTIPITRE164, inhibited microtubule disassembly by ∼26–36%, and the peptides 113FISREFHR120 and 131LTITSSLSSDGV142 decreased the thermal aggregation of tubulin by ∼42–44%. The 131LTITSSLSSDGV142 and 156ERTIPITRE164 peptides were more effective than the widely used anti-cancer drug, Paclitaxel, in modulating tubulin↔microtubule dynamics. Mutagenesis of these interactive sequences in wt human αB crystallin confirmed the effects of the αB crystallin peptides on microtubule assembly/disassembly and tubulin aggregation. The regulation of microtubule assembly by αB crystallin varied over a narrow range of concentrations. The assembly of microtubules was maximal at αB crystallin to tubulin molar ratios between 1∶4 and 2∶1, while molar ratios >2∶1 inhibited microtubule assembly. Conclusions and Significance Interactive sequences on the surface of human αB crystallin collectively modulate microtubule assembly through a dynamic subunit exchange mechanism that depends on the concentration and ratio of αB crystallin to tubulin. These are the first experimental results in support of the functional importance of the dynamic subunit model of small heat shock proteins.
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- Joy G. Ghosh
- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Ghosh JG, Houck SA, Clark JI. Interactive sequences in the stress protein and molecular chaperone human alphaB crystallin recognize and modulate the assembly of filaments. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2007; 39:1804-15. [PMID: 17590381 PMCID: PMC2743261 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2007.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2007] [Revised: 04/03/2007] [Accepted: 04/13/2007] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Molecular chaperones including the small heat shock proteins, alphaB crystallin and sHSP27 participate in the assembly, disassembly, and reorganization of the cytoskeleton during cell development and differentiation. While alphaB crystallin and sHSP27 stabilize and modulate filament assembly and re-organization, the sequences and structural domains mediating interactions between these proteins and filaments are unknown. It is important to define these interactive domains in order to understand differential interactions between chaperones and stable or unfolding filaments and their function in the cellular stress response. Protein pin arrays identified sequences in human alphaB crystallin that selectively interacted with native or partially unfolded filament proteins desmin, glial-fibrillary acidic protein, and actin. Circular dichroism spectroscopy determined differences in the structure of these filaments at 23 and 45 degrees C. Seven alphaB crystallin sequences had stronger interactions with desmin and six sequences had stronger interactions with glial-fibrillary acidic protein at 23 degrees C than at 45 degrees C. The alphaB crystallin sequences (33)LESDLFPTSTSLSPFYLRPPSFLR(56) and (129)DPLTITSSLSSDGV(145) had the strongest interactions with actin at 23 degrees C, while (57)APSWFDTG(64), (111)HGFISREF(118), (145)VNGPRKQVSG(154), and (155)PERTIPITREEK(165) had the strongest interactions with actin at 45 degrees C. The actin interactive sequences of alphaB crystallin overlapped with previously identified alphaB crystallin chaperone sequences and were synthesized to evaluate their effect on the assembly and aggregation of actin. Full-length alphaB crystallin and the core domain chaperone sequence (131)LTITSSLSSDGV(143) promoted actin polymerization at 37 degrees C and inhibited depolymerization and aggregation at 50 degrees C. The results support the hypothesis that interactive domains in alphaB crystallin have multiple functions in stabilizing the cytoskeleton and protecting cytosolic proteins from unfolding.
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- Joy G. Ghosh
- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7420
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7420
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- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7420
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7420
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Ghosh JG, Houck SA, Doneanu CE, Clark JI. The beta4-beta8 groove is an ATP-interactive site in the alpha crystallin core domain of the small heat shock protein, human alphaB crystallin. J Mol Biol 2006; 364:364-75. [PMID: 17022999 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.09.003] [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: 07/10/2006] [Revised: 08/24/2006] [Accepted: 09/01/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The site for ATP interactions in human alphaB crystallin, the archetype of small heat-shock proteins, was identified and characterized to resolve the controversial role of ATP in the function of small heat-shock proteins. Comparative sequence alignments identified the alphaB crystallin sequence, (82)KHFSPEELKVKVLGD(96) as a Walker-B ATP-binding motif that is found in several ATP-binding proteins, including five molecular chaperones. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer and mass spectrometry using a novel fluorescent ATP analog, 8-azido-ATP-[gamma]-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid-5(2-aminoethylamide) (azido-ATP-EDANS) and a cysteine mutant of human alphaB crystallin (S135C) conjugated with a fluorescent acceptor, eosin-5-maleimide (EMA) identified the beta4-beta8 groove as the ATP interactive site in alphaB crystallin. A 44% decrease in the emitted fluorescence of azido-ATP-EDANS at the absorption maximum of S135C-EMA and a corresponding 50% increase in the fluorescence emission of S135C-EMA indicated a close spatial relationship between azido-ATP-EDANS and the center of the beta8 strand ((131)LTITSSLS(138)). Liquid chromatography, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry identified two peptide fragments of the alphaB crystallin Walker-B motif photo-affinity-labeled with azido-ATP-EDANS confirming the beta4-beta8 groove as an ATP interactive site. The results presented here clearly establish the beta4-beta8 groove as the ATP interactive region in alphaB crystallin, and are in contrast to the existing paradigm that classifies small heat-shock proteins as ATP-independent chaperones.
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- Joy G Ghosh
- Biomolecular Structure and Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7420, USA
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