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Prevo B, Earnshaw WC. DNA packaging by molecular motors: from bacteriophage to human chromosomes. Nat Rev Genet 2024:10.1038/s41576-024-00740-y. [PMID: 38886215 DOI: 10.1038/s41576-024-00740-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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Dense packaging of genomic DNA is crucial for organismal survival, as DNA length always far exceeds the dimensions of the cells that contain it. Organisms, therefore, use sophisticated machineries to package their genomes. These systems range across kingdoms from a single ultra-powerful rotary motor that spools the DNA into a bacteriophage head, to hundreds of thousands of relatively weak molecular motors that coordinate the compaction of mitotic chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Recent technological advances, such as DNA proximity-based sequencing approaches, polymer modelling and in vitro reconstitution of DNA loop extrusion, have shed light on the biological mechanisms driving DNA organization in different systems. Here, we discuss DNA packaging in bacteriophage, bacteria and eukaryotic cells, which, despite their extreme variation in size, structure and genomic content, all rely on the action of molecular motors to package their genomes.
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- Bram Prevo
- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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- Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Coshic K, Maffeo C, Winogradoff D, Aksimentiev A. The structure and physical properties of a packaged bacteriophage particle. Nature 2024; 627:905-914. [PMID: 38448589 PMCID: PMC11196859 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07150-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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A string of nucleotides confined within a protein capsid contains all the instructions necessary to make a functional virus particle, a virion. Although the structure of the protein capsid is known for many virus species1,2, the three-dimensional organization of viral genomes has mostly eluded experimental probes3,4. Here we report all-atom structural models of an HK97 virion5, including its entire 39,732 base pair genome, obtained through multiresolution simulations. Mimicking the action of a packaging motor6, the genome was gradually loaded into the capsid. The structure of the packaged capsid was then refined through simulations of increasing resolution, which produced a 26 million atom model of the complete virion, including water and ions confined within the capsid. DNA packaging occurs through a loop extrusion mechanism7 that produces globally different configurations of the packaged genome and gives each viral particle individual traits. Multiple microsecond-long all-atom simulations characterized the effect of the packaged genome on capsid structure, internal pressure, electrostatics and diffusion of water, ions and DNA, and revealed the structural imprints of the capsid onto the genome. Our approach can be generalized to obtain complete all-atom structural models of other virus species, thereby potentially revealing new drug targets at the genome-capsid interface.
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- Kush Coshic
- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
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Hawkins DEDP, Godwin OC, Antson AA. Viral Genomic DNA Packaging Machinery. Subcell Biochem 2024; 104:181-205. [PMID: 38963488 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58843-3_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: 07/05/2024]
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Tailed double-stranded DNA bacteriophage employs a protein terminase motor to package their genome into a preformed protein shell-a system shared with eukaryotic dsDNA viruses such as herpesviruses. DNA packaging motor proteins represent excellent targets for antiviral therapy, with Letermovir, which binds Cytomegalovirus terminase, already licensed as an effective prophylaxis. In the realm of bacterial viruses, these DNA packaging motors comprise three protein constituents: the portal protein, small terminase and large terminase. The portal protein guards the passage of DNA into the preformed protein shell and acts as a protein interaction hub throughout viral assembly. Small terminase recognises the viral DNA and recruits large terminase, which in turn pumps DNA in an ATP-dependent manner. Large terminase also cleaves DNA at the termination of packaging. Multiple high-resolution structures of each component have been resolved for different phages, but it is only more recently that the field has moved towards cryo-EM reconstructions of protein complexes. In conjunction with highly informative single-particle studies of packaging kinetics, these structures have begun to inspire models for the packaging process and its place among other DNA machines.
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- Dorothy E D P Hawkins
- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK.
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK
- Structural Biology, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK.
- Structural Biology, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
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Fizari M, Keller N, Jardine PJ, Smith DE. Role of DNA-DNA sliding friction and nonequilibrium dynamics in viral genome ejection and packaging. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:8060-8069. [PMID: 37449417 PMCID: PMC10450192 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 06/17/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Many viruses eject their DNA via a nanochannel in the viral shell, driven by internal forces arising from the high-density genome packing. The speed of DNA exit is controlled by friction forces that limit the molecular mobility, but the nature of this friction is unknown. We introduce a method to probe the mobility of the tightly confined DNA by measuring DNA exit from phage phi29 capsids with optical tweezers. We measure extremely low initial exit velocity, a regime of exponentially increasing velocity, stochastic pausing that dominates the kinetics and large dynamic heterogeneity. Measurements with variable applied force provide evidence that the initial velocity is controlled by DNA-DNA sliding friction, consistent with a Frenkel-Kontorova model for nanoscale friction. We confirm several aspects of the ejection dynamics predicted by theoretical models. Features of the pausing suggest that it is connected to the phenomenon of 'clogging' in soft matter systems. Our results provide evidence that DNA-DNA friction and clogging control the DNA exit dynamics, but that this friction does not significantly affect DNA packaging.
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- Mounir Fizari
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Fizari M, Keller N, Jardine PJ, Smith DE. Role of DNA-DNA sliding friction and non-equilibrium dynamics in viral genome ejection and packaging. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.03.535472. [PMID: 37066220 PMCID: PMC10104077 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.03.535472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Many viruses eject their DNA via a nanochannel in the viral shell, driven by internal forces arising from the high-density genome packing. The speed of DNA exit is controlled by friction forces that limit the molecular mobility, but the nature of this friction is unknown. We introduce a method to probe the mobility of the tightly confined DNA by measuring DNA exit from phage phi29 capsids with optical tweezers. We measure extremely low initial exit velocity, a regime of exponentially increasing velocity, stochastic pausing that dominates the kinetics, and large dynamic heterogeneity. Measurements with variable applied force provide evidence that the initial velocity is controlled by DNA-DNA sliding friction, consistent with a Frenkel-Kontorova model for nanoscale friction. We confirm several aspects of the ejection dynamics predicted by theoretical models. Features of the pausing suggest it is connected to the phenomenon of "clogging" in soft-matter systems. Our results provide evidence that DNA-DNA friction and clogging control the DNA exit dynamics, but that this friction does not significantly affect DNA packaging.
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Weitao T, Grandinetti G, Guo P. Revolving ATPase motors as asymmetrical hexamers in translocating lengthy dsDNA via conformational changes and electrostatic interactions in phi29, T7, herpesvirus, mimivirus, E. coli, and Streptomyces. EXPLORATION (BEIJING, CHINA) 2023; 3:20210056. [PMID: 37324034 PMCID: PMC10191066 DOI: 10.1002/exp.20210056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Investigations of the parallel architectures of biomotors in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems suggest a similar revolving mechanism in the use of ATP to drive translocation of the lengthy double-stranded (ds)DNA genomes. This mechanism is exemplified by the dsDNA packaging motor of bacteriophage phi29 that operates through revolving but not rotating dsDNA to "Push through a one-way valve". This unique and novel revolving mechanism discovered in phi29 DNA packaging motor was recently reported in other systems including the dsDNA packaging motor of herpesvirus, the dsDNA ejecting motor of bacteriophage T7, the plasmid conjugation machine TraB in Streptomyces, the dsDNA translocase FtsK of gram-negative bacteria, and the genome-packaging motor in mimivirus. These motors exhibit an asymmetrical hexameric structure for transporting the genome via an inch-worm sequential action. This review intends to delineate the revolving mechanism from a perspective of conformational changes and electrostatic interactions. In phi29, the positively charged residues Arg-Lys-Arg in the N-terminus of the connector bind the negatively charged interlocking domain of pRNA. ATP binding to an ATPase subunit induces the closed conformation of the ATPase. The ATPase associates with an adjacent subunit to form a dimer facilitated by the positively charged arginine finger. The ATP-binding induces a positive charging on its DNA binding surface via an allostery mechanism and thus the higher affinity for the negatively charged dsDNA. ATP hydrolysis induces an expanded conformation of the ATPase with a lower affinity for dsDNA due to the change of the surface charge, but the (ADP+Pi)-bound subunit in the dimer undergoes a conformational change that repels dsDNA. The positively charged lysine rings of the connector attract dsDNA stepwise and periodically to keep its revolving motion along the channel wall, thus maintaining the one-way translocation of dsDNA without reversal and sliding out. The finding of the presence of the asymmetrical hexameric architectures of many ATPases that use the revolving mechanism may provide insights into the understanding of translocation of the gigantic genomes including chromosomes in complicated systems without coiling and tangling to speed up dsDNA translocation and save energy.
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- Tao Weitao
- UT Southwestern Medical CenterCenter for the Genetics of Host DefenseDallasTXUSA
- College of Science and MathematicsSouthwest Baptist UniversityBolivarMOUSA
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- Center for Electron Microscopy and AnalysisThe Ohio State UniversityColumbusOHUSA
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- Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and NanomedicineDivision of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of PharmacyDorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, James Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of MedicineThe Ohio State UniversityColumbusOHUSA
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Li Q, Ferrare JT, Silver J, Wilson JO, Arteaga-Castaneda L, Qiu W, Vershinin M, King SJ, Neuman KC, Xu J. Cholesterol in the cargo membrane amplifies tau inhibition of kinesin-1-based transport. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2212507120. [PMID: 36626558 PMCID: PMC9934065 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212507120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Intracellular cargos are often membrane-enclosed and transported by microtubule-based motors in the presence of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). Whereas increasing evidence reveals how MAPs impact the interactions between motors and microtubules, critical questions remain about the impact of the cargo membrane on transport. Here we combined in vitro optical trapping with theoretical approaches to determine the effect of a lipid cargo membrane on kinesin-based transport in the presence of MAP tau. Our results demonstrate that attaching kinesin to a fluid lipid membrane reduces the inhibitory effect of tau on kinesin. Moreover, adding cholesterol, which reduces kinesin diffusion in the cargo membrane, amplifies the inhibitory effect of tau on kinesin binding in a dosage-dependent manner. We propose that reduction of kinesin diffusion in the cargo membrane underlies the effect of cholesterol on kinesin binding in the presence of tau, and we provide a simple model for this proposed mechanism. Our study establishes a direct link between cargo membrane cholesterol and MAP-based regulation of kinesin-1. The cholesterol effects uncovered here may more broadly extend to other lipid alterations that impact motor diffusion in the cargo membrane, including those associated with aging and neurological diseases.
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- Qiaochu Li
- Department of Physics, University of California, Merced, CA95343
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- Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD20892
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- Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD20892
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Merced, CA95343
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- Department of Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR97331
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT84112
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- Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL32827
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- Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD20892
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Merced, CA95343
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The Development of Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy: From Polymer Biophysics to Molecular Machines. Q Rev Biophys 2022; 55:e9. [PMID: 35916314 DOI: 10.1017/s0033583522000087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Rao VB, Zhu J. Bacteriophage T4 as a nanovehicle for delivery of genes and therapeutics into human cells. Curr Opin Virol 2022; 55:101255. [PMID: 35952598 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2022.101255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2022] [Accepted: 07/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The ability to deliver therapeutic genes and biomolecules into a human cell and restore a defective function has been the holy grail of medicine. Adeno-associated viruses and lentiviruses have been extensively used as delivery vehicles, but their capacity is limited to one (or two) gene(s). Bacteriophages are emerging as novel vehicles for gene therapy. The large 120 × 86-nm T4 capsid allows engineering of both its surface and its interior to incorporate combinations of DNAs, RNAs, proteins, and their complexes. In vitro assembly using purified components allows customization for various applications and for individualized therapies. Its large capacity, cell-targeting capability, safety, and inexpensive manufacturing could open unprecedented new possibilities for gene, cancer, and stem cell therapies. However, efficient entry into primary human cells and intracellular trafficking are significant barriers that must be overcome by gene engineering and evolution in order to translate phage-delivery technology from bench to bedside.
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- Venigalla B Rao
- Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA.
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- Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
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Ortega D, Beeby M. How Did the Archaellum Get Its Rotation? Front Microbiol 2022; 12:803720. [PMID: 35558523 PMCID: PMC9087265 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.803720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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How new functions evolve fascinates many evolutionary biologists. Particularly captivating is the evolution of rotation in molecular machines, as it evokes familiar machines that we have made ourselves. The archaellum, an archaeal analog of the bacterial flagellum, is one of the simplest rotary motors. It features a long helical propeller attached to a cell envelope-embedded rotary motor. Satisfyingly, the archaellum is one of many members of the large type IV filament superfamily, which includes pili, secretion systems, and adhesins, relationships that promise clues as to how the rotating archaellum evolved from a non-rotary ancestor. Nevertheless, determining exactly how the archaellum got its rotation remains frustratingly elusive. Here we review what is known about how the archaellum got its rotation, what clues exist, and what more is needed to address this question.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Morgan A, Eastlund A, Fischer C, Jardine P. Kinetics of ATP/ADP Binding to the gp16 ATPase. Biophys J 2022; 121:1909-1918. [PMID: 35421388 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The gp16 ATPase is the constituent subunit of the pentameric dsDNA (Double-stranded Deoxyribonucleic Acid) translocation motor of the B. subtilis Φ29 bacteriophage. Although recent single-molecule studies have provided tantalizing clues about the activity of this motor, the mechanism by which the gp16 subunits couple the energy obtained from the binding and hydrolysis of ATP to the mechanical work of dsDNA translocation remains unknown. To address this need, we have characterized the binding of fluorophore labeled ATP and ADP to monomeric gp16 using a stopped-flow fluorescence assay. These experiments show that the binding of ATP/ADP occurs through a single-step mechanism with corresponding affinities of (523.8 ± 247.3) nM for ATP and a lower limit of 30μM for ADP. When analyzed through the lens of changes in free energy of the system, this difference in binding affinities is reasonable for a cyclical process of binding, hydrolysis, and product release. In addition to answering questions about the activity of monomeric gp16, these results are also a necessary step in constructing a model for inter-subunit communication within the pentameric gp16 motor.
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- Aaron Morgan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota
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Dimer dissociation is a key energetic event in the fold-switch pathway of KaiB. Biophys J 2022; 121:943-955. [PMID: 35151633 PMCID: PMC8943816 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2021] [Revised: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Cyanobacteria possesses the simplest circadian clock, composed of three proteins that act as a phosphorylation oscillator: KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC. The timing of this oscillator is determined by the fold-switch of KaiB, a structural rearrangement of its C-terminal half that is accompanied by a change in the oligomerization state. During the day, KaiB forms a stable tetramer (gsKaiB), whereas it adopts a monomeric thioredoxin-like fold during the night (fsKaiB). Although the structures and functions of both native states are well studied, little is known about the sequence and structure determinants that control their structural interconversion. Here, we used confinement molecular dynamics (CCR-MD) and folding simulations using structure-based models to show that the dissociation of the gsKaiB dimer is a key energetic event for the fold-switch. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDXMS) recapitulates the local stability of protein regions reported by CCR-MD, with both approaches consistently indicating that the energy and backbone flexibility changes are solely associated with the region that fold-switches between gsKaiB and fsKaiB and that the localized regions that differentially stabilize gsKaiB also involve regions outside the dimer interface. Moreover, two mutants (R23C and R75C) previously reported to be relevant for altering the rhythmicity of the Kai clock were also studied by HDXMS. Particularly, R75C populates dimeric and monomeric states with a deuterium incorporation profile comparable to the one observed for fsKaiB, emphasizing the importance of the oligomerization state of KaiB for the fold-switch. These findings suggest that the information necessary to control the rhythmicity of the cyanobacterial biological clock is, to a great extent, encoded within the KaiB sequence.
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Ryu JK, Rah SH, Janissen R, Kerssemakers JWJ, Bonato A, Michieletto D, Dekker C. Condensin extrudes DNA loops in steps up to hundreds of base pairs that are generated by ATP binding events. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 50:820-832. [PMID: 34951453 PMCID: PMC8789078 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2021] [Revised: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The condensin SMC protein complex organizes chromosomal structure by extruding loops of DNA. Its ATP-dependent motor mechanism remains unclear but likely involves steps associated with large conformational changes within the ∼50 nm protein complex. Here, using high-resolution magnetic tweezers, we resolve single steps in the loop extrusion process by individual yeast condensins. The measured median step sizes range between 20–40 nm at forces of 1.0–0.2 pN, respectively, comparable with the holocomplex size. These large steps show that, strikingly, condensin typically reels in DNA in very sizeable amounts with ∼200 bp on average per single extrusion step at low force, and occasionally even much larger, exceeding 500 bp per step. Using Molecular Dynamics simulations, we demonstrate that this is due to the structural flexibility of the DNA polymer at these low forces. Using ATP-binding-impaired and ATP-hydrolysis-deficient mutants, we find that ATP binding is the primary step-generating stage underlying DNA loop extrusion. We discuss our findings in terms of a scrunching model where a stepwise DNA loop extrusion is generated by an ATP-binding-induced engagement of the hinge and the globular domain of the SMC complex.
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- Je-Kyung Ryu
- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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- University of Edinburgh, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, EH9 3FD, Edinburgh, UK
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- University of Edinburgh, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, EH9 3FD, Edinburgh, UK.,MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, 2629 HZ Delft, The Netherlands
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Li J, Zhang Y, Sun J, Ouyang J, Na N. SiRNA-templated 3D framework nucleic acids for chemotactic recognition, and programmable and visualized precise delivery for synergistic cancer therapy. Chem Sci 2021; 12:15353-15361. [PMID: 34976356 PMCID: PMC8635176 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc04249a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Developments in framework nucleic acids (FNAs) are limited by complicated synthesis, by-product interference, and low framework utilization. Herein, simple core-shell spherical 3D FNAs (ST-SFNAs) preparation is presented based on siRNA-templated linear polymerization followed by hybridization chain reaction branched polymerization. Without by-products, all components exhibited their special functions to obtain high space utilization of ST-SFNAs. ST-SFNAs were covered by catalase and folic acid-functionalized liposome membranes. The catalase endowed ST-SFNAs with chemotactic activities in the H2O2 reaction catalyzed by catalase. Furthermore, combined with functionalized folic acids' targeting folate receptors, the synergistic chemotactic recognition of cancer cells was obtained. This dramatically promoted targeted cellular uptakes compared with traditional active or passive targeting pathways. Subsequently, the cascaded-logical programmable release of drugs was precisely controlled by targeting glutathione and ATP (via S-S bond and ATP aptamer on the inner g-DNA cover). This was visualized by "turn on" fluorescent signals generated by special hybridization of released hairpin DNAs with survivin mRNA biomarkers. Simultaneously, biocompatible synergistic therapy was achieved by simultaneously releasing doxorubicin and siRNA. With its high utilization for synergistic chemotactic recognition, programmable and visualized delivery, as well as synergistic therapy, an efficient platform for maximizing the therapeutic efficacy has been developed. This would initiate further FNA-based material development for a variety of biological applications.
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- Jingjing Li
- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 China
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- Key Laboratory of Radiopharmaceuticals, Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875 China
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Although the process of genome encapsidation is highly conserved in tailed bacteriophages and eukaryotic double-stranded DNA viruses, there are two distinct packaging pathways that these viruses use to catalyze ATP-driven translocation of the viral genome into a preassembled procapsid shell. One pathway is used by ϕ29-like phages and adenoviruses, which replicate and subsequently package a monomeric, unit-length genome covalently attached to a virus/phage-encoded protein at each 5'-end of the dsDNA genome. In a second, more ubiquitous packaging pathway characterized by phage lambda and the herpesviruses, the viral DNA is replicated as multigenome concatemers linked in a head-to-tail fashion. Genome packaging in these viruses thus requires excision of individual genomes from the concatemer that are then translocated into a preassembled procapsid. Hence, the ATPases that power packaging in these viruses also possess nuclease activities that cut the genome from the concatemer at the beginning and end of packaging. This review focuses on proposed mechanisms of genome packaging in the dsDNA viruses using unit-length ϕ29 and concatemeric λ genome packaging motors as representative model systems.
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- Carlos E Catalano
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
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Zhang JT, Yang F, Du K, Li WF, Chen Y, Jiang YL, Li Q, Zhou CZ. Structure and assembly pattern of a freshwater short-tailed cyanophage Pam1. Structure 2021; 30:240-251.e4. [PMID: 34727518 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2021.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Despite previous structural analyses of bacteriophages, quite little is known about the structures and assembly patterns of cyanophages. Using cryo-EM combined with crystallography, we solve the near-atomic-resolution structure of a freshwater short-tailed cyanophage, Pam1, which comprises a 400-Å-long tail and an icosahedral capsid of 650 Å in diameter. The outer capsid surface is reinforced by trimeric cement proteins with a β-sandwich fold, which structurally resemble the distal motif of Pam1's tailspike, suggesting its potential role in host recognition. At the portal vertex, the dodecameric portal and connected adaptor, followed by a hexameric needle head, form a DNA ejection channel, which is sealed by a trimeric needle. Moreover, we identify a right-handed rifling pattern that might help DNA to revolve along the wall of the ejection channel. Our study reveals the precise assembly pattern of a cyanophage and lays the foundation to support its practical biotechnological and environmental applications.
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- Jun-Tao Zhang
- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
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- Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China.
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Rao VB, Fokine A, Fang Q. The remarkable viral portal vertex: structure and a plausible model for mechanism. Curr Opin Virol 2021; 51:65-73. [PMID: 34619513 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2021.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2021] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Many icosahedral viruses including tailed bacteriophages and herpes viruses have a unique portal vertex where a dodecameric protein ring is associated with a fivefold capsid shell. While the peripheral regions of the portal ring are involved in capsid assembly, its central channel is used to transport DNA into and out of capsid during genome packaging and infection. Though the atomic structure of this highly conserved, turbine-shaped, portal is known for nearly two decades, its molecular mechanism remains a mystery. Recent high-resolution in situ structures reveal various conformational states of the portal and the asymmetric interactions between the 12-fold portal and the fivefold capsid. These lead to a valve-like mechanism for this symmetry-mismatched portal vertex that regulates DNA flow through the channel, a critical function for high fidelity assembly of an infectious virion.
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- Venigalla B Rao
- Bacteriophage Medical Research Center, Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- School of Public Health (Shenzhen), Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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Pajak J, Dill E, Reyes-Aldrete E, White MA, Kelch BA, Jardine P, Arya G, Morais M. Atomistic basis of force generation, translocation, and coordination in a viral genome packaging motor. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:6474-6488. [PMID: 34050764 PMCID: PMC8216284 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Double-stranded DNA viruses package their genomes into pre-assembled capsids using virally-encoded ASCE ATPase ring motors. We present the first atomic-resolution crystal structure of a multimeric ring form of a viral dsDNA packaging motor, the ATPase of the asccφ28 phage, and characterize its atomic-level dynamics via long timescale molecular dynamics simulations. Based on these results, and previous single-molecule data and cryo-EM reconstruction of the homologous φ29 motor, we propose an overall packaging model that is driven by helical-to-planar transitions of the ring motor. These transitions are coordinated by inter-subunit interactions that regulate catalytic and force-generating events. Stepwise ATP binding to individual subunits increase their affinity for the helical DNA phosphate backbone, resulting in distortion away from the planar ring towards a helical configuration, inducing mechanical strain. Subsequent sequential hydrolysis events alleviate the accumulated mechanical strain, allowing a stepwise return of the motor to the planar conformation, translocating DNA in the process. This type of helical-to-planar mechanism could serve as a general framework for ring ATPases.
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- Joshua Pajak
- Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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- Dept. of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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A DNA packaging motor inchworms along one strand allowing it to adapt to alternative double-helical structures. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3439. [PMID: 34103515 PMCID: PMC8187434 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23725-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Ring ATPases that translocate disordered polymers possess lock-washer architectures that they impose on their substrates during transport via a hand-over-hand mechanism. Here, we investigate the operation of ring motors that transport ordered, helical substrates, such as the bacteriophage ϕ29 dsDNA packaging motor. This pentameric motor alternates between an ATP loading dwell and a hydrolysis burst wherein it packages one turn of DNA in four steps. When challenged with DNA-RNA hybrids and dsRNA, the motor matches its burst to the shorter helical pitches, keeping three power strokes invariant while shortening the fourth. Intermittently, the motor loses grip on the RNA-containing substrates, indicating that it makes optimal load-bearing contacts with dsDNA. To rationalize these observations, we propose a helical inchworm translocation mechanism in which, during each cycle, the motor increasingly adopts a lock-washer structure during the ATP loading dwell and successively regains its planar form with each power stroke during the burst. Ring ATPase translocases that operate on disordered substrates adopt lockwasher architectures and use a hand-over-hand mechanism. By challenging the dsDNA packaging motor of bacteriophage ϕ29 with hybrid and dsRNA, the authors propose that the motor cycles between planar and lock-washer structures.
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Woodson M, Pajak J, Mahler BP, Zhao W, Zhang W, Arya G, White MA, Jardine PJ, Morais MC. A viral genome packaging motor transitions between cyclic and helical symmetry to translocate dsDNA. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/19/eabc1955. [PMID: 33962953 PMCID: PMC8104870 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc1955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Molecular segregation and biopolymer manipulation require the action of molecular motors to do work by applying directional forces to macromolecules. The additional strand conserved E (ASCE) ring motors are an ancient family of molecular motors responsible for diverse biological polymer manipulation tasks. Viruses use ASCE segregation motors to package their genomes into their protein capsids and provide accessible experimental systems due to their relative simplicity. We show by cryo-EM-focused image reconstruction that ASCE ATPases in viral double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) packaging motors adopt helical symmetry complementary to their dsDNA substrates. Together with previous data, our results suggest that these motors cycle between helical and planar configurations, providing a possible mechanism for directional translocation of DNA. Similar changes in quaternary structure have been observed for proteasome and helicase motors, suggesting an ancient and common mechanism of force generation that has been adapted for specific tasks over the course of evolution.
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- Michael Woodson
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Characterization Facility, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.
- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Arista-Romero M, Pujals S, Albertazzi L. Towards a Quantitative Single Particle Characterization by Super Resolution Microscopy: From Virus Structures to Antivirals Design. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:647874. [PMID: 33842446 PMCID: PMC8033170 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.647874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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In the last year the COVID19 pandemic clearly illustrated the potential threat that viruses pose to our society. The characterization of viral structures and the identification of key proteins involved in each step of the cycle of infection are crucial to develop treatments. However, the small size of viruses, invisible under conventional fluorescence microscopy, make it difficult to study the organization of protein clusters within the viral particle. The applications of super-resolution microscopy have skyrocketed in the last years, converting this group into one of the leading techniques to characterize viruses and study the viral infection in cells, breaking the diffraction limit by achieving resolutions up to 10 nm using conventional probes such as fluorescent dyes and proteins. There are several super-resolution methods available and the selection of the right one it is crucial to study in detail all the steps involved in the viral infection, quantifying and creating models of infection for relevant viruses such as HIV-1, Influenza, herpesvirus or SARS-CoV-1. Here we review the use of super-resolution microscopy (SRM) to study all steps involved in the viral infection and antiviral design. In light of the threat of new viruses, these studies could inspire future assays to unveil the viral mechanism of emerging viruses and further develop successful antivirals against them.
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- Maria Arista-Romero
- Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Physics, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Nanoscopy for Nanomedicine Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Bustamante CJ, Chemla YR, Liu S, Wang MD. Optical tweezers in single-molecule biophysics. NATURE REVIEWS. METHODS PRIMERS 2021; 1:25. [PMID: 34849486 PMCID: PMC8629167 DOI: 10.1038/s43586-021-00021-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Optical tweezers have become the method of choice in single-molecule manipulation studies. In this Primer, we first review the physical principles of optical tweezers and the characteristics that make them a powerful tool to investigate single molecules. We then introduce the modifications of the method to extend the measurement of forces and displacements to torques and angles, and to develop optical tweezers with single-molecule fluorescence detection capabilities. We discuss force and torque calibration of these instruments, their various modes of operation and most common experimental geometries. We describe the type of data obtained in each experimental design and their analyses. This description is followed by a survey of applications of these methods to the studies of protein-nucleic acid interactions, protein/RNA folding and molecular motors. We also discuss data reproducibility, the factors that lead to the data variability among different laboratories and the need to develop field standards. We cover the current limitations of the methods and possible ways to optimize instrument operation, data extraction and analysis, before suggesting likely areas of future growth.
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- Carlos J. Bustamante
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physics, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Saeed AFUH, Chan C, Guan H, Gong B, Guo P, Cheng X, Ouyang S. Structural Insights into gp16 ATPase in the Bacteriophage ϕ29 DNA Packaging Motor. Biochemistry 2021; 60:886-897. [PMID: 33689296 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Biological motors, ubiquitous in living systems, convert chemical energy into different kinds of mechanical motions critical to cellular functions. Gene product 16 (gp16) in bacteriophage ϕ29 is among the most powerful biomotors known, which adopts a multisubunit ring-shaped structure and hydrolyzes ATP to package double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) into a preformed procapsid. Here we report the crystal structure of the C-terminal domain of gp16 (gp16-CTD). Structure-based alignment and molecular dynamics simulations revealed an essential binding surface of gp16-CTD for prohead RNA, a unique component of the motor complex. Furthermore, our simulations highlighted a dynamic interplay between the N-terminal domain and the CTD of gp16, which may play a role in driving movement of DNA into the procapsid. Lastly, we assembled an atomic structural model of the complete ϕ29 dsDNA packaging motor complex by integrating structural and experimental data from multiple sources. Collectively, our findings provided a refined inchworm-revolution model for dsDNA translocation in bacteriophage ϕ29 and suggested how the individual domains of gp16 work together to power such translocation.
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- Abdullah F U H Saeed
- The Key Laboratory of Innate Immune Biology of Fujian Province, Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, Biomedical Research Center of South China, Key Laboratory of OptoElectronic Science and Technology for Medicine of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- The Key Laboratory of Innate Immune Biology of Fujian Province, Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, Biomedical Research Center of South China, Key Laboratory of OptoElectronic Science and Technology for Medicine of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster in the Beibu Gulf, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou 535000, China
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
- Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, College of Medicine, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
- Biophysics Graduate Program and Translational Data Analytics Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- The Key Laboratory of Innate Immune Biology of Fujian Province, Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation, Biomedical Research Center of South China, Key Laboratory of OptoElectronic Science and Technology for Medicine of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
- Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
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The PLB measurement for the connector in Phi29 bacteriophage reveals the function of its channel loop. Biophys J 2021; 120:1650-1664. [PMID: 33684350 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.02.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The connector protein, also known as the portal protein, located at the portal vertex in the Phi29 bacteriophage has been found to play a key role in the genome DNA packaging motor. There is a disordered region, composed of 12 sets of 18-residue loops N229-N246, that has been assumed to serve as a "clamp" to retain the DNA within the pressurized capsid when DNA is fully packaged. However, the process remains undefined about how the clamping of DNA occurs and what signal is used to engage the channel loops to clamp the DNA near the end of DNA packaging. In this study, we use the planar lipid bilayer (PLB) membrane technique to study the connector with its loops cleaved. The channel properties are compared with those of the connector with corresponding wild-type loops at different membrane potentials. On the basis of the hypothesis of the Donnan effects in the flashing Brownian ratchet model, we associate the PLB experimental results with the outcomes from the relevant biochemical experiments on the proheads containing the connectors without the loops, which enables us to provide a clear picture about how the DNA clamping occurs. A mathematical relationship between the Donnan potential and the DNA packaging density is established, demonstrating that they are both in essence the same signal that is received and transmitted by the connector to dictate DNA clamping and the termination of DNA packaging. At the end of the study, the PLB technique is proposed as a viral research tool, and its potential use to study the functions of specific domains in a portal protein of the tailed bacteriophages is highlighted.
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Mo Y, Keller N, delToro D, Ananthaswamy N, Harvey SC, Rao VB, Smith DE. Function of a viral genome packaging motor from bacteriophage T4 is insensitive to DNA sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 48:11602-11614. [PMID: 33119757 PMCID: PMC7672480 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2020] [Revised: 09/12/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Many viruses employ ATP-powered motors during assembly to translocate DNA into procapsid shells. Previous reports raise the question if motor function is modulated by substrate DNA sequence: (i) the phage T4 motor exhibits large translocation rate fluctuations and pauses and slips; (ii) evidence suggests that the phage phi29 motor contacts DNA bases during translocation; and (iii) one theoretical model, the ‘B-A scrunchworm’, predicts that ‘A-philic’ sequences that transition more easily to A-form would alter motor function. Here, we use single-molecule optical tweezers measurements to compare translocation of phage, plasmid, and synthetic A-philic, GC rich sequences by the T4 motor. We observed no significant differences in motor velocities, even with A-philic sequences predicted to show higher translocation rate at high applied force. We also observed no significant changes in motor pausing and only modest changes in slipping. To more generally test for sequence dependence, we conducted correlation analyses across pairs of packaging events. No significant correlations in packaging rate, pausing or slipping versus sequence position were detected across repeated measurements with several different DNA sequences. These studies suggest that viral genome packaging is insensitive to DNA sequence and fluctuations in packaging motor velocity, pausing and slipping are primarily stochastic temporal events.
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- Youbin Mo
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, District of Columbia, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, District of Columbia, 20064, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Reyes-Aldrete E, Dill EA, Bussetta C, Szymanski MR, Diemer G, Maindola P, White MA, Bujalowski WM, Choi KH, Morais MC. Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of the dsDNA Packaging Motor from the Lactococcus lactis Bacteriophage Asccphi28. Viruses 2020; 13:E15. [PMID: 33374840 PMCID: PMC7823558 DOI: 10.3390/v13010015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Double-stranded DNA viruses package their genomes into pre-assembled protein procapsids. This process is driven by macromolecular motors that transiently assemble at a unique vertex of the procapsid and utilize homomeric ring ATPases to couple genome encapsidation to ATP hydrolysis. Here, we describe the biochemical and biophysical characterization of the packaging ATPase from Lactococcus lactis phage asccφ28. Size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC), small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), and negative stain transmission electron microscopy (TEM) indicate that the ~45 kDa protein formed a 443 kDa cylindrical assembly with a maximum dimension of ~155 Å and radius of gyration of ~54 Å. Together with the dimensions of the crystallographic asymmetric unit from preliminary X-ray diffraction experiments, these results indicate that gp11 forms a decameric D5-symmetric complex consisting of two pentameric rings related by 2-fold symmetry. Additional kinetic analysis shows that recombinantly expressed gp11 has ATPase activity comparable to that of functional ATPase rings assembled on procapsids in other genome packaging systems. Hence, gp11 forms rings in solution that likely reflect the fully assembled ATPases in active virus-bound motor complexes. Whereas ATPase functionality in other double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) phage packaging systems requires assembly on viral capsids, the ability to form functional rings in solution imparts gp11 with significant advantages for high-resolution structural studies and rigorous biophysical/biochemical analysis.
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- Emilio Reyes-Aldrete
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA; (E.R.-A.); (E.A.D.); (C.B.); (M.R.S.); (G.D.); (P.M.); (M.A.W.); (W.M.B.); (K.H.C.)
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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Mahler BP, Bujalowski PJ, Mao H, Dill EA, Jardine PJ, Choi K, Morais MC. NMR structure of a vestigial nuclease provides insight into the evolution of functional transitions in viral dsDNA packaging motors. Nucleic Acids Res 2020; 48:11737-11749. [PMID: 33089330 PMCID: PMC7672431 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Revised: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Double-stranded DNA viruses use ATP-powered molecular motors to package their genomic DNA. To ensure efficient genome encapsidation, these motors regulate functional transitions between initiation, translocation, and termination modes. Here, we report structural and biophysical analyses of the C-terminal domain of the bacteriophage phi29 ATPase (CTD) that suggest a structural basis for these functional transitions. Sedimentation experiments show that the inter-domain linker in the full-length protein promotes oligomerization and thus may play a role in assembly of the functional motor. The NMR solution structure of the CTD indicates it is a vestigial nuclease domain that likely evolved from conserved nuclease domains in phage terminases. Despite the loss of nuclease activity, fluorescence binding assays confirm the CTD retains its DNA binding capabilities and fitting the CTD into cryoEM density of the phi29 motor shows that the CTD directly binds DNA. However, the interacting residues differ from those identified by NMR titration in solution, suggesting that packaging motors undergo conformational changes to transition between initiation, translocation, and termination. Taken together, these results provide insight into the evolution of functional transitions in viral dsDNA packaging motors.
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- Bryon P Mahler
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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Li C, Yuan X, Li N, Wang J, Yu S, Zeng H, Zhang J, Wu Q, Ding Y. Isolation and Characterization of Bacillus cereus Phage vB_BceP-DLc1 Reveals the Largest Member of the Φ29-Like Phages. Microorganisms 2020; 8:E1750. [PMID: 33171789 PMCID: PMC7695010 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8111750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Revised: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Bacillus phage φ29 and its relatives have been considered as one of the most important model organisms for DNA replication, transcription, morphogenesis, DNA packaging studies, and nanotechnology applications. Here, we isolated and characterized a new member of the φ29-like phage, named Bacillus cereus phage vB_BceP-DLc1. This phage, with a unique inserted gene cluster, has the largest genome among known φ29-like phages. DLc1 can use the surface carbohydrate structures of the host cell as receptors and only infects the most related B. cereus strains, showing high host-specificity. The adsorption rate constant and life cycle of DLc1 under experimental conditions were also determined. Not only stable under temperatures below 55 °C and pH range from 5 to 11, the new phage also showed tolerance to high concentrations of NaCl, 75% ethanol, chloroform, and mechanical vortex, which is preferable for practical use in the food and pharmaceutical industries.
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- Chun Li
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, College of Science & Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; (C.L.); (X.Y.); (N.L.)
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, College of Science & Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; (C.L.); (X.Y.); (N.L.)
- College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, College of Science & Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; (C.L.); (X.Y.); (N.L.)
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- College of Food Science, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition, College of Science & Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; (C.L.); (X.Y.); (N.L.)
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China; (S.Y.); (H.Z.); (J.Z.); (Q.W.)
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Safety and Health, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
- Guangdong Open Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, China
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Kiss B, Mudra D, Török G, Mártonfalvi Z, Csík G, Herényi L, Kellermayer M. Single-particle virology. Biophys Rev 2020; 12:1141-1154. [PMID: 32880826 PMCID: PMC7471434 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-020-00747-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The development of advanced experimental methodologies, such as optical tweezers, scanning-probe and super-resolved optical microscopies, has led to the evolution of single-molecule biophysics, a field of science that allows direct access to the mechanistic detail of biomolecular structure and function. The extension of single-molecule methods to the investigation of particles such as viruses permits unprecedented insights into the behavior of supramolecular assemblies. Here we address the scope of viral exploration at the level of individual particles. In an era of increased awareness towards virology, single-particle approaches are expected to facilitate the in-depth understanding, and hence combating, of viral diseases.
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- Bálint Kiss
- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
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Cruz B, Zhu Z, Calderer C, Arsuaga J, Vazquez M. Quantitative Study of the Chiral Organization of the Phage Genome Induced by the Packaging Motor. Biophys J 2020; 118:2103-2116. [PMID: 32353255 PMCID: PMC7203069 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.03.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Molecular motors that translocate DNA are ubiquitous in nature. During morphogenesis of double-stranded DNA bacteriophages, a molecular motor drives the viral genome inside a protein capsid. Several models have been proposed for the three-dimensional geometry of the packaged genome, but very little is known of the signature of the molecular packaging motor. For instance, biophysical experiments show that in some systems, DNA rotates during the packaging reaction, but most current biophysical models fail to incorporate this property. Furthermore, studies including rotation mechanisms have reached contradictory conclusions. In this study, we compare the geometrical signatures imposed by different possible mechanisms for the packaging motors: rotation, revolution, and rotation with revolution. We used a previously proposed kinetic Monte Carlo model of the motor, combined with Brownian dynamics simulations of DNA to simulate deterministic and stochastic motor models. We find that rotation is necessary for the accumulation of DNA writhe and for the chiral organization of the genome. We observe that although in the initial steps of the packaging reaction, the torsional strain of the genome is released by rotation of the molecule, in the later stages, it is released by the accumulation of writhe. We suggest that the molecular motor plays a key role in determining the final structure of the encapsidated genome in bacteriophages.
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- Brian Cruz
- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California.
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California; Department of Mathematics, University of California at Davis, Davis, California.
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Bayfield OW, Steven AC, Antson AA. Cryo-EM structure in situ reveals a molecular switch that safeguards virus against genome loss. eLife 2020; 9:e55517. [PMID: 32286226 PMCID: PMC7234808 DOI: 10.7554/elife.55517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [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] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The portal protein is a key component of many double-stranded DNA viruses, governing capsid assembly and genome packaging. Twelve subunits of the portal protein define a tunnel, through which DNA is translocated into the capsid. It is unknown how the portal protein functions as a gatekeeper, preventing DNA slippage, whilst allowing its passage into the capsid, and how these processes are controlled. A cryo-EM structure of the portal protein of thermostable virus P23-45, determined in situ in its procapsid-bound state, indicates a mechanism that naturally safeguards the virus against genome loss. This occurs via an inversion of the conformation of the loops that define the constriction in the central tunnel, accompanied by a hydrophilic-hydrophobic switch. The structure also shows how translocation of DNA into the capsid could be modulated by a changing mode of protein-protein interactions between portal and capsid, across a symmetry-mismatched interface.
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- Oliver W Bayfield
- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of YorkYorkUnited Kingdom
- Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of HealthBethesdaUnited States
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- York Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of YorkYorkUnited Kingdom
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Anterograde Viral Tracer Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Strain H129 Transports Primarily as Capsids in Cortical Neuron Axons. J Virol 2020; 94:JVI.01957-19. [PMID: 31969440 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01957-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The features of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) strain 129 (H129), including natural neurotropism and anterograde transneuronal trafficking, make it a potential tool for anterograde neural circuitry tracing. Recently anterograde polysynaptic and monosynaptic tracers were developed from H129 and have been applied for the identification of novel connections and functions of different neural circuitries. However, how H129 viral particles are transported in neurons, especially those of the central nervous system, remains unclear. In this study, we constructed recombinant H129 variants with mCherry-labeled capsids and/or green fluorescent protein (GFP)-labeled envelopes and infected the cortical neurons to study axonal transport of H129 viral particles. We found that different types of viral particles were unevenly distributed in the nucleus, cytoplasm of the cell body, and axon. Most H129 progeny particles were unenveloped capsids and were transported as capsids rather than virions in the axon. Notably, capsids acquired envelopes at axonal varicosities and terminals where the sites forming synapses are connected with other neurons. Moreover, viral capsids moved more frequently in the anterograde direction in axons, with an average velocity of 0.62 ± 0.18 μm/s and maximal velocity of 1.80 ± 0.15 μm/s. We also provided evidence that axonal transport of capsids requires the kinesin-1 molecular motor. These findings support that H129-derived tracers map the neural circuit anterogradely and possibly transsynaptically. These data will guide future modifications and improvements of H129-based anterograde viral tracers.IMPORTANCE Anterograde transneuronal tracers derived from herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) strain 129 (H129) are important tools for mapping neural circuit anatomic and functional connections. It is, therefore, critical to elucidate the transport pattern of H129 within neurons and between neurons. We constructed recombinant H129 variants with genetically encoded fluorescence-labeled capsid protein and/or glycoprotein to visualize viral particle movement in neurons. Both electron microscopy and light microscopy data show that H129 capsids and envelopes move separately, and notably, capsids are enveloped at axonal varicosity and terminals, which are the sites forming synapses to connect with other neurons. Superresolution microscopy-based colocalization analysis and inhibition of H129 particle movement by inhibitors of molecular motors support that kinesin-1 contributes to the anterograde transport of capsids. These results shed light into the mechanisms for anterograde transport of H129-derived tracer in axons and transmission between neurons via synapses, explaining the anterograde labeling of neural circuits by H129-derived tracers.
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Programming bulk enzyme heterojunctions for biosensor development with tetrahedral DNA framework. Nat Commun 2020; 11:838. [PMID: 32047166 PMCID: PMC7012893 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14664-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions are spatially regulated in living cells to realize high reaction efficiency, as seen in naturally existing electron-transfer chains. Nevertheless, arrangement of chemical/biochemical components at the artificial device interfaces does not possess the same level of control. Here we report a tetrahedral DNA framework-enabled bulk enzyme heterojunction (BEH) strategy to program the multi-enzyme catalytic cascade at the interface of electrochemical biosensors. The construction of interpenetrating network of BEH at the millimeter-scale electrode interface brings enzyme pairs within the critical coupling length (CCL) of ~10 nm, which in turn greatly improve the overall catalytic cascade efficiency by ~10-fold. We demonstrate the BEH generality with a range of enzyme pairs for electrochemically detecting clinically relevant molecular targets. As a proof of concept, a BEH-based sarcosine sensor enables single-step detection of the metabolic biomarker of sarcosine with ultrasensitivity, which hold the potential for precision diagnosis of early-stage prostate cancer. Tetrahedral DNA framework-enabled bulk enzyme heterojunctions have been used to program biosensor interfaces. Here, the authors use DNA tetrahedrons to tether enzymes of an enzymatic cascade to gold electrodes, hence raising them over the bulk solution, which led to improved kinetics and sensitivity.
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Boyer B, Danilowicz C, Prentiss M, Prévost C. Weaving DNA strands: structural insight on ATP hydrolysis in RecA-induced homologous recombination. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:7798-7808. [PMID: 31372639 PMCID: PMC6735932 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2019] [Revised: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Homologous recombination is a fundamental process in all living organisms that allows the faithful repair of DNA double strand breaks, through the exchange of DNA strands between homologous regions of the genome. Results of three decades of investigation and recent fruitful observations have unveiled key elements of the reaction mechanism, which proceeds along nucleofilaments of recombinase proteins of the RecA family. Yet, one essential aspect of homologous recombination has largely been overlooked when deciphering the mechanism: while ATP is hydrolyzed in large quantity during the process, how exactly hydrolysis influences the DNA strand exchange reaction at the structural level remains to be elucidated. In this study, we build on a previous geometrical approach that studied the RecA filament variability without bound DNA to examine the putative implication of ATP hydrolysis on the structure, position, and interactions of up to three DNA strands within the RecA nucleofilament. Simulation results on modeled intermediates in the ATP cycle bring important clues about how local distortions in the DNA strand geometries resulting from ATP hydrolysis can aid sequence recognition by promoting local melting of already formed DNA heteroduplex and transient reverse strand exchange in a weaving type of mechanism.
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- Benjamin Boyer
- CNRS, Université de Paris, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France.,Presently in Laboratoire Génomique Bioinformatique et Applications, EA4627, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 292 rue Saint Martin, 75003 Paris, France
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- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- CNRS, Université de Paris, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France.,Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique-Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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delToro D, Ortiz D, Ordyan M, Pajak J, Sippy J, Catala A, Oh CS, Vu A, Arya G, Smith DE, Catalano CE, Feiss M. Functional Dissection of a Viral DNA Packaging Machine's Walker B Motif. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:4455-4474. [PMID: 31473160 PMCID: PMC7416571 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Many viruses employ ATP-powered motors for genome packaging. We combined genetic, biochemical, and single-molecule techniques to confirm the predicted Walker-B ATP-binding motif in the phage λ motor and to investigate the roles of the conserved residues. Most changes of the conserved hydrophobic residues resulted in >107-fold decrease in phage yield, but we identified nine mutants with partial activity. Several were cold-sensitive, suggesting that mobility of the residues is important. Single-molecule measurements showed that the partially active A175L exhibits a small reduction in motor velocity and increase in slipping, consistent with a slowed ATP binding transition, whereas G176S exhibits decreased slipping, consistent with an accelerated transition. All changes to the conserved D178, predicted to coordinate Mg2+•ATP, were lethal except conservative change D178E. Biochemical interrogation of the inactive D178N protein found no folding or assembly defects and near-normal endonuclease activity, but a ∼200-fold reduction in steady-state ATPase activity, a lag in the single-turnover ATPase time course, and no DNA packaging, consistent with a critical role in ATP-coupled DNA translocation. Molecular dynamics simulations of related enzymes suggest that the aspartate plays an important role in enhancing the catalytic activity of the motor by bridging the Walker motifs and precisely contributing its charged group to help polarize the bound nucleotide. Supporting this prediction, single-molecule measurements revealed that change D178E reduces motor velocity without increasing slipping, consistent with a slowed hydrolysis step. Our studies thus illuminate the mechanistic roles of Walker-B residues in ATP binding, hydrolysis, and DNA translocation by this powerful motor.
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- Damian delToro
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
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Mohapatra S, Lin CT, Feng XA, Basu A, Ha T. Single-Molecule Analysis and Engineering of DNA Motors. Chem Rev 2019; 120:36-78. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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Multi-parameter measurements of conformational dynamics in nucleic acids and nucleoprotein complexes. Methods 2019; 169:69-77. [PMID: 31228549 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2019.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Biological macromolecules undergo dynamic conformational changes. Single-molecule methods can track such structural rearrangements in real time. However, while the structure of large macromolecules may change along many degrees of freedom, single-molecule techniques only monitor a limited number of these axes of motion. Advanced single-molecule methods are being developed to track multiple degrees of freedom in nucleic acids and nucleoprotein complexes at high resolution, to enable better manipulation and control of the system under investigation, and to collect measurements in massively parallel fashion. Combining complementary single-molecule methods within the same assay also provides unique measurement opportunities. Implementations of magnetic and optical tweezers combined with fluorescence and FRET have demonstrated results unattainable by either technique alone. Augmenting other advanced single-molecule methods with fluorescence detection will allow us to better capture the multidimensional dynamics of nucleic acids and nucleoprotein complexes central to biology.
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Ortiz D, delToro D, Ordyan M, Pajak J, Sippy J, Catala A, Oh CS, Vu A, Arya G, Feiss M, Smith DE, Catalano CE. Evidence that a catalytic glutamate and an 'Arginine Toggle' act in concert to mediate ATP hydrolysis and mechanochemical coupling in a viral DNA packaging motor. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:1404-1415. [PMID: 30541105 PMCID: PMC6379665 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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ASCE ATPases include ring-translocases such as cellular helicases and viral DNA packaging motors (terminases). These motors have conserved Walker A and B motifs that bind Mg2+-ATP and a catalytic carboxylate that activates water for hydrolysis. Here we demonstrate that Glu179 serves as the catalytic carboxylate in bacteriophage λ terminase and probe its mechanistic role. All changes of Glu179 are lethal: non-conservative changes abrogate ATP hydrolysis and DNA translocation, while the conservative E179D change attenuates ATP hydrolysis and alters single molecule translocation dynamics, consistent with a slowed chemical hydrolysis step. Molecular dynamics simulations of several homologous terminases suggest a novel mechanism, supported by experiments, wherein the conserved Walker A arginine ‘toggles’ between interacting with a glutamate residue in the ‘lid’ subdomain and the catalytic glutamate upon ATP binding; this switch helps mediate a transition from an ‘open’ state to a ‘closed’ state that tightly binds nucleotide and DNA, and also positions the catalytic glutamate next to the γ-phosphate to align the hydrolysis transition state. Concomitant reorientation of the lid subdomain may mediate mechanochemical coupling of ATP hydrolysis and DNA translocation. Given the strong conservation of these structural elements in terminase enzymes, this mechanism may be universal for viral packaging motors.
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- David Ortiz
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Biomolecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of free energy. They are utilized in nature to accomplish many cellular tasks. As isothermal nonequilibrium stochastic objects at low Reynolds number, they face a distinct set of challenges compared with more familiar human-engineered macroscopic machines. Here we review central questions in their performance as free energy transducers, outline theoretical and modeling approaches to understand these questions, identify both physical limits on their operational characteristics and design principles for improving performance, and discuss emerging areas of research.
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- Aidan I Brown
- Department of Physics , University of California, San Diego , La Jolla , California 92093 , United States
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- Department of Physics , Simon Fraser University , Burnaby , British Columbia V5A 1S6 , Canada
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Kosuri P, Altheimer BD, Dai M, Yin P, Zhuang X. Rotation tracking of genome-processing enzymes using DNA origami rotors. Nature 2019; 572:136-140. [PMID: 31316204 PMCID: PMC7036295 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1397-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Many genome-processing reactions, such as transcription, replication and repair, generate DNA rotation. Methods that directly measure DNA rotation, including rotor bead tracking1–3, angular optical trap4, and magnetic tweezers5 have helped unravel the action mechanisms of a range of genome-processing enzymes, such as RNA polymerase (RNAP)6, gyrase2, viral DNA packaging motor7, and DNA recombination enzymes8. However, despite the potential of rotation measurements to transform our understanding of genome-processing reactions, measuring DNA rotation remains a difficult task. The time resolution of existing methods is insufficient to track rotation induced by many enzymes under physiological conditions, and the measurement throughput is typically low. Here we introduce Origami-Rotor-Based Imaging and Tracking (ORBIT), a method that uses fluorescently labeled DNA origami rotors to track DNA rotation at the single-molecule level with millisecond time resolution. We used ORBIT to track DNA rotation resulted from unwinding by RecBCD, a helicase involved in DNA repair9, and transcription by RNAP. We characterized a series of events during RecBCD-induced DNA unwinding, including initiation, processive translocation, pausing and backtracking, and revealed an initiation mechanism that involves reversible, ATP-independent DNA unwinding and engagement of the RecB motor. During transcription by RNAP, we directly observed rotational steps corresponding to single-base-pair unwinding. We envision ORBIT will enable studies of a wide range of protein-DNA interactions.
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- Pallav Kosuri
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Graduate Program in Biophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Graduate Program in Biophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.,Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. .,Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Wasserman MR, Liu S. A Tour de Force on the Double Helix: Exploiting DNA Mechanics To Study DNA-Based Molecular Machines. Biochemistry 2019; 58:4667-4676. [PMID: 31251042 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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DNA is both a fundamental building block of life and a fascinating natural polymer. The advent of single-molecule manipulation tools made it possible to exert controlled force on individual DNA molecules and measure their mechanical response. Such investigations elucidated the elastic properties of DNA and revealed its distinctive structural configurations across force regimes. In the meantime, a detailed understanding of DNA mechanics laid the groundwork for single-molecule studies of DNA-binding proteins and DNA-processing enzymes that bend, stretch, and twist DNA. These studies shed new light on the metabolism and transactions of nucleic acids, which constitute a major part of the cell's operating system. Furthermore, the marriage of single-molecule fluorescence visualization and force manipulation has enabled researchers to directly correlate the applied tension to changes in the DNA structure and the behavior of DNA-templated complexes. Overall, experimental exploitation of DNA mechanics has been and will continue to be a unique and powerful strategy for understanding how molecular machineries recognize and modify the physical state of DNA to accomplish their biological functions.
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- Michael R Wasserman
- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry , The Rockefeller University , New York , New York 10065 , United States
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- Laboratory of Nanoscale Biophysics and Biochemistry , The Rockefeller University , New York , New York 10065 , United States
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Xu J, Wang D, Gui M, Xiang Y. Structural assembly of the tailed bacteriophage ϕ29. Nat Commun 2019; 10:2366. [PMID: 31147544 PMCID: PMC6542822 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10272-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 04/24/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The mature virion of the tailed bacteriophage ϕ29 is an ~33 MDa complex that contains more than 450 subunits of seven structural proteins assembling into a prolate head and a short non-contractile tail. Here, we report the near-atomic structures of the ϕ29 pre-genome packaging head (prohead), the mature virion and the genome-emptied virion. Structural comparisons suggest local rotation or oscillation of the head-tail connector upon DNA packaging and release. Termination of the DNA packaging occurs through pressure-dependent correlative positional and conformational changes in the connector. The funnel-shaped tail lower collar attaches the expanded narrow end of the connector and has a 180-Å long, 24-strand β barrel narrow stem tube that undergoes conformational changes upon genome release. The appendages form an interlocked assembly attaching the tail around the collar. The membrane active long loops at the distal end of the tail knob exit during the late stage of infection and form the cone-shaped tip of a largely hydrophobic helix barrel, prepared for membrane penetration. Mature particles of bacteriophage ϕ29 consist of a 33-MDa complex formed by over 450 subunits, assembled into a head and a short tail. Here, Xu et al. report the near-atomic structures of the ϕ29 prohead, the mature virion and the genome-emptied virion, providing insights into DNA packaging and release.
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- Jingwei Xu
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China.,Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China.,Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China.
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Sharp KA, Lu XJ, Cingolani G, Harvey SC. DNA Conformational Changes Play a Force-Generating Role during Bacteriophage Genome Packaging. Biophys J 2019; 116:2172-2180. [PMID: 31103227 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.02.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 02/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Motors that move DNA, or that move along DNA, play essential roles in DNA replication, transcription, recombination, and chromosome segregation. The mechanisms by which these DNA translocases operate remain largely unknown. Some double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses use an ATP-dependent motor to drive DNA into preformed capsids. These include several human pathogens as well as dsDNA bacteriophages-viruses that infect bacteria. We previously proposed that DNA is not a passive substrate of bacteriophage packaging motors but is instead an active component of the machinery. We carried out computational studies on dsDNA in the channels of viral portal proteins, and they reveal DNA conformational changes consistent with that hypothesis. dsDNA becomes longer ("stretched") in regions of high negative electrostatic potential and shorter ("scrunched") in regions of high positive potential. These results suggest a mechanism that electrostatically couples the energy released by ATP hydrolysis to DNA translocation: The chemical cycle of ATP binding, hydrolysis, and product release drives a cycle of protein conformational changes. This produces changes in the electrostatic potential in the channel through the portal, and these drive cyclic changes in the length of dsDNA as the phosphate groups respond to the protein's electrostatic potential. The DNA motions are captured by a coordinated protein-DNA grip-and-release cycle to produce DNA translocation. In short, the ATPase, portal, and dsDNA work synergistically to promote genome packaging.
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- Kim A Sharp
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Jardine PJ. Slow and steady wins the race: physical limits on the rate of viral DNA packaging. Curr Opin Virol 2019; 36:32-37. [PMID: 31003199 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2019.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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During the assembly of dsDNA viruses such as the tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses, the viral chromosome is compacted to near crystalline density inside a preformed head shell. DNA translocation is driven by powerful ring ATPase motors that couple ATP binding, hydrolysis, and release to force generation and movement. Studies of the motor of the bacteriophage phi29 have revealed a complex mechanochemistry behind this process that slows as the head fills. Recent studies of the physical behavior of packaging DNA suggest that surprisingly long-time scales of relaxation of DNA inside the head and jamming phenomena during packaging create the physical need for regulation of the rate of packaging. Studies of DNA packaging in viral systems have, therefore, revealed fundamental insight into the complex behavior of DNA and the need for biological systems to accommodate these physical constraints.
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- Paul J Jardine
- Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, 18-242 Moos Tower, 515 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
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Tafoya S, Bustamante C. Molecular switch-like regulation in motor proteins. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2019; 373:rstb.2017.0181. [PMID: 29735735 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Motor proteins are powered by nucleotide hydrolysis and exert mechanical work to carry out many fundamental biological tasks. To ensure their correct and efficient performance, the motors' activities are allosterically regulated by additional factors that enhance or suppress their NTPase activity. Here, we review two highly conserved mechanisms of ATP hydrolysis activation and repression operating in motor proteins-the glutamate switch and the arginine finger-and their associated regulatory factors. We examine the implications of these regulatory mechanisms in proteins that are formed by multiple ATPase subunits. We argue that the regulatory mechanisms employed by motor proteins display features similar to those described in small GTPases, which require external regulatory elements, such as dissociation inhibitors, exchange factors and activating proteins, to switch the protein's function 'on' and 'off'. Likewise, similar regulatory roles are taken on by the motor's substrate, additional binding factors, and even adjacent subunits in multimeric complexes. However, in motor proteins, more than one regulatory factor and the two mechanisms described here often underlie the machine's operation. Furthermore, ATPase regulation takes place throughout the motor's cycle, which enables a more complex function than the binary 'active' and 'inactive' states.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Allostery and molecular machines'.
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- Sara Tafoya
- Jason L. Choy Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics and Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Jason L. Choy Laboratory of Single Molecule Biophysics and Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA .,Departments of Molecular and Cell Biology, Physics and Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Using a system's equilibrium behavior to reduce its energy dissipation in nonequilibrium processes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:5920-5924. [PMID: 30867295 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817778116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cells must operate far from equilibrium, utilizing and dissipating energy continuously to maintain their organization and to avoid stasis and death. However, they must also avoid unnecessary waste of energy. Recent studies have revealed that molecular machines are extremely efficient thermodynamically compared with their macroscopic counterparts. However, the principles governing the efficient out-of-equilibrium operation of molecular machines remain a mystery. A theoretical framework has been recently formulated in which a generalized friction coefficient quantifies the energetic efficiency in nonequilibrium processes. Moreover, it posits that, to minimize energy dissipation, external control should drive the system along the reaction coordinate with a speed inversely proportional to the square root of that friction coefficient. Here, we demonstrate the utility of this theory for designing and understanding energetically efficient nonequilibrium processes through the unfolding and folding of single DNA hairpins.
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Zhang XC, Li H. Interplay between the electrostatic membrane potential and conformational changes in membrane proteins. Protein Sci 2019; 28:502-512. [PMID: 30549351 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2018] [Revised: 12/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Transmembrane electrostatic membrane potential is a major energy source of the cell. Importantly, it determines the structure as well as function of charge-carrying membrane proteins. Here, we discuss the relationship between membrane potential and membrane proteins, in particular whether the conformation of these proteins is integrally connected to the membrane potential. Together, these concepts provide a framework for rationalizing the types of conformational changes that have been observed in membrane proteins and for better understanding the electrostatic effects of the membrane potential on both reversible as well as unidirectional dynamic processes of membrane proteins.
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- Xuejun C Zhang
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Ordyan M, Alam I, Mahalingam M, Rao VB, Smith DE. Nucleotide-dependent DNA gripping and an end-clamp mechanism regulate the bacteriophage T4 viral packaging motor. Nat Commun 2018; 9:5434. [PMID: 30575768 PMCID: PMC6303390 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07834-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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ATP-powered viral packaging motors are among the most powerful biomotors known. Motor subunits arranged in a ring repeatedly grip and translocate the DNA to package viral genomes into capsids. Here, we use single DNA manipulation and rapid solution exchange to quantify how nucleotide binding regulates interactions between the bacteriophage T4 motor and DNA substrate. With no nucleotides, there is virtually no gripping and rapid slipping occurs with only minimal friction resisting. In contrast, binding of an ATP analog engages nearly continuous gripping. Occasional slips occur due to dissociation of the analog from a gripping motor subunit, or force-induced rupture of grip, but multiple other analog-bound subunits exert high friction that limits slipping. ADP induces comparably infrequent gripping and variable friction. Independent of nucleotides, slipping arrests when the end of the DNA is about to exit the capsid. This end-clamp mechanism increases the efficiency of packaging by making it essentially irreversible. Packaging of viral DNA depends on strong molecular motors that are powered by ATP hydrolysis. Here, the authors develop a single-molecule assay to monitor how nucleotide binding regulates motor-DNA interactions and reveal a generic mechanism that prevents exit of the whole DNA from the viral capsid during packaging.
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- Mariam Ordyan
- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0379, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0379, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. NE, Washington, DC, 20064, USA.
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0379, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0379, USA.
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Hill FR, van Oijen AM, Duderstadt KE. Detection of kinetic change points in piece-wise linear single molecule motion. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:123317. [PMID: 29604840 DOI: 10.1063/1.5009387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Single-molecule approaches present a powerful way to obtain detailed kinetic information at the molecular level. However, the identification of small rate changes is often hindered by the considerable noise present in such single-molecule kinetic data. We present a general method to detect such kinetic change points in trajectories of motion of processive single molecules having Gaussian noise, with a minimum number of parameters and without the need of an assumed kinetic model beyond piece-wise linearity of motion. Kinetic change points are detected using a likelihood ratio test in which the probability of no change is compared to the probability of a change occurring, given the experimental noise. A predetermined confidence interval minimizes the occurrence of false detections. Applying the method recursively to all sub-regions of a single molecule trajectory ensures that all kinetic change points are located. The algorithm presented allows rigorous and quantitative determination of kinetic change points in noisy single molecule observations without the need for filtering or binning, which reduce temporal resolution and obscure dynamics. The statistical framework for the approach and implementation details are discussed. The detection power of the algorithm is assessed using simulations with both single kinetic changes and multiple kinetic changes that typically arise in observations of single-molecule DNA-replication reactions. Implementations of the algorithm are provided in ImageJ plugin format written in Java and in the Julia language for numeric computing, with accompanying Jupyter Notebooks to allow reproduction of the analysis presented here.
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- Flynn R Hill
- Centre for Medical and Molecular Bioscience, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute and University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
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- Centre for Medical and Molecular Bioscience, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute and University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
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- Structure and Dynamics of Molecular Machines, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
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Gentry BG, Bogner E, Drach JC. Targeting the terminase: An important step forward in the treatment and prophylaxis of human cytomegalovirus infections. Antiviral Res 2018; 161:116-124. [PMID: 30472161 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Revised: 11/07/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A key step in the replication of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in the host cell is the generation and packaging of unit-length genomes into preformed capsids. Enzymes required for this process are so-called terminases, first described for double-stranded DNA bacteriophages. The HCMV terminase consists of the two subunits, the ATPase pUL56 and the nuclease pUL89, and a potential third component pUL51. The terminase subunits are essential for virus replication and are highly conserved throughout the Herpesviridae family. Together with the portal protein pUL104 they form a powerful biological nanomotor. It has been shown for tailed dsDNA bacteriophages that DNA translocation into preformed capsid needs an extraordinary amount of energy. The HCMV terminase subunit pUL56 provides the required ATP hydrolyzing activity. The necessary nuclease activity to cleave the concatemers into unit-length genomes is mediated by the terminase subunit pUL89. Whether this cleavage is mediated by site-specific duplex nicking has not been demonstrated, however, it is required for packaging. Binding to the portal is a prerequisite for DNA translocation. To date, it is a common view that during translocation the terminase moves along some domains of the DNA by a binding and release mechanism. These critical structures have proven to be outstanding targets for drugs to treat HCMV infections because corresponding structures do not exist in mammalian cells. Herein we examine the HCMV terminase as a target for drugs and review several inhibitors discovered by both lead-directed medicinal chemistry and by target-specific design. In addition to producing clinically active compounds the research also has furthered the understanding of the role and function of the terminase itself.
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- Brian G Gentry
- Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2507 University Ave., Des Moines, 50311, IA, USA.
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- Institute of Virology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
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- University of Michigan School of Dentistry, 1101 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor, 48109, MI, USA.
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