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Ishikawa F, Homma M, Tanabe G, Uchihashi T. Protein degradation by a component of the chaperonin-linked protease ClpP. Genes Cells 2024. [PMID: 38965067 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.13141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Revised: 06/03/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/06/2024]
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In cells, proteins are synthesized, function, and degraded (dead). Protein synthesis (spring) is important for the life of proteins. However, how proteins die is equally important for organisms. Proteases are secreted from cells and used as nutrients to break down external proteins. Proteases degrade unwanted and harmful cellular proteins. In eukaryotes, a large enzyme complex called the proteasome is primarily responsible for cellular protein degradation. Prokaryotes, such as bacteria, have similar protein degradation systems. In this review, we describe the structure and function of the ClpXP complex in the degradation system, which is an ATP-dependent protease in bacterial cells, with a particular focus on ClpP.
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
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- Division of Material Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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Liu J, Wang J, Zhang Z, Bai Q, Pan X, Chen R, Yao H, Yu Y, Ma J. Streptococcus suis Deploys Multiple ATP-Dependent Proteases for Heat Stress Adaptation. J Basic Microbiol 2024:e2400030. [PMID: 39031597 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.202400030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2024] [Revised: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 05/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/22/2024]
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Streptococcus suis is an important zoonotic pathogen, causing cytokine storms of Streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome amongst humans after a wound infection into the bloodstream. To overcome the challenges of fever and leukocyte recruitment, invasive S. suis must deploy multiple stress responses forming a network and utilize proteases to degrade short-lived regulatory and misfolded proteins induced by adverse stresses, thereby adapting and evading host immune responses. In this study, we found that S. suis encodes multiple ATP-dependent proteases, including single-chain FtsH and double-subunit Clp protease complexes ClpAP, ClpBP, ClpCP, and ClpXP, which were activated as the fever of infected mice in vivo. The expression of genes ftsH, clpA/B/C, and clpP, but not clpX, were significantly upregulated in S. suis in response to heat stress, while were not changed notably under the treatments with several other stresses, including oxidative, acidic, and cold stimulation. FtsH and ClpP were required for S. suis survival within host blood under heat stress in vitro and in vivo. Deletion of ftsH or clpP attenuated the tolerance of S. suis to heat, oxidative and acidic stresses, and significantly impaired the bacterial survival within macrophages. Further analysis identified that repressor CtsR directly binds and controls the clpA/B/C and clpP operons and is relieved by heat stress. In summary, the deployments of multiple ATP-dependent proteases form a flexible heat stress response network that appears to allow S. suis to fine-tune the degradation or refolding of the misfolded proteins to maintain cellular homeostasis and optimal survival during infection.
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- Jianan Liu
- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- Suzhou Xiangcheng Fisheries Technology Promotion Center, Suzhou Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, Suzhou, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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Ishikawa F, Homma M, Tanabe G, Uchihashi T. [Protein degradation in bacteria: focus on the ClpP protease]. Nihon Saikingaku Zasshi 2024; 79:1-13. [PMID: 38382970 DOI: 10.3412/jsb.79.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Proteins in the cells are born (synthesized), work, and die (decomposed). In the life of a protein, its birth is obviously important, but how it dies is equally important in living organisms. Proteases secreted into the outside of cells are used to decompose the external proteins and the degradation products are taken as the nutrients. On the other hand, there are also proteases that decompose unnecessary or harmful proteins which are generated in the cells. In eukaryotes, a large enzyme complex called the proteasome is primarily responsible for degradation of such proteins. Bacteria, which are prokaryotes, have a similar system as the proteasome. We would like to explain the bacterial degradation system of proteins or the death of proteins, which is performed by ATP-dependent protease Clp, with a particular focus on the ClpXP complex, and with an aspect as a target for antibiotics against bacteria.
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- Division of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University
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Genome-Wide Transposon Mutagenesis Screens Identify Group A Streptococcus Genes Affecting Susceptibility to β-Lactam Antibiotics. J Bacteriol 2022; 204:e0028722. [PMID: 36374114 PMCID: PMC9765115 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00287-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a Gram-positive human bacterial pathogen responsible for more than 700 million infections annually worldwide. Beta-lactam antibiotics are the primary agents used to treat GAS infections. Naturally occurring GAS clinical isolates with decreased susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics attributed to mutations in PBP2X have recently been documented. This prompted us to perform a genome-wide screen to identify GAS genes that alter beta-lactam susceptibility in vitro. Using saturated transposon mutagenesis, we screened for GAS gene mutations conferring altered in vitro susceptibility to penicillin G and/or ceftriaxone, two beta-lactam antibiotics commonly used to treat GAS infections. In the aggregate, we found that inactivating mutations in 150 GAS genes are associated with altered susceptibility to penicillin G and/or ceftriaxone. Many of the genes identified were previously not known to alter beta-lactam susceptibility or affect cell wall biosynthesis. Using isogenic mutant strains, we confirmed that inactivation of clpX (Clp protease ATP-binding subunit) or cppA (CppA proteinase) resulted in decreased in vitro susceptibility to penicillin G and ceftriaxone. Deletion of murA1 (UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyltransferase) conferred increased susceptibility to ceftriaxone. Our results provide new information about the GAS genes affecting susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics. IMPORTANCE Beta-lactam antibiotics are the primary drugs prescribed to treat infections caused by group A streptococcus (GAS), an important human pathogen. However, the molecular mechanisms of GAS interactions with beta-lactam antibiotics are not fully understood. In this study, we performed a genome-wide mutagenesis screen to identify GAS mutations conferring altered susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics. In the aggregate, we discovered that mutations in 150 GAS genes were associated with altered beta-lactam susceptibility. Many identified genes were previously not known to alter beta-lactam susceptibility or affect cell wall biosynthesis. Our results provide new information about the molecular mechanisms of GAS interaction with beta-lactam antibiotics.
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Dong S, Chen H, Zhou Q, Liao N. Protein degradation control and regulation of bacterial survival and pathogenicity: the role of protein degradation systems in bacteria. Mol Biol Rep 2021; 48:7575-7585. [PMID: 34655017 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-021-06744-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Protein degradation systems play crucial roles in all the kingdoms of life. Their natural function is to eliminate proteins that are improperly synthesized, damaged, aggregated, or short-lived, ensuring the timely and accurate regulation of the response to abrupt environmental changes. Thus, proteolysis plays an important role in protein homeostasis, quality control, and the control of regulatory processes, such as adaptation and cell development. Except for the lysosome, ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities (AAA+) ATPase-protease complex is another major protein degradation system in the cell. METHODS AND RESULTS The AAA+ ATPase-protease complex is a giant energy-dependent protease complex found in almost all kinds of cells, including bacteria, archaea and eukarya. Based on sequence analysis of ClpQ (HslV) and 20S proteasome beta subunits, it was found that bacterial ClpQ possess multiple same highly conserved motifs with 20S proteasome beta subunits of archaea and eukaryote. In this review, we also discussed the structure and functional mechanism, protein degradation signals and pathogenic role of proteasome / Clp protease complex in prokaryotes. CONCLUSION Bacterial protein degradation systems play important roles in stress tolerance, protein quality control, DNA protection, transcription and pathogenicity of bacteria. But our current knowledge of the bacterial protease system is incomplete, and further research into the Clp protease complex and associated protein degradation signals will extend our understanding of the metabolism, physiology, reproduction, and pathogenicity of bacteria.
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- Shilei Dong
- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhejiang Hospital, Hangzhou, 310013, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, 310051, China
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hangzhou Women's Hospital (Hangzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital), Hangzhou, 310008, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China.
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The Division Defect of a Bacillus subtilis minD noc Double Mutant Can Be Suppressed by Spx-Dependent and Spx-Independent Mechanisms. J Bacteriol 2021; 203:e0024921. [PMID: 34181483 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00249-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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During growth, bacteria increase in size and divide. Division is initiated by the formation of the Z-ring, a ring-like cytoskeletal structure formed by treadmilling protofilaments of the tubulin homolog FtsZ. FtsZ localization is thought to be controlled by the Min and Noc systems, and here we explore why cell division fails at high temperature when the Min and Noc systems are simultaneously mutated. Microfluidic analysis of a minD noc double mutant indicated that FtsZ formed proto-Z-rings at periodic interchromosome locations but that the rings failed to mature and become functional. Extragenic suppressor analysis indicated that a variety of mutations restored high temperature growth to the minD noc double mutant, and while many were likely pleiotropic, others implicated the proteolysis of the transcription factor Spx. Further analysis indicated that a Spx-dependent pathway activated the expression of ZapA, a protein that primarily compensates for the absence of Noc. In addition, an Spx-independent pathway reduced the length of the cytokinetic period, perhaps by increasing divisome activity. Finally, we provide evidence of an as-yet-unidentified protein that is activated by Spx and governs the frequency of polar division and minicell formation. IMPORTANCE Bacteria must properly position the location of the cell division machinery in order to grow, divide, and ensure each daughter cell receives one copy of the chromosome. In Bacillus subtilis, cell division site selection depends on the Min and Noc systems, and while neither is individually essential, cells fail to grow at high temperature when both are mutated. Here, we show that cell division fails in the absence of Min and Noc, due not to a defect in FtsZ localization but rather to a failure in the maturation of the cell division machinery. Suppressor mutations that restored growth were selected, and while some activated the expression of ZapA via the Spx stress response pathway, others appeared to directly enhance divisome activity.
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Aguilar Lucero D, Cantoia A, Sánchez-López C, Binolfi A, Mogk A, Ceccarelli EA, Rosano GL. Structural features of the plant N-recognin ClpS1 and sequence determinants in its targets that govern substrate selection. FEBS Lett 2021; 595:1525-1541. [PMID: 33792910 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Revised: 03/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In the N-degron pathway of protein degradation of Escherichia coli, the N-recognin ClpS identifies substrates bearing N-terminal phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan, or leucine and delivers them to the caseinolytic protease (Clp). Chloroplasts contain the Clp system, but whether chloroplastic ClpS1 adheres to the same constraints is unknown. Moreover, the structural underpinnings of substrate recognition are not completely defined. We show that ClpS1 recognizes canonical residues of the E. coli N-degron pathway. The residue in second position influences recognition (especially in N-terminal ends starting with leucine). N-terminal acetylation abrogates recognition. ClpF, a ClpS1-interacting partner, does not alter its specificity. Substrate binding provokes local remodeling of residues in the substrate-binding cavity of ClpS1. Our work strongly supports the existence of a chloroplastic N-degron pathway.
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- Dianela Aguilar Lucero
- CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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- CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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- CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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- CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.,Plataforma Argentina de Biología Estructural y Metabolómica (PLABEM), Rosario, Argentina
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- DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany
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- CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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- CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
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Functional cooperativity between the trigger factor chaperone and the ClpXP proteolytic complex. Nat Commun 2021; 12:281. [PMID: 33436616 PMCID: PMC7804408 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20553-x] [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: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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A functional association is uncovered between the ribosome-associated trigger factor (TF) chaperone and the ClpXP degradation complex. Bioinformatic analyses demonstrate conservation of the close proximity of tig, the gene coding for TF, and genes coding for ClpXP, suggesting a functional interaction. The effect of TF on ClpXP-dependent degradation varies based on the nature of substrate. While degradation of some substrates are slowed down or are unaffected by TF, surprisingly, TF increases the degradation rate of a third class of substrates. These include λ phage replication protein λO, master regulator of stationary phase RpoS, and SsrA-tagged proteins. Globally, TF acts to enhance the degradation of about 2% of newly synthesized proteins. TF is found to interact through multiple sites with ClpX in a highly dynamic fashion to promote protein degradation. This chaperone-protease cooperation constitutes a unique and likely ancestral aspect of cellular protein homeostasis in which TF acts as an adaptor for ClpXP.
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Callahan BP, Ciulla DA, Wagner AG, Xu Z, Zhang X. Specificity Distorted: Chemical Induction of Biological Paracatalysis. Biochemistry 2020; 59:3517-3522. [PMID: 32931253 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We define paracatalysis as the acceleration of a reaction that appears abnormal or nonphysiological. With the high specificity of enzymes, side reactivity of this kind is typically negligible. However, enzyme paracatalysis can be amplified to levels that are biologically significant through interactions with a special class of small molecule "antagonist", here termed a paracatalytic inducer. Compounds with this unusual mode of action tend to be natural products, identified by chance through phenotypic screens. In this Perspective, we suggest two general types of paracatalytic inducer. The first type promotes substrate ambiguity, where the enzyme's ground state selectivity is compromised, enabling the transformation of non-native substrates. The second type involves transition state ambiguity, where the paracatalytic inducer changes the enzyme's interactions with the activated substrate, giving rise to non-native bond making. Although they are unusual, small molecules that induce paracatalysis have established value as hypothesis-generating probes and a few substances, i.e., aspirin and the aminoglycosides, have proven to be translatable as medicines.
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- Brian P Callahan
- Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, the State University of New York, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, the State University of New York, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, the State University of New York, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, the State University of New York, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Binghamton University, the State University of New York, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, New York 13902, United States
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Li CE, Liao CT, Lo HH, Hsiao YM. Functional Characterization and Transcriptional Analysis of clpP of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. Curr Microbiol 2020; 77:2876-2885. [PMID: 32623486 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-020-02093-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The caseinolytic protease (Clp) system is essential for survival under stress conditions and for virulence in several pathogenic bacteria. Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is a plant pathogen which causes black rot disease in crucifers. In this study, the Xcc clpP gene which is annotated to encode the proteolytic core of Clp was characterized. Mutation of clpP resulted in susceptibility to high temperature and puromycin stresses. Site-directed mutagenesis revealed that S105, H130, and D179 are critical amino acid residues for ClpP function in puromycin tolerance. Inactivation of clpP also revealed an attenuation of virulence on the host plant and a reduction in the production of extracellular cellulase, mannanase, pectinase, and protease. The affected phenotypes of the clpP mutant could be complemented to wild-type levels by the intact clpP gene. Transcriptional analysis revealed that expression of clpP is induced under heat shock condition.
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- Chih-En Li
- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, 406, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, 406, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, 406, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, 406, Taiwan.
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Synonymous codon substitutions perturb cotranslational protein folding in vivo and impair cell fitness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:3528-3534. [PMID: 32015130 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907126117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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In the cell, proteins are synthesized from N to C terminus and begin to fold during translation. Cotranslational folding mechanisms are therefore linked to elongation rate, which varies as a function of synonymous codon usage. However, synonymous codon substitutions can affect many distinct cellular processes, which has complicated attempts to deconvolve the extent to which synonymous codon usage can promote or frustrate proper protein folding in vivo. Although previous studies have shown that some synonymous changes can lead to different final structures, other substitutions will likely be more subtle, perturbing predominantly the protein folding pathway without radically altering the final structure. Here we show that synonymous codon substitutions encoding a single essential enzyme lead to dramatically slower cell growth. These mutations do not prevent active enzyme formation; instead, they predominantly alter the protein folding mechanism, leading to enhanced degradation in vivo. These results support a model in which synonymous codon substitutions can impair cell fitness by significantly perturbing cotranslational protein folding mechanisms, despite the chaperoning provided by the cellular protein homeostasis network.
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The functional ClpXP protease of Chlamydia trachomatis requires distinct clpP genes from separate genetic loci. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14129. [PMID: 31575885 PMCID: PMC6773864 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50505-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Accepted: 09/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Clp proteases play a central role in bacterial physiology and, for some bacterial species, are even essential for survival. Also due to their conservation among bacteria including important human pathogens, Clp proteases have recently attracted considerable attention as antibiotic targets. Here, we functionally reconstituted and characterized the ClpXP protease of Chlamydia trachomatis (ctClpXP), an obligate intracellular pathogen and the causative agent of widespread sexually transmitted diseases in humans. Our in vitro data show that ctClpXP is formed by a hetero-tetradecameric proteolytic core, composed of two distinct homologs of ClpP (ctClpP1 and ctClpP2), that associates with the unfoldase ctClpX via ctClpP2 for regulated protein degradation. Antibiotics of the ADEP class interfere with protease functions by both preventing the interaction of ctClpX with ctClpP1P2 and activating the otherwise dormant proteolytic core for unregulated proteolysis. Thus, our results reveal molecular insight into ctClpXP function, validating this protease as an antibacterial target.
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Dhara A, Hussain MS, Datta D, Kumar M. Insights to the Assembly of a Functionally Active Leptospiral ClpP1P2 Protease Complex along with Its ATPase Chaperone ClpX. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:12880-12895. [PMID: 31460415 PMCID: PMC6682002 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b00399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Leptospira interrogans genome is predicted to encode multiple isoforms of caseinolytic proteases (ClpP1 and ClpP2). The ClpP proteins with the aid of its ATPase chaperone are known to be involved in establishing cellular proteostasis and have emerged as a target for developing new antibiotics. We report the molecular characterization of recombinant ClpP1 (rClpP1) and rClpP2 of Leptospira along with its ATPase chaperone rClpX. The two isoforms of rClpPs when coupled together in an equivalent concentration exhibit optimum activity on small fluorogenic peptide substrates, whereas the pure rClpP isoforms are enzymatically inactive. Isothermal titration calorimetry analysis suggests that the two rClpP isoforms bind each other moderately in a 1:1 stoichiometry with a dissociation constant of 2.02 ± 0.1 μM at 37 °C and is thermodynamically favored. Size exclusion chromatography fractionates the majority of pure rClpP1 at ≥308 kDa (14-21-mer) and the pure rClpP2 at 308 kDa (tetradecamer), whereas the functionally active rClpP isoform mixture fractionates as a tetradecamer. The distinct and unprecedented oligomeric form of rClpP1 was also evident through native-gel and dynamic light scattering. Moreover, the rClpP isoform mixture formed after the site-directed mutation of either or both the isoforms at one of the catalytic triad residues (Ser 98/97 to Ala 98/97) resulted in the complete loss of protease activity. The rClpP isoform mixture gets stimulated to degrade the casein substrate in the presence of rClpX and in an energy-dependent manner. On the contrary, pure rClpP1 or the rClpP2 isoform in association with rClpX are incapable of forming operative protease. The reported finding suggests that in Leptospira, the enzymatic activity of the rClpP protease complex in the presence or absence of cochaperone is performed solely by the tetradecamer structure which is hypothesized to be composed of 2-stacked ClpP heptameric rings, wherein each ring is a homo-oligomer of ClpP1 and ClpP2 subunits. Understanding the activities and regulation principle of multi-isoforms of ClpP in pathogenic bacteria may aid in intervening disease outcomes particularly to the co-evolving antibiotic resistance strains.
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- E-mail: . Phone: +91-361-258-2230. Fax: +91-361-258-2249
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Escherichia coli mazEF is an extensively studied stress-induced toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. The toxin MazF is an endoribonuclease that cleaves RNAs at ACA sites. By that means, under stress, the induced MazF generates a stress-induced translation machinery (STM) composed of MazF-processed mRNAs and selective ribosomes that specifically translate the processed mRNAs. Here, we performed a proteomic analysis of all the E. coli stress-induced proteins that are mediated through the chromosomally borne mazF gene. We show that the mRNAs of almost all of them are characterized by the presence of an ACA site up to 100 nucleotides upstream of the AUG initiator. Therefore, under stressful conditions, induced MazF processes mRNAs that are translated by STM. Furthermore, the presence of the ACA sites far upstream (up to 100 nucleotides) of the AUG initiator may still permit translation by the canonical translation machinery. Thus, such dual-translation mechanisms enable the bacterium under stress also to prepare proteins for immediate functions while coming back to normal growth conditions.IMPORTANCE The stress response, the strategy that bacteria have developed in order to cope up with all kinds of adverse conditions, is so far understood at the level of transcription. Our previous findings of a uniquely modified stress-induced translation machinery (STM) generated in E. coli under stress by the endoribonucleolytic activity of the toxin MazF opens a new chapter in understanding microbial physiology under stress at the translational level. Here, we performed a proteomic analysis of all the E. coli stress-induced proteins that are mediated by chromosomally borne MazF through STM.
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The Protease ClpXP and the PAS Domain Protein DivL Regulate CtrA and Gene Transfer Agent Production in Rhodobacter capsulatus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.00275-18. [PMID: 29625982 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00275-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Several members of the Rhodobacterales (Alphaproteobacteria) produce a conserved horizontal gene transfer vector, called the gene transfer agent (GTA), that appears to have evolved from a bacteriophage. The model system used to study GTA biology is the Rhodobacter capsulatus GTA (RcGTA), a small, tailed bacteriophage-like particle produced by a subset of the cells in a culture. The response regulator CtrA is conserved in the Alphaproteobacteria and is an essential regulator of RcGTA production: it controls the production and maturation of the RcGTA particle and RcGTA release from cells. CtrA also controls the natural transformation-like system required for cells to receive RcGTA-donated DNA. Here, we report that dysregulation of the CckA-ChpT-CtrA phosphorelay either by the loss of the PAS domain protein DivL or by substitution of the autophosphorylation residue of the hybrid histidine kinase CckA decreased CtrA phosphorylation and greatly increased RcGTA protein production in R. capsulatus We show that the loss of the ClpXP protease or the three C-terminal residues of CtrA results in increased CtrA levels in R. capsulatus and identify ClpX(P) to be essential for the maturation of RcGTA particles. Furthermore, we show that CtrA phosphorylation is important for head spike production. Our results provide novel insight into the regulation of CtrA and GTAs in the RhodobacteralesIMPORTANCE Members of the Rhodobacterales are abundant in ocean and freshwater environments. The conserved GTA produced by many Rhodobacterales may have an important role in horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in aquatic environments and provide a significant contribution to their adaptation. GTA production is controlled by bacterial regulatory systems, including the conserved CckA-ChpT-CtrA phosphorelay; however, several questions about GTA regulation remain. Our identification that a short DivL homologue and ClpXP regulate CtrA in R. capsulatus extends the model of CtrA regulation from Caulobacter crescentus to a member of the Rhodobacterales We found that the magnitude of RcGTA production greatly depends on DivL and CckA kinase activity, adding yet another layer of regulatory complexity to RcGTA. RcGTA is known to undergo CckA-dependent maturation, and we extend the understanding of this process by showing that the ClpX chaperone is required for formation of tailed, DNA-containing particles.
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Reduction in adaptor amounts establishes degradation hierarchy among protease substrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E4483-E4492. [PMID: 29686082 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1722246115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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ATP-dependent proteases control critical cellular processes, including development, physiology, and virulence. A given protease may recognize a substrate directly via an unfoldase domain or subunit or indirectly via an adaptor that delivers the substrate to the unfoldase. We now report that cells achieve differential stability among substrates of a given protease by modulating adaptor amounts. We establish that the regulatory protein PhoP represses transcription of the gene specifying the ClpAP protease adaptor ClpS when the bacteria Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli experience low cytoplasmic Mg2+ The resulting decrease in ClpS amounts diminishes proteolysis of several ClpSAP-dependent substrates, including the putrescine aminotransferase Oat, which heightens the formation of antibiotic persisters, and the transcriptional regulators UvrY and PhoP, which alter the expression of genes controlled by these proteins. By contrast, the decrease in ClpS amounts did not impact the abundance of the ClpSAP substrate FtsA, reflecting that FtsA binds to ClpS more tightly than to UvrY and PhoP. Our findings show how physiological conditions that reduce adaptor amounts modify the abundance of selected substrates of a given protease.
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Vass RH, Nascembeni J, Chien P. The Essential Role of ClpXP in Caulobacter crescentus Requires Species Constrained Substrate Specificity. Front Mol Biosci 2017; 4:28. [PMID: 28536693 PMCID: PMC5422525 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2017.00028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The ClpXP protease is a highly conserved AAA+ degradation machine that is present throughout bacteria and in eukaryotic organelles. ClpXP is essential in some bacteria, such as Caulobacter crescentus, but dispensible in others, such as Escherichia coli. In Caulobacter, ClpXP normally degrades the SocB toxin and increased levels of SocB result in cell death. ClpX can be deleted in cells lacking this toxin, but these ΔclpX strains are still profoundly deficient in morphology and growth supporting the existence of additional important functions for ClpXP. In this work, we characterize aspects of ClpX crucial for its cellular function. Specifically, we show that although the E. coli ClpX functions with the Caulobacter ClpP in vitro, this variant cannot complement wildtype activity in vivo. Chimeric studies suggest that the N-terminal domain of ClpX plays a crucial, species-specific role in maintaining normal growth. We find that one defect of Caulobacter lacking the proper species of ClpX is the failure to properly proteolytically process the replication clamp loader subunit DnaX. Consistent with this, growth of ΔclpX cells is improved upon expression of a shortened form of DnaX in trans. This work reveals that a broadly conserved protease can acquire highly specific functions in different species and further reinforces the critical nature of the N-domain of ClpX in substrate choice.
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- Robert H Vass
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of MassachusettsAmherst, MA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of MassachusettsAmherst, MA, USA
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- Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of MassachusettsAmherst, MA, USA.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of MassachusettsAmherst, MA, USA
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Decker AR, Ramamurthi KS. Cell Death Pathway That Monitors Spore Morphogenesis. Trends Microbiol 2017; 25:637-647. [PMID: 28408070 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/06/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The use of quality control mechanisms to stall developmental pathways or completely remove defective cells from a population is a widespread strategy to ensure the integrity of morphogenetic programs. Endospore formation (sporulation) is a well conserved microbial developmental strategy in the Firmicutes phylum wherein a progenitor cell that faces starvation differentiates to form a dormant spore. Despite the conservation of this strategy, it has been unclear what selective pressure maintains the fitness of this developmental program, composed of hundreds of unique genes, during multiple rounds of vegetative growth when sporulation is not required. Recently, a quality control pathway was discovered in Bacillus subtilis which monitors the assembly of the spore envelope and specifically eliminates, through cell lysis, sporulating cells that assemble the envelope incorrectly. Here, we review the use of checkpoints that govern the entry into sporulation in B. subtilis and discuss how the use of regulated cell death pathways during bacterial development may help maintain the fidelity of the sporulation program in the species.
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- Amanda R Decker
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Xu Z, Zhang S, Weber JK, Luan B, Zhou R, Li J. Sequential protein unfolding through a carbon nanotube pore. NANOSCALE 2016; 8:12143-12151. [PMID: 26899409 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr00410e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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An assortment of biological processes, like protein degradation and the transport of proteins across membranes, depend on protein unfolding events mediated by nanopore interfaces. In this work, we exploit fully atomistic simulations of an artificial, CNT-based nanopore to investigate the nature of ubiquitin unfolding. With one end of the protein subjected to an external force, we observe non-canonical unfolding behaviour as ubiquitin is pulled through the pore opening. Secondary structural elements are sequentially detached from the protein and threaded into the nanotube, interestingly, the remaining part maintains native-like characteristics. The constraints of the nanopore interface thus facilitate the formation of stable "unfoldon" motifs above the nanotube aperture that can exist in the absence of specific native contacts with the other secondary structure. Destruction of these unfoldons gives rise to distinct force peaks in our simulations, providing us with a sensitive probe for studying the kinetics of serial unfolding events. Our detailed analysis of nanopore-mediated protein unfolding events not only provides insight into how related processes might proceed in the cell, but also serves to deepen our understanding of structural arrangements which form the basis for protein conformational stability.
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- Zhonghe Xu
- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA
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- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA
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- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598, USA and Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Pressler K, Vorkapic D, Lichtenegger S, Malli G, Barilich BP, Cakar F, Zingl FG, Reidl J, Schild S. AAA+ proteases and their role in distinct stages along the Vibrio cholerae lifecycle. Int J Med Microbiol 2016; 306:452-62. [PMID: 27345492 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2016.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2016] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The facultative human pathogen Vibrio cholerae has to adapt to different environmental conditions along its lifecycle by means of transcriptional, translational and post-translational regulation. This study provides a first comprehensive analysis regarding the contribution of the cytoplasmic AAA+ proteases Lon, ClpP and HslV to distinct features of V. cholerae behaviour, including biofilm formation, motility, cholera toxin expression and colonization fitness in the mouse model. While absence of HslV did not yield to any altered phenotype compared to wildtype, absence of Lon or ClpP resulted in significantly reduced colonization in vivo. In addition, a Δlon deletion mutant showed altered biofilm formation and increased motility, which could be correlated with higher expression of V. cholerae flagella gene class IV. Concordantly, we could show by immunoblot analysis, that Lon is the main protease responsible for proteolytic control of FliA, which is required for class IV flagella gene transcription, but also downregulates virulence gene expression. FliA becomes highly sensitive to proteolytic degradation in absence of its anti-sigma factor FlgM, a scenario reported to occur during mucosal penetration due to FlgM secretion through the broken flagellum. Our results confirm that the high stability of FliA in the absence of Lon results in less cholera toxin and toxin corgulated pilus production under virulence gene inducing conditions and in the presence of a damaged flagellum. Thus, the data presented herein provide a molecular explanation on how V. cholerae can achieve full expression of virulence genes during early stages of colonization, despite FliA getting liberated from the anti-sigma factor FlgM.
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- Katharina Pressler
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Humboldtstraße 50, A-8010 Graz, Austria.
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Lin J, Lucius AL. Examination of ClpB Quaternary Structure and Linkage to Nucleotide Binding. Biochemistry 2016; 55:1758-71. [PMID: 26891079 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Escherichia coli caseinolytic peptidase B (ClpB) is a molecular chaperone with the unique ability to catalyze protein disaggregation in collaboration with the KJE system of chaperones. Like many AAA+ molecular motors, ClpB assembles into hexameric rings, and this reaction is thermodynamically linked to nucleotide binding. Here we show that ClpB exists in a dynamic equilibrium of monomers, dimers, tetramers, and hexamers in the presence of both limiting and excess ATPγS. We find that ClpB monomer is only able to bind one nucleotide, whereas all 12 sites in the hexameric ring are bound by nucleotide at saturating concentrations. Interestingly, dimers and tetramers exhibit stoichiometries of ∼3 and 7, respectively, which is one fewer than the maximum number of binding sites in the formed oligomer. This observation suggests an open conformation for the intermediates based on the need for an adjacent monomer to fully form the binding pocket. We also report the protein-protein interaction constants for dimers, tetramers, and hexamers and their dependencies on nucleotide. These interaction constants make it possible to predict the concentration of hexamers present and able to bind to cochaperones and polypeptide substrates. Such information is essential for the interpretation of many in vitro studies. Finally, the strategies presented here are broadly applicable to a large number of AAA+ molecular motors that assemble upon nucleotide binding and interact with partner proteins.
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- JiaBei Lin
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama at Birmingham , 1530 Third Avenue S, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1240, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Alabama at Birmingham , 1530 Third Avenue S, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-1240, United States
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Tan IS, Weiss CA, Popham DL, Ramamurthi KS. A Quality-Control Mechanism Removes Unfit Cells from a Population of Sporulating Bacteria. Dev Cell 2015; 34:682-93. [PMID: 26387458 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2015] [Revised: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Recent discoveries of regulated cell death in bacteria have led to speculation about possible benefits that apoptosis-like pathways may confer to single-celled organisms. However, establishing how these pathways provide increased ecological fitness has remained difficult to determine. Here, we report a pathway in Bacillus subtilis in which regulated cell death maintains the fidelity of sporulation through selective removal of cells that misassemble the spore envelope. The spore envelope, which protects the dormant spore's genome from environmental insults, uses the protein SpoIVA as a scaffold for assembly. We found that disrupting envelope assembly activates a cell death pathway wherein the small protein CmpA acts as an adaptor to the AAA+ ClpXP protease to degrade SpoIVA, thereby halting sporulation and resulting in lysis of defective sporulating cells. We propose that removal of unfit cells from a population of terminally differentiating cells protects against evolutionary deterioration and ultimately loss of the sporulation program.
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- Irene S Tan
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; NIH-Johns Hopkins University Graduate Partnership Program, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Baig UI, Bhadbhade BJ, Watve MG. Evolution of aging and death: what insights bacteria can provide. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 2014; 89:209-23. [PMID: 25195317 DOI: 10.1086/677572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Several unresolved issues, paradoxes, and information voids characterize the field of evolution of aging. The recent discovery of aging-like phenomenon in Escherichia coli, marked by asymmetric segregation of damaged components, particularly protein aggregates, has created a number of new possibilities that remain underexplored. Bacterial systems can potentially throw light on issues such as: whether evolution of aging and evolution of death are different phenomena; whether aging is inevitable for life or is an evolved strategy; whether there could be selection for aging or aging is a pleiotropic effect of some other selection; what are the possible mechanisms of antagonistic pleiotropy, if any; and whether there are mechanisms of aging that are conserved throughout the hierarchy of life. Bacterial aging itself is underexplored and least understood as of now, but even scratching the surface appears to reveal things that may compel us to revise some of the classical concepts about evolution of aging. This warrants more focused and innovative inquiry into aging-like processes in bacteria.
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Camberg JL, Viola MG, Rea L, Hoskins JR, Wickner S. Location of dual sites in E. coli FtsZ important for degradation by ClpXP; one at the C-terminus and one in the disordered linker. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94964. [PMID: 24722340 PMCID: PMC3983244 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2013] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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ClpXP is a two-component ATP-dependent protease that unfolds and degrades proteins bearing specific recognition signals. One substrate degraded by Escherichia coli ClpXP is FtsZ, an essential cell division protein. FtsZ forms polymers that assemble into a large ring-like structure, termed the Z-ring, during cell division at the site of constriction. The FtsZ monomer is composed of an N-terminal polymerization domain, an unstructured linker region and a C-terminal conserved region. To better understand substrate selection by ClpXP, we engineered FtsZ mutant proteins containing amino acid substitutions or deletions near the FtsZ C-terminus. We identified two discrete regions of FtsZ important for degradation of both FtsZ monomers and polymers by ClpXP in vitro. One region is located 30 residues away from the C-terminus in the unstructured linker region that connects the polymerization domain to the C-terminal region. The other region is near the FtsZ C-terminus and partially overlaps the recognition sites for several other FtsZ-interacting proteins, including MinC, ZipA and FtsA. Mutation of either region caused the protein to be more stable and mutation of both caused an additive effect, suggesting that both regions are important. We also observed that in vitro MinC inhibits degradation of FtsZ by ClpXP, suggesting that some of the same residues in the C-terminal site that are important for degradation by ClpXP are important for binding MinC.
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- Jodi L. Camberg
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JLC); (SW)
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JLC); (SW)
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Desimone M, Weiß-Wichert C, Wagner E, Altenfeld U, Johanningmeier U. Immunochemical Studies on the Clp-protease in Chloroplasts: Evidence for the Formation of a CIpC/P Complex*. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.1997.tb00634.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Olszewski P, Szambowska A, Barałska S, Narajczyk M, Węgrzyn G, Glinkowska M. A dual promoter system regulating λ DNA replication initiation. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:4450-62. [PMID: 24500197 PMCID: PMC3985674 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Transcription and DNA replication are tightly regulated to ensure coordination of gene expression with growth conditions and faithful transmission of genetic material to progeny. A large body of evidence has accumulated, indicating that encounters between protein machineries carrying out DNA and RNA synthesis occur in vivo and may have important regulatory consequences. This feature may be exacerbated in the case of compact genomes, like the one of bacteriophage λ, used in our study. Transcription that starts at the rightward pR promoter and proceeds through the λ origin of replication and downstream of it was proven to stimulate the initiation of λ DNA replication. Here, we demonstrate that the activity of a convergently oriented pO promoter decreases the efficiency of transcription starting from pR. Our results show, however, that a lack of the functional pO promoter negatively influences λ phage and λ-derived plasmid replication. We present data, suggesting that this effect is evoked by the enhanced level of the pR-driven transcription, occurring in the presence of the defective pO, which may result in the impeded formation of the replication initiation complex. Our data suggest that the cross talk between the two promoters regulates λ DNA replication and coordinates transcription and replication processes.
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- Paweł Olszewski
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland, Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland and Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Faculty of Biology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
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Bhat NH, Vass RH, Stoddard PR, Shin DK, Chien P. Identification of ClpP substrates in Caulobacter crescentus reveals a role for regulated proteolysis in bacterial development. Mol Microbiol 2013; 88:1083-92. [PMID: 23647068 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Energy-dependent proteases ensure the timely removal of unwanted proteins in a highly selective fashion. In Caulobacter crescentus, protein degradation by the ClpXP protease is critical for cell cycle progression; however, only a handful of substrates are currently known. Here, we use a trapping approach to identify putative substrates of the ClpP associated proteases in C. crescentus. Biochemical validation of several of these targets reveals specific protease recognition motifs and suggests a need for ClpXP-specific degradation beyond degradation of known cell cycle regulators. We focus on a particular instance of regulated proteolysis in Caulobacter by exploring the role of ClpXP in degrading the stalk synthesis transcription factor TacA. We show that TacA degradation is controlled during the cell cycle dependent on the ClpXP regulator CpdR and that stabilization of TacA increases degradation of another ClpXP substrate, CtrA, while restoring deficiencies associated with prolific CpdR activity. Together, our work reveals a number of new validated ClpXP substrates, clarifies rules of protease substrate selection, and demonstrates how regulated protein degradation is critical for Caulobacter development and cell cycle progression.
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- Nowsheen H Bhat
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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Thibault G, Houry WA. Role of the N-Terminal Domain of the Chaperone ClpX in the Recognition and Degradation of Lambda Phage Protein O. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:6717-24. [DOI: 10.1021/jp212024b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Guillaume Thibault
- Department
of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle, Medical Sciences Building, Toronto,
Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department
of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, 1 King’s College Circle, Medical Sciences Building, Toronto,
Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Zhang Q, Huang Y, Wang H, Xu W, Liu L, Yin Y, Zhang X. The role of ClpP in protein expression of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Curr Microbiol 2011; 64:294-9. [PMID: 22198546 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-011-0060-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2011] [Accepted: 11/25/2011] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Previous reports suggest that ClpP proteolytic activity is important not only for cell physiology but also for regulation of virulence properties of Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae). In order to get a more comprehensive picture of the role of ClpP protease on protein expression in S. pneumoniae D39 and how it relates to physiology and virulence, a clpP mutant strain was constructed in S. pneumoniae D39, and global proteome expression was studied by 2-dimensional electrophoresis and matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. We report here that clpP deletion affects the expression of proteins which are involved in the general stress response, nucleotide metabolism, energy metabolism, and proteins metabolism. These provide clues for understanding the role of ClpP in the physiology and pathogenesis of pneumococcus.
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- Qun Zhang
- Clinical Laboratories Center, Affiliated Children's Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China
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Yang HJ, Lee JS, Cha JY, Baik HS. Negative regulation of pathogenesis in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci 11528 by ATP-dependent Lon protease. Mol Cells 2011; 32:317-23. [PMID: 21904881 PMCID: PMC3887642 DOI: 10.1007/s10059-011-1017-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2011] [Revised: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 08/04/2011] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci causes wildfire disease in tobacco plants. The hrp pathogenicity island (hrp PAI) of P. syringae pv. tabaci encodes a type III secretion system (TTSS) and its regulatory system, which are required for pathogenesis in plants. Three important regulatory proteins-HrpR, HrpS, and HrpL-have been identified to activate hrp PAI gene expression. The bacterial Lon protease regulates the expression of various genes. To investigate the regulatory mechanism of the Lon protease in P. syringae pv. tabaci 11528, we cloned the lon gene, and then a Δlon mutant was generated by allelic exchange. lon mutants showed increased UV sensitivity, which is a typical feature of such mutants. The Δlon mutant produced higher levels of tabtoxin than the wild-type. The lacZ gene was fused with hrpA promoter and activity of β-galactosidase was measured in hrp-repressing and hrp-inducing media. The Lon protease functioned as a negative regulator of hrp PAI under hrp-repressing conditions. We found that strains with lon disruption elicited the host defense system more rapidly and strongly than the wild-type strain, suggesting that the Lon protease is essential for systemic pathogenesis.
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- Hyun Ju Yang
- Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
- These authors contributed equally to this study
- Present address: Alcoholic Beverage Research Institute, Daesun Distilling Co. Ltd., Busan 619-951, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
- These authors contributed equally to this study
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Science, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
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Nager AR, Baker TA, Sauer RT. Stepwise unfolding of a β barrel protein by the AAA+ ClpXP protease. J Mol Biol 2011; 413:4-16. [PMID: 21821046 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2011] [Revised: 07/16/2011] [Accepted: 07/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In the AAA+ ClpXP protease, ClpX uses the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to unfold proteins before translocating them into ClpP for degradation. For proteins with C-terminal ssrA tags, ClpXP pulls on the tag to initiate unfolding and subsequent degradation. Here, we demonstrate that an initial step in ClpXP unfolding of the 11-stranded β barrel of superfolder GFP-ssrA involves extraction of the C-terminal β strand. The resulting 10-stranded intermediate is populated at low ATP concentrations, which stall ClpXP unfolding, and at high ATP concentrations, which support robust degradation. To determine if stable unfolding intermediates cause low-ATP stalling, we designed and characterized circularly permuted GFP variants. Notably, stalling was observed for a variant that formed a stable 10-stranded intermediate but not for one in which this intermediate was unstable. A stepwise degradation model in which the rates of terminal-strand extraction, strand refolding or recapture, and unfolding of the 10-stranded intermediate all depend on the rate of ATP hydrolysis by ClpXP accounts for the observed changes in degradation kinetics over a broad range of ATP concentrations. Our results suggest that the presence or absence of unfolding intermediates will play important roles in determining whether forced enzymatic unfolding requires a minimum rate of ATP hydrolysis.
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- Andrew R Nager
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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ClpXP, an ATP-powered unfolding and protein-degradation machine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2011; 1823:15-28. [PMID: 21736903 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2011.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 323] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2011] [Revised: 06/10/2011] [Accepted: 06/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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ClpXP is a AAA+ protease that uses the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to perform mechanical work during targeted protein degradation within cells. ClpXP consists of hexamers of a AAA+ ATPase (ClpX) and a tetradecameric peptidase (ClpP). Asymmetric ClpX hexamers bind unstructured peptide tags in protein substrates, unfold stable tertiary structure in the substrate, and then translocate the unfolded polypeptide chain into an internal proteolytic compartment in ClpP. Here, we review our present understanding of ClpXP structure and function, as revealed by two decades of biochemical and biophysical studies.
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Bhatt S, Romeo T, Kalman D. Honing the message: post-transcriptional and post-translational control in attaching and effacing pathogens. Trends Microbiol 2011; 19:217-24. [PMID: 21333542 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2011.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2010] [Revised: 01/12/2011] [Accepted: 01/14/2011] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Bacteria evolve their capacity to cause disease by acquiring virulence genes that are usually clustered in discrete genetic modules termed pathogenicity islands (PAI). Stable integration of PAIs into pre-existing transcriptional networks coordinates expression from PAIs with ancestral genes in response to diverse environmental cues. Such transcriptional controls are evident in the regulation of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), a PAI of enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. However, recent reports indicate that global post-transcriptional and post-translational regulators, including CsrA, Hfq and ClpXP, fine-tune the transcriptional output from the LEE. In this opinion article, we highlight recent advances in the understanding of post-transcriptional and post-translational regulation in attaching and effacing pathogens.
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- Shantanu Bhatt
- Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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ClpXP is a two-component protease composed of ClpX, an ATP-dependent chaperone that recognizes and unfolds specific substrates, and ClpP, a serine protease. One ClpXP substrate in Escherichia coli is FtsZ, which is essential for cell division. FtsZ polymerizes and forms the FtsZ ring at midcell, where division occurs. To investigate the role of ClpXP in cell division, we examined the effects of clpX and clpP deletions in several strains that are defective for cell division. Together, our results suggested that ClpXP modulates cell division through degradation of FtsZ and possibly other cell division components that function downstream of FtsZ ring assembly. In the ftsZ84 strain, which is temperature sensitive for filamentation due to a mutation in ftsZ, we observed that deletion of clpX or clpP suppresses filamentation and reduces FtsZ84 degradation. These results are consistent with ClpXP playing a role in cell division by modulating the level of FtsZ through degradation. In another division-defective strain, ΔminC, the additional deletion of clpX or clpP delays cell division and exacerbates filamentation. Our results demonstrate that ClpXP modulates division in cells lacking MinC by a mechanism that requires ATP-dependent degradation. However, antibiotic chase experiments in vivo indicate that FtsZ degradation is slower in the ΔminC strain than in the wild type, suggesting there may be another cell division component degraded by ClpXP. Taken together these studies suggest that ClpXP may degrade multiple cell division proteins, thereby modulating the precise balance of the components required for division.
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Ollivierre JN, Fang J, Beuning PJ. The Roles of UmuD in Regulating Mutagenesis. J Nucleic Acids 2010; 2010. [PMID: 20936072 PMCID: PMC2948943 DOI: 10.4061/2010/947680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2010] [Accepted: 08/01/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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All organisms are subject to DNA damage from both endogenous and environmental sources. DNA damage that is not fully repaired can lead to mutations. Mutagenesis is now understood to be an active process, in part facilitated by lower-fidelity DNA polymerases that replicate DNA in an error-prone manner. Y-family DNA polymerases, found throughout all domains of life, are characterized by their lower fidelity on undamaged DNA and their specialized ability to copy damaged DNA. Two E. coli Y-family DNA polymerases are responsible for copying damaged DNA as well as for mutagenesis. These DNA polymerases interact with different forms of UmuD, a dynamic protein that regulates mutagenesis. The UmuD gene products, regulated by the SOS response, exist in two principal forms: UmuD(2), which prevents mutagenesis, and UmuD(2)', which facilitates UV-induced mutagenesis. This paper focuses on the multiple conformations of the UmuD gene products and how their protein interactions regulate mutagenesis.
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- Jaylene N Ollivierre
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, 102 Hurtig Hall, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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The chaperone ClpX stimulates expression of Staphylococcus aureus protein A by Rot dependent and independent pathways. PLoS One 2010; 5:e12752. [PMID: 20856878 PMCID: PMC2939077 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2010] [Accepted: 08/20/2010] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The Clp ATPases (Hsp100) constitute a family of closely related proteins that have protein reactivating and remodelling activities typical of molecular chaperones. In Staphylococcus aureus the ClpX chaperone is essential for virulence and for transcription of spa encoding Protein A. The present study was undertaken to elucidate the mechanism by which ClpX stimulates expression of Protein A. For this purpose, we prepared antibodies directed against Rot, an activator of spa transcription, and demonstrated that cells devoid of ClpX contain three-fold less Rot than wild-type cells. By varying Rot expression from an inducible promoter we showed that expression of Protein A requires a threshold level of Rot. In the absence of ClpX the Rot content is reduced below this threshold level, hence, explaining the substantially reduced Protein A expression in the clpX mutant. Experiments addressed at pinpointing the role of ClpX in Rot synthesis revealed that ClpX is required for translation of Rot. Interestingly, translation of the spa mRNA was, like the rot mRNA, enhanced by ClpX. These data demonstrate that ClpX performs dual roles in regulating Protein A expression, as ClpX stimulates transcription of spa by enhancing translation of Rot, and that ClpX additionally is required for full translation of the spa mRNA. The current findings emphasize that ClpX has a central role in fine-tuning virulence regulation in S. aureus.
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Lee ME, Baker TA, Sauer RT. Control of substrate gating and translocation into ClpP by channel residues and ClpX binding. J Mol Biol 2010; 399:707-18. [PMID: 20416323 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2010] [Revised: 04/12/2010] [Accepted: 04/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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ClpP is a self-compartmentalized protease, which has very limited degradation activity unless it associates with ClpX to form ClpXP or with ClpA to form ClpAP. Here, we show that ClpX binding stimulates ClpP cleavage of peptides larger than a few amino acids and enhances ClpP active-site modification. Stimulation requires ATP binding but not hydrolysis by ClpX. The magnitude of this enhancement correlates with increasing molecular weight of the molecule entering ClpP. Amino-acid substitutions in the channel loop or helix A of ClpP enhance entry of larger substrates into the free enzyme, eliminate ClpX binding in some cases, and are not further stimulated by ClpX binding in other instances. These results support a model in which the channel residues of free ClpP exclude efficient entry of all but the smallest peptides into the degradation chamber, with ClpX binding serving to relieve these inhibitory interactions. Specific ClpP channel variants also prevent ClpXP translocation of certain amino-acid sequences, suggesting that the wild-type channel plays an important role in facilitating broad translocation specificity. In combination with previous studies, our results indicate that collaboration between ClpP and its partner ATPases opens a gate that functions to exclude larger substrates from isolated ClpP.
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- Mary E Lee
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Structural basis for the substrate specificity of PepA from Streptococcus pneumoniae, a dodecameric tetrahedral protease. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2010; 391:431-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.11.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2009] [Accepted: 11/10/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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ClpXP protease degrades the cytoskeletal protein, FtsZ, and modulates FtsZ polymer dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:10614-9. [PMID: 19541655 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904886106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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FtsZ is the major cytoskeletal protein in bacteria and a tubulin homologue. It polymerizes and forms a ring where constriction occurs to divide the cell. We found that FtsZ is degraded by E. coli ClpXP, an ATP-dependent protease. In vitro, ClpXP degrades both FtsZ protomers and polymers; however, polymerized FtsZ is degraded more rapidly than the monomer. Deletion analysis shows that the N-terminal domain of ClpX is important for polymer recognition and that the FtsZ C terminus contains a ClpX recognition signal. In vivo, FtsZ is turned over slower in a clpX deletion mutant compared with a WT strain. Overexpression of ClpXP results in increased FtsZ degradation and filamentation of cells. These results suggest that ClpXP may participate in cell division by modulating the equilibrium between free and polymeric FtsZ via degradation of FtsZ filaments and protomers.
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Derrien B, Majeran W, Wollman FA, Vallon O. Multistep processing of an insertion sequence in an essential subunit of the chloroplast ClpP complex. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:15408-15. [PMID: 19346247 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.002733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the clpP1 chloroplast gene encoding one of the catalytic subunits of the ClpP protease complex contains a large in-frame insertion sequence (IS1). Based on the Escherichia coli ClpP structure, IS1 is predicted to protrude at the apical surface of the complex, likely influencing the interaction of the catalytic core with ClpC/HSP100 chaperones. Immunoblotting with an anti-ClpP1 antibody detected two immunoreactive forms of ClpP1: ClpP1(H) (59 kDa) and ClpP1(L) (25 kDa). It has been proposed that IS1 is a new type of protein intron (different from inteins). By studying transformants harboring mutations at the predicted borders of IS1 and tags at the C terminus of ClpP1 (tandem affinity purification tag, His tag, Strep.Tag) or within the IS1 sequence (3-hemagglutinin tag), we show that IS1 is not a protein intron and that ClpP1(L) results from endoproteolytic cleavage inside IS1. Processing sites have been identified in the middle of IS1 and near its C terminus. The sites can be mutated without abolishing processing.
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- Benoit Derrien
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, UMR7141 CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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Sugimoto S, Abdullah-Al-Mahin, Sonomoto K. Molecular Chaperones in Lactic Acid Bacteria: Physiological Consequences and Biochemical Properties. J Biosci Bioeng 2008; 106:324-36. [DOI: 10.1263/jbb.106.324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2008] [Accepted: 06/25/2008] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Maglica Z, Striebel F, Weber-Ban E. An intrinsic degradation tag on the ClpA C-terminus regulates the balance of ClpAP complexes with different substrate specificity. J Mol Biol 2008; 384:503-11. [PMID: 18835567 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.09.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2008] [Revised: 09/02/2008] [Accepted: 09/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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ATP-dependent protein degradation in bacteria is carried out by barrel-shaped proteases architecturally related to the proteasome. In Escherichia coli, ClpP interacts with two alternative ATPases, ClpA or ClpX, to form active protease complexes. ClpAP and ClpXP show different but overlapping substrate specificities. ClpXP is considered the primary recipient of ssrA-tagged substrates while ClpAP in complex with ClpS processes N-end rule substrates. Notably, in its free form, but not in complex with ClpS, ClpAP also degrades ssrA-tagged substrates and its own chaperone component, ClpA. To reveal the mechanism of ClpAP-mediated ClpA degradation, termed autodegradation, and its possible role in regulating ClpAP levels, we dissected ClpA to show that the flexible C-terminus of the second AAA module serves as the degradation signal. We demonstrate that ClpA becomes largely resistant to autodegradation in the absence of its C-terminus and, conversely, transfer of the last 11 residues of ClpA to the C-terminus of green fluorescent protein (GFP) renders GFP a substrate of ClpAP. This autodegradation tag bears similarity to the ssrA-tag in its degradation behavior, displaying similar catalytic turnover rates when coupled to GFP but a twofold lower apparent affinity constant compared to ssrA-tagged GFP. We show that, in analogy to the prevention of ssrA-mediated recognition, the adaptor ClpS inhibits autodegradation by a specificity switch as opposed to direct masking of the degradation signal. Our results demonstrate that in the presence of ssrA-tagged substrates, ClpA autodegradation will be competitively reduced. This simple mechanism allows for dynamic reallocation of free ClpAP versus ClpAPS in response to the presence of ssrA-tagged substrates.
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- Zeljka Maglica
- ETH Zürich, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Schafmattstr. 20, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Rotanova TV, Melnikov EE. The ATP-dependent proteases and proteolytic complexes involved into intracellular protein degradation. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) SUPPLEMENT SERIES B: BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY 2008. [DOI: 10.1134/s1990750808030049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In vivo inactivation of the mycobacterial integral membrane stearoyl coenzyme A desaturase DesA3 by a C-terminus-specific degradation process. J Bacteriol 2008; 190:6686-96. [PMID: 18723625 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00585-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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DesA3 (Rv3229c) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a membrane-bound stearoyl coenzyme A Delta(9) desaturase that reacts with the oxidoreductase Rv3230c to produce oleic acid. This work provides evidence for a mechanism used by mycobacteria to regulate this essential enzyme activity. DesA3 expressed as a fusion with either a C-terminal His(6) or c-myc tag had consistently higher activity and stability than native DesA3 having the native C-terminal sequence of LAA, which apparently serves as a binding determinant for a mycobacterial protease/degradation system directed at DesA3. Fusion of only the last 12 residues of native DesA3 to the C terminus of green fluorescent protein (GFP) was sufficient to make GFP unstable. Furthermore, the comparable C-terminal sequence from the Mycobacterium smegmatis DesA3 homolog Msmeg_1886 also conferred instability to the GFP fusion. Systematic examination revealed that residues with charged side chains, large nonpolar side chains, or no side chain at the last two positions were most important for stabilizing the construct, while lesser effects were observed at the third-from-last position. Using these rules, a combinational substitution of the last three residues of DesA3 showed that either DKD or LEA gave the best enhancement of stability for the modified GFP in M. smegmatis. Moreover, upon mutagenesis of LAA at the C terminus in native DesA3 to either of these tripeptides, the modified enzyme had enhanced catalytic activity and stability. Since many proteases are conserved within bacterial families, it is reasonable that M. tuberculosis will use a similar C-terminal degradation system to posttranslationally regulate the activity of DesA3 and other proteins. Application of these rules to the M. tuberculosis genome revealed that approximately 10% the proteins encoded by essential genes may be susceptible to C-terminal proteolysis. Among these, an annotation is known for less than half, underscoring a general lack of understanding of proteins that have only temporal existence in a cell.
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Feng G, Lu H. Computer simulation of I27 translocation through ClpY reveals a critical role of protein mechanical strength and local stability. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008; 2007:1213-6. [PMID: 18002181 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2007.4352515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Clp family is one type of AAA+ proteases, which catalyze protein degradation and translocation. Because of the steric restriction of the complex structure, the substrates have to be denaturated before accessing the active sites of the peptidases. This type of translocation-induced protein unfolding has been studied in bulk biochemical experiments, but the detailed dynamic process is still unknown. Two models are proposed: the target protein somehow unfolds before it is pulled through a protease or the target protein is unfolded by pulling force during the translocation. We performed steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations to pull a model protein I27 and its variants (V11P, V13P and V15P) through ClpY, which is a member of Clp family with the available crystal structure. Resulting force-position profiles showed that the protein translocation needs a large initial force to break it open, and further unfolding needs relatively weaker forces. Comparison of the unfolding forces among translocation of I27 and its variants showed that the local mechanical stability of the protein determines the unfolding force. We also simulated the I27 translocation starting with different orientations and found that the unfolding dynamics are similar. The simulations presented here, combined with published experimental data, support the model that the target protein is pulled apart during translocation, and the force needed to unfold a protein follows the local stability model. This model does not only give a close insight into the process of force-driven protein unfolding in translocation, but also is instructive to design protein in protein degradation, which is one of the most important steps in cellular cycles.
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- Gang Feng
- Bioinformatics Program, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
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Licht S, Lee I. Resolving individual steps in the operation of ATP-dependent proteolytic molecular machines: from conformational changes to substrate translocation and processivity. Biochemistry 2008; 47:3595-605. [PMID: 18311925 DOI: 10.1021/bi800025g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Clp, Lon, and FtsH proteases are proteolytic molecular machines that use the free energy of ATP hydrolysis to unfold protein substrates and processively present them to protease active sites. Here we review recent biochemical and structural studies relevant to the mechanism of ATP-dependent processive proteolysis. Despite the significant structural differences among the Clp, Lon, and FtsH proteases, these enzymes share important mechanistic features. In these systems, mechanistic studies have provided evidence for ATP binding and hydrolysis-driven conformational changes that drive translocation of substrates, which has significant implications for the processive mechanism of proteolysis. These studies indicate that the nucleotide (ATP, ADP, or nonhydrolyzable ATP analogues) occupancy of the ATPase binding sites can influence the binding mode and/or binding affinity for protein substrates. A general mechanism is proposed in which the communication between ATPase active sites and protein substrate binding regions coordinates a processive cycle of substrate binding, translocation, proteolysis, and product release.
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- Stuart Licht
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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Movahedi A, Hampson DJ. Distribution of the clpX gene in Brachyspira species and reactivity of recombinant Brachyspira pilosicoli ClpX with sera from mice and humans. J Med Microbiol 2007; 56:930-936. [PMID: 17577058 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47004-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Previously, aclpXgene encoding a predicted 67 kDa membrane-associated ATPase subunit of the Clp protease (ClpX) was identified in a porcine strain (95/1000) of the intestinal spirochaeteBrachyspira pilosicoli.In the current study, the distribution of this largeclpXgene was investigated in a collection of strains representing all sevenBrachyspiraspp. Using PCR with internal primers, an 878 bp portion of the gene was detected in 29 of 35 strains (83 %) ofB. pilosicoli, 6 of 24 strains (25 %) ofBrachyspira hyodysenteriae, 14 of 16 strains (88 %) ofBrachyspira intermedia, 6 of 17 strains (35 %) ofBrachyspira innocens, 1 of 6 strains (17 %) ofBrachyspira murdochii, 1 of 2 strains (50 %) ofBrachyspira aalborgiand not in the single strain ofBrachyspira alvinipulli. The whole gene was sequenced from 20Brachyspiraspp. strains and compared with theclpXgene fromB. pilosicoli95/1000 (GenBank accession no. AY466377). The genes had 99.3–99.7 % nucleotide sequence similarity and the predicted products had 99.7–100 % amino acid sequence similarity. TheclpXgene from WesB, a human strain ofB. pilosicoli, was cloned and expressed as a histidine-tagged fusion protein inEscherichia coliBL21. The purified protein was used to vaccinate mice and their sera were found to recognize the expected ∼67 kDa protein in whole-cell preparations of WesB. Sera from mice vaccinated with formalin-treated whole-cell proteins of WesB reacted with the recombinant protein. These results indicate that ClpX is both conserved and immunogenic and hence might be useful as a subunit vaccine component forBrachyspiraspp. infections. Sera from humans with no known exposure toB. pilosicolireacted with the recombinant ClpX protein, indicating that it is unlikely to be useful as a reagent for serological detection ofBrachyspiraspp. infections.
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- Abdolreza Movahedi
- Division of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
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- Division of Health Sciences, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
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Granot Z, Kobiler O, Melamed-Book N, Eimerl S, Bahat A, Lu B, Braun S, Maurizi MR, Suzuki CK, Oppenheim AB, Orly J. Turnover of mitochondrial steroidogenic acute regulatory (StAR) protein by Lon protease: the unexpected effect of proteasome inhibitors. Mol Endocrinol 2007; 21:2164-77. [PMID: 17579211 DOI: 10.1210/me.2005-0458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) is a vital mitochondrial protein promoting transfer of cholesterol into steroid making mitochondria in specialized cells of the adrenal cortex and gonads. Our previous work has demonstrated that StAR is rapidly degraded upon import into the mitochondrial matrix. To identify the protease(s) responsible for this rapid turnover, murine StAR was expressed in wild-type Escherichia coli or in mutant strains lacking one of the four ATP-dependent proteolytic systems, three of which are conserved in mammalian mitochondria-ClpP, FtsH, and Lon. StAR was rapidly degraded in wild-type bacteria and stabilized only in lon (-)mutants; in such cells, StAR turnover was fully restored upon coexpression of human mitochondrial Lon. In mammalian cells, the rate of StAR turnover was proportional to the cell content of Lon protease after expression of a Lon-targeted small interfering RNA, or overexpression of the protein. In vitro assays using purified proteins showed that Lon-mediated degradation of StAR was ATP-dependent and blocked by the proteasome inhibitors MG132 (IC(50) = 20 microm) and clasto-lactacystin beta-lactone (cLbetaL, IC(50) = 3 microm); by contrast, epoxomicin, representing a different class of proteasome inhibitors, had no effect. Such inhibition is consistent with results in cultured rat ovarian granulosa cells demonstrating that degradation of StAR in the mitochondrial matrix is blocked by MG132 and cLbetaL but not by epoxomicin. Both inhibitors also blocked Lon-mediated cleavage of the model substrate fluorescein isothiocyanate-casein. Taken together, our former studies and the present results suggest that Lon is the primary ATP-dependent protease responsible for StAR turnover in mitochondria of steroidogenic cells.
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- Zvi Granot
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Barembruch C, Hengge R. Cellular levels and activity of the flagellar sigma factor FliA of Escherichia coli are controlled by FlgM-modulated proteolysis. Mol Microbiol 2007; 65:76-89. [PMID: 17537210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05770.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In Escherichia coli the flagellar regulon consists of more than 60 genes organized in three hierarchically and temporally regulated transcriptional classes. The flagellar sigma factor FliA (sigma(28)) is responsible for class 3 expression and, in the early phase of flagellar assembly, is inhibited by its anti-sigma factor FlgM. The flagellar hook basal body forms a type III secretion system capable of secreting both flagellar subunits and FlgM. This results in release and therefore activation of FliA and class 3 expression. Here we demonstrate that FliA is also subject to proteolysis which mainly depends on Lon protease. FlgM not only acts as an anti-sigma factor but also protects FliA from being degraded. Based on quantitative measurements over time upon experimental induction of the flagellar cascade as well as during the growth cycle of a motile strain, we show that FliA proteolysis increases in parallel to class 3 expression, i.e. correlates with FlgM secretion and the phase of highest activity of FliA. Thus, when FlgM is not available due to secretion or mutation, and with RNA polymerase interaction being only transient during the transcription initiation cycle, the proteases can degrade FliA. Experiments with a lon mutant indicate that Lon protease and FliA degradation maintain appropriate FliA : FlgM stoichiometry upon induction of the flagellar system and thereby contribute to timely shut-off of this system.
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- Claudia Barembruch
- Institut für Biologie - Mikrobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Jain R, Chan MK. Support for a potential role of E. coli oligopeptidase A in protein degradation. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 359:486-90. [PMID: 17553460 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.05.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2007] [Accepted: 05/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Protein degradation is an essential quality control and regulatory function in organisms ranging from bacteria to eukaryotes. In bacteria, this process is initiated by ATP-dependent proteases which digest proteins to short peptides that are subsequently hydrolyzed to smaller fragments and free amino acids. While the entire genome of Escherichia coli has been sequenced, identification of endopeptidases that perform this downstream hydrolysis remains incomplete. However, in eukaryotes, thimet oligopeptidases (TOP) has been shown to hydrolyze peptides generated by the degradation of proteins by the 26S proteasome. These findings motivated us to investigate whether E. coli oligopeptidase A (OpdA), a homolog of TOP might play a similar general role in bacterial protein degradation. Herein, we provide initial support for this hypothesis by demonstrating that OpdA efficiently cleaves the peptides generated by the activity of the three primary ATP-dependent proteases from E. coli-Lon, HslUV, and ClpAP.
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- Rinku Jain
- The Ohio State University Biophysics Program, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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