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Convergent evolution in two bacterial replicative helicase loaders. Trends Biochem Sci 2022; 47:620-630. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2022.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Revised: 02/06/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Gupta A, Soto AN, Medina SJ, Petrie KL, Meyer JR. Bacteriophage lambda overcomes a perturbation in its host-viral genetic network through mutualism and evolution of life history traits. Evolution 2020; 74:764-774. [PMID: 31891185 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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An important driver of evolution in viruses is natural selection to optimize the use of their hosts' genetic network. To learn how viruses respond to this pressure, we disrupted the genetic network of Escherichia coli to inhibit replication of its virus, bacteriophage lambda, and then observed how λ evolved to compensate. We deleted E. coli's dnaJ gene, which lambda uses to initiate DNA replication. Lambda partially restored its ability to reproduce with just two adaptive mutations associated with genes J and S. The location of the mutations was unexpected because they were not in genes that directly interact with DnaJ, rather they affected seemingly unrelated life history traits. A nonsynonymous J mutation increased lambda's adsorption rate and an S regulatory mutation delayed lysis timing. Lambda also recovered some of its reproductive potential through intracellular mutualism. This study offers two important lessons: first, viruses can rapidly adapt to disruptive changes in their host's genetic network. Second, organisms can employ mechanisms thought to operate at the population scale, such as evolution of life history traits and social interactions, in order to overcome hurdles at the molecular level. As life science research progresses and new fields become increasingly specialized, these results remind us of the importance of multiscale and interdisciplinary approaches to understand adaptation.
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- Animesh Gupta
- Division of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Division of Biological Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Division of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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- Division of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.,Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California
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Kozłowska KI, Tymecka-Mulik J, Węgrzyn G. Purified Stx and λ phage initiator O proteins bind specifically to two different origins of replication in vitro. Protein Expr Purif 2016; 131:16-26. [PMID: 27826079 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2016.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Revised: 10/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The O protein is a crucial factor initiating the DNA replication of lambdoid bacteriophage. Efficient DNA replication of Shiga toxin-converting phage is necessary for effective production of Shiga toxin - main virulence factor of STEC strains. We developed an improved protocol for overproduction, bacterial cell lysis and purification of λO protein. With use of this method we have also isolated O proteins of Stx-phage P27 and 933W that were never purified before. Purified proteins were tested for their DNA binding activity and revealed a sequence specific interactions.
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- Katarzyna I Kozłowska
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdansk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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Jha JK, Ramachandran R, Chattoraj DK. Opening the Strands of Replication Origins-Still an Open Question. Front Mol Biosci 2016; 3:62. [PMID: 27747216 PMCID: PMC5043065 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The local separation of duplex DNA strands (strand opening) is necessary for initiating basic transactions on DNA such as transcription, replication, and homologous recombination. Strand opening is commonly a stage at which these processes are regulated. Many different mechanisms are used to open the DNA duplex, the details of which are of great current interest. In this review, we focus on a few well-studied cases of DNA replication origin opening in bacteria. In particular, we discuss the opening of origins that support the theta (θ) mode of replication, which is used by all chromosomal origins and many extra-chromosomal elements such as plasmids and phages. Although the details of opening can vary among different origins, a common theme is binding of the initiator to multiple sites at the origin, causing stress that opens an adjacent and intrinsically unstable A+T rich region. The initiator stabilizes the opening by capturing one of the open strands. How the initiator binding energy is harnessed for strand opening remains to be understood.
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- Jyoti K Jha
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA
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Baquero-Pérez B, Whitehouse A. Hsp70 Isoforms Are Essential for the Formation of Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Replication and Transcription Compartments. PLoS Pathog 2015; 11:e1005274. [PMID: 26587836 PMCID: PMC4654589 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2015] [Accepted: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is an oncogenic herpesvirus associated with various AIDS-related malignancies. Like other herpesviruses, multiple processes required for KSHV lytic replication, including viral transcription, viral DNA synthesis and capsid assembly occur in virus-induced intranuclear structures, termed replication and transcription compartments (RTCs). Here we utilised a novel methodology, combining subcellular fractionation and quantitative proteomics, to identify cellular proteins which are recruited to KSHV-induced RTCs and thus play a key role in KSHV lytic replication. We show that several isoforms of the HSP70 chaperone family, Hsc70 and iHsp70, are redistributed from the cytoplasm into the nucleus coinciding with the initial formation of KSHV-induced RTCs. We demonstrate that nuclear chaperone foci are dynamic, initially forming adjacent to newly formed KSHV RTCs, however during later time points the chaperones move within KSHV RTCs and completely co-localise with actively replicating viral DNA. The functional significance of Hsp70 isoforms recruitment into KSHV RTCs was also examined using the specific Hsp70 isoform small molecule inhibitor, VER-155008. Intriguingly, results highlight an essential role of Hsp70 isoforms in the KSHV replication cycle independent of protein stability and maturation. Notably, inhibition of Hsp70 isoforms precluded KSHV RTC formation and RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) relocalisation to the viral genome leading to the abolishment of global KSHV transcription and subsequent viral protein synthesis and DNA replication. These new findings have revealed novel mechanisms that regulate KSHV lytic replication and highlight the potential of HSP70 inhibitors as novel antiviral agents.
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- Belinda Baquero-Pérez
- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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RNA viruses face dynamic environments and are masters at adaptation. During their short 'lifespans', they must surmount multiple physical, anatomical and immunological challenges. Central to their adaptative capacity is the enormous genetic diversity that characterizes RNA virus populations. Although genetic diversity increases the rate of adaptive evolution, low replication fidelity can present a risk because excess mutations can lead to population extinction. In this Review, we discuss the strategies used by RNA viruses to deal with the increased mutational load and consider how this mutational robustness might influence viral evolution and pathogenesis.
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Seco EM, Zinder JC, Manhart CM, Lo Piano A, McHenry CS, Ayora S. Bacteriophage SPP1 DNA replication strategies promote viral and disable host replication in vitro. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 41:1711-21. [PMID: 23268446 PMCID: PMC3561973 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Complex viruses that encode their own initiation proteins and subvert the host’s elongation apparatus have provided valuable insights into DNA replication. Using purified bacteriophage SPP1 and Bacillus subtilis proteins, we have reconstituted a rolling circle replication system that recapitulates genetically defined protein requirements. Eleven proteins are required: phage-encoded helicase (G40P), helicase loader (G39P), origin binding protein (G38P) and G36P single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB); and host-encoded PolC and DnaE polymerases, processivity factor (β2), clamp loader (τ-δ-δ′) and primase (DnaG). This study revealed a new role for the SPP1 origin binding protein. In the presence of SSB, it is required for initiation on replication forks that lack origin sequences, mimicking the activity of the PriA replication restart protein in bacteria. The SPP1 replisome is supported by both host and viral SSBs, but phage SSB is unable to support B. subtilis replication, likely owing to its inability to stimulate the PolC holoenzyme in the B. subtilis context. Moreover, phage SSB inhibits host replication, defining a new mechanism by which bacterial replication could be regulated by a viral factor.
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- Elena M Seco
- Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Knox C, Luke GA, Blatch GL, Pesce ER. Heat shock protein 40 (Hsp40) plays a key role in the virus life cycle. Virus Res 2011; 160:15-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2011.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2011] [Revised: 06/17/2011] [Accepted: 06/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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RNAs and RNA-protein complexes (RNPs) traverse rugged energy landscapes as they fold to their native structures, and many continue to undergo conformational rearrangements as they function. Due to the inherent stability of local RNA structure, proteins are required to assist with RNA conformational transitions during initial folding and in exchange between functional structures. DEAD-box proteins are superfamily 2 RNA helicases that are ubiquitously involved in RNA-mediated processes. Some of these proteins use an ATP-dependent cycle of conformational changes to disrupt RNA structure nonprocessively, accelerating structural transitions of RNAs and RNPs in a manner that bears a strong resemblance to the activities of certain groups of protein chaperones. This review summarizes recent work using model substrates and tractable self-splicing intron RNAs, which has given new insights into how DEAD-box proteins promote RNA folding steps and conformational transitions, and it summarizes recent progress in identifying sites and mechanisms of DEAD-box protein activity within more complex cellular targets.
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- Cynthia Pan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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Szambowska A, Pierechod M, Wegrzyn G, Glinkowska M. Coupling of transcription and replication machineries in λ DNA replication initiation: evidence for direct interaction of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and the λO protein. Nucleic Acids Res 2010; 39:168-77. [PMID: 20833633 PMCID: PMC3017604 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Transcription proceeding downstream of the λ phage replication origin was previously shown to support initial steps of the λ primosome assembly in vitro and to regulate frequency and directionality of λ DNA replication in vivo. In this report, the data are presented indicating that the RNA polymerase β subunit makes a direct contact with the λO protein, a replication initiator of λ phage. These results suggest that the role of RNA polymerase during the initiation of λ phage DNA replication may be more complex than solely influencing DNA topology. Results demonstrated in this study also show that gyrase supercoiling activity stimulates the formation of a complex between λO and RNA polymerase, suggesting that the introduction of negative supercoils by DNA gyrase, besides lowering the energy required for DNA strand separation, may play an additional role in modeling protein–protein interactions at early steps of DNA replication initiation.
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- Anna Szambowska
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk, Poland
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Álamo MMD, Sánchez-Gorostiaga A, Serrano AM, Prieto A, Cuéllar J, Martín-Benito J, Valpuesta JM, Giraldo R. Structural analysis of the interactions between hsp70 chaperones and the yeast DNA replication protein Orc4p. J Mol Biol 2010; 403:24-39. [PMID: 20732327 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2010] [Revised: 07/29/2010] [Accepted: 08/11/2010] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hsp70 chaperones, besides their role in assisting protein folding, are key modulators of protein disaggregation, being consistently found as components of most macromolecular assemblies isolated in proteome-wide affinity purifications. A wealth of structural information has been recently acquired on Hsp70s complexed with Hsp40 and NEF co-factors and with small hydrophobic target peptides. However, knowledge of how Hsp70s recognize large protein substrates is still limited. Earlier, we reported that homologue Hsp70 chaperones (DnaK in Escherichia coli and Ssa1-4p/Ssb1-2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae) bind strongly, both in vitro and in vivo, to the AAA+ domain in the Orc4p subunit of yeast origin recognition complex (ORC). ScORC is the paradigm for eukaryotic DNA replication initiators and consists of six distinct protein subunits (ScOrc1p-ScOrc 6p). Here, we report that a hydrophobic sequence (IL(4)) in the initiator specific motif (ISM) in Orc4p is the main target for DnaK/Hsp70. The three-dimensional electron microscopy reconstruction of a stable Orc4p(2)-DnaK complex suggests that the C-terminal substrate-binding domain in the chaperone clamps the AAA+ IL(4) motif in one Orc4p molecule, with the substrate-binding domain lid subdomain wedging apart the other Orc4p subunit. Pairwise co-expression in E. coli shows that Orc4p interacts with Orc1/2/5p. Mutation of IL(4) selectively disrupts Orc4p interaction with Orc2p. Allelic substitution of ORC4 by mutants in each residue of IL(4) results in lethal (I184A) or thermosensitive (L185A and L186A) initiation-defective phenotypes in vivo. The interplay between Hsp70 chaperones and the Orc4p-IL(4) motif might have an adaptor role in the sequential, stoichiometric assembly of ScORC subunits.
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- María Moreno-Del Álamo
- Department of Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas - CSIC, C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas - CSIC, C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas - CSIC, C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas - CSIC, C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Macromolecular Structures, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC, C/ Darwin, 3, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Macromolecular Structures, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC, C/ Darwin, 3, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Macromolecular Structures, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CSIC, C/ Darwin, 3, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemical and Physical Biology, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas - CSIC, C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Couturier M, Buccellato M, Costanzo S, Bourhis JM, Shu Y, Nicaise M, Desmadril M, Flaudrops C, Longhi S, Oglesbee M. High affinity binding between Hsp70 and the C-terminal domain of the measles virus nucleoprotein requires an Hsp40 co-chaperone. J Mol Recognit 2010; 23:301-15. [PMID: 19718689 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The major inducible 70 kDa heat shock protein (hsp70) binds the measles virus (MeV) nucleocapsid with high affinity in an ATP-dependent manner, stimulating viral transcription and genome replication, and profoundly influencing virulence in mouse models of brain infection. Binding is mediated by two hydrophobic motifs (Box-2 and Box-3) located within the C-terminal domain (N(TAIL)) of the nucleocapsid protein, with N(TAIL) being an intrinsically disordered domain. The current work showed that high affinity hsp70 binding to N(TAIL) requires an hsp40 co-chaperone that interacts primarily with the hsp70 nucleotide binding domain (NBD) and displays no significant affinity for N(TAIL). Hsp40 directly enhanced hsp70 ATPase activity in an N(TAIL)-dependent manner, and formation of hsp40-hsp70-N(TAIL) intracellular complexes required the presence of N(TAIL) Box-2 and 3. Results are consistent with the functional interplay between hsp70 nucleotide and substrate binding domains (SBD), where ATP hydrolysis is rate limiting to high affinity binding to client proteins and is enhanced by hsp40. As such, hsp40 is an essential variable in understanding the outcome of MeV-hsp70 interactions.
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- Marie Couturier
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, UMR 6098 CNRS et Universités Aix-Marseille I et II, Campus de Luminy, 13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France
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Xing Y, Böcking T, Wolf M, Grigorieff N, Kirchhausen T, Harrison SC. Structure of clathrin coat with bound Hsc70 and auxilin: mechanism of Hsc70-facilitated disassembly. EMBO J 2009; 29:655-65. [PMID: 20033059 PMCID: PMC2830701 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2009] [Accepted: 11/26/2009] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The chaperone Hsc70 drives the clathrin assembly–disassembly cycle forward by stimulating dissociation of a clathrin lattice. A J-domain containing co-chaperone, auxilin, associates with a freshly budded clathrin-coated vesicle, or with an in vitro assembled clathrin coat, and recruits Hsc70 to its specific heavy-chain-binding site. We have determined by electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM), at about 11 Å resolution, the structure of a clathrin coat (in the D6-barrel form) with specifically bound Hsc70 and auxilin. The Hsc70 binds a previously analysed site near the C-terminus of the heavy chain, with a stoichiometry of about one per three-fold vertex. Its binding is accompanied by a distortion of the clathrin lattice, detected by a change in the axial ratio of the D6 barrel. We propose that when Hsc70, recruited to a position close to its target by the auxilin J-domain, splits ATP, it clamps firmly onto its heavy-chain site and locks in place a transient fluctuation. Accumulation of the local strain thus imposed at multiple vertices can then lead to disassembly.
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- Yi Xing
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Jack and Eileen Connors Structural Biology Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Helmbrecht K, Zeise E, Rensing L. Chaperones in cell cycle regulation and mitogenic signal transduction: a review. Cell Prolif 2008; 33:341-65. [PMID: 11101008 PMCID: PMC6496586 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2184.2000.00189.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 223] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Chaperones/heat shock proteins (HSPs) of the HSP90 and HSP70 families show elevated levels in proliferating mammalian cells and a cell cycle-dependent expression. They transiently associate with key molecules of the cell cycle control system such as Cdk4, Wee-1, pRb, p53, p27/Kip1 and are involved in the nuclear localization of regulatory proteins. They also associate with viral oncoproteins such as SV40 super T, large T and small t antigen, polyoma large and middle S antigen and EpsteinBarr virus nuclear antigen. This association is based on a J-domain in the viral proteins and may assist their targeting to the pRb/E2F complex. Small HSPs and their state of phosphorylation and oligomerization also seem to be involved in proliferation and differentiation. Chaperones/HSPs thus play important roles within cell cycle processes. Their exact functioning, however, is still a matter of discussion. HSP90 in particular, but also HSP70 and other chaperones associate with proteins of the mitogen-activated signal cascade, particularly with the Src kinase, with tyrosine receptor kinases, with Raf and the MAP-kinase activating kinase (MEK). This apparently serves the folding and translocation of these proteins, but possibly also the formation of large immobilized complexes of signal transducing molecules (scaffolding function).
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- K Helmbrecht
- Institute of Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Bremen, Germany
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Morell M, Czihal P, Hoffmann R, Otvos L, Avilés FX, Ventura S. Monitoring the interference of protein-protein interactions in vivo by bimolecular fluorescence complementation: the DnaK case. Proteomics 2008; 8:3433-42. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Eukaryotic DNA replication is regulated to ensure all chromosomes replicate once and only once per cell cycle. Replication begins at many origins scattered along each chromosome. Except for budding yeast, origins are not defined DNA sequences and probably are inherited by epigenetic mechanisms. Initiation at origins occurs throughout the S phase according to a temporal program that is important in regulating gene expression during development. Most replication proteins are conserved in evolution in eukaryotes and archaea, but not in bacteria. However, the mechanism of initiation is conserved and consists of origin recognition, assembly of prereplication (pre-RC) initiative complexes, helicase activation, and replisome loading. Cell cycle regulation by protein phosphorylation ensures that pre-RC assembly can only occur in G1 phase, whereas helicase activation and loading can only occur in S phase. Checkpoint regulation maintains high fidelity by stabilizing replication forks and preventing cell cycle progression during replication stress or damage.
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- R A Sclafani
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Liu C, Willmund F, Golecki JR, Cacace S, Hess B, Markert C, Schroda M. The chloroplast HSP70B-CDJ2-CGE1 chaperones catalyse assembly and disassembly of VIPP1 oligomers in Chlamydomonas. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2007; 50:265-77. [PMID: 17355436 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2007.03047.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The vesicle-inducing protein in plastids (VIPP1) is essential for the biogenesis of thylakoid membranes in cyanobacteria and plants. VIPP1 and its bacterial ancestor PspA form large homo-oligomeric rings of >1 MDa. We recently demonstrated that VIPP1 interacts with the chloroplast J-domain co-chaperone CDJ2 and its chaperone partner HSP70B, and hypothesized that the chaperones might be involved in the assembly and/or disassembly of VIPP1 oligomers. To test this hypothesis, we analysed the composition of VIPP1/chaperone complexes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cell extracts and monitored effects of the chaperones on VIPP1 assembly states in vitro. We found that CGE1, the chloroplast GrpE homologue, is also part of complexes with HSP70B, CDJ2 and VIPP1. We observed that CDJ2-VIPP1 accumulated as low- and high-molecular-weight complexes in ATP-depleted cell extracts, but as intermediate-size complexes in extracts supplemented with ATP. This was consistent with a role for the chaperones in VIPP1 assembly and disassembly. Using purified proteins, we could demonstrate that the chaperones indeed facilitated both the assembly and disassembly of VIPP1 oligomers. Electron microscopy studies revealed that, in contrast to PspA, VIPP1 rings assembled into rod-shaped supercomplexes that were morphologically similar to microtubule-like structures observed earlier in various plastid types. VIPP1 rods, too, were disassembled by the chaperones, and chaperone-mediated rod disassembly also occurred when VIPP1 lacked an approximately 30-aa C-terminal extension present in VIPP1 homologues but absent in PspA. By regulating the assembly state of VIPP1, the chloroplast HSP70 chaperone system may play an important role in the maintenance/biogenesis of thylakoid membranes.
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- Cuimin Liu
- Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Narajczyk M, Barańska S, Wegrzyn A, Wegrzyn G. Switch from theta to sigma replication of bacteriophage lambda DNA: factors involved in the process and a model for its regulation. Mol Genet Genomics 2007; 278:65-74. [PMID: 17377819 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0228-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2006] [Accepted: 02/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Bacteriophage lambda genome is one of the classical model replicons in studies on the regulation of DNA replication. Moreover, since genes coding for Shiga toxins are located in genomes of lambdoid phages, understanding of mechanisms controlling lambda DNA replication may be of bio-medical importance. During lytic development of bacteriophage lambda, its genome is replicated according to the theta (circle-to-circle) mode early after infection, and then it is switched to the sigma (rolling circle) mode. Two mechanisms of regulation of this switch were proposed recently and both suggested a crucial role for directionality of lambda DNA replication. Whereas one hypothesis assumed transient impairment of ClpP/ClpX-mediated proteolysis of the lambdaO initiator protein, another suggested a crucial role for transcriptional activation of the orilambda region and factors involved in the control of the p (R) promoter activity. Here we demonstrate that mutations in clpP and clpX genes had little influence on both directionality of lambda DNA replication and appearance of sigma replication intermediates. On the other hand, regulators affecting activity of the p (R) promoter (responsible for initiation of transcription, which activates orilambda) directly or indirectly influenced directionality of lambda DNA replication to various extents. Therefore, we conclude that regulation of the efficiency of transcriptional activation of orilambda, rather than transient impairment of the lambdaO proteolysis, is responsible for the control of the switch from theta to sigma replication, and propose a model for this control.
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- Magdalena Narajczyk
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk, Kładki 24, 80-822, Gdańsk, Poland
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Wang Y, Bogenhagen DF. Human Mitochondrial DNA Nucleoids Are Linked to Protein Folding Machinery and Metabolic Enzymes at the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:25791-802. [PMID: 16825194 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m604501200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 222] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is packaged into bacterial nucleoid-like structures, each containing several mtDNA molecules. The distribution of nucleoids during mitochondrial fission and fusion events and during cytokinesis is important to the segregation of mitochondrial genomes in heteroplasmic cells bearing a mixture of wild-type and mutant mtDNA molecules. We report fractionation of HeLa cell mtDNA nucleoids into two subsets of complexes that differ in their sedimentation velocity and their association with cytoskeletal proteins. Pulse labeling studies indicated that newly replicated mtDNA molecules are evenly represented in the rapidly and slowly sedimenting fractions. Slowly sedimenting nucleoids were immunoaffinity purified using antibodies to either of two abundant mtDNA-binding proteins, TFAM or mtSSB. These two different immunoaffinity procedures yielded very similar sets of proteins, with 21 proteins in common, including most of the proteins previously shown to play roles in mtDNA replication and transcription. In addition to previously identified mitochondrial proteins, multiple peptides were observed for one novel DNA metabolic protein, the DEAH-box helicase DHX30. Antibodies raised against a recombinant fragment of this protein confirmed the mitochondrial localization of a specific isoform of DHX30.
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- Yousong Wang
- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794-8651, USA
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Elena SF, Carrasco P, Daròs JA, Sanjuán R. Mechanisms of genetic robustness in RNA viruses. EMBO Rep 2006; 7:168-73. [PMID: 16452927 PMCID: PMC1369264 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2005] [Accepted: 11/30/2005] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Two key features of RNA viruses are their compacted genomes and their high mutation rate. Accordingly, deleterious mutations are common and have an enormous impact on viral fitness. In their multicellular hosts, robustness can be achieved by genomic redundancy, including gene duplication, diploidy, alternative metabolic pathways and biochemical buffering mechanisms. However, here we review evidence suggesting that during RNA virus evolution, alternative robustness mechanisms may have been selected. After briefly describing how genetic robustness can be quantified, we discuss mechanisms of intrinsic robustness arising as consequences of RNA-genome architecture, replication peculiarities and quasi-species population dynamics. These intrinsic robustness mechanisms operate efficiently at the population level, despite the mutational sensitivity shown by individual genomes. Finally, we discuss the possibility that viruses might exploit cellular buffering mechanisms for their own benefit, producing a sort of extrinsic robustness.
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- Santiago F Elena
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV), Avenida de los Naranjos s/n, 46022 València, Spain.
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Liu C, Willmund F, Whitelegge JP, Hawat S, Knapp B, Lodha M, Schroda M. J-domain protein CDJ2 and HSP70B are a plastidic chaperone pair that interacts with vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1. Mol Biol Cell 2005; 16:1165-77. [PMID: 15635096 PMCID: PMC551482 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e04-08-0736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2004] [Revised: 11/18/2004] [Accepted: 12/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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J-domain cochaperones confer functional specificity to their heat shock protein (HSP)70 partner by recruiting it to specific substrate proteins. To gain insight into the functions of plastidic HSP70s, we searched in Chlamydomonas databases for expressed sequence tags that potentially encode chloroplast-targeted J-domain cochaperones. Two such cDNAs were found: the encoded J-domain proteins were named chloroplast DnaJ homolog 1 and 2 (CDJ1 and CDJ2). CDJ2 was shown to interact with a approximately 28-kDa protein that by mass spectrometry was identified as the vesicle-inducing protein in plastids 1 (VIPP1). In fractionation experiments, CDJ2 was detected almost exclusively in the stroma, whereas VIPP1 was found in low-density membranes, thylakoids, and in the stroma. Coimmunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry analyses identified stromal HSP70B as the major protein interacting with soluble VIPP1, and, as confirmed by cross-linking data, as chaperone partner of CDJ2. In blue native-PAGE of soluble cell extracts, CDJ2 and VIPP1 comigrated in complexes of >>669, approximately 150, and perhaps approximately 300 kDa. Our data suggest that CDJ2, presumably via coiled-coil interactions, binds to VIPP1 and presents it to HSP70B in the ATP state. Our findings and the previously reported requirement of VIPP1 for the biogenesis of thylakoid membranes point to a role for the HSP70B/CDJ2 chaperone pair in this process.
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- Cuimin Liu
- Plant Biochemistry, Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Yoshimune K, Galkin A, Kulakova L, Yoshimura T, Esaki N. DnaK from Vibrio proteolyticus: Complementation of a dnaK-null mutant of Escherichia coli and the role of its atpase domain. J Biosci Bioeng 2005; 99:136-42. [PMID: 16233770 DOI: 10.1263/jbb.99.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2004] [Accepted: 11/15/2004] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We cloned the 4.8-kbp DNA fragment containing the dnaK gene from the chromosomal DNA of Vibrio proteolyticus. It contained four genes arranged unidirectionally in the order of grpE, gltP, dnaK and dnaJ. The DnaK gene of V. proteolyticus (VprDnaK) allowed a dnaK-null mutant of Escherichia coli (DeltadnaK52) to propagate lambda phages but not to grow at 43 degrees C. However, a chimeric DnaK gene comprising the regions corresponding to the N-terminal ATPase domain of E. coli DnaK (EcoDnaK) and the C-terminal region of VprDnaK including the substrate-binding domain, enabled the mutant to grow at 43 degrees C. The temperature dependence for the ATPase activity of the chimeric DnaK was similar to that of EcoDnaK. Fluorometric analyses showed that the chimeric DnaK is much more thermostable than EcoDnaK and VprDnaK. These findings indicate that the thermal stability of the ATPase domain of DnaK is responsible for its chaperone action at high temperatures such as 43 degrees C.
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- Kazuaki Yoshimune
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Yoshimune K, Galkin A, Kulakova L, Yoshimura T, Esaki N. Cold-active DnaK of an Antarctic psychrotroph Shewanella sp. Ac10 supporting the growth of dnaK-null mutant of Escherichia coli at cold temperatures. Extremophiles 2004; 9:145-50. [PMID: 15599780 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-004-0429-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2004] [Accepted: 11/12/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Shewanella sp. Ac10 is a psychrotrophic bacterium isolated from the Antarctica that actively grows at such low temperatures as 0 degrees C. Immunoblot analyses showed that a heat-shock protein DnaK is inducibly formed by the bacterium at 24 degrees C, which is much lower than the temperatures causing heat shock in mesophiles such as Escherichia coli. We found that the Shewanella DnaK (SheDnaK) shows much higher ATPase activity at low temperatures than the DnaK of E. coli (EcoDnaK): a characteristic of a cold-active enzyme. The recombinant SheDnaK gene supported neither the growth of a dnaK-null mutant of E. coli at 43 degrees C nor lambda phage propagation at an even lower temperature, 30 degrees C. However, the recombinant SheDnaK gene enabled the E. coli mutant to grow at 15 degrees C. This is the first report of a DnaK supporting the growth of a dnaK-null mutant at low temperatures.
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- Kazuaki Yoshimune
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Yoshimune K, Esaki N, Moriguchi M. Site-directed mutagenesis alters DnaK-dependent folding process. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 326:74-8. [PMID: 15567154 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2004] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The overproduction of d-aminoacylase (A6-d-ANase) of Alcaligenes xylosoxydans subsp. xylosoxydans A-6 (Alcaligenes A-6) is accompanied by aggregation of the overproduced protein, and its soluble expression is facilitated by the coexpression of DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE (DnaKJE). When the A6-d-ANase gene was expressed in the Escherichia coli dnaK mutant dnaK756, little activity was observed in the soluble fraction, and it was restored by the coexpression of DnaKJE or the substitution of the R354 residue of A6-d-ANase for lysine. These results suggest that the guanidino group of the R354 residue of A6-d-ANase disturbs its proper folding in the absence of DnaK and the disturbance is eliminated by binding of DnaK to the R354 residue in the presence of DnaK. This is the first report that the DnaK-dependent folding process of the enzyme is altered by site-directed mutagenesis.
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- Kazuaki Yoshimune
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Oita University, Dannoharu 700, Oita 870-1192, Japan
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Stewart GR, Robertson BD, Young DB. Analysis of the function of mycobacterial DnaJ proteins by overexpression and microarray profiling. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2004; 84:180-7. [PMID: 15207487 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2003.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/23/2003] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Regulation of expression of the Hsp70/DnaK chaperone plays an important role during infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We have examined the effect of manipulating the level of expression of DnaJ, one of the components of the chaperone apparatus. Overexpression of DnaJ1 resulted in elevated transcription of both the hsp70/dnaK and hsp60/groE chaperone genes, consistent with an increase in the cellular content of nascent and unfolded peptide substrates. There was also an increase in transcription of genes flanking the origin of chromosomal replication, suggesting an important role for DnaJ1 in controlling interaction of the Hsp70 chaperone with the DnaA protein. Overexpression of DnaJ2 had no detectable effect on transcription of other genes. Overexpression in combination with microarray profiling provides a complementary approach to gene deletion for exploring the function of essential genes in M. tuberculosis.
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- Graham R Stewart
- Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Flowers Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Sclafani RA, Fletcher RJ, Chen XS. Two heads are better than one: regulation of DNA replication by hexameric helicases. Genes Dev 2004; 18:2039-45. [PMID: 15342486 PMCID: PMC2292464 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1240604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Robert. A. Sclafani
- Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
- Molecular and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
- Corresponding author: E-MAIL or ; FAX (303) 315-8113
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Zzaman S, Reddy JM, Bastia D. The DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE chaperone system activates inert wild type pi initiator protein of R6K into a form active in replication initiation. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:50886-94. [PMID: 15485812 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m407531200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The plasmid R6K is an interesting model system for investigating initiation of DNA replication, not only near the primary binding sites of the initiator protein pi but also at a distance, caused by pi -mediated DNA looping. An important milestone in the mechanistic analysis of this replicon was the development of a reconstituted replication system consisting of 22 different highly purified proteins (Abhyankar, M. A., Zzaman, S., and Bastia, D. (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278, 45476-45484). Although the in vitro reconstituted system promotes ori gamma-specific initiation of replication by a mutant form of the initiator called pi*, the wild type (WT) pi is functionally inert in this system. Here we show that the chaperone DnaK along with its co-chaperone DnaJ and the nucleotide exchange factor GrpE were needed to activate WT pi and caused it to initiate replication in vitro at the correct origin. We show further that the reaction was relatively chaperone-specific and that other chaperones, such as ClpB and ClpX, were incapable of activating WT pi. The molecular mechanism of activation appeared to be a chaperone-catalyzed facilitation of dimeric inert WT pi into iteron-bound monomers. Protein-protein interaction analysis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay revealed that, in the absence of ATP, DnaJ directly interacted with pi but its binary interactions with DnaK and GrpE and with ClpB and ClpX were at background levels, suggesting that pi is recruited by protein-protein interaction with DnaJ and then fed into the DnaK chaperone machine to promote initiator activation.
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- Shamsu Zzaman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425, USA
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Mayer MP. Recruitment of Hsp70 chaperones: a crucial part of viral survival strategies. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 2004; 153:1-46. [PMID: 15243813 DOI: 10.1007/s10254-004-0025-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Virus proliferation depends on the successful recruitment of host cellular components for their own replication, protein synthesis, and virion assembly. In the course of virus particle production a large number of proteins are synthesized in a relatively short time, whereby protein folding can become a limiting step. Most viruses therefore need cellular chaperones during their life cycle. In addition to their own protein folding problems viruses need to interfere with cellular processes such as signal transduction, cell cycle regulation and induction of apoptosis in order to create a favorable environment for their proliferation and to avoid premature cell death. Chaperones are involved in the control of these cellular processes and some viruses reprogram their host cell by interacting with them. Hsp70 chaperones, as central components of the cellular chaperone network, are frequently recruited by viruses. This review focuses on the function of Hsp70 chaperones at the different stages of the viral life cycle emphasizing mechanistic aspects.
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- M P Mayer
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Zhong Z, Helinski D, Toukdarian A. A specific region in the N terminus of a replication initiation protein of plasmid RK2 is required for recruitment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa DnaB helicase to the plasmid origin. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:45305-10. [PMID: 12952979 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m306058200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Broad host range plasmid RK2 encodes two versions of its essential replication initiation protein, TrfA, using in-frame translational starts spaced 97 amino acids apart. The smaller protein, TrfA-33, is sufficient for plasmid replication in many bacterial hosts. Efficient replication in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, however, specifically requires the larger TrfA-44 protein. With the aim of identifying sequences of TrfA-44 required for stable replication of RK2 in P. aeruginosa, specific deletions and a substitution mutant within the N terminus sequence unique to TrfA-44 were constructed, and the mutant proteins were tested for activity. Deletion mutants were targeted to three of the four predicted helical regions in the first 97 amino acids of TrfA-44. Deletion of TrfA-44 amino acids 21-32 yielded a mutant protein, TrfA-44Delta2, that had lost the ability to bind and load the DnaB helicase of P. aeruginosa or Pseudomonas putida onto the RK2 origin in vitro and did not support stable replication of an RK2 mini-replicon in P. aeruginosa in vivo. A substitution of amino acid 22 within this essential region resulted in a protein, TrfA-44E22A, with reduced activity in vitro, particularly with the P. putida helicase. Deletion of amino acids 37-55 (TrfA-44Delta3) slightly affected protein activity in vitro with the P. aeruginosa helicase and significantly with the P. putida helicase, whereas deletion of amino acids 71-88 (TrfA-44Delta4) had no effect on TrfA activity in vitro with either helicase. These results identify regions of the TrfA-44 protein that are required for recruitment of the Pseudomonas DnaB helicases in the initiation of RK2 replication.
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- Zhenping Zhong
- Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0322, USA
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Zhang X, Oglesbee M. Use of surface plasmon resonance for the measurement of low affinity binding interactions between HSP72 and measles virus nucleocapsid protein. Biol Proced Online 2003; 5:170-181. [PMID: 14615813 PMCID: PMC248471 DOI: 10.1251/bpo59] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2003] [Revised: 08/06/2003] [Accepted: 08/07/2003] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The 72 kDa heat shock protein (HSP72) is a molecular chaperone that binds native protein with low affinity. These interactions can alter function of the substrate, a property known as HSP-mediated activity control. In the present work, BIAcore instrumentation was used to monitor binding reactions between HSP72 and naturally occurring sequence variants of the measles virus (MV) nucleocapsid protein (N), a structural protein regulating transcription/replication of the viral genome. Binding reactions employed synthetic peptides mimicking a putative HSP72 binding motif of N. Sequences were identified that bound HSP72 with affinities comparable to well-characterized activity control reactions. These sequences, but not those binding with lesser affinity, supported HSP72 activity control of MV transcription/replication. BIAcore instrumentation thus provides an effective way to measure biologically relevant low affinity interactions with structural variants of viral proteins.
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- Xinsheng Zhang
- Department of Veterinary Biosciences. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. USA. Phone: 614-292-9672 Fax: 614-292-6473
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences. The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. USA. Phone: 614-292-9672 Fax: 614-292-6473
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Lin BY, Makhov AM, Griffith JD, Broker TR, Chow LT. Chaperone proteins abrogate inhibition of the human papillomavirus (HPV) E1 replicative helicase by the HPV E2 protein. Mol Cell Biol 2002; 22:6592-604. [PMID: 12192057 PMCID: PMC135630 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.22.18.6592-6604.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA replication requires the viral origin recognition protein E2 and the presumptive viral replicative helicase E1. We now report for the first time efficient DNA unwinding by a purified HPV E1 protein. Unwinding depends on a supercoiled DNA substrate, topoisomerase I, single-stranded-DNA-binding protein, and ATP, but not an origin. Electron microscopy revealed completely unwound molecules. Intermediates contained two single-stranded loops emanating from a single protein complex, suggesting a bidirectional E1 helicase which translocated the flanking DNA in an inward direction. We showed that E2 protein partially inhibited DNA unwinding and that Hsp70 or Hsp40, which we reported previously to stimulate HPV-11 E1 binding to the origin and promote dihexameric E1 formation, apparently displaced E2 and abolished inhibition. Neither E2 nor chaperone proteins were detected in unwinding complexes. These results suggest that chaperones play important roles in the assembly and activation of a replicative helicase in higher eukaryotes. An E1 mutation in the ATP binding site caused deficient binding and unwinding of origin DNA, indicating the importance of ATP binding in efficient helicase assembly on the origin.
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- Biing Yuan Lin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-0005, USA
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Mayer MP, Brehmer D, Gässler CS, Bukau B. Hsp70 chaperone machines. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2002; 59:1-44. [PMID: 11868269 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(01)59001-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- M P Mayer
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Str. 7, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Ziemienowicz A, Konieczny I, Hübscher U. Calf thymus Hsc70 and Hsc40 can substitute for DnaK and DnaJ function in protein renaturation but not in bacteriophage DNA replication. FEBS Lett 2001; 507:11-5. [PMID: 11682050 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02923-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Calf thymus (ct) Hsc70 has been shown previously to reactivate heat-inactivated prokaryotic and eukaryotic enzymes, while DnaK was able to reactivate solely prokaryotic enzymes. Here, we report on isolation from calf thymus of a DnaJ homolog, ctHsc40, and on testing of its cooperative function in three different assays: (i) reactivation of heat-inactivated DNA polymerases, (ii) stimulation of the ATPase activity of ctHsc70 chaperone, and (iii) replication of bacteriophage lambda DNA. Surprisingly, ctHsc70/ctHsc40 chaperones were found to reactivate the denatured prokaryotic and eukaryotic enzymes but not to promote bacteriophage lambda DNA replication, suggesting species specificity in DNA replication.
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- A Ziemienowicz
- Department of Veterinary Biochemistry, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Smelkova N, Marians KJ. Timely release of both replication forks from oriC requires modulation of origin topology. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:39186-91. [PMID: 11504719 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m104411200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Initiation of DNA replication at oriC occurs bidirectionally both in vivo and in vitro. Although the proteins involved in establishing the replication forks are known, little is known about the events that ensure that initiation is bidirectional. We show here that in the absence of DNA gyrase, replication fork progression from oriC on a plasmid template in vitro is unidirectional, although both replication forks have formed at the origin. There was no bias in the release of one fork or the other, ruling out protein blockage of one fork as a possible reason for the asymmetric release. Timely release of both forks required the presence of either DNA gyrase or topoisomerase IV, suggesting that modulation of the topology of the origin region is the governing factor.
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- N Smelkova
- Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Uehara T, Matsuzawa H, Nishimura A. HscA is involved in the dynamics of FtsZ-ring formation in Escherichia coli K12. Genes Cells 2001; 6:803-14. [PMID: 11554926 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2001.00463.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND FtsZ, a homologue of eukaryotic tubulin, localizes throughout the cytoplasm in non-dividing Escherichia coli. However, it assembles in cytokinetic rings at the early stages of septation. Factors controlling the dynamics of FtsZ ring formation are unknown, and the molecular mechanism governing these dynamics is yet to be determined. RESULTS At 42 degrees C, JE10715 mutant bacteria formed multinucleated filaments with a highly reduced number of FtsZ-rings at potential division sites. The JE10715 phenotype resulted from a mis-sense mutation in the hscA gene which encodes a heat shock Hsp70 family protein, with a single alanine-to-valine substitution at position 192 within the ATPase domain. Both JE10715 and the hscA knockout strain of JE10715 were completely complemented by a plasmid-born, wild-type hscA gene, but not by a mutant-type hscA715 gene. An hscA conditional knockout of the wild-type strain under non-permissive conditions exhibited longer rod cells with an abnormal localization of FtsZ. The over-expression of dnaK partially complemented the JE10715 mutation. In vitro, the ATPase activity of the mutant protein HscA715 was reduced to 63% of wild-type HscA activity. HscA co-sedimented with FtsZ-polymers in the presence of GTP. CONCLUSION HscA is involved in FtsZ-ring formation, through a chaperon-like interaction with FtsZ. Defects in hscA, however, can partially be compensated for by redundant genes, including the wild-type dnaK.
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- T Uehara
- National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka-ken 411-8540, Japan
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- C S Sullivan
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Barańska S, Gabig M, Węgrzyn A, Konopa G, Herman-Antosiewicz A, Hernandez P, Schvartzman JB, Helinski DR, Węgrzyn G. Regulation of the switch from early to late bacteriophage lambda DNA replication. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2001; 147:535-547. [PMID: 11238961 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-3-535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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There are two modes of bacteriophage lambda DNA replication following infection of its host, Escherichia coli. Early after infection, replication occurs according to the theta (theta or circle-to-circle) mode, and is later switched to the sigma (sigma or rolling-circle) mode. It is not known how this switch, occurring at a specific time in the infection cycle, is regulated. Here it is demonstrated that in wild-type cells the replication starting from orilambda proceeds both bidirectionally and unidirectionally, whereas in bacteria devoid of a functional DnaA protein, replication from orilambda is predominantly unidirectional. The regulation of directionality of replication from orilambda is mediated by positive control of lambda p(R) promoter activity by DnaA, since the mode of replication of an artificial lambda replicon bearing the p(tet) promoter instead of p(R) was found to be independent of DnaA function. These findings and results of density-shift experiments suggest that in dnaA mutants infected with lambda, phage DNA replication proceeds predominantly according to the unidirectional theta mechanism and is switched early after infection to the sigma mode. It is proposed that in wild-type E. coli cells infected with lambda, phage DNA replication proceeds according to a bidirectional theta mechanism early after infection due to efficient transcriptional activation of orilambda, stimulated by the host DnaA protein. After a few rounds of this type of replication, the resulting increased copy number of lambda genomic DNA may cause a depletion of free DnaA protein because of its interaction with the multiple DnaA-binding sites in lambda DNA. It is proposed that this may lead to inefficient transcriptional activation of orilambda resulting in unidirectional theta replication followed by sigma type replication.
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- Sylwia Barańska
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk1 and Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences2, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk1 and Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences2, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk1 and Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences2, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk1 and Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences2, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk1 and Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences2, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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- Departamento de Biologı́a Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Velázquez 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain3
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- Departamento de Biologı́a Celular y del Desarrollo, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Velázquez 144, 28006 Madrid, Spain3
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- Center for Molecular Genetics and Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA4
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- Marine Biology Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Św. Wojciecha 5, 81-347 Gdynia, Poland5
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Gdańsk1 and Laboratory of Molecular Biology (affiliated with the University of Gdańsk), Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences2, Kładki 24, 80-822 Gdańsk, Poland
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Simian virus 40 large T antigen is a multifunctional oncoprotein that is required for numerous viral functions and the induction of cellular transformation. T antigen contains a J domain that is required for many of its activities including viral DNA replication, transformation, and virion assembly. J-domain-containing proteins interact with Hsc70 (a cellular chaperone) to perform multiple biological activities, usually involving a change in the conformation of target substrates. It is thought that Hsc70 associates with T antigen to assist in performing its numerous activities. However, it is not clear if T antigen binds to Hsc70 directly or induces the binding of Hsc70 to other T-antigen binding proteins such as pRb or p53. In this report, we show that T antigen binds Hsc70 directly with a stoichiometry of 1:1 (dissociation constant = 310 nM Hsc70). Furthermore, the T-antigen--Hsc70 complex formation is dependent upon ATP hydrolysis at the active site of Hsc70 (ATP dissociation constant = 0.16 microM), but T-antigen--Hsc70 complex formation does not require nucleotide hydrolysis at the T-antigen ATP binding site. N136, a J domain-containing fragment of T antigen, does not stably associate with Hsc70 but can form a transient complex as assayed by centrifugation analysis. Finally, T antigen does not associate stably with either of two yeast Hsc70 homologues or an amino-terminal fragment of Hsc70 containing the ATPase domain. These results provide direct evidence that the T-antigen--Hsc70 interaction is specific and that this association requires multiple domains of both T antigen and Hsc70. This is the first demonstration of a nucleotide requirement for the association of T antigen and Hsc70 and lays the foundation for future reconstitution studies of chaperone-dependent tumorigenesis induced by T antigen.
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- C S Sullivan
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Mayer MP, Rüdiger S, Bukau B. Molecular basis for interactions of the DnaK chaperone with substrates. Biol Chem 2000; 381:877-85. [PMID: 11076019 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2000.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Hsp70 chaperones assist a large variety of protein folding processes in the cell by transient association with short peptide segments of proteins. The substrate binding and release cycle is driven by the switching between the low affinity ATP bound state and the high affinity ADP bound state of Hsp70. Considerable progress has been made recently by the identification of in vivo substrates for the Escherichia coli homolog, DnaK, and the molecular mechanisms which govern the DnaK-substrate interactions. Here we review the processes that generate DnaK substrates in vivo and the properties of these substrates, and we describe insights gained from structural and kinetic analysis of DnaK-substrate interaction.
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- M P Mayer
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Germany
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Studies on the involvement of chaperone proteins in DNA replication have been limited to a few replication systems, belonging primarily to the prokaryotic world. The insights gained from these studies have substantially contributed to our understanding of the eukaryotic DNA replication process as well. The finding that molecular chaperones can activate some initiation proteins before DNA synthesis has led to the more general suggestion that molecular chaperones can influence the DNA-binding activity of many proteins, including transcriptional factors involved in cell regulatory systems. The DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE molecular chaperone system became a paradigm of our understanding of fundamental processes, such as protein folding, translocation, selective proteolysis and autoregulation of the heat-shock response. Studies on the Clp ATPase family of molecular chaperones will help to define the nature of signals involved in chaperone-dependent proteins' refolding and the degradation of misfolded proteins.
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- I Konieczny
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki, Poland
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Odegrip R, Schoen S, Haggård-Ljungquist E, Park K, Chattoraj DK. The interaction of bacteriophage P2 B protein with Escherichia coli DnaB helicase. J Virol 2000; 74:4057-63. [PMID: 10756017 PMCID: PMC111919 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.9.4057-4063.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Bacteriophage P2 requires several host proteins for lytic replication, including helicase DnaB but not the helicase loader, DnaC. Some genetic studies have suggested that the loading is done by a phage-encoded protein, P2 B. However, a P2 minichromosome containing only the P2 initiator gene A and a marker gene can be established as a plasmid without requiring the P2 B gene. Here we demonstrate that P2 B associates with DnaB. This was done by using the yeast two-hybrid system in vivo and was confirmed in vitro, where (35)S-labeled P2 B bound specifically to DnaB adsorbed to Q Sepharose beads and monoclonal antibodies directed against the His-tagged P2 B protein were shown to coprecipitate the DnaB protein. Finally, P2 B was shown to stabilize the opening of a reporter origin, a reaction that is facilitated by the inactivation of DnaB. In this respect, P2 B was comparable to lambda P protein, which is known to be capable of binding and inactivating the helicase while acting as a helicase loader. Even though P2 B has little similarity to other known or predicted helicase loaders, we suggest that P2 B is required for efficient loading of DnaB and that this role, although dispensable for P2 plasmid replication, becomes essential for P2 lytic replication.
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- R Odegrip
- Department of Genetics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Buchberger A, Gässler CS, Büttner M, McMacken R, Bukau B. Functional defects of the DnaK756 mutant chaperone of Escherichia coli indicate distinct roles for amino- and carboxyl-terminal residues in substrate and co-chaperone interaction and interdomain communication. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:38017-26. [PMID: 10608870 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.53.38017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The first discovery of an Hsp70 chaperone gene was the isolation of an Escherichia coli mutant, dnaK756, which rendered the cells resistant to lytic infection with bacteriophage lambda. The DnaK756 mutant protein has since been used to establish many of the cellular roles and biochemical properties of DnaK. DnaK756 has three glycine-to-aspartate substitutions at residues 32, 455, and 468, which were reported to result in defects in intrinsic and GrpE-stimulated ATPase activities, substrate binding, stability of the substrate-binding domain, interdomain communication, and, consequently, defects in chaperone activity. To dissect the effects of the different amino acid substitutions in DnaK756, we analyzed two DnaK variants carrying only the amino-terminal (residue 32) or the two carboxyl-terminal (residues 455 and 468) substitutions. The amino-terminal substitution interfered with the GrpE-stimulated ATPase activity. The carboxyl-terminal mutations (i) affected stability and function of the substrate-binding domain, (ii) caused a 10-fold elevated ATP hydrolysis rate, but (iii) did not severely affect domain coupling. Surprisingly, DnaK chaperone activity was more severely compromised by the amino-terminal than by the carboxyl-terminal amino acid substitutions both in vivo and in vitro. In the in vitro refolding of denatured firefly luciferase, the defect of the DnaK variant carrying the amino-terminal substitution results from its inability to release, upon GrpE-mediated nucleotide exchange, bound luciferase in a folding competent state. Our results indicate that the DnaK-DnaJ-GrpE chaperone system can tolerate suboptimal substrate binding, whereas the tight kinetic control of substrate dissociation by GrpE is essential.
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- A Buchberger
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Hermann Herder Strasse 7, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- H L Ozer
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics UMD-New Jersey Medical School 07103-2714, USA
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Klostermeier D, Seidel R, Reinstein J. The functional cycle and regulation of the Thermus thermophilus DnaK chaperone system. J Mol Biol 1999; 287:511-25. [PMID: 10092456 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Escherichia coli DnaK (DnaKEco) chaperone cycle is tightly regulated by the cochaperones DnaJ, which stimulates ATP hydrolysis, and GrpE, which acts as a nucleotide exchange factor. The Thermus thermophilus DnaK (DnaKTth) system additionally comprises the DnaK-DnaJ assembly factor (DafATth) that is mediating formation of a 300 kDa DnaKTth. DnaJTth.DafATth complex.A model peptide derived from the tumor suppressor protein p53 was used to dissect the regulation of the individual kinetic key steps of the DnaKTth nucleotide/chaperone cycle. As with DnaKEco the DnaKTth.ATP complex binds substrates with reduced affinity and large exchange rates compared to the DnaKTth.ADP.Pi state. In contrast to DnaKEco, ADP-Pi release is slow compared to the rate of hydrolysis, reversing the balance of the two functional nucleotide states. Whereas GrpETth stimulates nucleotide release from DnaKTth, DnaJTth does not accelerate ATP hydrolysis under various experimental conditions. However, it exerts influence on the interaction of DnaKTth with substrates: in the presence of DafATth, DnaJTth inhibits substrate binding, and substrate already bound to DnaKTth is displaced by DnaJTth and DafATth, indicating competitive binding of DnaJTth/DafATth and substrate. It thus appears that the DnaKTth. DnaJTth.DafATth complex as isolated from T. thermophilus does not represent the active species in the DnaKTth chaperone cycle. Isothermal titration calorimetry showed that the ternary complex of DnaKTth, DnaJTth and DafATth is assembling with high affinity, whereas binary complexes of DnaKTth and DnaJTth or DafATth were not detectable, indicating highly synergistic formation of the 300 kDa DnaKTth. DnaJTth.DafATth complex. Based on these results, a model describing the DnaKTth chaperone cycle and its regulation by cochaperones is proposed where DnaKTth. DnaJTth.DafATth constitutes the resting state, and a DnaKTth. substrate.DnaJTth complex is the active chaperone species. The novel factor DafATth that mediates interaction of DnaKTth with DnaJTth would thus serve as a "template" to stabilise the ternary DnaKTth.DafATth.DnaJTth complex until it is replaced by substrate proteins under heat shock conditions.
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- D Klostermeier
- Abteilung Physikalische Biochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie, Rheinlanddamm 201, Dortmund, D-44139, Germany
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Montgomery DL, Morimoto RI, Gierasch LM. Mutations in the substrate binding domain of the Escherichia coli 70 kDa molecular chaperone, DnaK, which alter substrate affinity or interdomain coupling. J Mol Biol 1999; 286:915-32. [PMID: 10024459 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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In Escherichia coli, DnaK is essential for the replication of bacteriophage lambda DNA; this in vivo activity provides the basis of a screen for mutations affecting DnaK function. Mn PCR was used to introduce mutations into residues 405-468 of the C-terminal polypeptide-binding domain of DnaK. These mutant proteins were screened for the ability to propagate bacteriophage lambda in the background of a dnaK deficient cell line, BB1553. This initial screen identified several proteins which were mutant at multiple positions. The multiple mutants were further dissected into single mutants which remained negative for lambda propagation. Four of these single-site mutants were purified and assayed for biochemical functionality. Two single-site mutations, F426S and S427P, are localized in the peptide binding site and display weakened peptide binding affinity. This indicates that the crystallographically determined peptide binding site is also critical for in vivo lambda replication. Two other mutations, K414I and N451K, are located at the edge of the beta-sandwich domain near alpha-helix A. The K414I mutant binds peptide moderately well, yet displays defects in allosteric functions, including peptide-stimulated ATPase activity, ATP-induced changes in tryptophan fluorescence, ATP-induced peptide release, and elevated ATPase activity. The K414 position is close in tertiary structure to the linker region to the ATPase domain and reflects a specific area of the peptide-binding domain which is necessary for interdomain coupling. The mutant N451K displays defects in both peptide binding and allosteric interaction.
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- D L Montgomery
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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A mechanism for regulating gene expression at the level of transcription utilizes an antagonist of the sigma transcription factor known as the anti-sigma (anti-sigma) factor. The cytoplasmic class of anti-sigma factors has been well characterized. The class includes AsiA form bacteriophage T4, which inhibits Escherichia coli sigma 70; FlgM, present in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, which inhibits the flagella sigma factor sigma 28; SpoIIAB, which inhibits the sporulation-specific sigma factor, sigma F and sigma G, of Bacillus subtilis; RbsW of B. subtilis, which inhibits stress response sigma factor sigma B; and DnaK, a general regulator of the heat shock response, which in bacteria inhibits the heat shock sigma factor sigma 32. In addition to this class of well-characterized cytoplasmic anti-sigma factors, a new class of homologous, inner-membrane-bound anti-sigma factors has recently been discovered in a variety of eubacteria. This new class of anti-sigma factors regulates the expression of so-called extracytoplasmic functions, and hence is known as the ECF subfamily of anti-sigma factors. The range of cell processes regulated by anti-sigma factors is highly varied and includes bacteriophage phage growth, sporulation, stress response, flagellar biosynthesis, pigment production, ion transport, and virulence.
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- K T Hughes
- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
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Zylicz M, Liberek K, Wawrzynow A, Georgopoulos C. Formation of the preprimosome protects lambda O from RNA transcription-dependent proteolysis by ClpP/ClpX. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:15259-63. [PMID: 9860956 PMCID: PMC28030 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.26.15259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Using the bacteriophage lambda DNA replication system, composed entirely of purified proteins, we have tested the accessibility of the short-lived lambda O protein to the ClpP/ClpX protease during the various stages of lambda DNA replication. We find that binding of lambda O protein to its orilambda DNA sequence, leading to the so-called "O-some" formation, largely inhibits its degradation. On the contrary, under conditions permissive for transcription, the lambda O protein bound to the orilambda sequence becomes largely accessible to ClpP/ClpX-mediated proteolysis. However, when the lambda O protein is part of the larger orilambda:O.P.DnaB preprimosomal complex, transcription does not significantly increase ClpP/ClpX-dependent lambda O degradation. These results show that transcription can stimulate proteolysis of a protein that is required for the initiation of DNA replication.
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- M Zylicz
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, 80-822 Gdansk, Kladki 24, Poland.
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Suh WC, Burkholder WF, Lu CZ, Zhao X, Gottesman ME, Gross CA. Interaction of the Hsp70 molecular chaperone, DnaK, with its cochaperone DnaJ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:15223-8. [PMID: 9860950 PMCID: PMC28024 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.26.15223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/20/1998] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Chaperones of the Hsp70 family bind to unfolded or partially folded polypeptides to facilitate many cellular processes. ATP hydrolysis and substrate binding, the two key molecular activities of this chaperone, are modulated by the cochaperone DnaJ. By using both genetic and biochemical approaches, we provide evidence that DnaJ binds to at least two sites on the Escherichia coli Hsp70 family member DnaK: under the ATPase domain in a cleft between its two subdomains and at or near the pocket of substrate binding. The lower cleft of the ATPase domain is defined as a binding pocket for the J-domain because (i) a DnaK mutation located in this cleft (R167H) is an allele-specific suppressor of the binding defect of the DnaJ mutation, D35N and (ii) alanine substitution of two residues close to R167 in the crystal structure, N170A and T173A, significantly decrease DnaJ binding. A second binding determinant is likely to be in the substrate-binding domain because some DnaK mutations in the vicinity of the substrate-binding pocket are defective in either the affinity (G400D, G539D) or rate (D526N) of both peptide and DnaJ binding to DnaK. Binding of DnaJ may propagate conformational changes to the nearby ATPase catalytic center and substrate-binding sites as well as facilitate communication between these two domains to alter the molecular properties of Hsp70.
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- W C Suh
- Departments of Microbiology and Stomatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Recent research has focused on proteins important for early steps in replication in eukaryotes, and particularly on Cdc6/Cdc18, the MCMs, and Cdc45. Although it is still unclear exactly what role these proteins play, it is possible that they are analogous to initiation proteins in prokaryotes. One specific model is that MCMs form a hexameric helicase at replication forks, and Cdc6/Cdc18 acts as a 'clamp-loader' required to lock the MCMs around DNA. The MCMs appear to be the target of Cdc7-Dbf4 kinase acting at individual replication origins. Finally, Cdc45 interacts with MCMs and may shed light on how cyclin-dependent kinases activate DNA replication.
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- J Leatherwood
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Life Science Room 130 State University of New York Stony Brook NY 11794-5222 USA.
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- J L Brodsky
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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