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Subramanya AR, Boyd-Shiwarski CR. Molecular Crowding: Physiologic Sensing and Control. Annu Rev Physiol 2024; 86:429-452. [PMID: 37931170 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-042222-025920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
Abstract
The cytoplasm is densely packed with molecules that contribute to its nonideal behavior. Cytosolic crowding influences chemical reaction rates, intracellular water mobility, and macromolecular complex formation. Overcrowding is potentially catastrophic; to counteract this problem, cells have evolved acute and chronic homeostatic mechanisms that optimize cellular crowdedness. Here, we provide a physiology-focused overview of molecular crowding, highlighting contemporary advances in our understanding of its sensing and control. Long hypothesized as a form of crowding-induced microcompartmentation, phase separation allows cells to detect and respond to intracellular crowding through the action of biomolecular condensates, as indicated by recent studies. Growing evidence indicates that crowding is closely tied to cell size and fluid volume, homeostatic responses to physical compression and desiccation, tissue architecture, circadian rhythm, aging, transepithelial transport, and total body electrolyte and water balance. Thus, molecular crowding is a fundamental physiologic parameter that impacts diverse functions extending from molecule to organism.
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- Arohan R Subramanya
- Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ,
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ,
- Pittsburgh Center for Kidney Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Carter Z, Creamer D, Kouvidi A, Grant CM. Sequestrase chaperones protect against oxidative stress-induced protein aggregation and [PSI+] prion formation. PLoS Genet 2024; 20:e1011194. [PMID: 38422160 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1011194] [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: 11/27/2023] [Revised: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/02/2024] Open
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Misfolded proteins are usually refolded to their functional conformations or degraded by quality control mechanisms. When misfolded proteins evade quality control, they can be sequestered to specific sites within cells to prevent the potential dysfunction and toxicity that arises from protein aggregation. Btn2 and Hsp42 are compartment-specific sequestrases that play key roles in the assembly of these deposition sites. Their exact intracellular functions and substrates are not well defined, particularly since heat stress sensitivity is not observed in deletion mutants. We show here that Btn2 and Hsp42 are required for tolerance to oxidative stress conditions induced by exposure to hydrogen peroxide. Btn2 and Hsp42 act to sequester oxidized proteins into defined PQC sites following ROS exposure and their absence leads to an accumulation of protein aggregates. The toxicity of protein aggregate accumulation causes oxidant sensitivity in btn2 hsp42 sequestrase mutants since overexpression of the Hsp104 disaggregase rescues oxidant tolerance. We have identified the Sup35 translation termination factor as an in vivo sequestrase substrate and show that Btn2 and Hsp42 act to suppress oxidant-induced formation of the yeast [PSI+] prion, which is the amyloid form of Sup35. [PSI+] prion formation in sequestrase mutants does not require IPOD (insoluble protein deposit) localization which is the site where amyloids are thought to undergo fragmentation and seeding to propagate their heritable prion form. Instead, both amorphous and amyloid Sup35 aggregates are increased in btn2 hsp42 mutants consistent with the idea that prion formation occurs at multiple intracellular sites during oxidative stress conditions in the absence of sequestrase activity. Taken together, our data identify protein sequestration as a key antioxidant defence mechanism that functions to mitigate the damaging consequences of protein oxidation-induced aggregation.
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- Zorana Carter
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Meng L, Liu C, Li Y, Chen G, Xiong M, Yu T, Pan L, Zhang X, Zhou L, Guo T, Yuan X, Liu C, Zhang Z, Zhang Z. The yeast prion protein Sup35 initiates α-synuclein pathology in mouse models of Parkinson's disease. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadj1092. [PMID: 37910610 PMCID: PMC10619926 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj1092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the pathologic aggregation and prion-like propagation of α-synuclein (α-syn). Emerging evidence shows that fungal infections increase the incidence of PD. However, the molecular mechanisms by which fungi promote the onset of PD are poorly understood. Here, we show that nasal infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) in α-syn A53T transgenic mice accelerates the aggregation of α-syn. Furthermore, we found that Sup35, a prion protein from S. cerevisiae, is the key factor initiating α-syn pathology induced by S. cerevisiae. Sup35 interacts with α-syn and accelerates its aggregation in vitro. Notably, injection of Sup35 fibrils into the striatum of wild-type mice led to α-syn pathology and PD-like motor impairment. The Sup35-seeded α-syn fibrils showed enhanced seeding activity and neurotoxicity compared with pure α-syn fibrils in vitro and in vivo. Together, these observations indicate that the yeast prion protein Sup35 initiates α-syn pathology in PD.
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- Lanxia Meng
- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
- Research Center for Environment and Health, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Neurology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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Howell-Bray T, Byrne L. The effect of prions on cellular metabolism: The metabolic impact of the [RNQ +] prion and potential role of native Rnq1p. RESEARCH SQUARE 2023:rs.3.rs-2511186. [PMID: 36909567 PMCID: PMC10002837 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2511186/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Within the field of amyloid and prion disease there is a need for a more comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of disease biology. In order to facilitate the progression treatment and underpin comprehension of toxicity, fundamental understanding of the disruption to normal cellular biochemistry and trafficking is needed. Here, by removing the complex biochemistry of the brain, we have utilised known prion forming strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae carrying different conformational variants of the Rnq1p to obtain Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) metabolic profiles and identify key perturbations of prion presence. These studies reveal that prion containing [RNQ+] cells display a significant reduction in amino acid biosynthesis and distinct perturbations in sphingolipid metabolism, with significant downregulation in metabolites within these pathways. Moreover, that native Rnq1p appears to downregulate ubiquinone biosynthesis pathways within cells, suggesting that Rnq1p may play a lipid/mevalonate-based cytoprotective role as a regulator of ubiquinone production. These findings contribute to the understanding of how prion proteins interact in vivo in both their prion and non-prion confirmations and indicate potential targets for the mitigation of these effects. We demonstrate specific sphingolipid centred metabolic disruptions due to prion presence and give insight into a potential cytoprotective role of the native Rnq1 protein. This provides evidence of metabolic similarities between yeast and mammalian cells as a consequence of prion presence and establishes the application of metabolomics as a tool to investigate prion/amyloid-based phenomena.
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Pintado-Grima C, Santos J, Iglesias V, Manglano-Artuñedo Z, Pallarès I, Ventura S. Exploring cryptic amyloidogenic regions in prion-like proteins from plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2023; 13:1060410. [PMID: 36726678 PMCID: PMC9885169 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1060410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Prion-like domains (PrLDs) are intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of low sequence complexity with a similar composition to yeast prion domains. PrLDs-containing proteins have been involved in different organisms' regulatory processes. Regions of moderate amyloid propensity within IDRs have been shown to assemble autonomously into amyloid fibrils. These sequences tend to be rich in polar amino acids and often escape from the detection of classical bioinformatics screenings that look for highly aggregation-prone hydrophobic sequence stretches. We defined them as cryptic amyloidogenic regions (CARs) and recently developed an integrated database that collects thousands of predicted CARs in IDRs. CARs seem to be evolutionary conserved among disordered regions because of their potential to stablish functional contacts with other biomolecules. Here we have focused on identifying and characterizing CARs in prion-like proteins (pCARs) from plants, a lineage that has been poorly studied in comparison with other prionomes. We confirmed the intrinsic amyloid potential for a selected pCAR from Arabidopsis thaliana and explored functional enrichments and compositional bias of pCARs in plant prion-like proteins.
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- Carlos Pintado-Grima
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
- Nanomalaria Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Tibble RW, Gross JD. A call to order: Examining structured domains in biomolecular condensates. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2023; 346:107318. [PMID: 36657879 PMCID: PMC10878105 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2022.107318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Diverse cellular processes have been observed or predicted to occur in biomolecular condensates, which are comprised of proteins and nucleic acids that undergo liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). Protein-driven LLPS often involves weak, multivalent interactions between intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). Due to their inherent lack of defined tertiary structures, NMR has been a powerful resource for studying the behavior and interactions of IDRs in condensates. While IDRs in proteins are necessary for phase separation, core proteins enriched in condensates often contain structured domains that are essential for their function and contribute to phase separation. How phase separation can affect the structure and conformational dynamics of structured domains is critical for understanding how biochemical reactions can be effectively regulated in cellular condensates. In this perspective, we discuss the consequences phase separation can have on structured domains and outline NMR observables we believe are useful for assessing protein structure and dynamics in condensates.
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- Ryan W Tibble
- Program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of California, San Francisco, United States; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, United States
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- Program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of California, San Francisco, United States; Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, United States.
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Knier AS, Davis EE, Buchholz HE, Dorweiler JE, Flannagan LE, Manogaran AL. The yeast molecular chaperone, Hsp104, influences transthyretin aggregate formation. Front Mol Neurosci 2022; 15:1050472. [PMID: 36590917 PMCID: PMC9802906 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.1050472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Patients with the fatal disorder Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR) experience polyneuropathy through the progressive destruction of peripheral nervous tissue. In these patients, the transthyretin (TTR) protein dissociates from its functional tetrameric structure, misfolds, and aggregates into extracellular amyloid deposits that are associated with disease progression. These aggregates form large fibrillar structures as well as shorter oligomeric aggregates that are suspected to be cytotoxic. Several studies have shown that these extracellular TTR aggregates enter the cell and accumulate intracellularly, which is associated with increased proteostasis response. However, there are limited experimental models to study how proteostasis influences internalized TTR aggregates. Here, we use a humanized yeast system to recapitulate intracellular TTR aggregating protein in vivo. The yeast molecular chaperone Hsp104 is a disaggregase that has been shown to fragment amyloidogenic aggregates associated with certain yeast prions and reduce protein aggregation associated with human neurogenerative diseases. In yeast, we found that TTR forms both SDS-resistant oligomers and SDS-sensitive large molecular weight complexes. In actively dividing cultures, Hsp104 has no impact on oligomeric or large aggregate populations, yet overexpression of Hsp104 is loosely associated with an increase in overall aggregate size. Interestingly, a potentiating mutation in the middle domain of Hsp104 consistently results in an increase in overall TTR aggregate size. These data suggest a novel approach to aggregate management, where the Hsp104 variant shifts aggregate populations away from toxic oligomeric species to more inert larger aggregates. In aged cultures Hsp104 overexpression has no impact on TTR aggregation profiles suggesting that these chaperone approaches to shift aggregate populations are not effective with age, possibly due to proteostasis decline.
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Gropp MHM, Klaips CL, Hartl FU. Formation of toxic oligomers of polyQ-expanded Huntingtin by prion-mediated cross-seeding. Mol Cell 2022; 82:4290-4306.e11. [PMID: 36272412 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.09.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 08/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Manifestation of aggregate pathology in Huntington's disease is thought to be facilitated by a preferential vulnerability of affected brain cells to age-dependent proteostatic decline. To understand how specific cellular backgrounds may facilitate pathologic aggregation, we utilized the yeast model in which polyQ-expanded Huntingtin forms aggregates only when the endogenous prion-forming protein Rnq1 is in its amyloid-like prion [PIN+] conformation. We employed optogenetic clustering of polyQ protein as an orthogonal method to induce polyQ aggregation in prion-free [pin-] cells. Optogenetic aggregation circumvented the prion requirement for the formation of detergent-resistant polyQ inclusions but bypassed the formation of toxic polyQ oligomers, which accumulated specifically in [PIN+] cells. Reconstitution of aggregation in vitro suggested that these polyQ oligomers formed through direct templating on Rnq1 prions. These findings shed light on the mechanism of prion-mediated formation of oligomers, which may play a role in triggering polyQ pathology in the patient brain.
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- Michael H M Gropp
- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany; Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells & Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, Antonius Deusinglaan 1, 9713AV Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany.
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Miller SC, Wegrzynowicz AK, Cole SJ, Hayward RE, Ganser SJ, Hines JK. Hsp40/JDP Requirements for the Propagation of Synthetic Yeast Prions. Viruses 2022; 14:v14102160. [PMID: 36298715 PMCID: PMC9611480 DOI: 10.3390/v14102160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Revised: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Yeast prions are protein-based transmissible elements, most of which are amyloids. The chaperone protein network in yeast is inexorably linked to the spreading of prions during cell division by fragmentation of amyloid prion aggregates. Specifically, the core “prion fragmentation machinery” includes the proteins Hsp104, Hsp70 and the Hsp40/J-domain protein (JDP) Sis1. Numerous novel amyloid-forming proteins have been created and examined in the yeast system and occasionally these amyloids are also capable of continuous Hsp104-dependent propagation in cell populations, forming synthetic prions. However, additional chaperone requirements, if any, have not been determined. Here, we report the first instances of a JDP-Hsp70 system requirement for the propagation of synthetic prions. We utilized constructs from a system of engineered prions with prion-forming domains (PrDs) consisting of a polyQ stretch interrupted by a single heterologous amino acid interspersed every fifth residue. These “polyQX” PrDs are fused to the MC domains of Sup35, creating chimeric proteins of which a subset forms synthetic prions in yeast. For four of these prions, we show that SIS1 repression causes prion loss in a manner consistent with Sis1′s known role in prion fragmentation. PolyQX prions were sensitive to Sis1 expression levels to differing degrees, congruent with the variability observed among native prions. Our results expand the scope known Sis1 functionality, demonstrating that Sis1 acts on amyloids broadly, rather than through specific protein–protein interactions with individual yeast prion-forming proteins.
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Kushnirov VV, Dergalev AA, Alieva MK, Alexandrov AI. Structural Bases of Prion Variation in Yeast. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23105738. [PMID: 35628548 PMCID: PMC9147965 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2022] [Revised: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 05/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Amyloids are protein aggregates with a specific filamentous structure that are related to a number of human diseases, and also to some important physiological processes in animals and other kingdoms of life. Amyloids in yeast can stably propagate as heritable units, prions. Yeast prions are of interest both on their own and as a model for amyloids and prions in general. In this review, we consider the structure of yeast prions and its variation, how such structures determine the balance of aggregated and soluble prion protein through interaction with chaperones and how the aggregated state affects the non-prion functions of these proteins.
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Zhouravleva GA, Bondarev SA, Zemlyanko OM, Moskalenko SE. Role of Proteins Interacting with the eRF1 and eRF3 Release Factors in the Regulation of Translation and Prionization. Mol Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893322010101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Louros N, Ramakers M, Michiels E, Konstantoulea K, Morelli C, Garcia T, Moonen N, D'Haeyer S, Goossens V, Thal DR, Audenaert D, Rousseau F, Schymkowitz J. Mapping the sequence specificity of heterotypic amyloid interactions enables the identification of aggregation modifiers. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1351. [PMID: 35292653 PMCID: PMC8924238 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28955-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Heterotypic amyloid interactions between related protein sequences have been observed in functional and disease amyloids. While sequence homology seems to favour heterotypic amyloid interactions, we have no systematic understanding of the structural rules determining such interactions nor whether they inhibit or facilitate amyloid assembly. Using structure-based thermodynamic calculations and extensive experimental validation, we performed a comprehensive exploration of the defining role of sequence promiscuity in amyloid interactions. Using tau as a model system we demonstrate that proteins with local sequence homology to tau amyloid nucleating regions can modify fibril nucleation, morphology, assembly and spreading of aggregates in cultured cells. Depending on the type of mutation such interactions inhibit or promote aggregation in a manner that can be predicted from structure. We find that these heterotypic amyloid interactions can result in the subcellular mis-localisation of these proteins. Moreover, equilibrium studies indicate that the critical concentration of aggregation is altered by heterotypic interactions. Our findings suggest a structural mechanism by which the proteomic background can modulate the aggregation propensity of amyloidogenic proteins and we discuss how such sequence-specific proteostatic perturbations could contribute to the selective cellular susceptibility of amyloid disease progression. In this work, Louros et al. uncover a rule book for interactions of amyloids with other proteins. This grammar was shown to promote cellular spreading of tau aggregates in cells, but can also be harvested to develop structure-based aggregation blockers.
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- Nikolaos Louros
- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB Screening Core, Ghent, Belgium.,Centre for Bioassay Development and Screening (C-BIOS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB Screening Core, Ghent, Belgium.,Centre for Bioassay Development and Screening (C-BIOS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- KU Leuven, Leuven Brain Institute, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.,Laboratory for Neuropathology, KU Leuven, and Department of Pathology, UZ Leuven, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- VIB Screening Core, Ghent, Belgium.,Centre for Bioassay Development and Screening (C-BIOS), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. .,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Switch Laboratory, VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. .,Switch Laboratory, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
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Wayne NJ, Dembny KE, Pease T, Saba F, Zhao X, Masison DC, Greene LE. Huntingtin Polyglutamine Fragments Are a Substrate for Hsp104 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 2021; 41:e0012221. [PMID: 34424055 PMCID: PMC8547424 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00122-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The aggregation of huntingtin fragments with expanded polyglutamine repeat regions (HttpolyQ) that cause Huntington's disease depends on the presence of a prion with an amyloid conformation in yeast. As a result of this relationship, HttpolyQ aggregation indirectly depends on Hsp104 due to its essential role in prion propagation. We find that HttQ103 aggregation is directly affected by Hsp104 with and without the presence of [RNQ+] and [PSI+] prions. When we inactivate Hsp104 in the presence of prion, yeast cells have only one or a few large HttQ103 aggregates rather than numerous smaller aggregates. When we inactivate Hsp104 in the absence of prion, there is no significant aggregation of HttQ103, whereas with active Hsp104, HttQ103 aggregates accumulate slowly due to the severing of spontaneously nucleated aggregates by Hsp104. We do not observe either effect with HttQ103P, which has a polyproline-rich region downstream of the polyglutamine region, because HttQ103P does not spontaneously nucleate and Hsp104 does not efficiently sever the prion-nucleated HttQ103P aggregates. Therefore, the only role of Hsp104 in HttQ103P aggregation is to propagate yeast prion. In conclusion, because Hsp104 efficiently severs the HttQ103 aggregates but not HttQ103P aggregates, it has a marked effect on the aggregation of HttQ103 but not HttQ103P.
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- Nicole J. Wayne
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Kumar V, Sinha N, Thakur AK. Necessity of regulatory guidelines for the development of amyloid based biomaterials. Biomater Sci 2021; 9:4410-4422. [PMID: 34018497 DOI: 10.1039/d1bm00059d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Amyloid diseases are caused due to protein homeostasis failure where incorrectly folded proteins/peptides form cross-β-sheet rich amyloid fibrillar structures. Besides proteins/peptides, small metabolite assemblies also exhibit amyloid-like features. These structures are linked to several human and animal diseases. In addition, non-toxic amyloids with diverse physiological roles are characterized as a new functional class. This finding, along with the unique properties of amyloid like stability and mechanical strength, led to a surge in the development of amyloid-based biomaterials. However, the usage of these materials by humans and animals may pose a health risk such as the development of amyloid diseases and toxicity. This is possible because amyloid-based biomaterials and their fragments may assist seeding and cross-seeding mechanisms of amyloid formation in the body. This review summarizes the potential uses of amyloids as biomaterials, the concerns regarding their usage, and a prescribed workflow to initiate a regulatory approach.
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- Vijay Kumar
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP-208016, India.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, UP-208016, India.
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Extracellular Vesicles-Encapsulated Yeast Prions and What They Can Tell Us about the Physical Nature of Propagons. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 22:ijms22010090. [PMID: 33374854 PMCID: PMC7794690 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22010090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae hosts an ensemble of protein-based heritable traits, most of which result from the conversion of structurally and functionally diverse cytoplasmic proteins into prion forms. Among these, [PSI+], [URE3] and [PIN+] are the most well-documented prions and arise from the assembly of Sup35p, Ure2p and Rnq1p, respectively, into insoluble fibrillar assemblies. Yeast prions propagate by molecular chaperone-mediated fragmentation of these aggregates, which generates small self-templating seeds, or propagons. The exact molecular nature of propagons and how they are faithfully transmitted from mother to daughter cells despite spatial protein quality control are not fully understood. In [PSI+] cells, Sup35p forms detergent-resistant assemblies detectable on agarose gels under semi-denaturant conditions and cytosolic fluorescent puncta when the protein is fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP); yet, these macroscopic manifestations of [PSI+] do not fully correlate with the infectivity measured during growth by the mean of protein infection assays. We also discovered that significant amounts of infectious Sup35p particles are exported via extracellular (EV) and periplasmic (PV) vesicles in a growth phase and glucose-dependent manner. In the present review, I discuss how these vesicles may be a source of actual propagons and a suitable vehicle for their transmission to the bud.
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Ke PC, Zhou R, Serpell LC, Riek R, Knowles TPJ, Lashuel HA, Gazit E, Hamley IW, Davis TP, Fändrich M, Otzen DE, Chapman MR, Dobson CM, Eisenberg DS, Mezzenga R. Half a century of amyloids: past, present and future. Chem Soc Rev 2020; 49:5473-5509. [PMID: 32632432 PMCID: PMC7445747 DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00199a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 73.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Amyloid diseases are global epidemics with profound health, social and economic implications and yet remain without a cure. This dire situation calls for research into the origin and pathological manifestations of amyloidosis to stimulate continued development of new therapeutics. In basic science and engineering, the cross-β architecture has been a constant thread underlying the structural characteristics of pathological and functional amyloids, and realizing that amyloid structures can be both pathological and functional in nature has fuelled innovations in artificial amyloids, whose use today ranges from water purification to 3D printing. At the conclusion of a half century since Eanes and Glenner's seminal study of amyloids in humans, this review commemorates the occasion by documenting the major milestones in amyloid research to date, from the perspectives of structural biology, biophysics, medicine, microbiology, engineering and nanotechnology. We also discuss new challenges and opportunities to drive this interdisciplinary field moving forward.
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- Pu Chun Ke
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
- Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, 111 Yixueyuan Rd, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Quantitative Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York, 10027, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, East Sussex BN1 9QG, UK
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J J Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Neuroproteomics, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences; Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel
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- School of Chemistry, Food Biosciences and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AD, UK
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, 381 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld 4072, Australia
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Ulm University, 89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Center for Insoluble Protein Structures (inSPIN), Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Centre for Microbial Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, UCLA-DOE Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Health Science & Technology, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, LFO, E23, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang Pauli Strasse 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Aggregation and Prion-Inducing Properties of the G-Protein Gamma Subunit Ste18 are Regulated by Membrane Association. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21145038. [PMID: 32708832 PMCID: PMC7403958 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21145038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Yeast prions and mnemons are respectively transmissible and non-transmissible self-perpetuating protein assemblies, frequently based on cross-β ordered detergent-resistant aggregates (amyloids). Prions cause devastating diseases in mammals and control heritable traits in yeast. It was shown that the de novo formation of the prion form [PSI+] of yeast release factor Sup35 is facilitated by aggregates of other proteins. Here we explore the mechanism of the promotion of [PSI+] formation by Ste18, an evolutionarily conserved gamma subunit of a G-protein coupled receptor, a key player in responses to extracellular stimuli. Ste18 forms detergent-resistant aggregates, some of which are colocalized with de novo generated Sup35 aggregates. Membrane association of Ste18 is required for both Ste18 aggregation and [PSI+] induction, while functional interactions involved in signal transduction are not essential for these processes. This emphasizes the significance of a specific location for the nucleation of protein aggregation. In contrast to typical prions, Ste18 aggregates do not show a pattern of heritability. Our finding that Ste18 levels are regulated by the ubiquitin-proteasome system, in conjunction with the previously reported increase in Ste18 levels upon the exposure to mating pheromone, suggests that the concentration-dependent Ste18 aggregation may mediate a mnemon-like response to physiological stimuli.
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Chernoff YO, Grizel AV, Rubel AA, Zelinsky AA, Chandramowlishwaran P, Chernova TA. Application of yeast to studying amyloid and prion diseases. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2020; 105:293-380. [PMID: 32560789 PMCID: PMC7527210 DOI: 10.1016/bs.adgen.2020.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Amyloids are fibrous cross-β protein aggregates that are capable of proliferation via nucleated polymerization. Amyloid conformation likely represents an ancient protein fold and is linked to various biological or pathological manifestations. Self-perpetuating amyloid-based protein conformers provide a molecular basis for transmissible (infectious or heritable) protein isoforms, termed prions. Amyloids and prions, as well as other types of misfolded aggregated proteins are associated with a variety of devastating mammalian and human diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and transthyretinopathies. In yeast and fungi, amyloid-based prions control phenotypically detectable heritable traits. Simplicity of cultivation requirements and availability of powerful genetic approaches makes yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae an excellent model system for studying molecular and cellular mechanisms governing amyloid formation and propagation. Genetic techniques allowing for the expression of mammalian or human amyloidogenic and prionogenic proteins in yeast enable researchers to capitalize on yeast advantages for characterization of the properties of disease-related proteins. Chimeric constructs employing mammalian and human aggregation-prone proteins or domains, fused to fluorophores or to endogenous yeast proteins allow for cytological or phenotypic detection of disease-related protein aggregation in yeast cells. Yeast systems are amenable to high-throughput screening for antagonists of amyloid formation, propagation and/or toxicity. This review summarizes up to date achievements of yeast assays in application to studying mammalian and human disease-related aggregating proteins, and discusses both limitations and further perspectives of yeast-based strategies.
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- Yury O Chernoff
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States; Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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- Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia; Sirius University of Science and Technology, Sochi, Russia
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- Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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L. Almeida Z, M. M. Brito R. Structure and Aggregation Mechanisms in Amyloids. Molecules 2020; 25:molecules25051195. [PMID: 32155822 PMCID: PMC7179426 DOI: 10.3390/molecules25051195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The aggregation of a polypeptide chain into amyloid fibrils and their accumulation and deposition into insoluble plaques and intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of several misfolding diseases known as amyloidoses. Alzheimer′s, Parkinson′s and Huntington’s diseases are some of the approximately 50 amyloid diseases described to date. The identification and characterization of the molecular species critical for amyloid formation and disease development have been the focus of intense scrutiny. Methods such as X-ray and electron diffraction, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (ssNMR) and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have been extensively used and they have contributed to shed a new light onto the structure of amyloid, revealing a multiplicity of polymorphic structures that generally fit the cross-β amyloid motif. The development of rational therapeutic approaches against these debilitating and increasingly frequent misfolding diseases requires a thorough understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the amyloid cascade. Here, we review the current knowledge on amyloid fibril formation for several proteins and peptides from a kinetic and thermodynamic point of view, the structure of the molecular species involved in the amyloidogenic process, and the origin of their cytotoxicity.
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Manjrekar J, Shah H. Protein-based inheritance. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2019; 97:138-155. [PMID: 31344459 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2019.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Epigenetic mechanisms of inheritance have come to occupy a prominent place in our understanding of living systems, primarily eukaryotes. There has been considerable and lively discussion of the possible evolutionary significance of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. One particular type of epigenetic inheritance that has not figured much in general discussions is that based on conformational changes in proteins, where proteins with altered conformations can act as templates to propagate their own structure. An increasing number of such proteins - prions and prion-like - are being discovered. Phenotypes due to the structurally altered proteins are transmitted along with their structures. This review discusses the properties and implications of "classical" amyloid-forming prions, as well as the broader class of proteins with intrinsically disordered domains, which are proving to have fascinating properties that appear to play important roles in cell organisation and function, especially during stress responses.
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- Johannes Manjrekar
- Microbiology Department and Biotechnology Centre, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, 390002, India.
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- Microbiology Department and Biotechnology Centre, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, 390002, India
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Park S, Park SK, Watanabe N, Hashimoto T, Iwatsubo T, Shelkovnikova TA, Liebman SW. Calcium-responsive transactivator (CREST) toxicity is rescued by loss of PBP1/ATXN2 function in a novel yeast proteinopathy model and in transgenic flies. PLoS Genet 2019; 15:e1008308. [PMID: 31390360 PMCID: PMC6699716 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Proteins associated with familial neurodegenerative disease often aggregate in patients’ neurons. Several such proteins, e.g. TDP-43, aggregate and are toxic when expressed in yeast. Deletion of the ATXN2 ortholog, PBP1, reduces yeast TDP-43 toxicity, which led to identification of ATXN2 as an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) risk factor and therapeutic target. Likewise, new yeast neurodegenerative disease models could facilitate identification of other risk factors and targets. Mutations in SS18L1, encoding the calcium-responsive transactivator (CREST) chromatin-remodeling protein, are associated with ALS. We show that CREST is toxic in yeast and forms nuclear and occasionally cytoplasmic foci that stain with Thioflavin-T, a dye indicative of amyloid-like protein. Like the yeast chromatin-remodeling factor SWI1, CREST inhibits silencing of FLO genes. Toxicity of CREST is enhanced by the [PIN+] prion and reduced by deletion of the HSP104 chaperone required for the propagation of many yeast prions. Likewise, deletion of PBP1 reduced CREST toxicity and aggregation. In accord with the yeast data, we show that the Drosophila ortholog of human ATXN2, dAtx2, is a potent enhancer of CREST toxicity. Downregulation of dAtx2 in flies overexpressing CREST in retinal ganglion cells was sufficient to largely rescue the severe degenerative phenotype induced by human CREST. Overexpression caused considerable co-localization of CREST and PBP1/ATXN2 in cytoplasmic foci in both yeast and mammalian cells. Thus, co-aggregation of CREST and PBP1/ATXN2 may serve as one of the mechanisms of PBP1/ATXN2-mediated toxicity. These results extend the spectrum of ALS associated proteins whose toxicity is regulated by PBP1/ATXN2, suggesting that therapies targeting ATXN2 may be effective for a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases. Mutations in the calcium-responsive transactivator (CREST) protein have been shown to cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here we show that the human CREST protein expressed in yeast forms largely nuclear aggregates and is toxic. We also show that the HSP104 chaperone required for propagation of yeast prions is likewise required for CREST toxicity. Furthermore deletion of HSP104 affects CREST aggregation. ATXN2, previously shown to modify ALS toxicity caused by mutations in the TDP-43 encoding gene, also modifies toxicity of CREST expressed in either yeast or flies. In addition, deletion of the yeast ATXN2 ortholog reduces CREST aggregation. These results extend the spectrum of ALS associated proteins whose toxicity is regulated by ATXN2, suggesting that therapies targeting ATXN2 may be effective for a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Sangeun Park
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno, Untied States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno, Untied States of America
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Nevada, Reno, Untied States of America
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Lyke DR, Dorweiler JE, Manogaran AL. The three faces of Sup35. Yeast 2019; 36:465-472. [PMID: 30963611 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Sup35p is an essential protein in yeast that functions in complex with Sup45p for efficient translation termination. Although some may argue that this function is the only important attribute of Sup35p, there are two additional known facets of Sup35p's biology that may provide equally important functions for yeast; both of which involve various strategies for coping with stress. Recently, the N-terminal and middle regions (NM) of Sup35p, which are not required for translation termination function, have been found to provide stress-sensing abilities and facilitate the phase separation of Sup35p into biomolecular condensates in response to transient stress. Interestingly, the same NM domain is also required for Sup35p to misfold and enter into aggregates associated with the [PSI+ ] prion. Here, we review these three different states or "faces" of Sup35p. For each, we compare the functionality and necessity of different Sup35p domains, including the role these domains play in facilitating interactions with important protein partners, and discuss the potential ramifications that each state affords yeast cells under varying environmental conditions.
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- Douglas R Lyke
- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Coudert L, Nonaka T, Bernard E, Hasegawa M, Schaeffer L, Leblanc P. Phosphorylated and aggregated TDP-43 with seeding properties are induced upon mutant Huntingtin (mHtt) polyglutamine expression in human cellular models. Cell Mol Life Sci 2019; 76:2615-2632. [PMID: 30863908 PMCID: PMC11105362 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-019-03059-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Revised: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The Tar DNA-Binding Protein 43 (TDP-43) and its phosphorylated isoform (pTDP-43) are the major components associated with ubiquitin positive/Tau-negative inclusions found in neurons and glial cells of patients suffering of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or frontotemporal lobar degeneration-TDP-43 (FTLD-TDP). Many studies have revealed that TDP-43 is also in the protein inclusions associated with neurodegenerative conditions other than ALS and FTLD-TDP, thus suggesting that this protein may be involved in the pathogenesis of a variety of neurological disorders. In brains of Huntington-affected patients, pTDP-43 aggregates were shown to co-localize with mutant Huntingtin (mHtt) inclusions. Here, we show that expression of mHtt carrying 80-97 polyglutamines repeats in human cell cultures induces the aggregation and the phosphorylation of endogenous TDP-43, whereas non-pathological Htt with 25 polyglutamines repeats has no effect. Mutant Htt aggregation precedes accumulation of pTDP-43 and pTDP-43 co-localizes with mHtt inclusions reminding what it was previously described in brains of Huntington-affected patients. Detergent-insoluble fractions from cells expressing mHtt and containing mHtt-pTDP-43 co-aggregates can function as seeds for further TDP-43 aggregation in human cell culture. The human cellular prion protein PrPC was previously identified as a negative modulator of mHtt aggregation; here, we show that PrPC-mediated reduction of mHtt aggregation is tightly correlated with a decrease of TDP-43 aggregation and phosphorylation, thus confirming the close relationships between TDP-43 and mHtt.
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- Laurent Coudert
- Institut NeuroMyoGène, CNRS UMR5310, INSERM U1217, Faculté de Médecine Rockefeller, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 8 Avenue Rockefeller, 69373, Lyon Cedex 08, France
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- Dementia Research Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8506, Japan
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- Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre-Wertheimer, Service de Neurologie C et Centre SLA de Lyon, Bron, France
- Université de Lyon, Faculté de Médecine Lyon Sud Charles Mérieux, Lyon, France
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- Dementia Research Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8506, Japan
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- Institut NeuroMyoGène, CNRS UMR5310, INSERM U1217, Faculté de Médecine Rockefeller, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 8 Avenue Rockefeller, 69373, Lyon Cedex 08, France
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- Institut NeuroMyoGène, CNRS UMR5310, INSERM U1217, Faculté de Médecine Rockefeller, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 8 Avenue Rockefeller, 69373, Lyon Cedex 08, France.
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Kim S, Dunham MJ, Shendure J. A combination of transcription factors mediates inducible interchromosomal contacts. eLife 2019; 8:e42499. [PMID: 31081754 PMCID: PMC6548505 DOI: 10.7554/elife.42499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The genome forms specific three-dimensional contacts in response to cellular or environmental conditions. However, it remains largely unknown which proteins specify and mediate such contacts. Here we describe an assay, MAP-C (Mutation Analysis in Pools by Chromosome conformation capture), that simultaneously characterizes the effects of hundreds of cis or trans-acting mutations on a chromosomal contact. Using MAP-C, we show that inducible interchromosomal pairing between HAS1pr-TDA1pr alleles in saturated cultures of Saccharomyces yeast is mediated by three transcription factors, Leu3, Sdd4 (Ypr022c), and Rgt1. The coincident, combined binding of all three factors is strongest at the HAS1pr-TDA1pr locus and is also specific to saturated conditions. We applied MAP-C to further explore the biochemical mechanism of these contacts, and find they require the structured regulatory domain of Rgt1, but no known interaction partners of Rgt1. Altogether, our results demonstrate MAP-C as a powerful method for dissecting the mechanistic basis of chromosome conformation.
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- Seungsoo Kim
- Department of Genome SciencesUniversity of WashingtonSeattleUnited States
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- Department of Genome SciencesUniversity of WashingtonSeattleUnited States
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- Department of Genome SciencesUniversity of WashingtonSeattleUnited States
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteSeattleUnited States
- Brotman Baty Institute for Precision MedicineSeattleUnited States
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Serio TR. [PIN+]ing down the mechanism of prion appearance. FEMS Yeast Res 2019; 18:4923032. [PMID: 29718197 PMCID: PMC5889010 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2018] [Accepted: 03/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Prions are conformationally flexible proteins capable of adopting a native state and a spectrum of alternative states associated with a change in the function of the protein. These alternative states are prone to assemble into amyloid aggregates, which provide a structure for self-replication and transmission of the underlying conformer and thereby the emergence of a new phenotype. Amyloid appearance is a rare event in vivo, regulated by both the aggregation propensity of prion proteins and their cellular environment. How these forces normally intersect to suppress amyloid appearance and the ways in which these restrictions can be bypassed to create protein-only phenotypes remain poorly understood. The most widely studied and perhaps most experimentally tractable system to explore the mechanisms regulating amyloid appearance is the [PIN+] prion of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. [PIN+] is required for the appearance of the amyloid state for both native yeast proteins and for human proteins expressed in yeast. These observations suggest that [PIN+] facilitates the bypass of amyloid regulatory mechanisms by other proteins in vivo. Several models of prion appearance are compatible with current observations, highlighting the complexity of the process and the questions that must be resolved to gain greater insight into the mechanisms regulating these events.
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- Tricia R Serio
- The University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 240 Thatcher Rd, N360, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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Jiang Y, Berg MD, Genereaux J, Ahmed K, Duennwald ML, Brandl CJ, Lajoie P. Sfp1 links TORC1 and cell growth regulation to the yeast SAGA‐complex component Tra1 in response to polyQ proteotoxicity. Traffic 2019; 20:267-283. [DOI: 10.1111/tra.12637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2018] [Revised: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Yuwei Jiang
- Department of Anatomy and Cell BiologyThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of BiochemistryThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell BiologyThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
- Department of BiochemistryThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell BiologyThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell BiologyThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell BiologyThe University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada
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Zhang S. Discovery of the first self-assembling peptide, study of peptide dynamic behaviors, and G protein-coupled receptors using an Aviv circular dichroism spectropolarimeter. Biopolymers 2019; 109:e23235. [PMID: 30269347 DOI: 10.1002/bip.23235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a useful technique to study the structure and dynamics of peptides, proteins and nucleic acids. CD is particularly useful because sample volumes may be as low as 50 μL, it provides high precision and sensitivity, and it achieves a good signal to noise ratio. CD characterizes molecular conformational changes in real time by finely controlling temperature, pH, and titrating urea and guanidine·HCl which is necessary for studying protein folding. Although CD does not provide detailed structure at the atomic level, it provides a global structural framework. Researchers use CD to observe molecular phenomena, namely how macromolecules unfold/refold and their overall self-assembly/disassembly. Using CD to monitor a peptide structure, I serendipitously discovered the self-assembling peptide EAK16 from yeast protein Zuotin. This unusual peptide formed a new type of nanofiber scaffold hydrogel material. The discovery in 1990 opened a new field in the design and study of numerous self-assembling peptides, thereby launching the area of peptide nanobiotechnology. In this review, I reflect on my personal discoveries of several self-assembling peptides, investigations into the dynamic behaviors of peptides, as well as the impact of the work on society. I also describe studies of natural membrane proteins and engineered membrane proteins using CD. Furthermore, I enjoyed numerous and close interactions with Jack Aviv since 1997. He generously supported 10 high impact workshops (Crete and Mikonos) and meetings in various countries around the world that left fond memories of many young researches who later became leading scientists in their respective fields.
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- Shuguang Zhang
- Center for Bits and Atoms E15-401, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Tuite MF. Yeast models of neurodegenerative diseases. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2019; 168:351-379. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2019.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Sergeeva AV, Sopova JV, Belashova TA, Siniukova VA, Chirinskaite AV, Galkin AP, Zadorsky SP. Amyloid properties of the yeast cell wall protein Toh1 and its interaction with prion proteins Rnq1 and Sup35. Prion 2018; 13:21-32. [PMID: 30558459 PMCID: PMC6422396 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2018.1558763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Amyloids are non-branching fibrils that are composed of stacked monomers stabilized by intermolecular β-sheets. Some amyloids are associated with incurable diseases, whereas others, functional amyloids, regulate different vital processes. The prevalence and significance of functional amyloids in wildlife are still poorly understood. In recent years, by applying new approach of large-scale proteome screening, a number of novel candidate amyloids were identified in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, many of which are localized in the yeast cell wall. In this work, we showed that one of these proteins, Toh1, possess amyloid properties. The Toh1-YFP hybrid protein forms detergent-resistant aggregates in the yeast cells while being expressed under its own PTOH1 or inducible PCUP1 promoter. Using bacterial system for generation of extracellular amyloid aggregates C-DAG, we demonstrated that the N-terminal Toh1 fragment, containing amyloidogenic regions predicted in silico, binds Congo Red dye, manifests ‘apple-green’ birefringence when examined between crossed polarizers, and forms amyloid-like fibrillar aggregates visualized by TEM. We have established that the Toh1(20–365)-YFP hybrid protein fluorescent aggregates are co-localized with a high frequency with Rnq1C-CFP and Sup35NM-CFP aggregates in the yeast cells containing [PIN+] and [PSI+] prions, and physical interaction of these aggregated proteins was confirmed by FRET. This is one of a few known cases of physical interaction of non-Q/N-rich amyloid-like protein and Q/N-rich amyloids, suggesting that interaction of different amyloid proteins may be determined not only by similarity of their primary structures but also by similarity of their secondary structures and of conformational folds.
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- A V Sergeeva
- a Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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- a Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch , Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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- a Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch , Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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- b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch , Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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- a Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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- a Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch , Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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- a Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation.,b Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, St. Petersburg Branch , Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg , Russian Federation
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Goncharoff DK, Du Z, Li L. A brief overview of the Swi1 prion-[SWI+]. FEMS Yeast Res 2018; 18:5004851. [PMID: 29905794 PMCID: PMC6001882 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 05/24/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Prion and prion-like phenomena are involved in the pathology of numerous human neurodegenerative diseases. The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has a number of endogenous yeast prions-epigenetic elements that are transmitted as altered protein conformations and often manifested as heritable phenotypic traits. One such yeast prion, [SWI+], was discovered and characterized by our laboratory. The protein determinant of [SWI+], Swi1 was found to contain an amino-terminal, asparagine-rich prion domain. Normally, Swi1 functions as part of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, thus, acting as a global transcriptional regulator. Consequently, prionization of Swi1 leads to a variety of phenotypes including poor growth on non-glucose carbon sources and abolishment of multicellular features-with implications on characterization of [SWI+] as being detrimental or beneficial to yeast. The study of [SWI+] has revealed important knowledge regarding the chaperone systems supporting prion propagation as well as prion-prion interactions with [PSI+] and [RNQ+]. Additionally, an intricate regulatory network involving [SWI+] and other prion elements governing multicellular features in yeast has begun to be revealed. In this review, we discuss the current understanding of [SWI+] in addition to some possibilities for future study.
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- Dustin K Goncharoff
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-625, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-625, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-625, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Bondarev SA, Antonets KS, Kajava AV, Nizhnikov AA, Zhouravleva GA. Protein Co-Aggregation Related to Amyloids: Methods of Investigation, Diversity, and Classification. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19082292. [PMID: 30081572 PMCID: PMC6121665 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19082292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Revised: 07/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Amyloids are unbranched protein fibrils with a characteristic spatial structure. Although the amyloids were first described as protein deposits that are associated with the diseases, today it is becoming clear that these protein fibrils play multiple biological roles that are essential for different organisms, from archaea and bacteria to humans. The appearance of amyloid, first of all, causes changes in the intracellular quantity of the corresponding soluble protein(s), and at the same time the aggregate can include other proteins due to different molecular mechanisms. The co-aggregation may have different consequences even though usually this process leads to the depletion of a functional protein that may be associated with different diseases. The protein co-aggregation that is related to functional amyloids may mediate important biological processes and change of protein functions. In this review, we survey the known examples of the amyloid-related co-aggregation of proteins, discuss their pathogenic and functional roles, and analyze methods of their studies from bacteria and yeast to mammals. Such analysis allow for us to propose the following co-aggregation classes: (i) titration: deposition of soluble proteins on the amyloids formed by their functional partners, with such interactions mediated by a specific binding site; (ii) sequestration: interaction of amyloids with certain proteins lacking a specific binding site; (iii) axial co-aggregation of different proteins within the same amyloid fibril; and, (iv) lateral co-aggregation of amyloid fibrils, each formed by different proteins.
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- Stanislav A Bondarev
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
- Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
- Laboratory for Proteomics of Supra-Organismal Systems, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Podbelskogo sh., 3, Pushkin, St. Petersburg 196608, Russia.
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- Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM), UMR 5237 CNRS, Université Montpellier 1919 Route de Mende, CEDEX 5, 34293 Montpellier, France.
- Institut de Biologie Computationnelle (IBC), 34095 Montpellier, France.
- University ITMO, Institute of Bioengineering, Kronverksky Pr. 49, St. Petersburg 197101, Russia.
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
- Laboratory for Proteomics of Supra-Organismal Systems, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Podbelskogo sh., 3, Pushkin, St. Petersburg 196608, Russia.
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
- Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia.
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Pack CG, Inoue Y, Higurashi T, Kawai-Noma S, Hayashi D, Craig E, Taguchi H. Heterogeneous interaction network of yeast prions and remodeling factors detected in live cells. BMB Rep 2018; 50:478-483. [PMID: 28893371 PMCID: PMC5625696 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2017.50.9.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Budding yeast has dozens of prions, which are mutually dependent on each other for the de novo prion formation. In addition to the interactions among prions, transmissions of prions are strictly dependent on two chaperone systems: the Hsp104 and the Hsp70/Hsp40 (J-protein) systems, both of which cooperatively remodel the prion aggregates to ensure the multiplication of prion entities. Since it has been postulated that prions and the remodeling factors constitute complex networks in cells, a quantitative approach to describe the interactions in live cells would be required. Here, the researchers applied dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy to investigate the molecular network of interaction in single live cells. The findings demonstrate that yeast prions and remodeling factors constitute a network through heterogeneous protein-protein interactions.
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- Chan-Gi Pack
- Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul 05505, Korea
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Graduate School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
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Amyloid fibrils are protein homopolymers that adopt diverse cross-β conformations. Some amyloid fibrils are associated with the pathogenesis of devastating neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Conversely, functional amyloids play beneficial roles in melanosome biogenesis, long-term memory formation and release of peptide hormones. Here, we showcase advances in our understanding of amyloid assembly and structure, and how distinct amyloid strains formed by the same protein can cause distinct neurodegenerative diseases. We discuss how mutant steric zippers promote deleterious amyloidogenesis and aberrant liquid-to-gel phase transitions. We also highlight effective strategies to combat amyloidogenesis and related toxicity, including: (1) small-molecule drugs (e.g. tafamidis) to inhibit amyloid formation or (2) stimulate amyloid degradation by the proteasome and autophagy, and (3) protein disaggregases that disassemble toxic amyloid and soluble oligomers. We anticipate that these advances will inspire therapeutics for several fatal neurodegenerative diseases. Summary: This Review showcases important advances in our understanding of amyloid structure, assembly and disassembly, which are inspiring novel therapeutic strategies for amyloid disorders.
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- Edward Chuang
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.,Pharmacology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA .,Pharmacology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Verma M, Girdhar A, Patel B, Ganguly NK, Kukreti R, Taneja V. Q-Rich Yeast Prion [ PSI+] Accelerates Aggregation of Transthyretin, a Non-Q-Rich Human Protein. Front Mol Neurosci 2018; 11:75. [PMID: 29593496 PMCID: PMC5859028 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2018.00075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2017] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Interactions amongst different amyloid proteins have been proposed as a probable mechanism of aggregation and thus an important risk factor for the onset as well as progression of various neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Evidences suggest that transthyretin (TTR), a plasma protein associated with transthyretin amyloidosis or familial polyneuropathy (FAP) interacts with heterologous amyloid proteins including amyloid beta and islet amyloid polypeptide. In addition, recent clinical studies have revealed the presence of systemic polyneuropathy associated with FAP mutations in patients with spinocerebral ataxia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and new familial systematic prion disease. Hence, it is important to investigate the interactions amongst different amyloid proteins to gain better insight into the pathology of amyloid disorders. Yeast has been an excellent model system to study interaction/ cross-seeding between heterologous amyloid proteins, more because of presence of endogenous yeast prions. Here, we examined interactions of non-glutamine (non-Q)-rich transthyretin, with glutamine (Q)-rich yeast prion protein Sup35. We established aggregation of an engineered double (F87M/L110M) mutant M-TTR-GFP in yeast. This mutant is monomeric and readily formed aggregates compared to WT-TTR-GFP in yeast at acidic pH. Interestingly, aggregation of M-TTR-GFP was significantly enhanced in presence of [PSI+], an endogenous prion form of Sup35. Different variants of [PSI+] seeded M-TTR-GFP with different efficiencies and curing of [PSI+] (losing the prion form) in these strains reduced aggregation. Moreover, overexpression of prion domain of Sup35 fused to RFP (NM-RFP) also increased M-TTR-GFP aggregation. M-TTR-GFP and NM-RFP aggregates co-localized in perivacuolar and juxtranuclear region. Sup35 protein was even immunocaptured in M-TTR-GFP aggregates. However, M-TTR-GFP overexpression did not induce Sup35 aggregation. Thus, it appears to be a unidirectional interaction between these two amyloid proteins. However, no affect on M-TTR-GFP aggregation was observed due to another yeast prion, [PIN+]. Our findings thus show the molecular interaction of transthyretin with yeast prion and support that sequence similarity is not the prime requirement for heterologous amyloid interactions.
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- Meenakshi Verma
- Genomics and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.,Department of Research, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, IIT Hyderabad, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Research, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Genomics and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
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- Department of Research, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
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Park SK, Arslan F, Kanneganti V, Barmada SJ, Purushothaman P, Verma SC, Liebman SW. Overexpression of a conserved HSP40 chaperone reduces toxicity of several neurodegenerative disease proteins. Prion 2018; 12:16-22. [PMID: 29308690 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2017.1423185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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TDP-43 and FUS are DNA/RNA binding proteins associated with neuronal inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Other neurodegenerative diseases are also characterized by neuronal protein aggregates, e.g. Huntington's disease, associated with polyglutamine (polyQ) expansions in the protein huntingtin. Here we discuss our recent paper establishing similarities between aggregates of TDP-43 that have short glutamine and asparagine (Q/N)-rich modules and are soluble in detergents, with those of polyQ and PIN4C that have large Q/N-rich domains and are detergent-insoluble. We also present new, similar data for FUS. Together, we show that like overexpression of polyQ or PIN4C, overexpression of FUS or TDP-43 causes inhibition of the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) and toxicity, both of which are mitigated by overexpression of the Hsp40 chaperone Sis1. Also, in all cases toxicity is enhanced by the [PIN+] prion. In addition, we show that the Sis1 mammalian homolog DNAJBI reduces toxicity arising from overexpressed FUS and TDP-43 respectively in human embryonic kidney cells and primary rodent neurons. The common properties of these proteins suggest that heterologous aggregates may enhance the toxicity of a variety of disease-related aggregating proteins, and further that chaperones and the UPS may be key therapeutic targets for diseases characterized by protein inclusions.
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- Sei-Kyoung Park
- a Department of Pharmacology , University of Nevada , Reno , NV , USA
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- a Department of Pharmacology , University of Nevada , Reno , NV , USA
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- a Department of Pharmacology , University of Nevada , Reno , NV , USA
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- b Department of Neurology , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA
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- c Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology , University of Nevada , Reno , NV , USA
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- a Department of Pharmacology , University of Nevada , Reno , NV , USA
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Chandramowlishwaran P, Sun M, Casey KL, Romanyuk AV, Grizel AV, Sopova JV, Rubel AA, Nussbaum-Krammer C, Vorberg IM, Chernoff YO. Mammalian amyloidogenic proteins promote prion nucleation in yeast. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:3436-3450. [PMID: 29330303 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.809004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Revised: 12/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Fibrous cross-β aggregates (amyloids) and their transmissible forms (prions) cause diseases in mammals (including humans) and control heritable traits in yeast. Initial nucleation of a yeast prion by transiently overproduced prion-forming protein or its (typically, QN-rich) prion domain is efficient only in the presence of another aggregated (in most cases, QN-rich) protein. Here, we demonstrate that a fusion of the prion domain of yeast protein Sup35 to some non-QN-rich mammalian proteins, associated with amyloid diseases, promotes nucleation of Sup35 prions in the absence of pre-existing aggregates. In contrast, both a fusion of the Sup35 prion domain to a multimeric non-amyloidogenic protein and the expression of a mammalian amyloidogenic protein that is not fused to the Sup35 prion domain failed to promote prion nucleation, further indicating that physical linkage of a mammalian amyloidogenic protein to the prion domain of a yeast protein is required for the nucleation of a yeast prion. Biochemical and cytological approaches confirmed the nucleation of protein aggregates in the yeast cell. Sequence alterations antagonizing or enhancing amyloidogenicity of human amyloid-β (associated with Alzheimer's disease) and mouse prion protein (associated with prion diseases), respectively, antagonized or enhanced nucleation of a yeast prion by these proteins. The yeast-based prion nucleation assay, developed in our work, can be employed for mutational dissection of amyloidogenic proteins. We anticipate that it will aid in the identification of chemicals that influence initial amyloid nucleation and in searching for new amyloidogenic proteins in a variety of proteomes.
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- From the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- From the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- From the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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- the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology.,Institute of Translational Biomedicine, and
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- the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology.,Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.,the St. Petersburg Branch, N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology.,Institute of Translational Biomedicine, and.,Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg State University, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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- the Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany, and
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- the Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, 53175 Bonn, Germany
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- From the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, .,the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology.,Institute of Translational Biomedicine, and
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Wickner RB, Kryndushkin D, Shewmaker F, McGlinchey R, Edskes HK. Study of Amyloids Using Yeast. Methods Mol Biol 2018; 1779:313-339. [PMID: 29886541 PMCID: PMC7337124 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7816-8_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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We detail some of the genetic, biochemical, and physical methods useful in studying amyloids in yeast, particularly the yeast prions. These methods include cytoduction (cytoplasmic mixing), infection of cells with prion amyloids, use of green fluorescent protein fusions with amyloid-forming proteins for cytology, protein purification and amyloid formation, and electron microscopy of filaments.
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- Reed B. Wickner
- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Insititutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Insititutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830,Dept. of Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814
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- Dept. of Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Insititutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Insititutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830
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Grizel AV, Rubel AA, Chernoff YO. Strain conformation controls the specificity of cross-species prion transmission in the yeast model. Prion 2017; 10:269-82. [PMID: 27565563 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2016.1204060] [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] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Transmissible self-assembled fibrous cross-β polymer infectious proteins (prions) cause neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and control non-Mendelian heritable traits in yeast. Cross-species prion transmission is frequently impaired, due to sequence differences in prion-forming proteins. Recent studies of prion species barrier on the model of closely related yeast species show that colocalization of divergent proteins is not sufficient for the cross-species prion transmission, and that an identity of specific amino acid sequences and a type of prion conformational variant (strain) play a major role in the control of transmission specificity. In contrast, chemical compounds primarily influence transmission specificity via favoring certain strain conformations, while the species origin of the host cell has only a relatively minor input. Strain alterations may occur during cross-species prion conversion in some combinations. The model is discussed which suggests that different recipient proteins can acquire different spectra of prion strain conformations, which could be either compatible or incompatible with a particular donor strain.
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- Anastasia V Grizel
- a Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,b Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,c Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- a Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,b Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,c Department of Genetics and Biotechnology , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- a Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,b Institute of Translational Biomedicine, St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia.,d School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , GA , USA
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Katorcha E, Makarava N, Lee YJ, Lindberg I, Monteiro MJ, Kovacs GG, Baskakov IV. Cross-seeding of prions by aggregated α-synuclein leads to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. PLoS Pathog 2017; 13:e1006563. [PMID: 28797122 PMCID: PMC5567908 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Revised: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Aggregation of misfolded proteins or peptides is a common feature of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, prion and other diseases. Recent years have witnessed a growing number of reports of overlap in neuropathological features that were once thought to be unique to only one neurodegenerative disorder. However, the origin for the overlap remains unclear. One possibility is that diseases with mixed brain pathologies might arise from cross-seeding of one amyloidogenic protein by aggregated states of unrelated proteins. In the current study we examined whether prion replication can be induced by cross-seeding by α-synuclein or Aβ peptide. We found that α-synuclein aggregates formed in cultured cells or in vitro display cross-seeding activity and trigger misfolding of the prion protein (PrPC) in serial Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification reactions, producing self-replicating PrP states characterized by a short C-terminal proteinase K (PK)-resistant region referred to as PrPres. Non-fibrillar α-synuclein or fibrillar Aβ failed to cross-seed misfolding of PrPC. Remarkably, PrPres triggered by aggregated α-synuclein in vitro propagated in animals and, upon serial transmission, produced PrPSc and clinical prion disease characterized by spongiosis and astrocytic gliosis. The current study demonstrates that aggregated α-synuclein is potent in cross-seeding of prion protein misfolding and aggregation in vitro, producing self-replicating states that can lead to transmissible prion diseases upon serial passaging in wild type animals. In summary, the current work documents direct cross-seeding between unrelated amyloidogenic proteins associated with different neurodegenerative diseases. This study suggests that early interaction between unrelated amyloidogenic proteins might underlie the etiology of mixed neurodegenerative proteinopathies.
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- Elizaveta Katorcha
- Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Keefer KM, Stein KC, True HL. Heterologous prion-forming proteins interact to cross-seed aggregation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5853. [PMID: 28724957 PMCID: PMC5517628 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05829-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The early stages of protein misfolding remain incompletely understood, as most mammalian proteinopathies are only detected after irreversible protein aggregates have formed. Cross-seeding, where one aggregated protein templates the misfolding of a heterologous protein, is one mechanism proposed to stimulate protein aggregation and facilitate disease pathogenesis. Here, we demonstrate the existence of cross-seeding as a crucial step in the formation of the yeast prion [PSI +], formed by the translation termination factor Sup35. We provide evidence for the genetic and physical interaction of the prion protein Rnq1 with Sup35 as a predominant mechanism leading to self-propagating Sup35 aggregation. We identify interacting sites within Rnq1 and Sup35 and determine the effects of breaking and restoring a crucial interaction. Altogether, our results demonstrate that single-residue disruption can drastically reduce the effects of cross-seeding, a finding that has important implications for human protein misfolding disorders.
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- Kathryn M Keefer
- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, United States of America.
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Shattuck JE, Waechter AC, Ross ED. The effects of glutamine/asparagine content on aggregation and heterologous prion induction by yeast prion-like domains. Prion 2017; 11:249-264. [PMID: 28665753 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2017.1344806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Prion-like domains are low complexity, intrinsically disordered domains that compositionally resemble yeast prion domains. Many prion-like domains are involved in the formation of either functional or pathogenic protein aggregates. These aggregates range from highly dynamic liquid droplets to highly ordered detergent-insoluble amyloid-like aggregates. To better understand the amino acid sequence features that promote conversion to stable, detergent-insoluble aggregates, we used the prediction algorithm PAPA to identify predicted aggregation-prone prion-like domains with a range of compositions. While almost all of the predicted aggregation-prone domains formed foci when expressed in cells, the ability to form the detergent-insoluble aggregates was highly correlated with glutamine/asparagine (Q/N) content, suggesting that high Q/N content may specifically promote conversion to the amyloid state in vivo. We then used this data set to examine cross-seeding between prion-like proteins. The prion protein Sup35 requires the presence of a second prion, [PIN+], to efficiently form prions, but this requirement can be circumvented by the expression of various Q/N-rich protein fragments. Interestingly, almost all of the Q/N-rich domains that formed SDS-insoluble aggregates were able to promote prion formation by Sup35, highlighting the highly promiscuous nature of these interactions.
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- Jenifer E Shattuck
- a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Colorado State University , Fort Collins , CO , USA
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- a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Colorado State University , Fort Collins , CO , USA
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- a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Colorado State University , Fort Collins , CO , USA
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Amyloids and amyloid-based prions are self-perpetuating protein aggregates which can spread by converting a normal protein of the same sequence into a prion form. They are associated with diseases in humans and mammals, and control heritable traits in yeast and other fungi. Some amyloids are implicated in biologically beneficial processes. As prion formation generates reproducible memory of a conformational change, prions can be considered as molecular memory devices. We have demonstrated that in yeast, stress-inducible cytoskeleton-associated protein Lsb2 forms a metastable prion in response to high temperature. This prion promotes conversion of other proteins into prions and can persist in a fraction of cells for a significant number of cell generations after stress, thus maintaining the memory of stress in a population of surviving cells. Acquisition of an amino acid substitution required for Lsb2 to form a prion coincides with acquisition of increased thermotolerance in the evolution of Saccharomyces yeast. Thus the ability to form an Lsb2 prion in response to stress coincides with yeast adaptation to growth at higher temperatures. These findings intimately connect prion formation to the cellular response to environmental stresses.
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- Tatiana A Chernova
- a Department of Biochemistry , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA
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- b School of Biological Sciences , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , GA , USA.,c Laboratory of Amyloid Biology and Institute of Translational Biomedicine , St. Petersburg State University , St. Petersburg , Russia
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- a Department of Biochemistry , Emory University School of Medicine , Atlanta , GA , USA
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Bondarev SA, Likholetova DV, Belousov MV, Zhouravleva GA. Rnq1 protein protects [PSI
+] prion from effect of the PNM mutation. Mol Biol 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0026893317010058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Sharma J, Wisniewski BT, Paulson E, Obaoye JO, Merrill SJ, Manogaran AL. De novo [PSI +] prion formation involves multiple pathways to form infectious oligomers. Sci Rep 2017; 7:76. [PMID: 28250435 PMCID: PMC5427932 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00135-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Prion and other neurodegenerative diseases are associated with misfolded protein assemblies called amyloid. Research has begun to uncover common mechanisms underlying transmission of amyloids, yet how amyloids form in vivo is still unclear. Here, we take advantage of the yeast prion, [PSI +], to uncover the early steps of amyloid formation in vivo. [PSI +] is the prion form of the Sup35 protein. While [PSI +] formation is quite rare, the prion can be greatly induced by overexpression of the prion domain of the Sup35 protein. This de novo induction of [PSI +] shows the appearance of fluorescent cytoplasmic rings when the prion domain is fused with GFP. Our current work shows that de novo induction is more complex than previously thought. Using 4D live cell imaging, we observed that fluorescent structures are formed by four different pathways to yield [PSI +] cells. Biochemical analysis of de novo induced cultures indicates that newly formed SDS resistant oligomers change in size over time and lysates made from de novo induced cultures are able to convert [psi -] cells to [PSI +] cells. Taken together, our findings suggest that newly formed prion oligomers are infectious.
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- Jaya Sharma
- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA.
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Du Z, Goncharoff DK, Cheng X, Li L. Analysis of [SWI + ] formation and propagation events. Mol Microbiol 2017; 104:105-124. [PMID: 28035761 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, harbors several prions that are transmitted as altered, heritable protein conformations. [SWI+ ] is one such prion whose determinant is Swi1, a subunit of the evolutionarily conserved chromatin-remodeling complex SWI/SNF. Despite the importance of Swi1, the molecular events that lead to [SWI+ ] prionogenesis remain poorly understood. In this study, we have constructed floccullin-promoter-based URA3 reporters for [SWI+ ] identification. Using these reporters, we show that the spontaneous formation frequency of [SWI+ ] is significantly higher than that of [PSI+ ] (prion form of Sup35). We also show that preexisting [PSI+ ] or [PIN+ ] (prion form of Rnq1), or overproduction of Swi1 prion-domain (PrD) can considerably promote Swi1 prionogenesis. Moreover, our data suggest a strain-specific effect of overproduction of Sse1 - a nucleotide exchange factor of the molecular chaperone Hsp70, and its interaction with another molecular chaperone Hsp104 on [SWI+ ] maintenance. Additionally, we show that Swi1 aggregates are initially ring/ribbon-like then become dot-like in mature [SWI+ ] cells. In the presence of [PSI+ ] or [PIN+ ], Swi1 ring/ribbon-like aggregates predominantly colocalize with the Sup35 or Rnq1 aggregates; without a preexisting prion, however, such colocalizations are rarely seen during Swi1-PrD overproduction-promoted Swi1 prionogenesis. We have thus demonstrated a complex interacting mechanism of yeast prionogenesis.
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- Zhiqiang Du
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-650, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-650, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-650, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 320 E Superior St, Searle 7-650, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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Antonets KS, Sargsyan HM, Nizhnikov AA. A Glutamine/Asparagine-Rich Fragment of Gln3, but not the Full-Length Protein, Aggregates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2017; 81:407-13. [PMID: 27293098 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297916040118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The amino acid sequence of protein Gln3 in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a region enriched with Gln (Q) and Asn (N) residues. In this study, we analyzed the effects of overexpression of Gln3 and its Q/N-rich fragment fused with yellow fluorescent protein (YFP). Being overexpressed, full-length Gln3-YFP does not form aggregates, inhibits vegetative growth, and demonstrates nuclear localization, while the Q/N-rich fragment (Gln3QN) fused with YFP forms aggregates that do not colocalize with the nucleus and do not affect growth of the cells. Although detergent-resistant aggregates of Gln3QN are formed in the absence of yeast prions, the aggregation of Gln3QN significantly increases in the presence of [PIN(+)] prion, while in the presence of two prions, [PSI(+)] and [PIN(+)], the percentage of cells with Gln3QN aggregates is significantly lower than in the strain bearing only [PIN(+)]. Data on colocalization demonstrate that this effect is mediated by interaction between Gln3QN aggregates and [PSI(+)] and [PIN(+)] prions.
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- K S Antonets
- St. Petersburg State University, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
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The molecular basis by which fungal and mammalian prions arise spontaneously is poorly understood. A number of different environmental stress conditions are known to increase the frequency of yeast [PSI(+)] prion formation in agreement with the idea that conditions which cause protein misfolding may promote the conversion of normally soluble proteins to their amyloid forms. A recent study from our laboratory has shown that the de novo formation of the [PSI(+)] prion is significantly increased in yeast mutants lacking key antioxidants suggesting that endogenous reactive oxygen species are sufficient to promote prion formation. Our findings strongly implicate oxidative damage of Sup35 as an important trigger for the formation of the heritable [PSI(+)] prion in yeast. This review discusses the mechanisms by which the direct oxidation of Sup35 might lead to structural transitions favoring conversion to the transmissible amyloid-like form. This is analogous to various environmental factors which have been proposed to trigger misfolding of the mammalian prion protein (PrP(C)) into the aggregated scrapie form (PrP(Sc)).
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- Chris M Grant
- a Faculty of Life Sciences; University of Manchester ; Manchester , UK
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Although prions were first discovered through their link to severe brain degenerative diseases in animals, the emergence of prions as regulators of the phenotype of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the filamentous fungus Podospora anserina has revealed a new facet of prion biology. In most cases, fungal prions are carried without apparent detriment to the host cell, representing a novel form of epigenetic inheritance. This raises the question of whether or not yeast prions are beneficial survival factors or actually gives rise to a "disease state" that is selected against in nature. To date, most studies on the impact of fungal prions have focused on laboratory-cultivated "domesticated" strains of S. cerevisiae. At least eight prions have now been described in this species, each with the potential to impact on a wide range of cellular processes. The discovery of prions in nondomesticated strains of S. cerevisiae and P. anserina has confirmed that prions are not simply an artifact of "domestication" of this species. In this review, I describe what we currently know about the phenotypic impact of fungal prions. I then describe how the interplay between host genotype and the prion-mediated changes can generate a wide array of phenotypic diversity. How such prion-generated diversity may be of benefit to the host in survival in a fluctuating, often hazardous environment is then outlined. Prion research has now entered a new phase in which we must now consider their biological function and evolutionary significance in the natural world.
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- Mick F Tuite
- Kent Fungal Group, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, United Kingdom.
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Eftekharzadeh B, Hyman BT, Wegmann S. Structural studies on the mechanism of protein aggregation in age related neurodegenerative diseases. Mech Ageing Dev 2016; 156:1-13. [PMID: 27005270 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2016.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The progression of many neurodegenerative diseases is assumed to be caused by misfolding of specific characteristic diseases related proteins, resulting in aggregation and fibril formation of these proteins. Protein misfolding associated age related diseases, although different in disease manifestations, share striking similarities. In all cases, one disease protein aggregates and loses its function or additionally shows a toxic gain of function. However, the clear link between these individual amyloid-like protein aggregates and cellular toxicity is often still uncertain. The similar features of protein misfolding and aggregation in this group of proteins, all involved in age related neurodegenerative diseases, results in high interest in characterization of their structural properties. We review here recent findings on structural properties of some age related disease proteins, in the context of their biological importance in disease.
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- Bahareh Eftekharzadeh
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Mass General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Amor AJ, Castanzo DT, Delany SP, Selechnik DM, van Ooy A, Cameron DM. The ribosome-associated complex antagonizes prion formation in yeast. Prion 2016; 9:144-64. [PMID: 25739058 PMCID: PMC4601405 DOI: 10.1080/19336896.2015.1022022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The number of known fungal proteins capable of switching between alternative stable conformations is steadily increasing, suggesting that a prion-like mechanism may be broadly utilized as a means to propagate altered cellular states. To gain insight into the mechanisms by which cells regulate prion formation and toxicity we examined the role of the yeast ribosome-associated complex (RAC) in modulating both the formation of the [PSI(+)] prion - an alternative conformer of Sup35 protein - and the toxicity of aggregation-prone polypeptides. The Hsp40 RAC chaperone Zuo1 anchors the RAC to ribosomes and stimulates the ATPase activity of the Hsp70 chaperone Ssb. We found that cells lacking Zuo1 are sensitive to over-expression of some aggregation-prone proteins, including the Sup35 prion domain, suggesting that co-translational protein misfolding increases in Δzuo1 strains. Consistent with this finding, Δzuo1 cells exhibit higher frequencies of spontaneous and induced prion formation. Cells expressing mutant forms of Zuo1 lacking either a C-terminal charged region required for ribosome association, or the J-domain responsible for Ssb ATPase stimulation, exhibit similarly high frequencies of prion formation. Our findings are consistent with a role for the RAC in chaperoning nascent Sup35 to regulate folding of the N-terminal prion domain as it emerges from the ribosome.
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- Alvaro J Amor
- a Biology Department ; Ursinus College ; Collegeville , PA USA
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