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Vo NNT, Yang A, Leesutthiphonchai W, Liu Y, Hughes TR, Judelson HS. Transcription factor binding specificities of the oomycete Phytophthora infestans reflect conserved and divergent evolutionary patterns and predict function. BMC Genomics 2024; 25:710. [PMID: 39044130 PMCID: PMC11267843 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10630-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Identifying the DNA-binding specificities of transcription factors (TF) is central to understanding gene networks that regulate growth and development. Such knowledge is lacking in oomycetes, a microbial eukaryotic lineage within the stramenopile group. Oomycetes include many important plant and animal pathogens such as the potato and tomato blight agent Phytophthora infestans, which is a tractable model for studying life-stage differentiation within the group. RESULTS Mining of the P. infestans genome identified 197 genes encoding proteins belonging to 22 TF families. Their chromosomal distribution was consistent with family expansions through unequal crossing-over, which were likely ancient since each family had similar sizes in most oomycetes. Most TFs exhibited dynamic changes in RNA levels through the P. infestans life cycle. The DNA-binding preferences of 123 proteins were assayed using protein-binding oligonucleotide microarrays, which succeeded with 73 proteins from 14 families. Binding sites predicted for representatives of the families were validated by electrophoretic mobility shift or chromatin immunoprecipitation assays. Consistent with the substantial evolutionary distance of oomycetes from traditional model organisms, only a subset of the DNA-binding preferences resembled those of human or plant orthologs. Phylogenetic analyses of the TF families within P. infestans often discriminated clades with canonical and novel DNA targets. Paralogs with similar binding preferences frequently had distinct patterns of expression suggestive of functional divergence. TFs were predicted to either drive life stage-specific expression or serve as general activators based on the representation of their binding sites within total or developmentally-regulated promoters. This projection was confirmed for one TF using synthetic and mutated promoters fused to reporter genes in vivo. CONCLUSIONS We established a large dataset of binding specificities for P. infestans TFs, representing the first in the stramenopile group. This resource provides a basis for understanding transcriptional regulation by linking TFs with their targets, which should help delineate the molecular components of processes such as sporulation and host infection. Our work also yielded insight into TF evolution during the eukaryotic radiation, revealing both functional conservation as well as diversification across kingdoms.
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- Nguyen N T Vo
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Donnelly Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA
- Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Donnelly Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Donnelly Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E1, Canada
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- Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
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Kang MG, Kim HR, Lee HY, Kwak C, Koh H, Kang BH, Roe JS, Rhee HW. Mitochondrial Thermogenesis Can Trigger Heat Shock Response in the Nucleus. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2024; 10:1231-1241. [PMID: 38947196 PMCID: PMC11212142 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.3c01589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
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Mitochondrial thermogenesis is a process in which heat is generated by mitochondrial respiration. In living organisms, the thermogenic mechanisms that maintain body temperature have been studied extensively in fat cells with little knowledge on how mitochondrial heat may act beyond energy expenditure. Here, we highlight that the exothermic oxygen reduction reaction (ΔH f° = -286 kJ/mol) is the main source of the protonophore-induced mitochondrial thermogenesis, and this heat is conducted to other cellular organelles, including the nucleus. As a result, mitochondrial heat that reached the nucleus initiated the classical heat shock response, including the formation of nuclear stress granules and the localization of heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) to chromatin. Consequently, activated HSF1 increases the level of gene expression associated with the response to thermal stress in mammalian cells. Our results illustrate heat generated within the cells as a potential source of mitochondria-nucleus communication and expand our understanding of the biological functions of mitochondria in cell physiology.
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- Myeong-Gyun Kang
- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- Department
of Biochemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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- Department
of Biological Sciences, Ulsan National Institute
of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919, Korea
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- Department
of Biochemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
- School
of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
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Jin X, Zhou M, Chen S, Li D, Cao X, Liu B. Effects of pH alterations on stress- and aging-induced protein phase separation. Cell Mol Life Sci 2022; 79:380. [PMID: 35750966 PMCID: PMC9232405 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-022-04393-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Upon stress challenges, proteins/RNAs undergo liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) to fine-tune cell physiology and metabolism to help cells adapt to adverse environments. The formation of LLPS has been recently linked with intracellular pH, and maintaining proper intracellular pH homeostasis is known to be essential for the survival of organisms. However, organisms are constantly exposed to diverse stresses, which are accompanied by alterations in the intracellular pH. Aging processes and human diseases are also intimately linked with intracellular pH alterations. In this review, we summarize stress-, aging-, and cancer-associated pH changes together with the mechanisms by which cells regulate cytosolic pH homeostasis. How critical cell components undergo LLPS in response to pH alterations is also discussed, along with the functional roles of intracellular pH fluctuation in the regulation of LLPS. Further studies investigating the interplay of pH with other stressors in LLPS regulation and identifying protein responses to different pH levels will provide an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms underlying pH-driven LLPS in cell adaptation. Moreover, deciphering aging and disease-associated pH changes that influence LLPS condensate formation could lead to a deeper understanding of the functional roles of biomolecular condensates in aging and aging-related diseases.
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- Xuejiao Jin
- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an, Hangzhou, 311300, China. .,Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 9C, 413 90, Goteborg, Sweden. .,Center for Large-Scale Cell-Based Screening, Faculty of Science, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 9C, 413 90, Goteborg, Sweden.
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Triandafillou CG, Katanski CD, Dinner AR, Drummond DA. Transient intracellular acidification regulates the core transcriptional heat shock response. eLife 2020; 9:e54880. [PMID: 32762843 PMCID: PMC7449696 DOI: 10.7554/elife.54880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Heat shock induces a conserved transcriptional program regulated by heat shock factor 1 (Hsf1) in eukaryotic cells. Activation of this heat shock response is triggered by heat-induced misfolding of newly synthesized polypeptides, and so has been thought to depend on ongoing protein synthesis. Here, using the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we report the discovery that Hsf1 can be robustly activated when protein synthesis is inhibited, so long as cells undergo cytosolic acidification. Heat shock has long been known to cause transient intracellular acidification which, for reasons which have remained unclear, is associated with increased stress resistance in eukaryotes. We demonstrate that acidification is required for heat shock response induction in translationally inhibited cells, and specifically affects Hsf1 activation. Physiological heat-triggered acidification also increases population fitness and promotes cell cycle reentry following heat shock. Our results uncover a previously unknown adaptive dimension of the well-studied eukaryotic heat shock response.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of ChicagoChicagoUnited States
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- Department of Chemistry and the James Franck Institute, The University of ChicagoChicagoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, The University of ChicagoChicagoUnited States
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Lu M, Park JS. protonation behavior of histidine during HSF1 activation by physiological acidification. J Cell Biochem 2016; 116:977-84. [PMID: 25560907 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.25051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The expression of eukaryotic molecular chaperones (heat shock proteins, HSPs) is triggered in response to a wide range of environmental stresses, including: heat shock, hydrogen peroxide, heavy metal, low-pH, or virus infection. Biochemical and genetic studies have clearly shown the fundamental roles of heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) in stress-inducible HSP gene expression, resistance to stress-induced cell death, carcinogenesis, and other biological phenomena. Previous studies show that acidic pH changes within the physiological range directly activate the HSF1 function in vitro. However, the detailed mechanism is unclear. Though computational pKa-predications of the amino acid side-chain, acidic-pH induced protonation of a histidine residue was found to be most-likely involved in this process. The histidine 83 (His83) residue, which could be protonated by mild decrease in pH, causes mild acidic-induced HSF1 activation (including in-vitro trimerization, DNA binding, in-vivo nuclear accumulation, and HSPs expression). His83, which is located in the loop region of the HSF1 DNA binding domain, was suggested to enhance the intermolecular force with Arginine 79, which helps HSF1 form a DNA-binding competent. Therefore, low-pH-induced activation of HSF1 by the protonation of histidine can help us better to understand the HSF1 mechanism and develop more therapeutic applications (particularly in cancer therapy). J. Cell. Biochem. 116: 977-984, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Ming Lu
- Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266061, China; Department of Chemistry, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea
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Hentze N, Le Breton L, Wiesner J, Kempf G, Mayer MP. Molecular mechanism of thermosensory function of human heat shock transcription factor Hsf1. eLife 2016; 5. [PMID: 26785146 PMCID: PMC4775227 DOI: 10.7554/elife.11576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2015] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The heat shock response is a universal homeostatic cell autonomous reaction of organisms to cope with adverse environmental conditions. In mammalian cells, this response is mediated by the heat shock transcription factor Hsf1, which is monomeric in unstressed cells and upon activation trimerizes, and binds to promoters of heat shock genes. To understand the basic principle of Hsf1 activation we analyzed temperature-induced alterations in the conformational dynamics of Hsf1 by hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry. We found a temperature-dependent unfolding of Hsf1 in the regulatory region happening concomitant to tighter packing in the trimerization region. The transition to the active DNA binding-competent state occurred highly cooperative and was concentration dependent. Surprisingly, Hsp90, known to inhibit Hsf1 activation, lowered the midpoint temperature of trimerization and reduced cooperativity of the process thus widening the response window. Based on our data we propose a kinetic model of Hsf1 trimerization.
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- Nikolai Hentze
- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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The heat shock response (HSR) is an ancient and highly conserved process that is essential for coping with environmental stresses, including extremes of temperature. Fever is a more recently evolved response, during which organisms temporarily subject themselves to thermal stress in the face of infections. We review the phylogenetically conserved mechanisms that regulate fever and discuss the effects that febrile-range temperatures have on multiple biological processes involved in host defense and cell death and survival, including the HSR and its implications for patients with severe sepsis, trauma, and other acute systemic inflammatory states. Heat shock factor-1, a heat-induced transcriptional enhancer is not only the central regulator of the HSR but also regulates expression of pivotal cytokines and early response genes. Febrile-range temperatures exert additional immunomodulatory effects by activating mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades and accelerating apoptosis in some cell types. This results in accelerated pathogen clearance, but increased collateral tissue injury, thus the net effect of exposure to febrile range temperature depends in part on the site and nature of the pathologic process and the specific treatment provided.
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- Jeffrey D Hasday
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Baltimore V.A. Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
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Lu M, Chang Z, Park JS. Histidine (His83) is Essential for Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) Activation in Protecting against Acid pH Stress. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2013. [DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2013.34.11.3405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Sundelacruz S, Levin M, Kaplan DL. Role of membrane potential in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation. Stem Cell Rev Rep 2009; 5:231-46. [PMID: 19562527 PMCID: PMC10467564 DOI: 10.1007/s12015-009-9080-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 319] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2009] [Accepted: 06/07/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Biophysical signaling, an integral regulator of long-term cell behavior in both excitable and non-excitable cell types, offers enormous potential for modulation of important cell functions. Of particular interest to current regenerative medicine efforts, we review several examples that support the functional role of transmembrane potential (V(mem)) in the regulation of proliferation and differentiation. Interestingly, distinct V(mem) controls are found in many cancer cell and precursor cell systems, which are known for their proliferative and differentiation capacities, respectively. Collectively, the data demonstrate that bioelectric properties can serve as markers for cell characterization and can control cell mitotic activity, cell cycle progression, and differentiation. The ability to control cell functions by modulating bioelectric properties such as V(mem) would be an invaluable tool for directing stem cell behavior toward therapeutic goals. Biophysical properties of stem cells have only recently begun to be studied and are thus in need of further characterization. Understanding the molecular and mechanistic basis of biophysical regulation will point the way toward novel ways to rationally direct cell functions, allowing us to capitalize upon the potential of biophysical signaling for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
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- Sarah Sundelacruz
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St., Medford, MA 02155, USA
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Singh IS, Shah NG, Almutairy E, Hasday JD. Role of HSF1 in Infectious Disease. HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2976-8_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Lee P, Cho BR, Joo HS, Hahn JS. Yeast Yak1 kinase, a bridge between PKA and stress-responsive transcription factors, Hsf1 and Msn2/Msn4. Mol Microbiol 2008; 70:882-95. [PMID: 18793336 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06450.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hsf1 and Msn2/Msn4 transcription factors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae play important roles in cellular homeostasis by activating gene expression in response to multiple stresses including heat shock, oxidative stress and nutrient starvation. Although it has been known that nuclear import of Msn2 is inhibited by PKA-dependent phosphorylation, the mechanism for PKA-dependent regulation of Hsf1 is not well understood. Here we demonstrate that Yak1 kinase, which is under the negative control of PKA, activates both Hsf1 and Msn2 by phosphorylation when PKA activity is lowered by glucose depletion or by overexpressing Pde2 that hydrolyses cAMP. We show that Yak1 directly phosphorylates Hsf1 in vitro, leading to the increase in DNA binding activity of Hsf1. We also demonstrate that Yak1 phosphorylates Msn2 in vitro, but does not affect DNA binding activity of Msn2 or nuclear localization of Msn2 upon glucose depletion. These results suggest a central role for Yak1 in mediating PKA-dependent inhibition of Hsf1 and Msn2/Msn4.
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- Peter Lee
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, 599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-744, Korea
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Wheeler DS, Wong HR. Heat shock response and acute lung injury. Free Radic Biol Med 2007; 42:1-14. [PMID: 17157189 PMCID: PMC1790871 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2006.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2006] [Revised: 08/23/2006] [Accepted: 08/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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All cells respond to stress through the activation of primitive, evolutionarily conserved genetic programs that maintain homeostasis and assure cell survival. Stress adaptation, which is known in the literature by a myriad of terms, including tolerance, desensitization, conditioning, and reprogramming, is a common paradigm found throughout nature, in which a primary exposure of a cell or organism to a stressful stimulus (e.g., heat) results in an adaptive response by which a second exposure to the same stimulus produces a minimal response. More interesting is the phenomenon of cross-tolerance, by which a primary exposure to a stressful stimulus results in an adaptive response whereby the cell or organism is resistant to a subsequent stress that is different from the initial stress (i.e., exposure to heat stress leading to resistance to oxidant stress). The heat shock response is one of the more commonly described examples of stress adaptation and is characterized by the rapid expression of a unique group of proteins collectively known as heat shock proteins (also commonly referred to as stress proteins). The expression of heat shock proteins is well described in both whole lungs and in specific lung cells from a variety of species and in response to a variety of stressors. More importantly, in vitro data, as well as data from various animal models of acute lung injury, demonstrate that heat shock proteins, especially Hsp27, Hsp32, Hsp60, and Hsp70 have an important cytoprotective role during lung inflammation and injury.
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- Derek S. Wheeler
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Kindervelt Laboratory for Critical Care Medicine Research, Children’s Hospital Research Foundation;]Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Kindervelt Laboratory for Critical Care Medicine Research, Children’s Hospital Research Foundation;]Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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Zhao X, Shi H, Sevilimedu A, Liachko N, Nelson HCM, Lis JT. An RNA aptamer that interferes with the DNA binding of the HSF transcription activator. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:3755-61. [PMID: 16893958 PMCID: PMC1557789 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Heat shock factor (HSF) is a conserved and highly potent transcription activator. It is involved in a wide variety of important biological processes including the stress response and specific steps in normal development. Reagents that interfere with HSF function would be useful for both basic studies and practical applications. We selected an RNA aptamer that binds to HSF with high specificity. Deletion analysis defined the minimal binding motif of this aptamer to be two stems and one stem-loop joined by a three-way junction. This RNA aptamer interferes with normal interaction of HSF with its DNA element, which is a key regulatory step for HSF function. The DNA-binding domain plus a flanking linker region on the HSF (DL) is essential for the RNA binding. Additionally, this aptamer inhibits HSF-induced transcription in vitro in the complex milieu of a whole cell extract. In contrast to the previously characterized NF-kappaB aptamer, the HSF aptamer does not simply mimic DNA binding, but rather binds to HSF in a manner distinct from DNA binding to HSF.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine812-815 Stellar-Chance, 422 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6100, USA
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 607 255 2442; Fax: +1 607 255 6249;
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Shamovsky I, Ivannikov M, Kandel ES, Gershon D, Nudler E. RNA-mediated response to heat shock in mammalian cells. Nature 2006; 440:556-60. [PMID: 16554823 DOI: 10.1038/nature04518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2005] [Accepted: 12/15/2005] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The heat-shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) has an important role in the heat-shock response in vertebrates by inducing the expression of heat-shock proteins (HSPs) and other cytoprotective proteins. HSF1 is present in unstressed cells in an inactive monomeric form and becomes activated by heat and other stress stimuli. HSF1 activation involves trimerization and acquisition of a site-specific DNA-binding activity, which is negatively regulated by interaction with certain HSPs. Here we show that HSF1 activation by heat shock is an active process that is mediated by a ribonucleoprotein complex containing translation elongation factor eEF1A and a previously unknown non-coding RNA that we term HSR1 (heat shock RNA-1). HSR1 is constitutively expressed in human and rodent cells and its homologues are functionally interchangeable. Both HSR1 and eEF1A are required for HSF1 activation in vitro; antisense oligonucleotides or short interfering (si)RNA against HSR1 impair the heat-shock response in vivo, rendering cells thermosensitive. The central role of HSR1 during heat shock implies that targeting this RNA could serve as a new therapeutic model for cancer, inflammation and other conditions associated with HSF1 deregulation.
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- Ilya Shamovsky
- Department of Biochemistry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Shin JS, Yu MH. Viscous drag as the source of active site perturbation during protease translocation: insights into how inhibitory processes are controlled by serpin metastability. J Mol Biol 2006; 359:378-89. [PMID: 16626735 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.03.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2006] [Revised: 03/18/2006] [Accepted: 03/21/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The native form of serine protease inhibitors (serpins) is kinetically trapped in a metastable state, which is thought to play a central role in the inhibitory mechanism. The initial binding complex between a serpin and a target protease undergoes a conformational change that forces the protease to translocate toward the opposite pole. Although structural determination of the final stable complex revealed a detailed mechanism of keeping the bound protease in an inactive conformation, it has remained unknown how the serpin exquisitely translocates a target protease with an acyl-linkage unhydrolyzed. We previously suggested that the acyl-linkage hydrolysis is strongly suppressed by active site perturbation during the protease translocation. Here, we address what induces the transient perturbation and how the serpin metastability contributes to the perturbation. Inhibitory activity of alpha1-antitrypsin (alpha1AT) toward elastase showed negative correlations with medium viscosity and Stokes radius of elastase moiety, indicating that viscous drag directly affects the protease translocation. Stopped-flow measurements revealed that the change in the inhibitory activity is primarily caused by the change in the translocation rate. The native stability of alpha1AT cavity mutants showed a negative correlation with the translocation rate but a positive correlation with the acyl-linkage hydrolysis rate, suggesting that the two kinetic steps are not independent but closely related. The degree of active site perturbation was probed by amino acid nucleophiles, supporting the view that the changes in the acyl-linkage hydrolysis rate are due to different perturbation states. These results suggest that the active site perturbation is caused by local imbalance between a pulling force driving protease translocation and a counteracting viscous drag force. The structural architecture of serpin metastability seems to be designed to ensure the active site perturbation by providing a sufficient pulling force, so the undesirable hydrolytic activity of protease is strongly suppressed during the translocation.
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- Jong-Shik Shin
- Department of Chemical Engineering, PO Box 43121, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79424, USA.
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Vujanac M, Fenaroli A, Zimarino V. Constitutive nuclear import and stress-regulated nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of mammalian heat-shock factor 1. Traffic 2005; 6:214-29. [PMID: 15702990 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2005.00266.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Inducible expression of major cytosolic and nuclear chaperone proteins is mediated by the heat-shock transcription factor HSF1 that is activated by derepressive mechanisms triggered by transient heat stress and sustained proteotoxicity. Despite progress in defining essential aspects of HSF1 regulation, little is known about the cellular dynamics enabling this factor to mediate gene responses to cytosolic stress signals. We report that the inactive, stress-responsive form of HSF1 accumulates in the nucleus due to a relatively potent import signal, which can be recognized by importin-alpha/beta, and simultaneously undergoes continuous nucleocytoplasmic shuttling due to a comparatively weak, nonetheless efficient, export activity not involving the classical exportin-1 pathway. Strikingly, experimental stresses at physiological or elevated temperature reversibly inactivate the export competence of HSF1. Likewise, mutations mimicking stress-induced derepression impair export but not import. These findings are consistent with a dynamic process whereby exported molecules that are derepressed in an inductive cytosolic environment are recollected and pause in the nucleoplasm, replacing progressively the inactive pool. While steady-state nuclear distribution of the bulk of HSF1 ensures a rapid gene response to acute heat stress, our results suggest that the capture in the nucleus of molecules primed for activation in the cytosol may underlie responses to sustained proteotoxicity.
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- Milos Vujanac
- DIBIT--San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy
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Buckley BA, Hofmann GE. Magnitude and Duration of Thermal Stress Determine Kinetics ofhspGene Regulation in the GobyGillichthys mirabilis. Physiol Biochem Zool 2004; 77:570-81. [PMID: 15449228 DOI: 10.1086/420944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/17/2003] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The stress-induced transcription of heat shock genes is controlled by heat shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1), which becomes activated in response to heat and other protein denaturants. In previous research on the eurythermal goby Gillichthys mirabilis, thermal activation of HSF1 was shown to vary as a function of acclimation temperature, suggesting the mechanistic importance of HSF1 activation to the plasticity of heat shock protein (Hsp) induction temperature. We examined the effect of season on the thermal activation of HSF1 in G. mirabilis, as well as the relative kinetics of HSF1 activation and Hsp70 mRNA production at ecologically relevant temperatures. There was no predictable seasonality in the thermal activation of HSF1, perhaps due to the existence of stressors, in addition to heat, acting in the field. Concentrations of Hsp70, a negative regulator of HSF1, as well as those of HSF1, varied with collection date. The rapidity of HSF1 activation and of Hsp70 mRNA synthesis increased with laboratory exposure temperature. Furthermore, Hsp70 mRNA production was more sustained at 35 degrees C than at 30 degrees C. Therefore, both the magnitude and the duration of a heat shock are important in determining the intensity of heat shock gene induction.
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- Bradley A Buckley
- Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA.
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Hahn JS, Thiele DJ. Activation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae heat shock transcription factor under glucose starvation conditions by Snf1 protein kinase. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:5169-76. [PMID: 14612437 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m311005200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Heat shock transcription factor (HSF) is an evolutionarily conserved protein that mediates eukaryotic transcriptional responses to stress. Although the mammalian stress-responsive HSF1 isoform is activated in response to a wide array of seemingly unrelated stresses, including heat shock, pharmacological agents, infection and inflammation, little is known about the precise mechanisms or pathways by which this factor is activated by many stressors. The baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a single HSF protein that responds to heat stress and glucose starvation and provides a simple model system to investigate how a single HSF is activated by multiple stresses. Although induction of the HSF target gene CUP1 by glucose starvation is dependent on the Snf1 kinase, HSF-dependent heat shock induction of CUP1 is Snf1-independent. Approximately 165 in vivo targets for HSF have been identified in S. cerevisiae using chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with DNA microarrays. Interestingly, approximately 30% of the HSF direct target genes are also induced by the diauxic shift, in which glucose levels begin to be depleted. We demonstrate that HSF and Snf1 kinase interact in vivo and that HSF is a direct substrate for phosphorylation by Snf1 kinase in vitro. Furthermore, glucose starvation-dependent, but not heat shock-dependent HSF phosphorylation, and enhanced chromosomal HSF DNA binding to low affinity target promoters such as SSA3 and HSP30, occurred in a Snf1-dependent manner. Consistent with a more global role for HSF and Snf1 in activating gene expression in response to changes in glucose availability, expression of a subset of HSF targets by glucose starvation was dependent on Snf1 and the HSF carboxyl-terminal activation domain.
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- Ji-Sook Hahn
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA
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Ahn SG, Thiele DJ. Redox regulation of mammalian heat shock factor 1 is essential for Hsp gene activation and protection from stress. Genes Dev 2003; 17:516-28. [PMID: 12600944 PMCID: PMC195992 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1044503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 313] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The activation of eukaryotic heat shock protein (Hsp) gene expression occurs in response to a wide variety of cellular stresses including heat shock, hydrogen peroxide, uncoupled oxidative phosphorylation, infection, and inflammation. Biochemical and genetic studies have clearly demonstrated critical roles for mammalian heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) in stress-inducible Hsp gene expression, resistance to stress-induced programmed cell death, extra-embryonic development, and other biological functions. Activation of mammalian Hsp gene expression involves the stress-inducible conversion of HSF1 from the inactive monomer to the DNA-binding competent homotrimer. Although Hsp activation is a central conserved process in biology, the precise mechanisms for stress sensing and signaling to activate HSF1, and the mechanisms by which many distinct stresses activate HSF1, are poorly understood. In this report we demonstrate that recombinant mammalian HSF1 directly senses both heat and hydrogen peroxide to assemble into a homotrimer in a reversible and redox-regulated manner. The sensing of both stresses requires two cysteine residues within the HSF1 DNA-binding domain that are engaged in redox-sensitive disulfide bonds. HSF1 derivatives in which either or both cysteines were mutated are defective in stress-inducible trimerization and DNA binding, stress-inducible nuclear translocation and Hsp gene trans-activation, and in the protection of mouse cells from stress-induced apoptosis. This redox-dependent activation of HSF1 by heat and hydrogen peroxide establishes a common mechanism in the stress activation of Hsp gene expression by mammalian HSF1.
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- Sang-Gun Ahn
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA
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Marchler G, Wu C. Modulation of Drosophila heat shock transcription factor activity by the molecular chaperone DROJ1. EMBO J 2001; 20:499-509. [PMID: 11157756 PMCID: PMC133474 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.3.499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) play important roles in the cellular response to physiological stress signals. To examine the control of HSF activity, we undertook a yeast two-hybrid screen for proteins interacting with Drosophila HSF. DROJ1, the fly counterpart of the human heat shock protein HSP40/HDJ1, was identified as the dominant interacting protein (15 independent isolates from 58 candidates). Overexpression of DROJ1 in Drosophila SL2 cells delays the onset of the heat shock response. Moreover, RNA interference involving transfection of SL2 cells with double-stranded droj1 RNA depletes the endogenous level of DROJ1 protein, leading to constitutive activation of endogenous heat shock genes. The induction level, modest when DROJ1 was depleted alone, reached maximal levels when DROJ1 and HSP70/HSC70, or DROJ1 and HSP90, were depleted concurrently. Chaperone co-depletion was also correlated with strong induction of the DNA binding activity of HSF. Our findings support a model in which synergistic interactions between DROJ1 and the HSP70/HSC70 and HSP90 chaperones modulate HSF activity by feedback repression.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 5E-26, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Gosslau A, Ruoff P, Mohsenzadeh S, Hobohm U, Rensing L. Heat shock and oxidative stress-induced exposure of hydrophobic protein domains as common signal in the induction of hsp68. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:1814-21. [PMID: 11042186 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008280200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The hypothesis of a common signal for heat shock (HS) and oxidative stress (OS) was analyzed in C6 cells with regard to the induction of heat shock proteins (Hsps). The synthesis rate and level of the strictly inducible Hsp68 was significantly higher after HS (44 degrees C) compared with OS (2 mm H2O2). This difference corresponded to higher and lower activation of the heat shock factor (HSF) by HS and OS, respectively. OS, on the other hand, showed stronger cytotoxicity compared with HS as indicated by drastic lipid peroxidation and inhibition of protein synthesis as well as of mitochondrial and endocytotic activity. Lactic dehydrogenase also revealed stronger inhibition of enzyme activity by OS than by HS as shown in cells and in vitro experiments. Conformational analysis of lactic dehydrogenase by the fluorophore 1-anilinonaphtalene-8-sulfonic acid, however, showed stronger exposure of hydrophobic domains after HS than after OS which correlates positively with the Hsp68 response. Treatment of cells with deoxyspergualin, which exhibits high affinity to Hsps, the putative inhibitors of HSF, strongly increased only OS-induced hsp68 expression. In conclusion, the results suggest that exposure of hydrophobic domains of cytosolic proteins represents the common first signal in the multistep activation pathway of HSF.
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- A Gosslau
- Institute of Cell Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Bremen, D-28334 Bremen, Germany and the School of Technology and Science, Stavanger University College, P. O. Box 2557 Ullandhaug, N-4091 Stavanger, Norway
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Beck FX, Neuhofer W, Müller E. Molecular chaperones in the kidney: distribution, putative roles, and regulation. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2000; 279:F203-15. [PMID: 10919839 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.279.2.f203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Molecular chaperones are intracellular proteins that prevent inappropriate intra- and intermolecular interactions of polypetide chains. A specific group of highly conserved molecular chaperones are the heat shock proteins (HSPs), many of which are constitutively expressed but most of which are inducible by diverse (in some cases specific) stress factors. HSPs, either alone or in cooperation with "partner" chaperones, are involved in cellular processes as disparate as correct folding and assembly of proteins, transport of proteins to specific intracellular locations, protein degradation, and preservation and restructuring of the cytoskeleton. The characteristic distribution of individual HSPs in the kidney, and their response to different challenges, suggests that a number of HSPs may fulfill specific, kidney-related functions. HSP72 and the osmotic stress protein 94 (Osp94) appear to participate in the adaptation of medullary cells to high extracellular salt and urea concentrations; the small HSPs (HSP25/27 and crystallins) may be involved in the function of mesangial cells and podocytes and contribute to the volume-regulatory remodeling of the cytoskeleton in medullary cells during changes in extracellular tonicity. HSP90 contributes critically to the maturation of steroid hormone receptors and may thus be a critical determinant of the aldosterone sensitivity of specific renal epithelial cells. Certain HSPs are also induced in various pathological states of the kidney. The observation that the expression of individual HSPs in specific kidney diseases often displays characteristic time courses and intrarenal distribution patterns supports the idea that HSPs are involved in the recovery but possibly also in the initiation and/or maintenance phases of these disturbances.
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- F X Beck
- Physiologisches Institut der Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) are stress-responsive proteins that activate the expression of heat shock genes and are highly conserved from bakers' yeast to humans. Under basal conditions, the human HSF1 protein is maintained as an inactive monomer through intramolecular interactions between two coiled-coil domains and interactions with heat shock proteins; upon environmental, pharmacological, or physiological stress, HSF1 is converted to a homotrimer that binds to its cognate DNA binding site with high affinity. To dissect regions of HSF1 that make important contributions to the stability of the monomer under unstressed conditions, we have used functional complementation in bakers' yeast as a facile assay system. Whereas wild-type human HSF1 is restrained as an inactive monomer in yeast that is unable to substitute for the essential yeast HSF protein, mutations in the linker region between the DNA binding domain and the first coiled-coil allow HSF1 to homotrimerize and rescue the viability defect of a hsfDelta strain. Fine mapping by functional analysis of HSF1-HSF2 chimeras and point mutagenesis revealed that a small region in the amino-terminal portion of the HSF1 linker is required for maintenance of HSF1 in the monomeric state in both yeast and in transfected human 293 cells. Although linker regions in transcription factors are known to modulate DNA binding specificity, our studies suggest that the human HSF1 linker plays no role in determining HSF1 binding preferences in vivo but is a critical determinant in regulating the HSF1 monomer-trimer equilibrium.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA.
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