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Kosmidis E, Shuttle CG, Preobraschenski J, Ganzella M, Johnson PJ, Veshaguri S, Holmkvist J, Møller MP, Marantos O, Marcoline F, Grabe M, Pedersen JL, Jahn R, Stamou D. Regulation of the mammalian-brain V-ATPase through ultraslow mode-switching. Nature 2022; 611:827-834. [PMID: 36418452 PMCID: PMC11212661 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05472-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Vacuolar-type adenosine triphosphatases (V-ATPases)1-3 are electrogenic rotary mechanoenzymes structurally related to F-type ATP synthases4,5. They hydrolyse ATP to establish electrochemical proton gradients for a plethora of cellular processes1,3. In neurons, the loading of all neurotransmitters into synaptic vesicles is energized by about one V-ATPase molecule per synaptic vesicle6,7. To shed light on this bona fide single-molecule biological process, we investigated electrogenic proton-pumping by single mammalian-brain V-ATPases in single synaptic vesicles. Here we show that V-ATPases do not pump continuously in time, as suggested by observing the rotation of bacterial homologues8 and assuming strict ATP-proton coupling. Instead, they stochastically switch between three ultralong-lived modes: proton-pumping, inactive and proton-leaky. Notably, direct observation of pumping revealed that physiologically relevant concentrations of ATP do not regulate the intrinsic pumping rate. ATP regulates V-ATPase activity through the switching probability of the proton-pumping mode. By contrast, electrochemical proton gradients regulate the pumping rate and the switching of the pumping and inactive modes. A direct consequence of mode-switching is all-or-none stochastic fluctuations in the electrochemical gradient of synaptic vesicles that would be expected to introduce stochasticity in proton-driven secondary active loading of neurotransmitters and may thus have important implications for neurotransmission. This work reveals and emphasizes the mechanistic and biological importance of ultraslow mode-switching.
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- Eleftherios Kosmidis
- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
- Institute for Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Göttingen, Germany
- Multiscale Bioimaging Cluster of Excellence (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Novozymes A/S, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
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- Center for Geometrically Engineered Cellular Membranes, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Singh D, Grüber G. Crystallographic and enzymatic insights into the mechanisms of Mg-ADP inhibition in the A 1 complex of the A 1A O ATP synthase. J Struct Biol 2017; 201:26-35. [PMID: 29074108 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2017.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Revised: 10/19/2017] [Accepted: 10/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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F-ATP synthases are described to have mechanisms which regulate the unnecessary depletion of ATP pool during an energy limited state of the cell. Mg-ADP inhibition is one of the regulatory features where Mg-ADP gets entrapped in the catalytic site, preventing the binding of ATP and further inhibiting ATP hydrolysis. Knowledge about the existence and regulation of the related archaeal-type A1AO ATP synthases (A3B3CDE2FG2ac) is limited. We demonstrate MgADP inhibition of the enzymatically active A3B3D- and A3B3DF complexes of Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 A-ATP synthase and reveal the importance of the amino acids P235 and S238 inside the P-loop (GPFGSGKTV) of the catalytic A subunit. Substituting these two residues by the respective P-loop residues alanine and cysteine (GAFGCGKTV) of the related eukaryotic V-ATPase increases significantly the ATPase activity of the enzyme variant and abolishes MgADP inhibition. The atomic structure of the P235A, S238C double mutant of subunit A of the Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 A-ATP synthase provides details of how these critical residues affect nucleotide-binding and ATP hydrolysis in this molecular engine. The qualitative data are confirmed by quantitative results derived from fluorescence correlation spectroscopy experiments.
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- Dhirendra Singh
- Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Republic of Singapore
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- Nanyang Technological University, School of Biological Sciences, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Republic of Singapore.
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Zhao J, Rubinstein JL. The study of vacuolar-type ATPases by single particle electron microscopy. Biochem Cell Biol 2014; 92:460-6. [DOI: 10.1139/bcb-2014-0086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Nature’s molecular machines often work through the concerted action of many different protein subunits, which can give rise to large structures with complex activities. Vacuolar-type ATPases (V-ATPases) are membrane-embedded protein assemblies with a unique rotary catalytic mechanism. The dynamic nature and instability of V-ATPases make structural and functional studies of these enzymes challenging. Electron microscopy (EM) techniques, especially single particle electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) and negative-stain EM, have provided extensive insight into the structure and function of these protein complexes. This minireview outlines what has been learned about V-ATPases using electron microscopy, highlights current challenges for their structural study, and discusses what cryo-EM will allow us to learn about these fascinating enzymes in the future.
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- Jianhua Zhao
- The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, The University of Toronto, 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
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- The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 686 Bay Street, Toronto, ON M5G 0A4, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, The University of Toronto, 1 Kings College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Toronto, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada
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Minagawa Y, Ueno H, Hara M, Ishizuka-Katsura Y, Ohsawa N, Terada T, Shirouzu M, Yokoyama S, Yamato I, Muneyuki E, Noji H, Murata T, Iino R. Basic properties of rotary dynamics of the molecular motor Enterococcus hirae V1-ATPase. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:32700-32707. [PMID: 24089518 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.506329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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V-ATPases are rotary molecular motors that generally function as proton pumps. We recently solved the crystal structures of the V1 moiety of Enterococcus hirae V-ATPase (EhV1) and proposed a model for its rotation mechanism. Here, we characterized the rotary dynamics of EhV1 using single-molecule analysis employing a load-free probe. EhV1 rotated in a counterclockwise direction, exhibiting two distinct rotational states, namely clear and unclear, suggesting unstable interactions between the rotor and stator. The clear state was analyzed in detail to obtain kinetic parameters. The rotation rates obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics with a maximal rotation rate (Vmax) of 107 revolutions/s and a Michaelis constant (Km) of 154 μM at 26 °C. At all ATP concentrations tested, EhV1 showed only three pauses separated by 120°/turn, and no substeps were resolved, as was the case with Thermus thermophilus V1-ATPase (TtV1). At 10 μM ATP (<<Km), the distribution of the durations of the ATP-waiting pause fit well with a single-exponential decay function. The second-order binding rate constant for ATP was 2.3 × 10(6) M(-1) s(-1). At 40 mM ATP (>>Km), the distribution of the durations of the catalytic pause was reproduced by a consecutive reaction with two time constants of 2.6 and 0.5 ms. These kinetic parameters were similar to those of TtV1. Our results identify the common properties of rotary catalysis of V1-ATPases that are distinct from those of F1-ATPases and will further our understanding of the general mechanisms of rotary molecular motors.
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- Yoshihiro Minagawa
- From the Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656
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- the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551
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- From the Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656
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- the RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama 230-0045
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- the RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama 230-0045
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- the RIKEN Systems and Structural Biology Center, Yokohama 230-0045
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- the Department of Biological Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585
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- the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo 112-8551
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- From the Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656
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- the Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522; Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Chiba 263-8522, Japan.
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- From the Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656,.
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Nakanishi-Matsui M, Sekiya M, Futai M. Rotating proton pumping ATPases: subunit/subunit interactions and thermodynamics. IUBMB Life 2013; 65:247-54. [PMID: 23441040 DOI: 10.1002/iub.1134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2012] [Accepted: 12/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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In this article, we discuss single molecule observation of rotational catalysis by E. coli ATP synthase (F-ATPase) using small gold beads. Studies involving a low viscous drag probe showed the stochastic properties of the enzyme in alternating catalytically active and inhibited states. The importance of subunit interaction between the rotor and the stator, and thermodynamics of the catalysis are also discussed. "Single Molecule Enzymology" is a new trend for understanding enzyme mechanisms in biochemistry and physiology.
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- Mayumi Nakanishi-Matsui
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Iwate Medical University, and Futai Special Laboratory, Yahaba, Iwate, Japan.
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Nagamatsu Y, Takeda K, Kuranaga T, Numoto N, Miki K. Origin of asymmetry at the intersubunit interfaces of V1-ATPase from Thermus thermophilus. J Mol Biol 2013; 425:2699-708. [PMID: 23639357 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2013.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2013] [Revised: 04/21/2013] [Accepted: 04/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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V-type ATPase (V-ATPase) is one of the rotary ATPase complexes that mediate energy conversion between the chemical energy of ATP and the ion gradient across the membrane through a rotary catalytic mechanism. Because V-ATPase has structural features similar to those of well-studied F-type ATPase, the structure is expected to highlight the common essence of the torque generation of rotary ATPases. Here, we report a complete model of the extra-membrane domain of the V-ATPase (V1-ATPase) of a thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus, consisting of three A subunits, three B subunits, one D subunit, and one F subunit. The X-ray structure at 3.9Å resolution provides detailed information about the interactions between A3B3 and DF subcomplexes as well as interactions among the respective subunits, which are defined by the properties of side chains. Asymmetry at the intersubunit interfaces was detected from the structural differences among the three AB pairs in the different reaction states, while the large interdomain motion in the catalytic A subunits was not observed unlike F1 from various species and V1 from Enterococcus hirae. Asymmetry is mainly realized by rigid-body rearrangements of the relative position between A and B subunits. This is consistent with the previous observations by the high-resolution electron microscopy for the whole V-ATPase complexes. Therefore, our result plausibly implies that the essential motion for the torque generation is not the large interdomain movement of the catalytic subunits but the rigid-body rearrangement of subunits.
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- Yumemi Nagamatsu
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Tirtom NE, Okuno D, Nakano M, Yokoyama K, Noji H. Mechanical modulation of ATP-binding affinity of V1-ATPase. J Biol Chem 2012; 288:619-23. [PMID: 23155048 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.420729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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V(1)-ATPase is a rotary motor protein that rotates the central shaft in a counterclockwise direction hydrolyzing ATP. Although the ATP-binding process is suggested to be the most critical reaction step for torque generation in F(1)-ATPase (the closest relative of V(1)-ATPase evolutionarily), the role of ATP binding for V(1)-ATPase in torque generation has remained unclear. In the present study, we performed single-molecule manipulation experiments on V(1)-ATPase from Thermus thermophilus to investigate how the ATP-binding process is modulated upon rotation of the rotary shaft. When V(1)-ATPase showed an ATP-waiting pause, it was stalled at a target angle and then released. Based on the response of the V(1)-ATPase released, the ATP-binding probability was determined at individual stall angles. It was observed that the rate constant of ATP binding (k(on)) was exponentially accelerated with forward rotation, whereas the rate constant of ATP release (k(off)) was exponentially reduced. The angle dependence of the k(off) of V(1)-ATPase was significantly smaller than that of F(1)-ATPase, suggesting that the ATP-binding process is not the major torque-generating step in V(1)-ATPase. When V(1)-ATPase was stalled at the mean binding angle to restrict rotary Brownian motion, k(on) was evidently slower than that determined from free rotation, showing the reaction rate enhancement by conformational fluctuation. It was also suggested that shaft of V(1)-ATPase should be rotated at least 277° in a clockwise direction for efficient release of ATP under ATP-synthesis conditions.
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- Naciye Esma Tirtom
- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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