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26S proteasomes become stably activated upon heat shock when ubiquitination and protein degradation increase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2122482119. [PMID: 35704754 PMCID: PMC9231471 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2122482119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Heat shock (HS) promotes protein unfolding, and cells respond by stimulating HS gene expression, ubiquitination of cell proteins, and proteolysis by the proteasome. Exposing HeLa and other cells to 43 °C for 2 h caused a twofold increase in the 26S proteasomes' peptidase activity assayed at 37 °C. This increase in activity occurred without any change in proteasome amount and did not require new protein synthesis. After affinity-purification from HS cells, 26S proteasomes still hydrolyzed peptides, adenosine 5'-triphosphate, and ubiquitinated substrates more rapidly without any evident change in subunit composition, postsynthetic modification, or association with reported proteasome-activating proteins. After returning HS cells to 37 °C, ubiquitin conjugates and proteolysis fell rapidly, but proteasome activity remained high for at least 16 h. Exposure to arsenite, which also causes proteotoxic stress in the cytosol, but not tunicamycin, which causes endoplasmic reticulum stress, also increased ubiquitin conjugate levels and 26S proteasome activity. Although the molecular basis for the enhanced proteasomal activity remains elusive, we studied possible signaling mechanisms. Proteasome activation upon proteotoxic stress required the accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins since blocking ubiquitination by E1 inhibition during HS or arsenite exposure prevented the stimulation of 26S activity. Furthermore, increasing cellular content of ubiquitin conjugates at 37 °C by inhibiting deubiquitinating enzymes with RA190 or b-AP15 also caused proteasome activation. Thus, cells respond to proteotoxic stresses, apparently in response to the accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins, by activating 26S proteasomes, which should help promote the clearance of damaged cell proteins.
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Liu X, Meng L, Wang X, Yang Y, Zhonghu BAI. Effect of Clp protease from Corynebacterium glutamicum on heterologous protein expression. Protein Expr Purif 2021; 189:105928. [PMID: 34217803 DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2021.105928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The protease present in a host may reduce the yield and biological activity of heterologous proteins. In this study, we used protease overexpression and deletion strategies to examine the effect of the Clp protease system in Corynebacterium glutamicum on the recombinant protein and to produce a highly efficient heterologous protein expression host. In this study, we identified seven genes in the Clp protease family in Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 through bioinformatics analysis, and studied their effects on the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) reporter protein. The fluorescence intensity of the knockout strain was significantly higher, and the effect of the clpS deletion strain was the most obvious. To verify the universal effect of the lack of clpS, the excellent industrial strain C. glutamicum 1.15647 was transformed to form recombinant 15647-ΔclpS. Based on the results, 15647-ΔclpS had a more significant effect on improving protein expression. Furthermore, recombinant human teriparatide (rhPTH) and variable domain of heavy chain of heavy-chain antibody (VHH) were selected to verify the universal applicability of the knockout strain for expressing heterologous proteins. Accordingly, we found that protease deficiency could increase the production of heterologous proteins. Finally, through a large-scale fermentation, the 15647-ΔclpS strain was used to produce VHH. Its yield was approximately 530 mg/L, which was 65% higher than that of WT-15647. In this study, a host that could effectively increase heterologous protein expression was successfully obtained.
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- Xiuxia Liu
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China; National Engineering Laboratory of Cereal Fermentation Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214112, China; Jiangsu Provincial Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China; National Engineering Laboratory of Cereal Fermentation Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214112, China; Jiangsu Provincial Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory of Cereal Fermentation Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214112, China; Jiangsu Provincial Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China; National Engineering Laboratory of Cereal Fermentation Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214112, China; Jiangsu Provincial Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China; National Engineering Laboratory of Cereal Fermentation Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214112, China; Jiangsu Provincial Research Center for Bioactive Product Processing Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China
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Lee C, Klockgether J, Fischer S, Trcek J, Tümmler B, Römling U. Why? - Successful Pseudomonas aeruginosa clones with a focus on clone C. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2021; 44:740-762. [PMID: 32990729 PMCID: PMC7685784 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuaa029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The environmental species Pseudomonas aeruginosa thrives in a variety of habitats. Within the epidemic population structure of P. aeruginosa, occassionally highly successful clones that are equally capable to succeed in the environment and the human host arise. Framed by a highly conserved core genome, individual members of successful clones are characterized by a high variability in their accessory genome. The abundance of successful clones might be funded in specific features of the core genome or, although not mutually exclusive, in the variability of the accessory genome. In clone C, one of the most predominant clones, the plasmid pKLC102 and the PACGI-1 genomic island are two ubiquitous accessory genetic elements. The conserved transmissible locus of protein quality control (TLPQC) at the border of PACGI-1 is a unique horizontally transferred compository element, which codes predominantly for stress-related cargo gene products such as involved in protein homeostasis. As a hallmark, most TLPQC xenologues possess a core genome equivalent. With elevated temperature tolerance as a characteristic of clone C strains, the unique P. aeruginosa and clone C specific disaggregase ClpG is a major contributor to tolerance. As other successful clones, such as PA14, do not encode the TLPQC locus, ubiquitous denominators of success, if existing, need to be identified.
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- Changhan Lee
- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Biomedicum C8, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Clinic for Paediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Clinical Research Group 'Pseudomonas Genomics', Hannover Medical School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Clinic for Paediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Clinical Research Group 'Pseudomonas Genomics', Hannover Medical School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology, University of Maribor, Maribor, 2000, Slovenia
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- Clinic for Paediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Clinical Research Group 'Pseudomonas Genomics', Hannover Medical School, D-30625 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Biomedicum C8, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Kinebuchi T, Shimamoto N. One-dimensional diffusion of TrpR along DNA enhances its affinity for the operator by chemical ratchet mechanism. Sci Rep 2021; 11:4255. [PMID: 33608564 PMCID: PMC7896080 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83156-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Several DNA-binding proteins show the affinities for their specific DNA sites that positively depend on the length of DNA harboring the sites, i. e. antenna effect. DNA looping can cause the effect for proteins with two or more DNA binding sites, i. e. the looping mechanism. One-dimensional diffusion also has been suggested to cause the effect for proteins with single DNA sites, the diffusion mechanism, which could violate detailed balance. We addressed which mechanism is possible for E. coli TrpR showing 104-fold antenna effect with a single DNA binding site. When a trpO-harboring DNA fragment was connected to a nonspecific DNA with biotin-avidin connection, the otherwise sevenfold antenna effect disappeared. This result denies the looping mechanism with an unknown second DNA binding site. The 3.5-fold repression by TrpR in vivo disappeared when a tight LexA binding site was introduced at various sites near the trpO, suggesting that the binding of LexA blocks one-dimensional diffusion causing the antenna effect. These results are consistent with the chemical ratchet recently proposed for TrpR-trpO binding to solve the deviation from detailed balance, and evidence that the antenna effect due to one-dimensional diffusion exists in cells.
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- Takashi Kinebuchi
- National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan.,Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan.,Olympus Corporation, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, 2951 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-8507, Japan
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- National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan. .,Department of Genetics, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Mishima, Shizuoka, 411-8540, Japan. .,Veritas Kitayama, 30-1-104 Shimogamo-Minamishiba-cho, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 606-0841, Japan.
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Batista FA, Dores-Silva PR, Borges JC. Molecular Chaperones Involved in Protein Recovery from Aggregates are Present in Protozoa Causative of Malaria and Leishmaniasis. CURR PROTEOMICS 2018. [DOI: 10.2174/1570164615666180626123823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Molecular chaperones have several critical functions in protein metabolism. Among them,
some are involved in processes that culminate in the extraction of entangled polypeptides from protein
aggregates, releasing unfolded structures prone to be refolded or directed to degradation. This action
avoids the effect of toxic aggregates on cells and tissues. Molecular chaperones belonging to the
Hsp100 family are widely distributed from unicellular and sessile organisms up to fungi and plants,
exerting key functions related to the reduction of the effects caused by different forms of stress. The
Hsp100 proteins belong to the AAA+ (ATPases Associated with diverse cellular Activities) family and
form multichaperone systems with Hsp70 and small Hsp chaperones families. However, Hsp100 are
absent in metazoan, where protein disaggregation action is performed by a system involving the Hsp70
family, including Hsp110 and J-protein co-chaperones. Here, the structural and functional aspects of
these protein disaggregation systems will be reviewed and discussed in the perspective of the Hsp100
system absent in the metazoan kingdom. This feature focuses on Hsp100 as a hot spot for drug discovery
against human infectious diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria, as Hsp100 is critical for microorganisms.
The current data available for Hsp100 in Leishmania spp. and Plasmodium spp. are also
reviewed.
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- Fernanda A.H. Batista
- Instituto de Quimica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Quimica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Quimica de Sao Carlos, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil
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By assisting in the proteolysis, disaggregation and refolding of the aggregated proteins, Caseinolytic proteases (Clps) enhance the cellular survival under stress conditions. In the current study, comparative roles of two such Clps, ClpA (involved in proteolysis) and ClpB (involved in protein disaggregation and refolding) in the survival of Salmonella Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) under different stresses and in virulence have been investigated. clpA and clpB gene deletion mutant strains (∆clpA and ∆clpB) of S. Typhimurium have been hypersensitive to 42 °C, HOCl and paraquat. However, the ∆clpB strain was comparatively much more susceptible (p < 0.001) to the above stresses than ∆clpA strain. ∆clpB strain also showed reduced survival (p < 0.001) in poultry macrophages. The hypersusceptibilities of ∆clpB strain to oxidants and macrophages were restored in plasmid based complemented (∆clpB + pclpB) strain. Further, the ∆clpB strain was defective for colonization in the poultry caecum and showed decreased dissemination to the spleen and liver. Our findings suggest that the role of ClpB is more important than the role of ClpA for the survival of S. Typhimurium under stress and colonization in chickens.
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Dunlap WC, Starcevic A, Baranasic D, Diminic J, Zucko J, Gacesa R, van Oppen MJH, Hranueli D, Cullum J, Long PF. KEGG orthology-based annotation of the predicted proteome of Acropora digitifera: ZoophyteBase - an open access and searchable database of a coral genome. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:509. [PMID: 23889801 PMCID: PMC3750612 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Contemporary coral reef research has firmly established that a genomic approach is urgently needed to better understand the effects of anthropogenic environmental stress and global climate change on coral holobiont interactions. Here we present KEGG orthology-based annotation of the complete genome sequence of the scleractinian coral Acropora digitifera and provide the first comprehensive view of the genome of a reef-building coral by applying advanced bioinformatics. DESCRIPTION Sequences from the KEGG database of protein function were used to construct hidden Markov models. These models were used to search the predicted proteome of A. digitifera to establish complete genomic annotation. The annotated dataset is published in ZoophyteBase, an open access format with different options for searching the data. A particularly useful feature is the ability to use a Google-like search engine that links query words to protein attributes. We present features of the annotation that underpin the molecular structure of key processes of coral physiology that include (1) regulatory proteins of symbiosis, (2) planula and early developmental proteins, (3) neural messengers, receptors and sensory proteins, (4) calcification and Ca2+-signalling proteins, (5) plant-derived proteins, (6) proteins of nitrogen metabolism, (7) DNA repair proteins, (8) stress response proteins, (9) antioxidant and redox-protective proteins, (10) proteins of cellular apoptosis, (11) microbial symbioses and pathogenicity proteins, (12) proteins of viral pathogenicity, (13) toxins and venom, (14) proteins of the chemical defensome and (15) coral epigenetics. CONCLUSIONS We advocate that providing annotation in an open-access searchable database available to the public domain will give an unprecedented foundation to interrogate the fundamental molecular structure and interactions of coral symbiosis and allow critical questions to be addressed at the genomic level based on combined aspects of evolutionary, developmental, metabolic, and environmental perspectives.
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- Walter C Dunlap
- Centre for Marine Microbiology and Genetics, Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3 Townsville MC, Townsville 4810, Queensland, Australia
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, United Kingdom
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- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Centre for Marine Microbiology and Genetics, Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3 Townsville MC, Townsville 4810, Queensland, Australia
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- Section for Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Genetics, University of Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, United Kingdom
- Department of Chemistry King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, United Kingdom
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Nonnative disulfide bond formation activates the σ32-dependent heat shock response in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2013; 195:2807-16. [PMID: 23585533 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00127-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Formation of nonnative disulfide bonds in the cytoplasm, so-called disulfide stress, is an integral component of oxidative stress. Quantification of the extent of disulfide bond formation in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli revealed that disulfide stress is associated with oxidative stress caused by hydrogen peroxide, paraquat, and cadmium. To separate the impact of disulfide bond formation from unrelated effects of these oxidative stressors in subsequent experiments, we worked with two complementary approaches. We triggered disulfide stress either chemically by diamide treatment of cells or genetically in a mutant strain lacking the major disulfide-reducing systems TrxB and Gor. Studying the proteomic response of E. coli exposed to disulfide stress, we found that intracellular disulfide bond formation is a particularly strong inducer of the heat shock response. Real-time quantitative PCR experiments showed that disulfide stress induces the heat shock response in E. coli σ(32) dependently. However, unlike heat shock treatment, which induces these genes transiently, transcripts of σ(32)-dependent genes accumulated over time in disulfide stress-treated cells. Analyzing the stability of σ(32), we found that this constant induction can be attributed to an increase of the half-life of σ(32) upon disulfide stress. This is concomitant with aggregation of E. coli proteins treated with diamide. We conclude that oxidative stress triggers the heat shock response in E. coli σ(32) dependently. The component of oxidative stress responsible for the induction of heat shock genes is disulfide stress. Nonnative disulfide bond formation in the cytoplasm causes protein unfolding. This stabilizes σ(32) by preventing its DnaK- and FtsH-dependent degradation.
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Nowicki Ł, Leźnicki P, Morawiec E, Litwińczuk N, Liberek K. Role of a conserved aspartic acid in nucleotide binding domain 1 (NBD1) of Hsp100 chaperones in their activities. Cell Stress Chaperones 2012; 17:361-73. [PMID: 22144132 PMCID: PMC3312961 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-011-0312-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2011] [Revised: 11/17/2011] [Accepted: 11/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Besides its beneficial role in thermotolerance, the chaperone protein Hsp104 is involved in the inheritance of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae prions. Guanidine hydrochloride was previously shown to interfere with Hsp104 chaperone activity in vivo, thus impairing thermotolerance and resulting in prion curing. It was also reported that guanidine inhibits Hsp104 ATPase and disaggregation activity. We show that in vitro guanidine significantly inhibits the disaggregation activity of ClpB, the bacterial orthologue of Hsp104. However, guanidine exerts opposite effects on the ATPase activities of Hsp104 and ClpB. While the ATPase activity of Hsp104 is inhibited, the analogous ClpB activity is stimulated several-fold. Mutation of the universally conserved aspartic acid residue in position 184 to serine (D184S) in HSP104 and the analogous mutation in clpB (D178S) resulted in chaperones with lower disaggregating and ATPase activities. The activities of such changed chaperones are not influenced by guanidine, which suggests the role of this residue in the interaction with guanidine.
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- Łukasz Nowicki
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
- Present Address: Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT UK
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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Sarkar S, Singh MD, Yadav R, Arunkumar KP, Pittman GW. Heat shock proteins: Molecules with assorted functions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s11515-011-1080-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Goff SA. A unifying theory for general multigenic heterosis: energy efficiency, protein metabolism, and implications for molecular breeding. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2011; 189:923-937. [PMID: 21166808 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03574.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Hybrids between genetically diverse varieties display enhanced growth, and increased total biomass, stress resistance and grain yield. Gene expression and metabolic studies in maize, rice and other species suggest that protein metabolism plays a role in the growth differences between hybrids and inbreds. Single trait heterosis can be explained by the existing theories of dominance, overdominance and epistasis. General multigenic heterosis is observed in a wide variety of different species and is likely to share a common underlying biological mechanism. This review presents a model to explain differences in growth and yield caused by general multigenic heterosis. The model describes multigenic heterosis in terms of energy-use efficiency and faster cell cycle progression where hybrids have more efficient growth than inbreds because of differences in protein metabolism. The proposed model is consistent with the observed variation of gene expression in different pairs of inbred lines and hybrid offspring as well as growth differences in polyploids and aneuploids. It also suggests an approach to enhance yield gains in both hybrid and inbred crops via the creation of an appropriate computational analysis pipeline coupled to an efficient molecular breeding program.
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- Stephen A Goff
- iPlant Collaborative, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Dom N, Knapen D, Benoot D, Nobels I, Blust R. Aquatic multi-species acute toxicity of (chlorinated) anilines: experimental versus predicted data. CHEMOSPHERE 2010; 81:177-86. [PMID: 20637490 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.06.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2010] [Revised: 06/08/2010] [Accepted: 06/20/2010] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Aquatic toxicity information is essential in environmental risk assessment to determine the potential hazards and risks of new and existing chemicals. Prediction and modelling techniques, such as quantitative structure activity relationships (QSAR) and species sensitivity distributions (SSDs), are applied to fill data gaps and to predict, assess and extrapolate the toxicity of chemicals. In this study, both techniques (i.e. the ECOSAR programme as QSAR tool and SSDs) were assessed for a set of polar narcotic structural analogues that differ in their degree of chloro-substitution (aniline, 4-chloroaniline, 3,5-dichloroaniline and 2,3,4-chloroaniline). The acute toxicity of these compounds was tested in one prokaryote species (Escherichia coli) and three eukaryote aquatic species (Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata, Daphnia magna and Danio rerio). Consequently, the experimental acute toxicity data were compared to the QSAR predictions made by the ECOSAR programme and compared to the species sensitivity modelling results. Large interspecies differences in sensitivity were observed (D. magna>P. subcapitata>D. rerio>E. coli). 4-Chloroaniline acted as an outlier in P. subcapitata toxicity. Whereas in D. magna, toxicity decreased rather than increased with increasing logK(ow) of the test compounds. In general, large interchemical and interspecies differences in toxicity of these relatively simple chemical structures were observed. Moreover, this species variation could not entirely be characterized by the ECOSAR tool. SSD modelling is particularly focussed on species variations and emphasis is put on protecting those species that are most affected by chemical exposure. Compared to QSARs, SSDs offer broader perspectives regarding species sensitivity ranking, however, in this study they could only be applied for aniline and 4-chloroaniline.
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- Nathalie Dom
- University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
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Two-dimensional liquid chromatography technique coupled with mass spectrometry analysis to compare the proteomic response to cadmium stress in plants. J Biomed Biotechnol 2010; 2010:567510. [PMID: 20204056 PMCID: PMC2828102 DOI: 10.1155/2010/567510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2009] [Revised: 10/09/2009] [Accepted: 12/19/2009] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Plants are useful in studies of metal toxicity, because their physiological responses to different metals are correlated with the metal exposure dose and chemical state. Moreover a network of proteins and biochemical cascades that may lead to a controlled homeostasis of metals has been identified in many plant species. This paper focuses on the global protein variations that occur in a Populus nigra spp. clone (Poli) that has an exceptional tolerance to the presence of cadmium. Protein separation was based on a two-dimensional liquid chromatography technique. A subset of 20 out of 126 peaks were identified as being regulated differently under cadmium stress and were fingerprinted by MALDI-TOF. Proteins that were more abundant in the treated samples were located in the chloroplast and in the mitochondrion, suggesting the importance of these organelles in the response and adaptation to metal stress.
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Chaperones in control of protein disaggregation. EMBO J 2008; 27:328-35. [PMID: 18216875 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7601970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2007] [Accepted: 12/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The chaperone protein network controls both initial protein folding and subsequent maintenance of proteins in the cell. Although the native structure of a protein is principally encoded in its amino-acid sequence, the process of folding in vivo very often requires the assistance of molecular chaperones. Chaperones also play a role in a post-translational quality control system and thus are required to maintain the proper conformation of proteins under changing environmental conditions. Many factors leading to unfolding and misfolding of proteins eventually result in protein aggregation. Stress imposed by high temperature was one of the first aggregation-inducing factors studied and remains one of the main models in this field. With massive protein aggregation occurring in response to heat exposure, the cell needs chaperones to control and counteract the aggregation process. Elimination of aggregates can be achieved by solubilization of aggregates and either refolding of the liberated polypeptides or their proteolysis. Here, we focus on the molecular mechanisms by which heat-shock protein 70 (Hsp70), Hsp100 and small Hsp chaperones liberate and refold polypeptides trapped in protein aggregates.
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Liberek K, Lewandowska A, Zietkiewicz S. Chaperones in control of protein disaggregation. EMBO J 2008. [PMID: 18216875 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023] Open
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The chaperone protein network controls both initial protein folding and subsequent maintenance of proteins in the cell. Although the native structure of a protein is principally encoded in its amino-acid sequence, the process of folding in vivo very often requires the assistance of molecular chaperones. Chaperones also play a role in a post-translational quality control system and thus are required to maintain the proper conformation of proteins under changing environmental conditions. Many factors leading to unfolding and misfolding of proteins eventually result in protein aggregation. Stress imposed by high temperature was one of the first aggregation-inducing factors studied and remains one of the main models in this field. With massive protein aggregation occurring in response to heat exposure, the cell needs chaperones to control and counteract the aggregation process. Elimination of aggregates can be achieved by solubilization of aggregates and either refolding of the liberated polypeptides or their proteolysis. Here, we focus on the molecular mechanisms by which heat-shock protein 70 (Hsp70), Hsp100 and small Hsp chaperones liberate and refold polypeptides trapped in protein aggregates.
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- Krzysztof Liberek
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
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Nautiyal CS, Srivastava S, Chauhan PS. Rhizosphere Colonization: Molecular Determinants from Plant-Microbe Coexistence Perspective. SOIL BIOLOGY 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75575-3_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Dardenne F, Van Dongen S, Nobels I, Smolders R, De Coen W, Blust R. Mode of action clustering of chemicals and environmental samples on the bases of bacterial stress gene inductions. Toxicol Sci 2007; 101:206-14. [PMID: 17951611 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfm262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Over the years, environment and the human population have seen an increasing exposure to both existing and newly developed chemicals. It is generally accepted that at least some of those are toxic, albeit as pure compound or in combination with others. In response to a growing public awareness and scientific data, the new European chemicals legislation (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) is under implementation at the moment. As a consequence, during the coming years about 30,000 chemicals have to be assessed on their potential hazard for man and biota. Part of this assessment will be done using existing and new in vitro tests offering insight into the toxicity of chemicals and into their toxicological mode of action. This study presents data on a battery of 14 bacterial reporter gene assay allowing mode of action determination and statistical grouping of chemicals based on their induction profile. Gene induction results are used to group reference chemicals in a statistical cascade employing hierarchical tree and k-means clustering for initial grouping. Both complementary, yet mathematically different, algorithms are consequently confirmed by principal component analysis (PCA). The gene induction profiles of an environmental extract with documented in vivo effects and a chemical with limited toxicological are data available and projected in the PCA vector space. The projection allows correct mode of action grouping and indicates that effect predictions based on the known toxicological effects of the reference compounds can be made.
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- Freddy Dardenne
- University of Antwerp, Department of Biology, Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology Group, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
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Lewandowska A, Matuszewska M, Liberek K. Conformational properties of aggregated polypeptides determine ClpB-dependence in the disaggregation process. J Mol Biol 2007; 371:800-11. [PMID: 17588600 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.05.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2007] [Revised: 05/14/2007] [Accepted: 05/21/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Severe thermal stress induces massive intracellular protein aggregation. The concerted action of Hsp70 (DnaK, DnaJ, GrpE) and Hsp100 (ClpB) chaperones results in solubilization of aggregates followed by reactivation of proteins. It was shown that the Hsp70 chaperone system works at the initial step of the disaggregation reaction and is able to disentangle polypeptides from aggregates. Studies of the protein disaggregation reaction performed in vitro showed that ClpB may be dispensable in disaggregation of certain proteins and/or aggregates of certain size. Here we focus our attention on those properties of firefly luciferase aggregates, which determine whether ClpB chaperone is required in the disaggregation process. We report that the size of the aggregates is not a major determinant. Instead, we postulate that certain conformational properties (in particular, beta-structures) of subunits forming these aggregates are the most important factor determining the necessity of the ClpB chaperone in the disaggregation process.
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- Agnieszka Lewandowska
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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Dardenne F, Nobels I, De Coen W, Blust R. Dose-response relationships and statistical performance of a battery of bacterial gene profiling assays. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2007; 75:223-34. [PMID: 17225096 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0808-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2006] [Revised: 12/08/2006] [Accepted: 12/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Because of increasing awareness and legislative demands, there is a demand for the development and use of biological assays for the assessment of the toxicity of chemicals, environmental samples. Recently, a growing number of bacterial reporter assays have been developed and implemented. Nevertheless, little data is published on the performance of these assays in terms of analytical parameters. We present results on a battery of 14 transgenic Escherichia coli strains carrying different promoter::reporter fusions. Growth characteristics and basal expression levels were modeled and fitted, data show that growth curves should be taken into account during test development. Our study shows that the induction profiles reflect the mode of action, e.g., paraquat clearly induces the soxRS operon. The sensitivity of the assay compares well to that of whole organism tests, e.g., fish and Daphnia for polar organics. Metal toxicity is detected less efficiently, e.g., cadmium is detected near the LC50 of carp, considered a relatively insensitive species towards cadmium. The assay variability ranges from 10 to 40% depending on the strain, comparable to that of other bioassays. The variability was shown to be determined by the intrinsic traits of the promoter-strain combination, not by operating conditions.
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- F Dardenne
- Department of Biology, Ecophysiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology Group, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171/U7, Antwerp, Belgium.
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KELLY ROBERTM, PEEPLES TONYAL, HALIO SHERYLB, RINKER KRISTINAD, DUFFAUD GUYD. Extremely Thermophilic Microorganisms. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2006. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb44393.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nonaka G, Blankschien M, Herman C, Gross CA, Rhodius VA. Regulon and promoter analysis of the E. coli heat-shock factor, sigma32, reveals a multifaceted cellular response to heat stress. Genes Dev 2006; 20:1776-89. [PMID: 16818608 PMCID: PMC1522074 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1428206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 238] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The heat-shock response (HSR), a universal cellular response to heat, is crucial for cellular adaptation. In Escherichia coli, the HSR is mediated by the alternative sigma factor, sigma32. To determine its role, we used genome-wide expression analysis and promoter validation to identify genes directly regulated by sigma32 and screened ORF overexpression libraries to identify sigma32 inducers. We triple the number of genes validated to be transcribed by sigma32 and provide new insights into the cellular role of this response. Our work indicates that the response is propagated as the regulon encodes numerous global transcriptional regulators, reveals that sigma70 holoenzyme initiates from 12% of sigma32 promoters, which has important implications for global transcriptional wiring, and identifies a new role for the response in protein homeostasis, that of protecting complex proteins. Finally, this study suggests that the response protects the cell membrane and responds to its status: Fully 25% of sigma32 regulon members reside in the membrane and alter its functionality; moreover, a disproportionate fraction of overexpressed proteins that induce the response are membrane localized. The intimate connection of the response to the membrane rationalizes why a major regulator of the response resides in that cellular compartment.
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- Gen Nonaka
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Zietkiewicz S, Lewandowska A, Stocki P, Liberek K. Hsp70 chaperone machine remodels protein aggregates at the initial step of Hsp70-Hsp100-dependent disaggregation. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:7022-9. [PMID: 16415353 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m507893200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Exposure to temperatures over a certain limit leads to massive protein aggregation in the cell. Disaggregation of such aggregates is largely dependent on the Hsp100 and Hsp70 chaperones. The exact role of the Hsp70 chaperone machine (composed of DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE) in the Hsp100-dependent process remains unknown. In this study we focused on the Hsp70 role at the initial step of the disaggregation process. Two different aggregated model substrates, green fluorescent protein (GFP) and firefly luciferase, were incubated with the Hsp70 machine resulting in efficient fragmentation of large aggregates into smaller ones. Our data suggest that the observed fragmentation is achieved first by extraction of polypeptides from aggregates in Hsp70 chaperone machine-dependent manner and not by direct fragmentation of large aggregates. In the absence of Hsp100 (ClpB) these "extracted" polypeptides were not able to fold properly and promptly reassociated into new aggregates. The extracted GFP molecules were efficiently recognized and sequestered by a molecular trap, the mutant GroEL D87K, which binds stably to unfolded but not to native polypeptides. The binding of extracted GFP molecules to the GroEL trap prevented their reaggregation. We propose that the Hsp70 machine disentangles polypeptides from protein aggregates prior to Hsp100 action.
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- Szymon Zietkiewicz
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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Chow IT, Baneyx F. Coordinated synthesis of the two ClpB isoforms improves the ability of Escherichia coli to survive thermal stress. FEBS Lett 2005; 579:4235-41. [PMID: 16038902 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.06.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2005] [Revised: 06/09/2005] [Accepted: 06/29/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Eubacteria synthesize a full-length (ClpB95) and a N-terminally truncated (ClpB80) version of the ClpB disaggregase owing to the presence of a translation initiation site within the clpB transcript. Why these two isoforms have been evolutionary conserved is poorly understood. Here, we constructed a series of E. coli strains and plasmids allowing production of the ClpB95/ClpB80 pair, ClpB95 alone, or ClpB80 alone from near physiological concentrations to a 6-10-fold excess over normal cellular levels. We found that although overexpressed ClpB95 or ClpB80 can independently restore basal thermotolerance to DeltaclpB cells, strains expressing ClpB80 from the clpB chromosomal locus do not exhibit increased resistance to thermal killing at 50 degrees C relative to clpB null cells. Furthermore, synthesis of physiological levels of ClpB95 is less effective than coordinated expression of ClpB95/ClpB80 in protecting E. coli from thermal killing. These results provide an explanation for the conservation of the two ClpB isoforms in eubacteria and are consistent with the fact that wild type E. coli maintains the ClpB80 to ClpB95 ratio at a nearly constant value of 0.4-0.5 under a variety of stress conditions.
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- I-Ting Chow
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Box 351750, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Kawano M, Reynolds AA, Miranda-Rios J, Storz G. Detection of 5'- and 3'-UTR-derived small RNAs and cis-encoded antisense RNAs in Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:1040-50. [PMID: 15718303 PMCID: PMC549416 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 197] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Evidence is accumulating that small, noncoding RNAs are important regulatory molecules. Computational and experimental searches have led to the identification of approximately 60 small RNA genes in Escherichia coli. However, most of these studies focused on the intergenic regions and assumed that small RNAs were >50 nt. Thus, the previous screens missed small RNAs encoded on the antisense strand of protein-coding genes and small RNAs of <50 nt. To identify additional small RNAs, we carried out a cloning-based screen focused on RNAs of 30-65 nt. In this screen, we identified RNA species corresponding to fragments of rRNAs, tRNAs and known small RNAs. Several of the small RNAs also corresponded to 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (UTRs) and internal fragments of mRNAs. Four of the 3'-UTR-derived RNAs were highly abundant and two showed expression patterns that differed from the corresponding mRNAs, suggesting independent functions for the 3'-UTR-derived small RNAs. We also detected three previously unidentified RNAs encoded in intergenic regions and RNAs from the long direct repeat and hok/sok elements. In addition, we identified a few small RNAs that are expressed opposite protein-coding genes and could base pair with 5' or 3' ends of the mRNAs with perfect complementarity.
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MESH Headings
- 3' Untranslated Regions/chemistry
- 5' Untranslated Regions/chemistry
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Intergenic
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- RNA, Antisense/analysis
- RNA, Antisense/genetics
- RNA, Bacterial/analysis
- RNA, Bacterial/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer/chemistry
- RNA, Untranslated/analysis
- RNA, Untranslated/genetics
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
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- Mitsuoki Kawano
- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentBuilding 18T, Room 101, Bethesda, MD 20892-5430, USA
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentBuilding 18T, Room 101, Bethesda, MD 20892-5430, USA
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentBuilding 18T, Room 101, Bethesda, MD 20892-5430, USA
- Molecular Microbiology Department, Biotechnology Institute, National University of MexicoAv. Universidad #2001, Col. Chamilpa, CP. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentBuilding 18T, Room 101, Bethesda, MD 20892-5430, USA
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 301 402 0968; Fax: +1 301 402 0078;
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Matuszewska M, Kuczyńska-Wiśnik D, Laskowska E, Liberek K. The small heat shock protein IbpA of Escherichia coli cooperates with IbpB in stabilization of thermally aggregated proteins in a disaggregation competent state. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:12292-8. [PMID: 15665332 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m412706200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The small heat shock proteins are ubiquitous stress proteins proposed to increase cellular tolerance to heat shock conditions. We isolated IbpA, the Escherichia coli small heat shock protein, and tested its ability to keep thermally inactivated substrate proteins in a disaggregation competent state. We found that the presence of IbpA alone during substrate thermal inactivation only weakly influences the ability of the bi-chaperone Hsp70-Hsp100 system to disaggregate aggregated substrate. Similar minor effects were observed for IbpB alone, the other E. coli small heat shock protein. However, when both IbpA and IbpB are simultaneously present during substrate inactivation they efficiently stabilize thermally aggregated proteins in a disaggregation competent state. The properties of the aggregated protein substrates are changed in the presence of IbpA and IbpB, resulting in lower hydrophobicity and the ability of aggregates to withstand sizing chromatography conditions. IbpA and IbpB form mixed complexes, and IbpA stimulates association of IbpB with substrate.
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- Marlena Matuszewska
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, 80-822 Gdansk, Kladki 24, Poland
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Zietkiewicz S, Krzewska J, Liberek K. Successive and synergistic action of the Hsp70 and Hsp100 chaperones in protein disaggregation. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:44376-83. [PMID: 15302880 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m402405200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Proteins belonging to the B-subtype of the Hsp100/Clp chaperone family execute a crucial role in cellular thermotolerance. They cooperate with the Hsp70 chaperones in reactivation of thermally aggregated protein substrates. We investigated the initial events of the disaggregation reaction in real time using denatured, aggregated green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a substrate. Bacterial Hsp70 (DnaK), its co-chaperones (DnaJ and GrpE), and Hsp100 (ClpB) were incubated with aggregated GFP, and the increase in GFP fluorescence was monitored. Incubation of aggregated GFP with DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE but not with ClpB resulted in the rapid initiation of the disaggregation reaction. Under the same conditions a complex between DnaK, DnaJ, and GFP, but not ClpB, was formed as demonstrated by sedimentation analysis and light scattering experiments. Chaperone-dependent disaggregation of chemically denatured aggregated luciferase showed that, similar to GFP disaggregation, incubation with Hsp70 results in the rapid start of the reactivation reaction. For both aggregated GFP and luciferase, incubation with Hsp70 chaperones changes the initial rate but not the overall efficiency or rate of the refolding reaction. Our results clearly demonstrate that the interaction of DnaK and its co-chaperones with aggregated substrate is the rate-limiting reaction at the initial steps of disaggregation.
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- Szymon Zietkiewicz
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
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Tajima Y. The effects of tungstophosphate and tungstosilicate on various stress promoters transformed in Escherichia coli. J Inorg Biochem 2003; 94:155-60. [PMID: 12620686 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-0134(02)00595-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Although tungsten is an important material in some industrial and chemical processes, the biological and biochemical effects, including the toxicity, of tungsten compounds are not known well. In this study, a reporter gene assay using special strains of Escherichia coli was performed to investigate the mode of action of two polyoxotungstates, i.e. undecatungstophosphate (PW(11)) and undecatungstosilicate (SiW(11)). When the bacterial cells were cultured with PW(11), osmY (a stress promoter gene sensitive to osmotic signals) was induced to some extent, while other stress promoters were expressed only slightly. SiW(11) gave similar results, but clpB (an analogue of human heat shock protein) was more strongly induced. It is possible that PW(11) and SiW(11) can produce an osmotic signal at lower concentrations without increasing ionic strength. Since the constituents of PW(11)/SiW(11) (i.e. HPO(4)(2-), SiO(3)(2-), WO(4)(2-)) showed almost no effect, a chemical feature unique to PW(11)/SiW(11) and originating from neither of their constituents, i.e. a polyanionic characteristic, may play an important role in their biological effects.
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- Yutaka Tajima
- Clinical Laboratory, Saga Medical School Hospital, Nabeshima, 849-8501, Saga, Japan.
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Gallie DR, Fortner D, Peng J, Puthoff D. ATP-dependent hexameric assembly of the heat shock protein Hsp101 involves multiple interaction domains and a functional C-proximal nucleotide-binding domain. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:39617-26. [PMID: 12151400 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m204998200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Members of the Hsp100 family of heat stress proteins are present in species throughout the bacterial, plant, and fungal kingdoms. Most Hsp100 proteins are composed of five domains that include two nucleotide-binding domains required for their ATP-dependent oligomerization. Mutations within the first but not the second nucleotide-binding site disrupt self-assembly of bacterial Hsp100, whereas the reverse is true for yeast Hsp104. We have examined the functional requirements for oligomerization of plant Hsp101 and have found that Hsp101 resembles Hsp104 in that it assembles into a hexameric complex in an ATP-dependent manner. Self-assembly of Hsp101 involves at least three distinct interaction domains located in the N-proximal domain and in the first and second nucleotide-binding domains. The interaction domain in the second nucleotide-binding domain included the Walker A motif, and mutations within this element disrupted self-assembly of Hsp101. In contrast, mutations affecting conserved residues of the Walker A motif within the first nucleotide-binding site did not affect self-assembly. No interaction between Hsp101 and Hsp104 was observed. These results suggest that plant Hsp101 self-assembly involves multiple evolutionarily diverged interaction domains as well as an evolutionarily conserved requirement for a functional C-proximal nucleotide-binding site.
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- Daniel R Gallie
- Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0129, USA
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Hoskins JR, Sharma S, Sathyanarayana BK, Wickner S. Clp ATPases and their role in protein unfolding and degradation. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 2002; 59:413-29. [PMID: 11868279 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(01)59013-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Although much has been learned about the structure and function of Clp chaperones and their role in proteolysis, the mechanism of protein unfolding catalyzed by Clp ATPases and the mechanism of translocation of the unfolded proteins from Clp ATPases to partner proteases remain unsolved puzzles. However, models in which mechanical force is used to destabilize the structure of the substrate in a processive and directional manner are probable. It also seems likely that when ClpA ATPases are associated with proteases, unfolding is coupled to extrusion of the unfolded protein into the proteolytic cavity. In summary, it is anticipated that the large family of Clp ATPases will accomplish their many important cellular functions by similar mechanisms and what has been learned by studying the prokaryotic members reviewed here will shed a great deal of light on all members of the family.
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- J R Hoskins
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Rosen R, Ron EZ. Proteome analysis in the study of the bacterial heat-shock response. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2002; 21:244-265. [PMID: 12533799 DOI: 10.1002/mas.10031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In recent years, it has become clear that, in addition to the regulation of the expression of specific genes, there are global regulatory systems that control the simultaneous expression of a large number of genes in response to a variety of environmental stresses. The first of these global control systems, and of substantial importance, is the heat-shock response. The heat-shock response is characterized by the induction of a large set of proteins (heat-shock proteins-HSPs) upon shifts to higher temperature and upon exposure to conditions in which proteins are denatured (i.e., alcohols, heavy metals). The heat-shock response is universal and many of the heat-shock proteins are highly conserved among species. In bacteria, the heat-shock response has been studied extensively in several Gram-positive bacteria (Bacillus subtilis) and in the Gram-negative bacteria (i.e., Escherichia coli, Agrobacterium tumefaciens). The first recognition of the molecular abundance of the bacterial heat-shock proteins took place with the introduction of high-resolution two-dimensional polyacrylamide gels (2D gels) to analyze complex mixtures of cellular proteins. Two-dimensional gels, followed by mass spectrometry, were used to define the heat-shock stimulons in several bacteria, and to study the regulatory elements that control the heat-shock response. Here, we review the heat-shock response and its regulation in bacteria. The review will emphasize the use of proteome analysis in the study of this response, and will point out those open questions that can be investigated with proteomics, including mass spectrometry techniques.
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- Ran Rosen
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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Arifuzzaman M, Oshima T, Nakade S, Mori H. Characterization of HscC (Hsc62), homologue of Hsp70 in Escherichia coli: over-expression of HscC modulates the activity of house keeping sigma factor sigma70. Genes Cells 2002; 7:553-66. [PMID: 12059959 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2002.00545.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND HscC, the third member of the Hsp70 family in Escherichia coli, shares 33% identity with the other two homologues, DnaK and HscA, and displays ATPase activity. Genetic and biochemical evidence indicates that the DnaK-DnaJ chaperone system interacts with sigma32 and is involved in the negative regulation of the heat shock response. Although HscC is a highly conserved protein in the Hsp70 family, its function is still unknown. RESULTS We observed that the over-expression of HscC caused severe growth inhibition. To explore this effect, we performed primer extension analysis and a beta-galactosidase assay and found that HscC reduced the sigma70-dependent promoter activity. An in vitro transcription assay revealed that HscC inhibited sigma70-dependent transcription. In addition, the co-purification analysis showed that sigma70 co-eluted with HscC. CONCLUSION These results indicate that HscC forms a complex with sigma70 and may function as its negative modulator.
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- Mohammad Arifuzzaman
- Department of Cell Biology, NARA Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0101, Japan
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Konieczny I, Liberek K. Cooperative action of Escherichia coli ClpB protein and DnaK chaperone in the activation of a replication initiation protein. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:18483-8. [PMID: 11889118 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107580200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli molecular chaperone protein ClpB is a member of the highly conserved Hsp100/Clp protein family. Previous studies have shown that the ClpB protein is needed for bacterial thermotolerance. Purified ClpB protein has been shown to reactivate chemically and heat-denatured proteins. In this work we demonstrate that the combined action of ClpB and the DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE chaperones leads to the activation of DNA replication of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2. In contrast, ClpB is not needed for the activation of the oriC-dependent replication of E. coli. Using purified protein components we show that the ClpB/DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE synergistic action activates the plasmid RK2 replication initiation protein TrfA by converting inactive dimers to an active monomer form. In contrast, Hsp78/Ssc1/Mdj1/Mge1, the corresponding protein system from yeast mitochondria, cannot activate the TrfA replication protein. Our results demonstrate for the first time that the ClpB/DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE system is involved in protein monomerization and in the activation of a DNA replication factor.
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- Igor Konieczny
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, 24 Kladki, 80 822 Gdansk, Poland.
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Watanabe YH, Motohashi K, Yoshida M. Roles of the two ATP binding sites of ClpB from Thermus thermophilus. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:5804-9. [PMID: 11741950 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109349200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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As a member of molecular chaperone Hsp100/Clp family, TClpB from Thermus thermophilus has two nucleotide binding domains, NBD1 and NBD2, in a single polypeptide, each containing WalkerA and WalkerB consensus motifs. To probe their roles, mutations were introduced into the WalkerA or WalkerB motifs of each or both of the NBDs. The results are as follows. 1) For each of the NBDs, the ability of nucleotide binding is lost by mutations in the WalkerA motif but is retained by mutations in the WalkerB motif. 2) Each NBD has a casein-stimulatable small basic ATPase activity that is lost when the WalkerB motif is mutated. 3) TClpB assembles into a uniform 580-kDa oligomer when ATP is present at 55 degrees C, and only the mutants in the WalkerA motif in NBD1 fail to assemble, indicating that ATP binding to NBD1 but not hydrolysis is necessary and sufficient for the assembly. 4) Chaperone function of TClpB was lost when the WalkerA motif in each of the NBDs was mutated. Mutants in the WalkerB motifs of each NBD retained some chaperone activity.
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- Yo-hei Watanabe
- Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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Krzewska J, Konopa G, Liberek K. Importance of two ATP-binding sites for oligomerization, ATPase activity and chaperone function of mitochondrial Hsp78 protein. J Mol Biol 2001; 314:901-10. [PMID: 11734006 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The yeast mitochondrial chaperone Hsp78, a homologue of yeast cytosolic Hsp104 and bacterial ClpB, is required for maintenance of mitochondrial functions under heat stress. Here, Hsp78 was purified to homogeneity and shown to form a homo-hexameric complex, with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 440 kDa, in an ATP-dependent manner. Analysis of its ATPase activity reveals that the observed positive cooperativity effect depends both on Hsp78 and ATP concentration. Site-directed mutagenesis of the two putative Hsp78 nucleotide-binding domains suggest that the first nucleotide-binding domain is responsible for ATP hydrolysis and the second one for protein oligomerization. Studies on the chaperone activity of Hsp78 show that its cooperation with the mitochondrial Hsp70 system, consisting of Ssc1p, Mdj1p and Mge1p, is needed for the efficient reactivation of substrate proteins. These studies also suggest that the oligomerization but not the Hsp78 ATPase activity is essential for its chaperone activity.
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- J Krzewska
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Kladki 24, Gdansk, 80-822, Poland
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Srivastava R, Peterson MS, Bentley WE. Stochastic kinetic analysis of the Escherichia coli stress circuit using sigma(32)-targeted antisense. Biotechnol Bioeng 2001; 75:120-9. [PMID: 11536134 DOI: 10.1002/bit.1171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A stochastic Petri net model was developed for simulating the sigma(32) stress circuit in E. coli. Transcription factor sigma(32) is the principal regulator of the response of E. coli to heat shock. Stochastic Petri net (SPN) models are well suited for kinetics characterization of fluxes in biochemical pathways. Notably, there exists a one-to-one mapping of model tokens and places to molecules of particular species. Our model was validated against experiments in which ethanol (inducer of heat shock response) and sigma(32)-targeted antisense (downward regulator) were used to perturb the sigma(32) regulatory pathway. The model was also extended to simulate the effects of recombinant protein production. Results show that the stress response depends heavily on the partitioning of sigma(32) within the cell; that is, sigma(32) becomes immediately available to mediate a stress response because it exists primarily in a sequestered, inactive form, complexed with chaperones DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE. Recombinant proteins, however, also compete for chaperone proteins, particularly when folded improperly. Our simulations indicate that when the expression of recombinant protein has a low requirement for DnaK, DnaJ, and GrpE, the overall sigma(32) levels may drop, but the level of heat shock proteins will increase. Conversely, when the overexpressed recombinant protein has a strong requirement for the chaperones, a severe response is predicted. Interestingly, both cases were observed experimentally.
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- R Srivastava
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Oke V, Rushing BG, Fisher EJ, Moghadam-Tabrizi M, Long SR. Identification of the heat-shock sigma factor RpoH and a second RpoH-like protein in Sinorhizobium meliloti. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2001; 147:2399-2408. [PMID: 11535780 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-9-2399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hybridization to a PCR product derived from conserved sigma-factor sequences led to the identification of two Sinorhizobium meliloti DNA segments that display significant sequence similarity to the family of rpoH genes encoding the sigma(32) (RpoH) heat-shock transcription factors. The first gene, rpoH1, complements an Escherichia coli rpoH mutation. Cells containing an rpoH1 mutation are impaired in growth at 37 degrees C under free-living conditions and are defective in nitrogen fixation during symbiosis with alfalfa. A plasmid-borne rpoH1-gusA fusion increases in expression upon entry of the culture into the stationary phase of growth. The second gene, designated rpoH2, is 42% identical to the S. meliloti rpoH1 gene. Cells containing an rpoH2 mutation have no apparent phenotype under free-living conditions or during symbiosis with the host plant alfalfa. An rpoH2-gusA fusion increases in expression during the stationary phase of growth. The presence of two rpoH-like sequences in S. meliloti is reminiscent of the situation in Bradyrhizobium japonicum, which has three rpoH genes.
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- Valerie Oke
- Department of Biological Sciences, A527A Langley Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA3
- Department of Biological Sciences1 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute2, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences1 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute2, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, A527A Langley Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA3
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- Department of Biological Sciences1 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute2, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences1 and Howard Hughes Medical Institute2, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Izutsu K, Wada A, Wada C. Expression of ribosome modulation factor (RMF) in Escherichia coli requires ppGpp. Genes Cells 2001; 6:665-76. [PMID: 11532026 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2001.00457.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND During the transition from the logarithmic to the stationary phase, 70S ribosomes are dimerized into the 100S form, which has no translational activity. Ribosome Modulation Factor (RMF) is induced during the stationary phase and binds to the 50S ribosomal subunit, which directs the dimerization of 70S ribosomes. Unlike many other genes induced in the stationary phase, rmf transcription is independent of the sigma S. To identify the factors that regulate the growth phase-dependent induction of rmf, mutant strains deficient in global regulators were examined for lacZ expression directed by the rmf promoter. RESULTS Among mutants of defective global regulators, only ppGpp deficiency (relA-spoT double mutant) drastically reduced the level of rmf transcription to less than 10% of that seen in the wild-type. Neither RMF nor 100S ribosomes were detected in this mutant in the stationary phase. rmf transcription correlated well with cellular ppGpp levels during amino acid starvation, IPTG induction of Ptrc-relA455 and in other mutants with artificially increased ppGpp levels. Although the growth rate also correlated inversely with both ppGpp levels and rmf transcription, the observation that the growth rates of the ppGpp-deficient and wild-type strains varied equivalently when grown on different media indicates that the link between rmf transcription and ppGpp levels is not a function of the growth rate. CONCLUSIONS ppGpp appears to positively regulate rmf transcription, at least in vivo. Thus, RMF provides a novel negative translational control by facilitating the formation of inactive ribosome dimers (100S) under the stringent circumstances of the stationary phase.
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- K Izutsu
- The Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Shogoin-Kawaracho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Izutsu K, Wada C, Komine Y, Sako T, Ueguchi C, Nakura S, Wada A. Escherichia coli ribosome-associated protein SRA, whose copy number increases during stationary phase. J Bacteriol 2001; 183:2765-73. [PMID: 11292794 PMCID: PMC99491 DOI: 10.1128/jb.183.9.2765-2773.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2000] [Accepted: 02/06/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Protein D has previously been demonstrated to be associated with Escherichia coli ribosomes by the radical-free and highly reducing method of two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In this study, we show that protein D is exclusively present in the 30S ribosomal subunit and that its gene is located at 33.6 min on the E. coli genetic map, between ompC and sfcA. The gene consists of 45 codons, coding for a protein of 5,096 Da. The copy number of protein D per ribosomal particle varied during growth and increased from 0.1 in the exponential phase to 0.4 in the stationary phase. For these reasons, protein D was named SRA (stationary-phase-induced ribosome-associated) protein and its gene was named sra. The amount of SRA protein within the cell was found to be controlled mainly at the transcriptional level: its transcription increased rapidly upon entry into the stationary phase and was partly dependent on an alternative sigma factor (sigma S). In addition, global regulators, such as factor inversion stimulation (FIS), integration host factor (IHF), cyclic AMP, and ppGpp, were found to play a role either directly or indirectly in the transcription of sra in the stationary phase.
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- K Izutsu
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Ekaza E, Teyssier J, Ouahrani-Bettache S, Liautard JP, Köhler S. Characterization of Brucella suis clpB and clpAB mutants and participation of the genes in stress responses. J Bacteriol 2001; 183:2677-81. [PMID: 11274130 PMCID: PMC95187 DOI: 10.1128/jb.183.8.2677-2681.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Pathogens often encounter stressful conditions inside their hosts. In the attempt to characterize the stress response in Brucella suis, a gene highly homologous to Escherichia coli clpB was isolated from Brucella suis, and the deduced amino acid sequence showed features typical of the ClpB ATPase family of stress response proteins. Under high-temperature stress conditions, ClpB of B. suis was induced, and an isogenic B. suis clpB mutant showed increased sensitivity to high temperature, but also to ethanol stress and acid pH. The effects were reversible by complementation. Simultaneous inactivation of clpA and clpB resulted in a mutant that was sensitive to oxidative stress. In B. suis expressing gfp, ClpA but not ClpB participated in degradation of the green fluorescent protein at 42 degrees C. We concluded that ClpB was responsible for tolerance to several stresses and that the lethality caused by harsh environmental conditions may have similar molecular origins.
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- E Ekaza
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U-431, Université Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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Krzewska J, Langer T, Liberek K. Mitochondrial Hsp78, a member of the Clp/Hsp100 family in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cooperates with Hsp70 in protein refolding. FEBS Lett 2001; 489:92-6. [PMID: 11231020 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)02423-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The molecular chaperone protein Hsp78, a member of the Clp/Hsp100 family localized in the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for maintenance of mitochondrial functions under heat stress. To characterize the biochemical mechanisms of Hsp78 function, Hsp78 was purified to homogeneity and its role in the reactivation of chemically and heat-denatured substrate protein was analyzed in vitro. Hsp78 alone was not able to mediate reactivation of firefly luciferase. Rather, efficient refolding was dependent on the simultaneous presence of Hsp78 and the mitochondrial Hsp70 machinery, composed of Ssc1p/Mdj1p/Mge1p. Bacterial DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE, which cooperates with the Hsp78 homolog, ClpB in Escherichia coli, could not substitute for the mitochondrial Hsp70 system. However, efficient Hsp78-dependent refolding of luciferase was observed if DnaK was replaced by Ssc1p in these experiments, suggesting a specific functional interaction of both chaperone proteins. These findings establish the cooperation of Hsp78 with the Hsp70 machinery in the refolding of heat-inactivated proteins and demonstrate a conserved mode of action of ClpB homologs.
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- J Krzewska
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Gdansk, Poland
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Kim KI, Cheong GW, Park SC, Ha JS, Woo KM, Choi SJ, Chung CH. Heptameric ring structure of the heat-shock protein ClpB, a protein-activated ATPase in Escherichia coli. J Mol Biol 2000; 303:655-66. [PMID: 11061966 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The heat-shock protein ClpB is a protein-activated ATPase that is essential for survival of Escherichia coli at high temperatures. ClpB has also recently been suggested to function as a chaperone in reactivation of aggregated proteins. In addition, the clpB gene has been shown to contain two translational initiation sites and therefore encode two polypeptides of different size. To determine the structural organization of ClpB, the ClpB proteins were subjected to chemical cross-linking analysis and electron microscopy. The average images of the ClpB proteins with end-on orientation revealed a seven-membered, ring-shaped structure with a central cavity. Their side-on view showed a two-layered structure with an equal distribution of mass across the equatorial plane of the complex. Since the ClpB subunit has two large regions containing consensus sequences for nucleotide binding, each layer of the ClpB heptamer appears to represent the side projection of one of the major domains arranged on a ring. In the absence of salt and ATP, the ClpB proteins showed a high tendency to form a heptamer. However, they dissociated into various species of oligomers with smaller sizes, depending on salt concentration. Above 0.2 M NaCl, the ClpB proteins behaved most likely as a monomer in the absence of ATP, but assembled into a heptamer in its presence. Furthermore, mutations of the first ATP-binding site, but not the second site, prevented the ATP-dependent oligomerization of the ClpB proteins in the presence of 0.3 M NaCl. These results indicate that ClpB has a heptameric ring-shaped structure with a central cavity and this structural organization requires ATP binding to the first nucleotide-binding site localized to the N-terminal half of the ATPase.
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- K I Kim
- School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
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Schweder T, Krüger E, Xu B, Jürgen B, Blomsten G, Enfors SO, Hecker M. Monitoring of genes that respond to process-related stress in large-scale bioprocesses. Biotechnol Bioeng 1999; 65:151-9. [PMID: 10458735 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0290(19991020)65:2<151::aid-bit4>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In large-scale aerobic fed-batch processes, cells are exposed to local zones of high glucose concentrations that can also cause local oxygen limitations at high cell densities. The mRNA levels of four stress genes (clpB, dnaK, uspA, and proU) and three genes responding to oxygen limitation or glucose excess (pfl, frd, and ackA) were investigated in an industrial 20-m(3) Escherichia coli process and in a scale-down reactor with defined high-glucose and low-oxygen zones. The mRNA levels of ackA and proU were high during the batch growth phase, but declined drastically when glucose became limited, whereas the mRNA levels of the other stress genes were relatively constant throughout the process. In the industrial-scale reactor, the stress gene mRNA levels were, in most cases, highest in the middle part and at the top of the reactor, where the substrate was fed. Cells passing through the high glucose zone of the scale-down reactor had elevated mRNA levels for the oxygen limitation genes and had also elevated heat-shock gene mRNA levels. Both responses to stress occurred within seconds. The approach presented in this study offers a tool for monitoring process-related changes in the transcriptional regulation of genes.
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- T Schweder
- Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Motohashi K, Watanabe Y, Yohda M, Yoshida M. Heat-inactivated proteins are rescued by the DnaK.J-GrpE set and ClpB chaperones. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:7184-9. [PMID: 10377389 PMCID: PMC22047 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.13.7184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Functional chaperone cooperation between Hsp70 (DnaK) and Hsp104 (ClpB) was demonstrated in vitro. In a eubacterium Thermus thermophilus, DnaK and DnaJ exist as a stable trigonal ring complex (TDnaK.J complex) and the dnaK gene cluster contains a clpB gene. When substrate proteins were heated at high temperature, none of the chaperones protected them from heat inactivation, but the TDnaK.J complex could suppress the aggregation of proteins in an ATP- and TGrpE-dependent manner. Subsequent incubation of these heated preparations at moderate temperature after addition of TClpB resulted in the efficient reactivation of the proteins. Reactivation was also observed, even though the yield was low, if the substrate protein alone was heated and incubated at moderate temperature with the TDnaK.J complex, TGrpE, TClpB, and ATP. Thus, all these components were necessary for the reactivation. Further, we found that TGroEL/ES could not substitute TClpB.
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- K Motohashi
- Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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Thies FL, Karch H, Hartung HP, Giegerich G. The ClpB protein from Campylobacter jejuni: molecular characterization of the encoding gene and antigenicity of the recombinant protein. Gene X 1999; 230:61-7. [PMID: 10196475 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(99)00054-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The ClpB heat-shock protein is necessary for the survival of Escherichia coli cells upon sudden increase of temperature. Using a PCR-based genomic walking method, the nucleotide sequence of a clpB homolog from Campylobacter jejuni was determined. The clpB gene encodes a protein of 857 amino acid (aa) residues, with a predicted molecular mass of 95.3kDa. Alignment of the deduced aa sequence with other known bacterial ClpB proteins revealed overall identity from 47% (E. coli) to 61% (Helicobacter pylori). Within the clpB promoter region, as indicated by primer extension analysis, we identified a sequence identical to the E. coli sigma70 consensus promoter. Northern blot analysis confirmed that clpB is heat-inducible in C. jejuni. The ClpB protein, fused to a 6xHis tag, was synthesized in E. coli and purified by metal-affinity and size exclusion chromatography. In ELISA studies, IgA levels reactive to recombinant ClpB were significantly higher in sera of patients with prior C. jejuni infections than in sera obtained from healthy control persons.
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- F L Thies
- Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, D-97080, Würzburg, Germany
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Petersen BL, Møller MG, Stummann BM, Henningsen KW. Structure and organization of a 25 kbp region of the genome of the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme containing Mg-chelatase encoding genes. Hereditas 1999; 129:131-42. [PMID: 10022081 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1998.00131.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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A region comprising approximately 25 kbp of the genome of the strictly anaerobic and obligate photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium vibrioforme has been mapped, subcloned and partly sequenced. Approximately 15 kbp have been sequenced in it's entirety and three genes with significant homology and feature similarity to the bchI, -D and -H genes and the chlI, -D and -H genes of Rhodobacter and Synechocystis strain PCC6803, respectively, which encode magnesium chelatase subunits, have been identified. Magnesium chelatase catalyzes the insertion of Mg2+ into protoporphyrin IX, and is the first enzyme unique to the (bacterio)chlorophyll specific branch of the porphyrin biosynthetic pathway. The organization of the three Mg-chelatase encoding genes is unique to Chlorobium and suggests that the magnesium chelatase of C. vibrioforme is encoded by a single operon. The analyzed 25 kbp region contains five additional open reading frames, two of which display significant homology and feature similarity to genes encoding lipoamide dehydrogenase and genes with function in purine synthesis, and another three display significant homology to open reading frames with unknown function in distantly related bacteria. Putative E. coli sigma 70-like promoter sequences, ribosome binding sequences and rho-independent transcriptional stop signals within the sequenced 15 kbp region are related to the identified genes and orfs. Southern analysis, restriction mapping and partial sequencing of the remaining ca. 10 kbp of the analyzed 25 kbp region have shown that this part includes the hemA, -C, -D and -B genes (MOBERG and AVISSAR 1994), which encode enzymes with function in the early part of the biosynthetic pathway of porphyrins.
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- B L Petersen
- Department of Ecology and Molecular Biology, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Cha HJ, Srivastava R, Vakharia VN, Rao G, Bentley WE. Green fluorescent protein as a noninvasive stress probe in resting Escherichia coli cells. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:409-14. [PMID: 9925561 PMCID: PMC91040 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.409-414.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We constructed and characterized three stress probe plasmids which utilize a green fluorescent protein as a noninvasive reporter in order to elucidate Escherichia coli cellular stress responses in quiescent or resting cells. Cellular stress levels were easily detected by fusing three heat shock stress protein promoter elements, those of the heat shock transcription factor sigma32, the protease subunit ClpB, and the chaperone DnaK, to the reporter gene gfpuv. When perturbed by a chemical or physical stress (such as a heat shock, nutrient [amino acid] limitation, or addition of IPTG [isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside], acetic acid, ethanol, phenol, antifoam, or salt [osmotic shock]), the E. coli cells produced GFPuv, which was easily detected within the cells as emitted green fluorescence. Temporal and amplitudinal mapping of the responses was performed, and the results revealed regions where quantitative delineation of cell stress was afforded.
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- H J Cha
- Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Celerin M, Gilpin AA, Schisler NJ, Ivanov AG, Miskiewicz E, Krol M, Laudenbach DE. ClpB in a cyanobacterium: predicted structure, phylogenetic relationships, and regulation by light and temperature. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:5173-82. [PMID: 9748452 PMCID: PMC107555 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.19.5173-5182.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/1998] [Accepted: 04/30/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The sequence of a genomic clone encoding a 100-kDa stress protein of Plectonema boryanum (p-ClpB) was determined. The predicted polypeptide contains two putative ATPase regions located within two highly conserved domains (N1 and N2), a spacer region that likely forms a coiled-coil domain, and a highly conserved consensus CK2 phosphorylation domain. The coiled-coil region and the putative site of phosphorylation are not unique to p-ClpB; they are present in all ClpB sequences examined and are absent from the ClpB paralogs ClpA, ClpC, ClpX, and ClpY. Small quantities of a 4.5-kb p-clpB transcript and 110-kDa cytosolic p-ClpB protein were detected in cells grown under optimal conditions; however, increases in the quantities of the transcript and protein were observed in cells grown under excess light and low temperature conditions. Finally, we analyzed ClpA, ClpB, and ClpC sequences from 27 organisms in order to predict phylogenetic relationships among the homologs. We have used this information, along with an identity alignment, to redefine the Clp subfamilies.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Carotenoids/analysis
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cold Temperature
- Cyanobacteria/genetics
- Endopeptidase Clp
- Escherichia coli Proteins
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/radiation effects
- Genes, Bacterial/genetics
- Heat-Shock Proteins/chemistry
- Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics
- Light
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA, Bacterial/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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- M Celerin
- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
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This map is an update of the edition 9 map by Berlyn et al. (M. K. B. Berlyn, K. B. Low, and K. E. Rudd, p. 1715-1902, in F. C. Neidhardt et al., ed., Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 1996). It uses coordinates established by the completed sequence, expressed as 100 minutes for the entire circular map, and adds new genes discovered and established since 1996 and eliminates those shown to correspond to other known genes. The latter are included as synonyms. An alphabetical list of genes showing map location, synonyms, the protein or RNA product of the gene, phenotypes of mutants, and reference citations is provided. In addition to genes known to correspond to gene sequences, other genes, often older, that are described by phenotype and older mapping techniques and that have not been correlated with sequences are included.
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- M K Berlyn
- Department of Biology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8104, USA.
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Kim KI, Woo KM, Seong IS, Lee ZW, Baek SH, Chung CH. Mutational analysis of the two ATP-binding sites in ClpB, a heat shock protein with protein-activated ATPase activity in Escherichia coli. Biochem J 1998; 333 ( Pt 3):671-6. [PMID: 9677327 PMCID: PMC1219631 DOI: 10.1042/bj3330671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
The 93 kDa ClpB (ClpB93) is a heat shock protein and has a protein-activated ATPase activity. To define the role of the two ATP-binding sites in ClpB93, site-directed mutagenesis was performed to replace Lys212 or Lys611 with Thr or Glu. All of the mutant proteins hydrolysed ATP at a higher rate than that seen with ClpB93 at ATP concentrations up to 2 mM. However, ClpB93 carrying mutations in both of the ATP-binding sites could not cleave ATP. Thus any of the two ATP-binding sites seems to be capable of supporting the ATPase activity of ClpB93. The ATPase activities of both ClpB93/K212T and ClpB93/K212E were gradually decreased when ATP concentrations were increased above 2 mM, unlike those of ClpB93, ClpB93/K611T and ClpB93/K611E, which showed a typical saturation curve. Furthermore ADP inhibited ATP hydrolysis by ClpB93/K212T and ClpB93/K212E more effectively than that by the latter proteins, suggesting that the mutations in the first ATP-binding site result in an increase in the affinity of ADP for the second site in ClpB93. In addition, all of the purified ClpB93 and its mutant forms behaved as an oligomer of 400-450 kDa on a Sephacryl S-300 gel-filtration column, whether or not ATP was present. Thus the binding of ATP to either of the two sites seems not to be essential for oligomerization of ClpB93. Although a low-copy plasmid carrying clpB93 could rescue the sensitivity of a clpB-null mutant cell at 52 degreesC, none of the plasmids carrying the mutations in the ATP-binding sites could. Furthermore, incubation at 52 degreesC resulted in a gradual loss of the ATPase activity of ClpB93 carrying the mutations in either of the two ATP-binding sites, but not of the parental ClpB93, indicating that the mutant proteins have a greater tendency to denature at this temperature than the parental ClpB93. These results suggest that both of the ATP-binding sites in ClpB have an important role in maintaining the thermotolerance of the protein and hence in the survival of Escherichia coli at high temperatures.
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- K I Kim
- Department of Molecular Biology and Research Center for Cell Differentiation, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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Turner AK, Lovell MA, Hulme SD, Zhang-Barber L, Barrow PA. Identification of Salmonella typhimurium genes required for colonization of the chicken alimentary tract and for virulence in newly hatched chicks. Infect Immun 1998; 66:2099-106. [PMID: 9573095 PMCID: PMC108169 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.5.2099-2106.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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From a collection of 2,800 Tn5-TC1 transposon mutants of Salmonella typhimurium F98, 18 that showed reduced intestinal colonization of 3-week-old chicks were identified. The sites of transposon insertion were determined for most of the mutants and included insertions in the lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis genes rfaK, rfaY, rfbK, and rfbB and the genes dksA, clpB, hupA, and sipC. In addition, identification was made of an insertion into a novel gene that encodes a protein showing similarity to the IIC component of the mannose class of phosphoenolpyruvate-carbohydrate phosphotransferase systems, which we putatively called ptsC. Transduction of most of the transposon mutations to a fresh S. typhimurium F98 genetic background and construction of defined mutations in the rfbK, dksA, hupA, sipC, and ptsC genes of S. typhimurium F98 supported the role in colonization of all but the pts locus. The virulence of the rfbK, dksA, hupA, sipC, and ptsC defined mutants and clpB and rfaY transductants in 1-day-old chicks was tested. All but the ptsC and rfaY mutants were attenuated for virulence. A number of other phenotypes associated with some of the mutations are described.
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- A K Turner
- Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Near Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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