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Zhan J, Zeher A, Huang R, Tang WK, Jenkins LM, Xia D. Conformations of Bcs1L undergoing ATP hydrolysis suggest a concerted translocation mechanism for folded iron-sulfur protein substrate. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4655. [PMID: 38821922 PMCID: PMC11143374 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49029-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024] Open
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The human AAA-ATPase Bcs1L translocates the fully assembled Rieske iron-sulfur protein (ISP) precursor across the mitochondrial inner membrane, enabling respiratory Complex III assembly. Exactly how the folded substrate is bound to and released from Bcs1L has been unclear, and there has been ongoing debate as to whether subunits of Bcs1L act in sequence or in unison hydrolyzing ATP when moving the protein cargo. Here, we captured Bcs1L conformations by cryo-EM during active ATP hydrolysis in the presence or absence of ISP substrate. In contrast to the threading mechanism widely employed by AAA proteins in substrate translocation, subunits of Bcs1L alternate uniformly between ATP and ADP conformations without detectable intermediates that have different, co-existing nucleotide states, indicating that the subunits act in concert. We further show that the ISP can be trapped by Bcs1 when its subunits are all in the ADP-bound state, which we propose to be released in the apo form.
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- Jingyu Zhan
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
- NIH Intramural Cryo-EM Consortium (NICE), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
- NIH Intramural Cryo-EM Consortium (NICE), Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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Gaudó P, de Tomás-Mateo E, Garrido-Pérez N, Santana A, Ruiz-Pesini E, Montoya J, Bayona-Bafaluy P. "ATAD3C regulates ATAD3A assembly and function in the mitochondrial membrane". Free Radic Biol Med 2024; 211:114-126. [PMID: 38092275 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2023.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2023] [Revised: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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Mitochondrial ATAD3A is an ATPase Associated with diverse cellular Activities (AAA) domain containing enzyme, involved in the structural organization of the inner mitochondrial membrane and of increasing importance in childhood disease. In humans, two ATAD3A paralogs arose by gene duplication during evolution: ATAD3B and ATAD3C. Here we investigate the cellular activities of the ATAD3C paralog that has been considered a pseudogene. We detected unique ATAD3C peptides in HEK 293T cells, with expression similar to that in human tissues, and showed that it is an integral membrane protein that exposes its carboxy-terminus to the intermembrane space. Overexpression of ATAD3C, but not of ATAD3A, in fibroblasts caused a decrease in cell proliferation and oxygen consumption rate, and an increase of cellular ROS. This was due to the incorporation of ATAD3C monomers in ATAD3A complex in the mitochondrial membrane reducing its size. Consistent with a negative regulation of ATAD3A function in mitochondrial membrane organization, ATAD3C expression led to increased accumulation of respiratory chain dimeric CIII in the inner membrane, to the detriment to that assembled in respiratory supercomplexes. Our results demonstrate a negative dominant role of the ATAD3C paralog with implications for mitochondrial OXPHOS function and suggest that its expression regulates ATAD3A in the cell.
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- Paula Gaudó
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009- and 50013, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009- and 50013, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009- and 50013, Zaragoza, Spain; Institute for Health Research (IIS) de Aragón, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain; Rare Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBERER), 28029, Madrid, Spain; Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Research Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences (IUIBS), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35001, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Clinical Genetics Unit, Complejo Hospitarlario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil de Las Palamas de Gran Canaria, 35016, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Institute for Health Research (IIS) de Aragón, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain; Rare Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBERER), 28029, Madrid, Spain.
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009- and 50013, Zaragoza, Spain; Institute for Health Research (IIS) de Aragón, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain; Rare Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBERER), 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department. Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009- and 50013, Zaragoza, Spain; Institute for Health Research (IIS) de Aragón, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain; Rare Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBERER), 28029, Madrid, Spain; Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain.
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Yu G, Bai Y, Zhang ZY. Valosin-Containing Protein (VCP)/p97 Oligomerization. Subcell Biochem 2024; 104:485-501. [PMID: 38963497 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-58843-3_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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Valosin-containing protein (VCP), also known as p97, is an evolutionarily conserved AAA+ ATPase essential for cellular homeostasis. Cooperating with different sets of cofactors, VCP is involved in multiple cellular processes through either the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) or the autophagy/lysosomal route. Pathogenic mutations frequently found at the interface between the NTD domain and D1 ATPase domain have been shown to cause malfunction of VCP, leading to degenerative disorders including the inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and cancers. Therefore, VCP has been considered as a potential therapeutic target for neurodegeneration and cancer. Most of previous studies found VCP predominantly exists and functions as a hexamer, which unfolds and extracts ubiquitinated substrates from protein complexes for degradation. However, recent studies have characterized a new VCP dodecameric state and revealed a controlling mechanism of VCP oligomeric states mediated by the D2 domain nucleotide occupancy. Here, we summarize our recent knowledge on VCP oligomerization, regulation, and potential implications of VCP in cellular function and pathogenic progression.
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- Guimei Yu
- School of Pharmaceutical Science, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, China
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- Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Borch Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
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Rüttermann M, Koci M, Lill P, Geladas ED, Kaschani F, Klink BU, Erdmann R, Gatsogiannis C. Structure of the peroxisomal Pex1/Pex6 ATPase complex bound to a substrate. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5942. [PMID: 37741838 PMCID: PMC10518020 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41640-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 09/25/2023] Open
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The double-ring AAA+ ATPase Pex1/Pex6 is required for peroxisomal receptor recycling and is essential for peroxisome formation. Pex1/Pex6 mutations cause severe peroxisome associated developmental disorders. Despite its pathophysiological importance, mechanistic details of the heterohexamer are not yet available. Here, we report cryoEM structures of Pex1/Pex6 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with an endogenous protein substrate trapped in the central pore of the catalytically active second ring (D2). Pairs of Pex1/Pex6(D2) subdomains engage the substrate via a staircase of pore-1 loops with distinct properties. The first ring (D1) is catalytically inactive but undergoes significant conformational changes resulting in alternate widening and narrowing of its pore. These events are fueled by ATP hydrolysis in the D2 ring and disengagement of a "twin-seam" Pex1/Pex6(D2) heterodimer from the staircase. Mechanical forces are propagated in a unique manner along Pex1/Pex6 interfaces that are not available in homo-oligomeric AAA-ATPases. Our structural analysis reveals the mechanisms of how Pex1 and Pex6 coordinate to achieve substrate translocation.
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- Maximilian Rüttermann
- Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Analytics Core Facility Essen, Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Münster, Münster, Germany
- Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Biochemistry and Pathobiochemistry, Department of Systems Biochemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, University Münster, Münster, Germany.
- Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN), University Münster, Münster, Germany.
- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
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Jia H, Dantuluri S, Margulies S, Smith V, Lever R, Allers T, Koh J, Chen S, Maupin-Furlow JA. RecJ3/4-aRNase J form a Ubl-associated nuclease complex functioning in survival against DNA damage in Haloferax volcanii. mBio 2023; 14:e0085223. [PMID: 37458473 PMCID: PMC10470531 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00852-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Nucleases are strictly regulated and often localized in the cell to avoid the uncontrolled degradation of DNA and RNA. Here, a new type of nuclease complex, composed of RecJ3, RecJ4, and aRNase J, was identified through its ATP-dependent association with the ubiquitin-like SAMP1 and AAA-ATPase Cdc48a. The complex was discovered in Haloferax volcanii, an archaeon lacking an RNA exosome. Genetic analysis revealed aRNase J to be essential and RecJ3, RecJ4, and Cdc48a to function in the recovery from DNA damage including genotoxic agents that generate double-strand breaks. The RecJ3:RecJ4:aRNase J complex (isolated in 2:2:1 stoichiometry) functioned primarily as a 3'-5' exonuclease in hydrolyzing RNA and ssDNA, with the mechanism non-processive for ssDNA. aRNase J could also be purified as a homodimer that catalyzed endoribonuclease activity and, thus, was not restricted to the 5'-3' exonuclease activity typical of aRNase J homologs. Moreover, RecJ3 and RecJ4 could be purified as a 560-kDa subcomplex in equimolar subunit ratio with nuclease activities mirroring the full RecJ3/4-aRNase J complex. These findings prompted reconstitution assays that suggested RecJ3/4 could suppress, alter, and/or outcompete the nuclease activities of aRNase J. Based on the phenotypic results, this control mechanism of aRNase J by RecJ3/4 is not necessary for cell growth but instead appears important for DNA repair. IMPORTANCE Nucleases are critical for various cellular processes including DNA replication and repair. Here, a dynamic type of nuclease complex is newly identified in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii, which is missing the canonical RNA exosome. The complex, composed of RecJ3, RecJ4, and aRNase J, functions primarily as a 3'-5' exonuclease and was discovered through its ATP-dependent association with the ubiquitin-like SAMP1 and Cdc48a. aRNase J alone forms a homodimer that has endonuclease function and, thus, is not restricted to 5'-3' exonuclease activity typical of other aRNase J enzymes. RecJ3/4 appears to suppress, alter, and/or outcompete the nuclease activities of aRNase J. While aRNase J is essential for growth, RecJ3/4, Cdc48a, and SAMPs are important for recovery against DNA damage. These biological distinctions may correlate with the regulated nuclease activity of aRNase J in the RecJ3/4-aRNaseJ complex.
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- Huiyong Jia
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Cooney I, Schubert HL, Cedeno K, Lin HJL, Price JC, Hill CP, Shen PS. Visualization of the Cdc48 AAA+ ATPase protein unfolding pathway. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.13.540638. [PMID: 38654823 PMCID: PMC11037871 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.13.540638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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The Cdc48 AAA+ ATPase is an abundant and essential enzyme that unfolds substrates in multiple protein quality control pathways. The enzyme includes two conserved AAA+ ATPase cassettes, D1 and D2, that assemble as hexameric rings with D1 stacked above D2. Here, we report an ensemble of structures of Cdc48 affinity purified from lysate in complex with the adaptor Shp1 in the act of unfolding substrate. Our analysis reveals a continuum of structural snapshots that spans the entire translocation cycle. These data reveal new elements of Shp1-Cdc48 binding and support a "hand-over-hand" mechanism in which the sequential movement of individual subunits is closely coordinated. D1 hydrolyzes ATP and disengages from substrate prior to D2, while D2 rebinds ATP and re-engages with substrate prior to D1, thereby explaining the dominant role played by D2 in substrate translocation/unfolding.
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- Ian Cooney
- Department of Biochemistry, 15 N. Medical Drive East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 15 N. Medical Drive East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 15 N. Medical Drive East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, C100 BNSN, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, C100 BNSN, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 15 N. Medical Drive East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 15 N. Medical Drive East, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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Feng Z, Kovalev N, Nagy PD. Multifunctional role of the co-opted Cdc48 AAA+ ATPase in tombusvirus replication. Virology 2022; 576:1-17. [PMID: 36126429 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2022.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/07/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
Abstract
Replication of positive-strand RNA viruses depends on usurped cellular membranes and co-opted host proteins. Based on pharmacological inhibition and genetic and biochemical approaches, the authors identified critical roles of the cellular Cdc48 unfoldase/segregase protein in facilitating the replication of tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV). We show that TBSV infection induces the expression of Cdc48 in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. Cdc48 binds to the TBSV replication proteins through its N-terminal region. In vitro TBSV replicase reconstitution experiments demonstrated that Cdc48 is needed for efficient replicase assembly and activity. Surprisingly, the in vitro replication experiments also showed that excess amount of Cdc48 facilitates the disassembly of the membrane-bound viral replicase-RNA template complex. Cdc48 is also needed for the recruitment of additional host proteins. Because several human viruses, including flaviviruses, utilize Cdc48, also called VCP/p97, for replication, we suggest that Cdc48 might be a common panviral host factor for plant and animal RNA viruses.
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- Zhike Feng
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
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Kocaman S, Lo YH, Krahn JM, Sobhany M, Dandey VP, Petrovich ML, Etigunta SK, Williams JG, Deterding LJ, Borgnia MJ, Stanley RE. Communication network within the essential AAA-ATPase Rix7 drives ribosome assembly. PNAS NEXUS 2022; 1:pgac118. [PMID: 36090660 PMCID: PMC9437592 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Rix7 is an essential AAA+ ATPase that functions during the early stages of ribosome biogenesis. Rix7 is composed of three domains including an N-terminal domain (NTD) and two AAA+ domains (D1 and D2) that assemble into an asymmetric stacked hexamer. It was recently established that Rix7 is a presumed protein translocase that removes substrates from preribosomes by translocating them through its central pore. However, how the different domains of Rix7 coordinate their activities within the overall hexameric structure was unknown. We captured cryo-electron microscopy (EM) structures of single and double Walker B variants of full length Rix7. The disordered NTD was not visible in the cryo-EM reconstructions, but cross-linking mass spectrometry revealed that the NTD can associate with the central channel in vitro. Deletion of the disordered NTD enabled us to obtain a structure of the Rix7 hexamer to 2.9 Å resolution, providing high resolution details of critical motifs involved in substrate translocation and interdomain communication. This structure coupled with cell-based assays established that the linker connecting the D1 and D2 domains as well as the pore loops lining the central channel are essential for formation of the large ribosomal subunit. Together, our work shows that Rix7 utilizes a complex communication network to drive ribosome biogenesis.
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- Seda Kocaman
- Department of Health and Human Services, Signal Transduction Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Signal Transduction Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Signal Transduction Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Signal Transduction Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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- Department of Health and Human Services, Signal Transduction Laboratory, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 111 T. W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA
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Prattes M, Grishkovskaya I, Hodirnau VV, Hetzmannseder C, Zisser G, Sailer C, Kargas V, Loibl M, Gerhalter M, Kofler L, Warren AJ, Stengel F, Haselbach D, Bergler H. Visualizing maturation factor extraction from the nascent ribosome by the AAA-ATPase Drg1. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:942-953. [PMID: 36097293 PMCID: PMC9507969 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00832-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The AAA-ATPase Drg1 is a key factor in eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis that initiates cytoplasmic maturation of the large ribosomal subunit. Drg1 releases the shuttling maturation factor Rlp24 from pre-60S particles shortly after nuclear export, a strict requirement for downstream maturation. The molecular mechanism of release remained elusive. Here, we report a series of cryo-EM structures that captured the extraction of Rlp24 from pre-60S particles by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Drg1. These structures reveal that Arx1 and the eukaryote-specific rRNA expansion segment ES27 form a joint docking platform that positions Drg1 for efficient extraction of Rlp24 from the pre-ribosome. The tips of the Drg1 N domains thereby guide the Rlp24 C terminus into the central pore of the Drg1 hexamer, enabling extraction by a hand-over-hand translocation mechanism. Our results uncover substrate recognition and processing by Drg1 step by step and provide a comprehensive mechanistic picture of the conserved modus operandi of AAA-ATPases.
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- Michael Prattes
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria.
- Field of Excellence BioHealth - University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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Catalytic cycling of human mitochondrial Lon protease. Structure 2022; 30:1254-1268.e7. [PMID: 35870450 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2022.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The mitochondrial Lon protease (LonP1) regulates mitochondrial health by removing redundant proteins from the mitochondrial matrix. We determined LonP1 in eight nucleotide-dependent conformational states by cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM). The flexible assembly of N-terminal domains had 3-fold symmetry, and its orientation depended on the conformational state. We show that a conserved structural motif around T803 with a high similarity to the trypsin catalytic triad is essential for proteolysis. We show that LonP1 is not regulated by redox potential, despite the presence of two conserved cysteines at disulfide-bonding distance in its unfoldase core. Our data indicate how sequential ATP hydrolysis controls substrate protein translocation in a 6-fold binding change mechanism. Substrate protein translocation, rather than ATP hydrolysis, is a rate-limiting step, suggesting that LonP1 is a Brownian ratchet with ATP hydrolysis preventing translocation reversal. 3-fold rocking motions of the flexible N-domain assembly may assist thermal unfolding of the substrate protein.
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Insights into the Structure and Function of the Pex1/Pex6 AAA-ATPase in Peroxisome Homeostasis. Cells 2022; 11:cells11132067. [PMID: 35805150 PMCID: PMC9265785 DOI: 10.3390/cells11132067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Revised: 06/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The AAA-ATPases Pex1 and Pex6 are required for the formation and maintenance of peroxisomes, membrane-bound organelles that harbor enzymes for specialized metabolism. Together, Pex1 and Pex6 form a heterohexameric AAA-ATPase capable of unfolding substrate proteins via processive threading through a central pore. Here, we review the proposed roles for Pex1/Pex6 in peroxisome biogenesis and degradation, discussing how the unfolding of potential substrates contributes to peroxisome homeostasis. We also consider how advances in cryo-EM, computational structure prediction, and mechanisms of related ATPases are improving our understanding of how Pex1/Pex6 converts ATP hydrolysis into mechanical force. Since mutations in PEX1 and PEX6 cause the majority of known cases of peroxisome biogenesis disorders such as Zellweger syndrome, insights into Pex1/Pex6 structure and function are important for understanding peroxisomes in human health and disease.
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Riven I, Mazal H, Iljina M, Haran G. Fast dynamics shape the function of the
AAA
+ machine
ClpB
: lessons from single‐molecule
FRET
spectroscopy. FEBS J 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.16539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Inbal Riven
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot Israel
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The p97 AAA+ATPase is an essential and abundant regulator of protein homeostasis that plays a central role in unfolding ubiquitylated substrates. Here we report two cryo-EM structures of human p97 in complex with its p47 adaptor. One of the conformations is six-fold symmetric, corresponds to previously reported structures of p97, and lacks bound substrate. The other structure adopts a helical conformation, displays substrate running in an extended conformation through the pore of the p97 hexamer, and resembles structures reported for other AAA unfoldases. These findings support the model that p97 utilizes a "hand-over-hand" mechanism in which two residues of the substrate are translocated for hydrolysis of two ATPs, one in each of the two p97 AAA ATPase rings. Proteomics analysis supports the model that one p97 complex can bind multiple substrate adaptors or binding partners, and can process substrates with multiple types of ubiquitin modification.
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Wlodawer A, Sekula B, Gustchina A, Rotanova TV. Structure and the mode of activity of Lon proteases from diverse organisms. J Mol Biol 2022; 434:167504. [PMID: 35183556 PMCID: PMC9013511 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Lon proteases, members of the AAA+ superfamily of enzymes, are key components of the protein quality control system in bacterial cells, as well as in the mitochondria and other specialized organelles of higher organisms. These enzymes have been subject of extensive biochemical and structural investigations, resulting in 72 crystal and solution structures, including structures of the individual domains, multi-domain constructs, and full-length proteins. However, interpretation of the latter structures still leaves some questions unanswered. Based on their amino acid sequence and details of their structure, Lon proteases can be divided into at least three subfamilies, designated as LonA, LonB, and LonC. Protomers of all Lons are single-chain polypeptides and contain two functional domains, ATPase and protease. The LonA enzymes additionally include a large N-terminal region, and different Lons may also include non-conserved inserts in the principal domains. These ATP-dependent proteases function as homohexamers, in which unfolded substrates are translocated to a large central chamber where they undergo proteolysis by a processive mechanism. X-ray crystal structures provided high-resolution models which verified that Lons are hydrolases with the rare Ser-Lys catalytic dyad. Full-length LonA enzymes have been investigated by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), providing description of the functional enzyme at different stages of the catalytic cycle, indicating extensive flexibility of their N-terminal domains, and revealing insights into the substrate translocation mechanism. Structural studies of Lon proteases provide an interesting case for symbiosis of X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM, currently the two principal techniques for determination of macromolecular structures.
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- Alexander Wlodawer
- Protein Structure Section, Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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- Protein Structure Section, Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Protein Structure Section, Center for Structural Biology, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117997, Russia
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AAA+ protease-adaptor structures reveal altered conformations and ring specialization. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:1068-1079. [PMID: 36329286 PMCID: PMC9663308 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-022-00850-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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ClpAP, a two-ring AAA+ protease, degrades N-end-rule proteins bound by the ClpS adaptor. Here we present high-resolution cryo-EM structures of Escherichia coli ClpAPS complexes, showing how ClpA pore loops interact with the ClpS N-terminal extension (NTE), which is normally intrinsically disordered. In two classes, the NTE is bound by a spiral of pore-1 and pore-2 loops in a manner similar to substrate-polypeptide binding by many AAA+ unfoldases. Kinetic studies reveal that pore-2 loops of the ClpA D1 ring catalyze the protein remodeling required for substrate delivery by ClpS. In a third class, D2 pore-1 loops are rotated, tucked away from the channel and do not bind the NTE, demonstrating asymmetry in engagement by the D1 and D2 rings. These studies show additional structures and functions for key AAA+ elements. Pore-loop tucking may be used broadly by AAA+ unfoldases, for example, during enzyme pausing/unloading.
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Zhang S, Huang G, Versloot R, Bruininks BMH, Telles de Souza PC, Marrink SJ, Maglia G. Bottom-up fabrication of a proteasome-nanopore that unravels and processes single proteins. Nat Chem 2021; 13:1192-1199. [PMID: 34795436 PMCID: PMC7612055 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-021-00824-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The precise assembly and engineering of molecular machines capable of handling biomolecules play crucial roles in most single-molecule methods. In this work we use components from all three domains of life to fabricate an integrated multiprotein complex that controls the unfolding and threading of individual proteins across a nanopore. This 900 kDa multicomponent device was made in two steps. First, we designed a stable and low-noise β-barrel nanopore sensor by linking the transmembrane region of bacterial protective antigen to a mammalian proteasome activator. An archaeal 20S proteasome was then built into the artificial nanopore to control the unfolding and linearized transport of proteins across the nanopore. This multicomponent molecular machine opens the door to two approaches in single-molecule protein analysis, in which selected substrate proteins are unfolded, fed to into the proteasomal chamber and then addressed either as fragmented peptides or intact polypeptides.
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Li S, Hsieh KY, Su SC, Pintilie GD, Zhang K, Chang CI. Molecular basis for ATPase-powered substrate translocation by the Lon AAA+ protease. J Biol Chem 2021; 297:101239. [PMID: 34563541 PMCID: PMC8503904 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The Lon AAA+ (adenosine triphosphatases associated with diverse cellular activities) protease (LonA) converts ATP-fuelled conformational changes into sufficient mechanical force to drive translocation of a substrate into a hexameric proteolytic chamber. To understand the structural basis for the substrate translocation process, we determined the cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of Meiothermus taiwanensis LonA (MtaLonA) in a substrate-engaged state at 3.6 Å resolution. Our data indicate that substrate interactions are mediated by the dual pore loops of the ATPase domains, organized in spiral staircase arrangement from four consecutive protomers in different ATP-binding and hydrolysis states. However, a closed AAA+ ring is maintained by two disengaged ADP-bound protomers transiting between the lowest and highest position. This structure reveals a processive rotary translocation mechanism mediated by LonA-specific nucleotide-dependent allosteric coordination among the ATPase domains, which is induced by substrate binding.
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- Shanshan Li
- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Bioengineering and James H. Clark Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Membraneless Organelles and Cellular Dynamics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
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- Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Biochemical Sciences, College of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Ye X, Mayne L, Englander SW. A conserved strategy for structure change and energy transduction in Hsp104 and other AAA+ protein motors. J Biol Chem 2021; 297:101066. [PMID: 34384781 PMCID: PMC8449053 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2021] [Revised: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
The superfamily of massively large AAA+ protein molecular machines functions to convert the chemical energy of cytosolic ATP into physicomechanical form and use it to perform an extraordinary number of physical operations on proteins, nucleic acids, and membrane systems. Cryo-EM studies now reveal some aspects of substrate handling at high resolution, but the broader interpretation of AAA+ functional properties is still opaque. This paper integrates recent hydrogen exchange results for the typical AAA+ protein Hsp104 with prior information on several near and distantly related others. The analysis points to a widely conserved functional strategy. Hsp104 cycles through a long-lived loosely-structured energy-input "open" state that releases spent ADP and rebinds cytosolic ATP. ATP-binding energy is transduced by allosteric structure change to poise the protein at a high energy level in a more tightly structured "closed" state. The briefly occupied energy-output closed state binds substrate strongly and is catalytically active. ATP hydrolysis permits energetically downhill structural relaxation, which is coupled to drive energy-requiring substrate processing. Other AAA+ proteins appear to cycle through states that are analogous functionally if not in structural detail. These results revise the current model for AAA+ function, explain the structural basis of single-molecule optical tweezer kinetic phases, identify the separate energetic roles of ATP binding and hydrolysis, and specify a sequence of structural and energetic events that carry AAA+ proteins unidirectionally around a functional cycle to propel their diverse physical tasks.
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- Xiang Ye
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Johnson Research Foundation, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Johnson Research Foundation, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Damre M, Dayananda A, Varikoti RA, Stan G, Dima RI. Factors underlying asymmetric pore dynamics of disaggregase and microtubule-severing AAA+ machines. Biophys J 2021; 120:3437-3454. [PMID: 34181904 PMCID: PMC8391056 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2020] [Revised: 04/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Disaggregation and microtubule-severing nanomachines from the AAA+ (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) superfamily assemble into ring-shaped hexamers that enable protein remodeling by coupling large-scale conformational changes with application of mechanical forces within a central pore by loops protruding within the pore. We probed the asymmetric pore motions and intraring interactions that support them by performing extensive molecular dynamics simulations of single-ring severing proteins and the double-ring disaggregase ClpB. Simulations reveal that dynamic stability of hexameric pores of severing proteins and of the nucleotide-binding domain 1 (NBD1) ring of ClpB, which belong to the same clade, involves a network of salt bridges that connect conserved motifs of central pore loops. Clustering analysis of ClpB highlights correlated motions of domains of neighboring protomers supporting strong interprotomer collaboration. Severing proteins have weaker interprotomer coupling and stronger intraprotomer stabilization through salt bridges involving pore loops. Distinct mechanisms are identified in the NBD2 ring of ClpB involving weaker interprotomer coupling through salt bridges formed by noncanonical loops and stronger intraprotomer coupling. Analysis of collective motions of PL1 loops indicates that the largest amplitude motions in the spiral complex of spastin and ClpB involve axial excursions of the loops, whereas for katanin they involve opening and closing of the central pore. All three motors execute primarily axial excursions in the ring complex. These results suggest distinct substrate processing mechanisms of remodeling and translocation by ClpB and spastin compared to katanin, thus providing dynamic support for the differential action of the two severing proteins. Relaxation dynamics of the distance between the PL1 loops and the center of mass of protomers reveals observation-time-dependent dynamics, leading to predicted relaxation times of tens to hundreds of microseconds on millisecond experimental timescales. For ClpB, the predicted relaxation time is in excellent agreement with the extracted time from smFRET experiments.
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- Mangesh Damre
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Nandi P, Li S, Columbres RCA, Wang F, Williams DR, Poh YP, Chou TF, Chiu PL. Structural and Functional Analysis of Disease-Linked p97 ATPase Mutant Complexes. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22158079. [PMID: 34360842 PMCID: PMC8347982 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
Abstract
IBMPFD/ALS is a genetic disorder caused by a single amino acid mutation on the p97 ATPase, promoting ATPase activity and cofactor dysregulation. The disease mechanism underlying p97 ATPase malfunction remains unclear. To understand how the mutation alters the ATPase regulation, we assembled a full-length p97R155H with its p47 cofactor and first visualized their structures using single-particle cryo-EM. More than one-third of the population was the dodecameric form. Nucleotide presence dissociates the dodecamer into two hexamers for its highly elevated function. The N-domains of the p97R155H mutant all show up configurations in ADP- or ATPγS-bound states. Our functional and structural analyses showed that the p47 binding is likely to impact the p97R155H ATPase activities via changing the conformations of arginine fingers. These functional and structural analyses underline the ATPase dysregulation with the miscommunication between the functional modules of the p97R155H.
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- Purbasha Nandi
- Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA;
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; (S.L.); (R.C.A.C.); (F.W.); (Y.-P.P.)
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; (S.L.); (R.C.A.C.); (F.W.); (Y.-P.P.)
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; (S.L.); (R.C.A.C.); (F.W.); (Y.-P.P.)
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; (S.L.); (R.C.A.C.); (F.W.); (Y.-P.P.)
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; (S.L.); (R.C.A.C.); (F.W.); (Y.-P.P.)
- Correspondence: (T.-F.C.); (P.-L.C.)
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- Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA;
- Correspondence: (T.-F.C.); (P.-L.C.)
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Mechanistic insight into substrate processing and allosteric inhibition of human p97. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2021; 28:614-625. [PMID: 34262183 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00617-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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p97 processes ubiquitinated substrates and plays a central role in cellular protein homeostasis. Here, we report a series of cryo-EM structures of the substrate-engaged human p97 complex with resolutions ranging from 2.9 to 3.8 Å that captured 'power-stroke'-like motions of both the D1 and D2 ATPase rings of p97. A key feature of these structures is the critical conformational changes of the intersubunit signaling (ISS) motifs, which tighten the binding of nucleotides and neighboring subunits and contribute to the spiral staircase conformation of the D1 and D2 rings. In addition, we determined the cryo-EM structure of human p97 in complex with NMS-873, a potent p97 inhibitor, at a resolution of 2.4 Å. The structures showed that NMS-873 binds at a cryptic groove in the D2 domain and interacts with the ISS motif, preventing its conformational change and thus blocking substrate translocation allosterically.
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Aboard the ISS: intersubunit signaling revealed in the p97 ATPase. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2021; 28:538-539. [PMID: 34262182 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00622-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Prattes M, Grishkovskaya I, Hodirnau VV, Rössler I, Klein I, Hetzmannseder C, Zisser G, Gruber CC, Gruber K, Haselbach D, Bergler H. Structural basis for inhibition of the AAA-ATPase Drg1 by diazaborine. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3483. [PMID: 34108481 PMCID: PMC8190095 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23854-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The hexameric AAA-ATPase Drg1 is a key factor in eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis and initiates cytoplasmic maturation of the large ribosomal subunit by releasing the shuttling maturation factor Rlp24. Drg1 monomers contain two AAA-domains (D1 and D2) that act in a concerted manner. Rlp24 release is inhibited by the drug diazaborine which blocks ATP hydrolysis in D2. The mode of inhibition was unknown. Here we show the first cryo-EM structure of Drg1 revealing the inhibitory mechanism. Diazaborine forms a covalent bond to the 2'-OH of the nucleotide in D2, explaining its specificity for this site. As a consequence, the D2 domain is locked in a rigid, inactive state, stalling the whole Drg1 hexamer. Resistance mechanisms identified include abolished drug binding and altered positioning of the nucleotide. Our results suggest nucleotide-modifying compounds as potential novel inhibitors for AAA-ATPases.
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- Michael Prattes
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
- Field of Excellence BioHealth - University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria.
- Field of Excellence BioHealth - University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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Shin M, Watson ER, Song AS, Mindrebo JT, Novick SJ, Griffin PR, Wiseman RL, Lander GC. Structures of the human LONP1 protease reveal regulatory steps involved in protease activation. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3239. [PMID: 34050165 PMCID: PMC8163871 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23495-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The human mitochondrial AAA+ protein LONP1 is a critical quality control protease involved in regulating diverse aspects of mitochondrial biology including proteostasis, electron transport chain activity, and mitochondrial transcription. As such, genetic or aging-associated imbalances in LONP1 activity are implicated in pathologic mitochondrial dysfunction associated with numerous human diseases. Despite this importance, the molecular basis for LONP1-dependent proteolytic activity remains poorly defined. Here, we solved cryo-electron microscopy structures of human LONP1 to reveal the underlying molecular mechanisms governing substrate proteolysis. We show that, like bacterial Lon, human LONP1 adopts both an open and closed spiral staircase orientation dictated by the presence of substrate and nucleotide. Unlike bacterial Lon, human LONP1 contains a second spiral staircase within its ATPase domain that engages substrate as it is translocated toward the proteolytic chamber. Intriguingly, and in contrast to its bacterial ortholog, substrate binding within the central ATPase channel of LONP1 alone is insufficient to induce the activated conformation of the protease domains. To successfully induce the active protease conformation in substrate-bound LONP1, substrate binding within the protease active site is necessary, which we demonstrate by adding bortezomib, a peptidomimetic active site inhibitor of LONP1. These results suggest LONP1 can decouple ATPase and protease activities depending on whether AAA+ or both AAA+ and protease domains bind substrate. Importantly, our structures provide a molecular framework to define the critical importance of LONP1 in regulating mitochondrial proteostasis in health and disease.
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- Mia Shin
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research, Jupiter, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research, Jupiter, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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The 26S proteasome is the most complex ATP-dependent protease machinery, of ~2.5 MDa mass, ubiquitously found in all eukaryotes. It selectively degrades ubiquitin-conjugated proteins and plays fundamentally indispensable roles in regulating almost all major aspects of cellular activities. To serve as the sole terminal "processor" for myriad ubiquitylation pathways, the proteasome evolved exceptional adaptability in dynamically organizing a large network of proteins, including ubiquitin receptors, shuttle factors, deubiquitinases, AAA-ATPase unfoldases, and ubiquitin ligases, to enable substrate selectivity and processing efficiency and to achieve regulation precision of a vast diversity of substrates. The inner working of the 26S proteasome is among the most sophisticated, enigmatic mechanisms of enzyme machinery in eukaryotic cells. Recent breakthroughs in three-dimensional atomic-level visualization of the 26S proteasome dynamics during polyubiquitylated substrate degradation elucidated an extensively detailed picture of its functional mechanisms, owing to progressive methodological advances associated with cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Multiple sites of ubiquitin binding in the proteasome revealed a canonical mode of ubiquitin-dependent substrate engagement. The proteasome conformation in the act of substrate deubiquitylation provided insights into how the deubiquitylating activity of RPN11 is enhanced in the holoenzyme and is coupled to substrate translocation. Intriguingly, three principal modes of coordinated ATP hydrolysis in the heterohexameric AAA-ATPase motor were discovered to regulate intermediate functional steps of the proteasome, including ubiquitin-substrate engagement, deubiquitylation, initiation of substrate translocation and processive substrate degradation. The atomic dissection of the innermost working of the 26S proteasome opens up a new era in our understanding of the ubiquitin-proteasome system and has far-reaching implications in health and disease.
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- Youdong Mao
- Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02215, Massachusetts, USA. .,School of Physics, Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
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Alderson TR, Kay LE. NMR spectroscopy captures the essential role of dynamics in regulating biomolecular function. Cell 2021; 184:577-595. [PMID: 33545034 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.12.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
Biomolecules are in constant motion. To understand how they function, and why malfunctions can cause disease, it is necessary to describe their three-dimensional structures in terms of dynamic conformational ensembles. Here, we demonstrate how nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy provides an essential, dynamic view of structural biology that captures biomolecular motions at atomic resolution. We focus on examples that emphasize the diversity of biomolecules and biochemical applications that are amenable to NMR, such as elucidating functional dynamics in large molecular machines, characterizing transient conformations implicated in the onset of disease, and obtaining atomic-level descriptions of intrinsically disordered regions that make weak interactions involved in liquid-liquid phase separation. Finally, we discuss the pivotal role that NMR has played in driving forward our understanding of the biomolecular dynamics-function paradigm.
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- T Reid Alderson
- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Chemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S A18, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Chemistry, The University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S A18, Canada; Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada.
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Huang R, Ripstein ZA, Rubinstein JL, Kay LE. Probing Cooperativity of N‐Terminal Domain Orientations in the p97 Molecular Machine: Synergy Between NMR Spectroscopy and Cryo‐EM. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202009767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Rui Huang
- Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
- Program in Molecular Medicine Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Chemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
- Department of Chemistry University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 1Y4 Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
- Program in Molecular Medicine Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
- Program in Molecular Medicine Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5G 1L7 Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
- Program in Molecular Medicine Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G 1X8 Canada
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Chemistry University of Toronto Toronto Ontario M5S 1A8 Canada
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Niu Y, Suzuki H, Hosford CJ, Walz T, Chappie JS. Structural asymmetry governs the assembly and GTPase activity of McrBC restriction complexes. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5907. [PMID: 33219217 PMCID: PMC7680126 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19735-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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McrBC complexes are motor-driven nucleases functioning in bacterial self-defense by cleaving foreign DNA. The GTP-specific AAA + protein McrB powers translocation along DNA and its hydrolysis activity is stimulated by its partner nuclease McrC. Here, we report cryo-EM structures of Thermococcus gammatolerans McrB and McrBC, and E. coli McrBC. The McrB hexamers, containing the necessary catalytic machinery for basal GTP hydrolysis, are intrinsically asymmetric. This asymmetry directs McrC binding so that it engages a single active site, where it then uses an arginine/lysine-mediated hydrogen-bonding network to reposition the asparagine in the McrB signature motif for optimal catalytic function. While the two McrBC complexes use different DNA-binding domains, these contribute to the same general GTP-recognition mechanism employed by all G proteins. Asymmetry also induces distinct inter-subunit interactions around the ring, suggesting a coordinated and directional GTP-hydrolysis cycle. Our data provide insights into the conserved molecular mechanisms governing McrB family AAA + motors. The bacterial defense system McrBC is a two-component motor-driven nuclease complex that cleaves foreign DNA. Here, the authors present the structures of the GTP-specific AAA + motor protein McrB and two McrBC complexes and discuss the molecular mechanism of how McrC binding stimulates McrB GTP hydrolysis.
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- Yiming Niu
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.,Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Laboratory Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.,Advanced Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.,New England Biolabs, Inc., Ipswich, MA, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Huang R, Ripstein ZA, Rubinstein JL, Kay LE. Probing Cooperativity of N-Terminal Domain Orientations in the p97 Molecular Machine: Synergy Between NMR Spectroscopy and Cryo-EM. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:22423-22426. [PMID: 32857889 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202009767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The hexameric p97 enzyme plays an integral role in cellular homeostasis. Large changes to the orientation of its N-terminal domains (NTDs), corresponding to NTD-down (p97-ADP) or NTD-up (p97-ATP), accompany ATP hydrolysis. The NTDs in a series of p97 disease mutants interconvert rapidly between up and down conformations when p97 is in the ADP-bound state. While the populations of up and down NTDs can be determined from bulk measurements, information about the cooperativity of the transition between conformations is lacking. Here we use cryo-EM to determine populations of the 14 unique up/down NTD states of the homo-hexameric R95G disease-causing p97 ring, showing that NTD orientations do not depend on those of neighboring subunits. In contrast, NMR studies establish that inter-protomer cooperativity is important for regulating the orientation of NTDs in p97 particles comprising mixtures of different subunits, such as wild-type and R95G, emphasizing the synergy between cryo-EM and NMR in establishing how the components of p97 function.
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- Rui Huang
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.,Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics and Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.,Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 1Y4, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.,Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.,Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L7, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.,Program in Molecular Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics and Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada
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Majumder P, Baumeister W. Proteasomes: unfoldase-assisted protein degradation machines. Biol Chem 2020; 401:183-199. [PMID: 31665105 DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2019-0344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Proteasomes are the principal molecular machines for the regulated degradation of intracellular proteins. These self-compartmentalized macromolecular assemblies selectively degrade misfolded, mistranslated, damaged or otherwise unwanted proteins, and play a pivotal role in the maintenance of cellular proteostasis, in stress response, and numerous other processes of vital importance. Whereas the molecular architecture of the proteasome core particle (CP) is universally conserved, the unfoldase modules vary in overall structure, subunit complexity, and regulatory principles. Proteasomal unfoldases are AAA+ ATPases (ATPases associated with a variety of cellular activities) that unfold protein substrates, and translocate them into the CP for degradation. In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge about proteasome - unfoldase systems in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, the three domains of life.
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- Parijat Majumder
- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
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The nucleus is enclosed by a double-membrane structure, the nuclear envelope, which separates the nucleoplasm from the cytoplasm. The outer nuclear membrane is continuous with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), whereas the inner nuclear membrane (INM) is a specialized compartment with a unique proteome. In order to ensure compartmental homeostasis, INM-associated degradation (INMAD) is required for both protein quality control and regulated proteolysis of INM proteins. INMAD shares similarities with ER-associated degradation (ERAD). The mechanism of ERAD is well characterized, whereas the INMAD pathway requires further definition. Here we review the three different branches of INMAD, mediated by their respective E3 ubiquitin ligases: Doa10, Asi1-3, and APC/C. We clarify the distinction between ERAD and INMAD, their substrate recognition signals, and the subsequent processing by their respective degradation machineries. We also discuss the significance of cell-cycle and developmental regulation of protein clearance at the INM, and its relationship to human disease.
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- Bailey Koch
- a Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University , Tallahassee , FL , USA
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- a Department of Biological Science, The Florida State University , Tallahassee , FL , USA
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Shin M, Puchades C, Asmita A, Puri N, Adjei E, Wiseman RL, Karzai AW, Lander GC. Structural basis for distinct operational modes and protease activation in AAA+ protease Lon. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaba8404. [PMID: 32490208 PMCID: PMC7239648 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba8404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Substrate-bound structures of AAA+ protein translocases reveal a conserved asymmetric spiral staircase architecture wherein a sequential ATP hydrolysis cycle drives hand-over-hand substrate translocation. However, this configuration is unlikely to represent the full conformational landscape of these enzymes, as biochemical studies suggest distinct conformational states depending on the presence or absence of substrate. Here, we used cryo-electron microscopy to determine structures of the Yersinia pestis Lon AAA+ protease in the absence and presence of substrate, uncovering the mechanistic basis for two distinct operational modes. In the absence of substrate, Lon adopts a left-handed, "open" spiral organization with autoinhibited proteolytic active sites. Upon the addition of substrate, Lon undergoes a reorganization to assemble an enzymatically active, right-handed "closed" conformer with active protease sites. These findings define the mechanistic principles underlying the operational plasticity required for processing diverse protein substrates.
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- Mia Shin
- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215, USA
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- Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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AAA+ ATPases in Protein Degradation: Structures, Functions and Mechanisms. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10040629. [PMID: 32325699 PMCID: PMC7226402 DOI: 10.3390/biom10040629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Revised: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases) associated with a variety of cellular activities (AAA+), the hexameric ring-shaped motor complexes located in all ATP-driven proteolytic machines, are involved in many cellular processes. Powered by cycles of ATP binding and hydrolysis, conformational changes in AAA+ ATPases can generate mechanical work that unfolds a substrate protein inside the central axial channel of ATPase ring for degradation. Three-dimensional visualizations of several AAA+ ATPase complexes in the act of substrate processing for protein degradation have been resolved at the atomic level thanks to recent technical advances in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Here, we summarize the resulting advances in structural and biochemical studies of AAA+ proteases in the process of proteolysis reactions, with an emphasis on cryo-EM structural analyses of the 26S proteasome, Cdc48/p97 and FtsH-like mitochondrial proteases. These studies reveal three highly conserved patterns in the structure–function relationship of AAA+ ATPase hexamers that were observed in the human 26S proteasome, thus suggesting common dynamic models of mechanochemical coupling during force generation and substrate translocation.
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Fei X, Bell TA, Jenni S, Stinson BM, Baker TA, Harrison SC, Sauer RT. Structures of the ATP-fueled ClpXP proteolytic machine bound to protein substrate. eLife 2020; 9:52774. [PMID: 32108573 PMCID: PMC7112951 DOI: 10.7554/elife.52774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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ClpXP is an ATP-dependent protease in which the ClpX AAA+ motor binds, unfolds, and translocates specific protein substrates into the degradation chamber of ClpP. We present cryo-EM studies of the E. coli enzyme that show how asymmetric hexameric rings of ClpX bind symmetric heptameric rings of ClpP and interact with protein substrates. Subunits in the ClpX hexamer assume a spiral conformation and interact with two-residue segments of substrate in the axial channel, as observed for other AAA+ proteases and protein-remodeling machines. Strictly sequential models of ATP hydrolysis and a power stroke that moves two residues of the substrate per translocation step have been inferred from these structural features for other AAA+ unfoldases, but biochemical and single-molecule biophysical studies indicate that ClpXP operates by a probabilistic mechanism in which five to eight residues are translocated for each ATP hydrolyzed. We propose structure-based models that could account for the functional results.
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- Xue Fei
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, United States
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
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Sui X, Pan M, Li YM. Insights into the Design of p97-targeting Small Molecules from Structural Studies on p97 Functional Mechanism. Curr Med Chem 2020; 27:298-316. [PMID: 31584361 DOI: 10.2174/0929867326666191004162411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Revised: 08/24/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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p97, also known as valosin-containing protein or CDC48, is a member of the AAA+ protein family that is highly conserved in eukaryotes. It binds to various cofactors in the body to perform its protein-unfolding function and participates in DNA repair, degradation of subcellular membrane proteins, and protein quality control pathways, among other processes. Its malfunction can lead to many diseases, such as inclusion body myopathy, associated with Paget's disease of bone and/or frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease, and others. In recent years, many small-molecule inhibitors have been deployed against p97, including bis (diethyldithiocarbamate)- copper and CB-5083, which entered the first phase of clinical tests but failed. One bottleneck in the design of p97 drugs is that its molecular mechanism remains unclear. This paper summarizes recent studies on the molecular mechanisms of p97, which may lead to insight into how the next generation of small molecules targeting p97 can be designed.
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- Xin Sui
- Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100086, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230009, China
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A spiral path to unfolding. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2020; 26:763-765. [PMID: 31427794 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0284-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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p97 belongs to the functional diverse superfamily of AAA+ (ATPases Associated with diverse cellular Activities) ATPases and is characterized by an N-terminal regulatory domain and two stacked hexameric ATPase domains forming a central protein conducting channel. p97 is highly versatile and has key functions in maintaining protein homeostasis including protein quality control mechanisms like the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) and autophagy to disassemble polyubiquitylated proteins from chromatin, membranes, macromolecular protein complexes and aggregates which are either degraded by the proteasome or recycled. p97 can use energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to catalyze substrate unfolding and threading through its central channel. The function of p97 in a large variety of different cellular contexts is reflected by its simultaneous association with different cofactors, which are involved in substrate recognition and processing, thus leading to the formation of transient multi-protein complexes. Dysregulation in protein homeostasis and proteotoxic stress are often involved in the development of cancer and neurological diseases and targeting the UPS including p97 in cancer is a well-established pharmacological strategy. In this chapter we will describe structural and functional aspects of the p97 interactome in regulating diverse cellular processes and will discuss the role of p97 in targeted cancer therapy.
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Gates SN, Martin A. Stairway to translocation: AAA+ motor structures reveal the mechanisms of ATP-dependent substrate translocation. Protein Sci 2020; 29:407-419. [PMID: 31599052 PMCID: PMC6954725 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2019] [Revised: 09/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Translocases of the AAA+ (ATPases Associated with various cellular Activities) family are powerful molecular machines that use the mechano-chemical coupling of ATP hydrolysis and conformational changes to thread DNA or protein substrates through their central channel for many important biological processes. These motors comprise hexameric rings of ATPase subunits, in which highly conserved nucleotide-binding domains form active-site pockets near the subunit interfaces and aromatic pore-loop residues extend into the central channel for substrate binding and mechanical pulling. Over the past 2 years, 41 cryo-EM structures have been solved for substrate-bound AAA+ translocases that revealed spiral-staircase arrangements of pore-loop residues surrounding substrate polypeptides and indicating a conserved hand-over-hand mechanism for translocation. The subunits' vertical positions within the spiral arrangements appear to be correlated with their nucleotide states, progressing from ATP-bound at the top to ADP or apo states at the bottom. Studies describing multiple conformations for a particular motor illustrate the potential coupling between ATP-hydrolysis steps and subunit movements to propel the substrate. Experiments with double-ring, Type II AAA+ motors revealed an offset of hydrolysis steps between the two ATPase domains of individual subunits, and the upper ATPase domains lacking aromatic pore loops frequently form planar rings. This review summarizes the critical advances provided by recent studies to our structural and functional understanding of hexameric AAA+ translocases, as well as the important outstanding questions regarding the underlying mechanisms for coordinated ATP-hydrolysis and mechano-chemical coupling.
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- Stephanie N. Gates
- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCalifornia
- California Institute for Quantitative BiosciencesUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeleyCalifornia
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeleyCalifornia
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- Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCalifornia
- California Institute for Quantitative BiosciencesUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeleyCalifornia
- Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUniversity of California at BerkeleyBerkeleyCalifornia
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Jessop M, Arragain B, Miras R, Fraudeau A, Huard K, Bacia-Verloop M, Catty P, Felix J, Malet H, Gutsche I. Structural insights into ATP hydrolysis by the MoxR ATPase RavA and the LdcI-RavA cage-like complex. Commun Biol 2020; 3:46. [PMID: 31992852 PMCID: PMC6987120 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0772-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The hexameric MoxR AAA+ ATPase RavA and the decameric lysine decarboxylase LdcI form a 3.3 MDa cage, proposed to assist assembly of specific respiratory complexes in E. coli. Here, we show that inside the LdcI-RavA cage, RavA hexamers adopt an asymmetric spiral conformation in which the nucleotide-free seam is constrained to two opposite orientations. Cryo-EM reconstructions of free RavA reveal two co-existing structural states: an asymmetric spiral, and a flat C2-symmetric closed ring characterised by two nucleotide-free seams. The closed ring RavA state bears close structural similarity to the pseudo two-fold symmetric crystal structure of the AAA+ unfoldase ClpX, suggesting a common ATPase mechanism. Based on these structures, and in light of the current knowledge regarding AAA+ ATPases, we propose different scenarios for the ATP hydrolysis cycle of free RavA and the LdcI-RavA cage-like complex, and extend the comparison to other AAA+ ATPases of clade 7.
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- Matthew Jessop
- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, DRF, IRIG, UMR 5249, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Biologie des Métaux, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, DRF, IRIG, UMR 5249, 17 rue des Martyrs, F-38054, Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France.
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 71 Avenue des martyrs, F-38044, Grenoble, France.
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Oikonomou C, Hendershot LM. Disposing of misfolded ER proteins: A troubled substrate's way out of the ER. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2020; 500:110630. [PMID: 31669350 PMCID: PMC6911830 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2019.110630] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Revised: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 10/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Secreted, plasma membrane, and resident proteins of the secretory pathway are synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) where they undergo post-translational modifications, oxidative folding, and subunit assembly in tightly monitored processes. An ER quality control (ERQC) system oversees protein maturation and ensures that only those reaching their native state will continue trafficking into the secretory pathway to reach their final destinations. Those that fail must be recognized and eliminated to maintain ER homeostasis. Two cellular mechanisms have been identified to rid the ER of terminally unfolded, misfolded, and aggregated proteins. ER-associated degradation (ERAD) was discovered nearly 30 years ago and entails the identification of improperly matured secretory pathway proteins and their retrotranslocation to the cytosol for degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system. ER-phagy has been more recently described and caters to larger, more complex proteins and protein aggregates that are not readily handled by ERAD. This pathway has unique upstream components and relies on the same downstream effectors of autophagy used in other cellular processes to deliver clients to lysosomes for degradation. In this review, we describe the main elements of ERQC, ERAD, and ER-phagy and focus on recent advances in these fields.
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- Christina Oikonomou
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38104, USA; The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38104, USA; The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.
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Islam MT, Ogura T, Esaki M. The Cdc48-20S proteasome degrades a class of endogenous proteins in a ubiquitin-independent manner. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 523:835-840. [PMID: 31954512 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The 26S proteasome is the major degradation machinery for soluble proteins in eukaryotes. Recent evidence reveals the existence of an alternative ATP-powered protein degradation complex, the Cdc48-20S proteasome complex, and we have identified yeast Sod1, a copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, as an endogenous substrate protein. Here, we identified yeast Ths1, an essential threonyl tRNA synthetase, as another endogenous substrate protein of the Cdc48-20S proteasome. In order to analyze the degradation mechanism in more details, we established an in vitro degradation system reconstituted using purified yeast components. Recombinant Sod1 and Ths1 directly interacted with Cdc48, and were degraded in a Cdc48-20S proteasome-dependent manner. Because the substrate proteins were purified from E. coli cells, no eukaryotic modifications including ubiquitination and phosphorylation exist. Therefore, although the 26S proteasome requires ubiquitination for specific recognition of the substrate proteins, the Cdc48-20S proteasome can degrade a class of substrate proteins without any modifications.
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- Md Tanvir Islam
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, 2-2-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-0811, Japan; Program for Leading Graduate Schools "HIGO Program", Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-8556, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, 2-2-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-0811, Japan; Program for Leading Graduate Schools "HIGO Program", Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-8556, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, 2-2-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto, 860-0811, Japan.
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HORMA Domain Proteins and a Trip13-like ATPase Regulate Bacterial cGAS-like Enzymes to Mediate Bacteriophage Immunity. Mol Cell 2020; 77:709-722.e7. [PMID: 31932165 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2019.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2019] [Revised: 10/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Bacteria are continually challenged by foreign invaders, including bacteriophages, and have evolved a variety of defenses against these invaders. Here, we describe the structural and biochemical mechanisms of a bacteriophage immunity pathway found in a broad array of bacteria, including E. coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This pathway uses eukaryotic-like HORMA domain proteins that recognize specific peptides, then bind and activate a cGAS/DncV-like nucleotidyltransferase (CD-NTase) to generate a cyclic triadenylate (cAAA) second messenger; cAAA in turn activates an endonuclease effector, NucC. Signaling is attenuated by a homolog of the AAA+ ATPase Pch2/TRIP13, which binds and disassembles the active HORMA-CD-NTase complex. When expressed in non-pathogenic E. coli, this pathway confers immunity against bacteriophage λ through an abortive infection mechanism. Our findings reveal the molecular mechanisms of a bacterial defense pathway integrating a cGAS-like nucleotidyltransferase with HORMA domain proteins for threat sensing through protein detection and negative regulation by a Trip13 ATPase.
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Ripstein ZA, Vahidi S, Houry WA, Rubinstein JL, Kay LE. A processive rotary mechanism couples substrate unfolding and proteolysis in the ClpXP degradation machinery. eLife 2020; 9:e52158. [PMID: 31916936 PMCID: PMC7112952 DOI: 10.7554/elife.52158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The ClpXP degradation machine consists of a hexameric AAA+ unfoldase (ClpX) and a pair of heptameric serine protease rings (ClpP) that unfold, translocate, and subsequently degrade client proteins. ClpXP is an important target for drug development against infectious diseases. Although structures are available for isolated ClpX and ClpP rings, it remains unknown how symmetry mismatched ClpX and ClpP work in tandem for processive substrate translocation into the ClpP proteolytic chamber. Here, we present cryo-EM structures of the substrate-bound ClpXP complex from Neisseria meningitidis at 2.3 to 3.3 Å resolution. The structures allow development of a model in which the sequential hydrolysis of ATP is coupled to motions of ClpX loops that lead to directional substrate translocation and ClpX rotation relative to ClpP. Our data add to the growing body of evidence that AAA+ molecular machines generate translocating forces by a common mechanism.
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- Zev A Ripstein
- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- The Hospital for Sick Children Research InstituteTorontoCanada
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- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- The Hospital for Sick Children Research InstituteTorontoCanada
- Department of Molecular GeneticsUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- The Hospital for Sick Children Research InstituteTorontoCanada
- Department of Medical BiophysicsUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- The Hospital for Sick Children Research InstituteTorontoCanada
- Department of Molecular GeneticsUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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Zehr EA, Szyk A, Szczesna E, Roll-Mecak A. Katanin Grips the β-Tubulin Tail through an Electropositive Double Spiral to Sever Microtubules. Dev Cell 2020; 52:118-131.e6. [PMID: 31735665 PMCID: PMC7060837 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2019] [Revised: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The AAA ATPase katanin severs microtubules. It is critical in cell division, centriole biogenesis, and neuronal morphogenesis. Its mutation causes microcephaly. The microtubule templates katanin hexamerization and activates its ATPase. The structural basis for these activities and how they lead to severing is unknown. Here, we show that β-tubulin tails are necessary and sufficient for severing. Cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures reveal the essential tubulin tail glutamates gripped by a double spiral of electropositive loops lining the katanin central pore. Each spiral couples allosterically to the ATPase and binds alternating, successive substrate residues, with consecutive residues coordinated by adjacent protomers. This tightly couples tail binding, hexamerization, and ATPase activation. Hexamer structures in different states suggest an ATPase-driven, ratchet-like translocation of the tubulin tail through the pore. A disordered region outside the AAA core anchors katanin to the microtubule while the AAA motor exerts the forces that extract tubulin dimers and sever the microtubule.
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- Elena A Zehr
- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA
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- Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD 20982, USA; Biochemistry and Biophysics Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Han H, Schubert HL, McCullough J, Monroe N, Purdy MD, Yeager M, Sundquist WI, Hill CP. Structure of spastin bound to a glutamate-rich peptide implies a hand-over-hand mechanism of substrate translocation. J Biol Chem 2019; 295:435-443. [PMID: 31767681 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ac119.009890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Many members of the AAA+ ATPase family function as hexamers that unfold their protein substrates. These AAA unfoldases include spastin, which plays a critical role in the architecture of eukaryotic cells by driving the remodeling and severing of microtubules, which are cytoskeletal polymers of tubulin subunits. Here, we demonstrate that a human spastin binds weakly to unmodified peptides from the C-terminal segment of human tubulin α1A/B. A peptide comprising alternating glutamate and tyrosine residues binds more tightly, which is consistent with the known importance of glutamylation for spastin microtubule severing activity. A cryo-EM structure of the spastin-peptide complex at 4.2 Å resolution revealed an asymmetric hexamer in which five spastin subunits adopt a helical, spiral staircase configuration that binds the peptide within the central pore, whereas the sixth subunit of the hexamer is displaced from the peptide/substrate, as if transitioning from one end of the helix to the other. This configuration differs from a recently published structure of spastin from Drosophila melanogaster, which forms a six-subunit spiral without a transitioning subunit. Our structure resembles other recently reported AAA unfoldases, including the meiotic clade relative Vps4, and supports a model in which spastin utilizes a hand-over-hand mechanism of tubulin translocation and microtubule remodeling.
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- Han Han
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908; Center for Membrane and Cell Physiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908; Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112.
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Stach L, Morgan RM, Makhlouf L, Douangamath A, von Delft F, Zhang X, Freemont PS. Crystal structure of the catalytic D2 domain of the AAA+ ATPase p97 reveals a putative helical split-washer-type mechanism for substrate unfolding. FEBS Lett 2019; 594:933-943. [PMID: 31701538 PMCID: PMC7154655 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.13667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2019] [Revised: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/31/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Several pathologies have been associated with the AAA+ ATPase p97, an enzyme essential to protein homeostasis. Heterozygous polymorphisms in p97 have been shown to cause neurological disease, while elevated proteotoxic stress in tumours has made p97 an attractive cancer chemotherapy target. The cellular processes reliant on p97 are well described. High‐resolution structural models of its catalytic D2 domain, however, have proved elusive, as has the mechanism by which p97 converts the energy from ATP hydrolysis into mechanical force to unfold protein substrates. Here, we describe the high‐resolution structure of the p97 D2 ATPase domain. This crystal system constitutes a valuable tool for p97 inhibitor development and identifies a potentially druggable pocket in the D2 domain. In addition, its P61 symmetry suggests a mechanism for substrate unfolding by p97. Database The atomic coordinates and structure factors have been deposited in the PDB database under the accession numbers http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=6G2V, http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=6G2W, http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=6G2X, http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=6G2Y, http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=6G2Z and http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/search/structidSearch.do?structureId=6G30.
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- Lasse Stach
- Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, UK
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- Centre for Structural Biology, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
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- Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, UK
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.,Structural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa
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- Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, UK
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- Section of Structural and Synthetic Biology, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, UK
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The molecular principles governing the activity and functional diversity of AAA+ proteins. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2019; 21:43-58. [PMID: 31754261 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-019-0183-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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ATPases associated with diverse cellular activities (AAA+ proteins) are macromolecular machines that convert the chemical energy contained in ATP molecules into powerful mechanical forces to remodel a vast array of cellular substrates, including protein aggregates, macromolecular complexes and polymers. AAA+ proteins have key functionalities encompassing unfolding and disassembly of such substrates in different subcellular localizations and, hence, power a plethora of fundamental cellular processes, including protein quality control, cytoskeleton remodelling and membrane dynamics. Over the past 35 years, many of the key elements required for AAA+ activity have been identified through genetic, biochemical and structural analyses. However, how ATP powers substrate remodelling and whether a shared mechanism underlies the functional diversity of the AAA+ superfamily were uncertain. Advances in cryo-electron microscopy have enabled high-resolution structure determination of AAA+ proteins trapped in the act of processing substrates, revealing a conserved core mechanism of action. It has also become apparent that this common mechanistic principle is structurally adjusted to carry out a diverse array of biological functions. Here, we review how substrate-bound structures of AAA+ proteins have expanded our understanding of ATP-driven protein remodelling.
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Shaping the Nascent Ribosome: AAA-ATPases in Eukaryotic Ribosome Biogenesis. Biomolecules 2019; 9:biom9110715. [PMID: 31703473 PMCID: PMC6920918 DOI: 10.3390/biom9110715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2019] [Revised: 11/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/05/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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AAA-ATPases are molecular engines evolutionarily optimized for the remodeling of proteins and macromolecular assemblies. Three AAA-ATPases are currently known to be involved in the remodeling of the eukaryotic ribosome, a megadalton range ribonucleoprotein complex responsible for the translation of mRNAs into proteins. The correct assembly of the ribosome is performed by a plethora of additional and transiently acting pre-ribosome maturation factors that act in a timely and spatially orchestrated manner. Minimal disorder of the assembly cascade prohibits the formation of functional ribosomes and results in defects in proliferation and growth. Rix7, Rea1, and Drg1, which are well conserved across eukaryotes, are involved in different maturation steps of pre-60S ribosomal particles. These AAA-ATPases provide energy for the efficient removal of specific assembly factors from pre-60S particles after they have fulfilled their function in the maturation cascade. Recent structural and functional insights have provided the first glimpse into the molecular mechanism of target recognition and remodeling by Rix7, Rea1, and Drg1. Here we summarize current knowledge on the AAA-ATPases involved in eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis. We highlight the latest insights into their mechanism of mechano-chemical complex remodeling driven by advanced cryo-EM structures and the use of highly specific AAA inhibitors.
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Gatsogiannis C, Balogh D, Merino F, Sieber SA, Raunser S. Cryo-EM structure of the ClpXP protein degradation machinery. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2019; 26:946-954. [PMID: 31582852 PMCID: PMC6783313 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-019-0304-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The ClpXP machinery is a two component protease complex performing
targeted protein degradation in bacteria and mitochondria. The complex consists
of the AAA+ chaperone ClpX and the peptidase ClpP. The hexameric ClpX utilizes
the energy of ATP binding and hydrolysis to engage, unfold and translocate
substrates into the catalytic chamber of tetradecameric ClpP where they are
degraded. Formation of the complex involves a symmetry mismatch, since hexameric
AAA+ rings bind axially to the opposing stacked heptameric rings of the
tetradecameric ClpP. Here we present the cryo-EM structure of ClpXP from
Listeria monocytogenes. We unravel the heptamer-hexamer
binding interface and provide novel insights into the ClpX-ClpP crosstalk and
activation mechanism. The comparison with available crystal structures of ClpP
and ClpX in different states allows us to understand important aspects of
ClpXP’s complex mode of action and provides a structural framework for
future pharmacological applications.
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- Christos Gatsogiannis
- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Chair of Organic Chemistry II, Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.
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- Department of Structural Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
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