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Brown MJ, Thoren KL, Krantz BA. Charge requirements for proton gradient-driven translocation of anthrax toxin. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:23189-99. [PMID: 21507946 PMCID: PMC3123086 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.231167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2011] [Revised: 04/18/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Anthrax lethal toxin is used as a model system to study protein translocation. The toxin is composed of a translocase channel, called protective antigen (PA), and an enzyme, called lethal factor (LF). A proton gradient (ΔpH) can drive LF unfolding and translocation through PA channels; however, the mechanism of ΔpH-mediated force generation, substrate unfolding, and establishment of directionality are poorly understood. One recent hypothesis suggests that the ΔpH may act through changes in the protonation state of residues in the substrate. Here we report the charge requirements of LF's amino-terminal binding domain (LF(N)) using planar lipid bilayer electrophysiology. We found that acidic residues are required in LF(N) to utilize a proton gradient for translocation. Constructs lacking negative charges in the unstructured presequence of LF(N) translocate independently of the ΔpH driving force. Acidic residues markedly increase the rate of ΔpH-driven translocation, and the presequence is optimized in its natural acidic residue content for efficient ΔpH-driven unfolding and translocation. We discuss a ΔpH-driven charge state Brownian ratchet mechanism for translocation, where glutamic and aspartic acid residues in the substrate are the "molecular teeth" of the ratchet. Our Brownian ratchet model includes a mechanism for unfolding and a novel role for positive charges, which we propose chaperone negative charges through the PA channel during ΔpH translocation.
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- From the Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and
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- the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Ramón A, Marín M. Advances in the production of membrane proteins in Pichia pastoris. Biotechnol J 2011; 6:700-6. [DOI: 10.1002/biot.201100146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2011] [Revised: 03/24/2011] [Accepted: 03/31/2011] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Schülein R, Westendorf C, Krause G, Rosenthal W. Functional significance of cleavable signal peptides of G protein-coupled receptors. Eur J Cell Biol 2011; 91:294-9. [PMID: 21543132 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2011.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2010] [Revised: 02/25/2011] [Accepted: 02/25/2011] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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About 5-10% of the G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) contain N-terminal signal peptides that are cleaved off by the signal peptidases of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) during the translocon-mediated receptor insertion into the ER membrane. The reason as to why only a subset of the GPCRs requires these additional signal peptides was addressed in the past decade only by a limited number of studies. Recent progress suggests that signal peptides of GPCRs do not only serve the classical ER targeting and translocon gating functions as described for the signal peptides of secretory proteins. In the case of GPCRs, uncleaved pseudo signal peptides may regulate receptor expression at the plasma membrane and may also influence G protein coupling. Moreover, signal peptides of GPCRs seem to match functionally with sequences of the mature N tails. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge about cleavable signal peptides of GPCRs and address the question whether these sequences may be future drug targets in pharmacology.
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- Ralf Schülein
- Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
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Afroze SH, Uddin MN, Cao X, Asea A, Gizachew D. Internalization of exogenous ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (Arf6) proteins into cells. Mol Cell Biochem 2011; 354:291-9. [PMID: 21523371 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-011-0829-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2010] [Accepted: 04/15/2011] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Endogenous Arf6 is a myristoylated protein mainly involved in endosomal membrane traffic and structural organization at the plasma membrane. It has been shown that Arf6 mediates cancer cell invasion and shedding of plasma membrane microvesicles derived from tumor cells. In this article, we determined that Arf6 proteins both in the GDP and GTPγS bound forms can enter cells when simply added in the cell culture medium without requiring the myristoyl group. The GTPγS bound can enter cells at a faster rate than the GDP-bound Arf6. Despite the role of the endogenous Arf6 in endocytosis and membrane trafficking, the internalization of exogenous Arf6 may involve non-endocytic processes. As protein therapeutics is becoming important in medicine, we examined the effect of the uptake of Arf6 proteins on cellular functions and determined that exogenous Arf6 inhibits proliferation, invasion, and migration of cells. Future studies of the internalization of Arf6 mutants will reveal key residues that play a role in the internalization of Arf6 and its interaction and possible structural conformations bound to the plasma membrane.
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- Syeda H Afroze
- Department of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine and Scott & White Memorial Hospital, 702 SW H.K. Dogen Loop, Medical Research Building, Room 111, Temple, TX 76508, USA
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Narayanan A, Ridilla M, Yernool DA. Restrained expression, a method to overproduce toxic membrane proteins by exploiting operator-repressor interactions. Protein Sci 2011; 20:51-61. [PMID: 21031485 DOI: 10.1002/pro.535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A major rate-limiting step in determining structures of membrane proteins is heterologous protein production. Toxicity often associated with rapid overexpression results in reduced biomass along with low yields of target protein. Mitigation of toxic effects was achieved using a method we call "restrained expression," a controlled reduction in the frequency of transcription initiation by exploiting the infrequent transitions of Lac repressor to a free state from its complex with the lac-operator site within a T7lac promoter that occur in the absence of the inducer isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside. In addition, production of the T7 RNA polymerase that drives transcription of the target is limited using the tightly regulated arabinose promoter in Escherichia coli strain BL21-AI. Using this approach, we can achieve a 200-fold range of green fluorescent protein expression levels. Application to members of a family of ion pumps results in 5- to 25-fold increases in expression over the benchmark BL21(DE3) host strain. A viral ion channel highly toxic to E. coli can also be overexpressed. In comparative analyses, restrained expression outperforms commonly used E. coli expression strategies. The mechanism underlying improved target protein yield arises from minimization of protein aggregation and proteolysis that reduce membrane integrity and cell viability. This study establishes a method to overexpress toxic proteins.
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- Anoop Narayanan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Chawla A, Chakrabarti S, Ghosh G, Niwa M. Attenuation of yeast UPR is essential for survival and is mediated by IRE1 kinase. J Cell Biol 2011; 193:41-50. [PMID: 21444691 PMCID: PMC3082189 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201008071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2010] [Accepted: 03/02/2011] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The unfolded protein response (UPR) activates Ire1, an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident transmembrane kinase and ribonuclease (RNase), in response to ER stress. We used an in vivo assay, in which disappearance of the UPR-induced spliced HAC1 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) correlates with the recovery of the ER protein-folding capacity, to investigate the attenuation of the UPR in yeast. We find that, once activated, spliced HAC1 mRNA is sustained in cells expressing Ire1 carrying phosphomimetic mutations within the kinase activation loop, suggesting that dephosphorylation of Ire1 is an important step in RNase deactivation. Additionally, spliced HAC1 mRNA is also sustained after UPR induction in cells expressing Ire1 with mutations in the conserved DFG kinase motif (D828A) or a conserved residue (F842) within the activation loop. The importance of proper Ire1 RNase attenuation is demonstrated by the inability of cells expressing Ire1-D828A to grow under ER stress. We propose that the activity of the Ire1 kinase domain plays a role in attenuating its RNase activity when ER function is recovered.
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- Aditi Chawla
- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Molecular Biology, and Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Molecular Biology, and Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Molecular Biology, and Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Molecular Biology, and Division of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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Ashe MP, Bill RM. Mapping the yeast host cell response to recombinant membrane protein production: Relieving the biological bottlenecks. Biotechnol J 2011; 6:707-14. [DOI: 10.1002/biot.201000333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2011] [Revised: 01/28/2011] [Accepted: 02/11/2011] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Pastoriza-Gallego M, Rabah L, Gibrat G, Thiebot B, van der Goot FG, Auvray L, Betton JM, Pelta J. Dynamics of Unfolded Protein Transport through an Aerolysin Pore. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:2923-31. [DOI: 10.1021/ja1073245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Manuela Pastoriza-Gallego
- Equipe Matériaux Polymères aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université d’Évry, Bd F. Mitterrand, 91025 Évry France
- Equipe Matériaux Polymeres aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 2 avenue A. Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex France
- Unité de Biochimie Structurale, CNRS-URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, 28, rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15 France
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- Equipe Matériaux Polymères aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université d’Évry, Bd F. Mitterrand, 91025 Évry France
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- Equipe Matériaux Polymères aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université d’Évry, Bd F. Mitterrand, 91025 Évry France
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- Equipe Matériaux Polymeres aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 2 avenue A. Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex France
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- Matière et Systèmes Complexes, CNRS-UMR 7057, Université Paris-Diderot, 10 rue Alice Domont et Léonie Duquet, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France
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- Unité de Biochimie Structurale, CNRS-URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, 28, rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15 France
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- Equipe Matériaux Polymères aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université d’Évry, Bd F. Mitterrand, 91025 Évry France
- Equipe Matériaux Polymeres aux Interfaces, CNRS-UMR 8587, LAMBE, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 2 avenue A. Chauvin, 95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex France
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Nhe1 is essential for potassium but not calcium facilitation of cell motility and the monovalent cation requirement for chemotactic orientation in Dictyostelium discoideum. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2011; 10:320-31. [PMID: 21239624 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00255-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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In Dictyostelium discoideum, extracellular K+ or Ca2+ at a concentration of 40 or 20 mM, respectively, facilitates motility in the absence or presence of a spatial gradient of chemoattractant. Facilitation results in maximum velocity, cellular elongation, persistent translocation, suppression of lateral pseudopod formation, and myosin II localization in the posterior cortex. A lower threshold concentration of 15 mM K+ or Na or 5 mM Ca2+ is required for chemotactic orientation. Although the common buffer solutions used by D. discoideum researchers to study chemotaxis contain sufficient concentrations of cations for chemotactic orientation, the majority contain insufficient levels to facilitate motility. Here it has been demonstrated that Nhe1, a plasma membrane protein, is required for K+ but not Ca2+ facilitation of cell motility and for the lower K+ but not Ca2+ requirement for chemotactic orientation.
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Sato Y, Shibata H, Nakatsu T, Nakano H, Kashiwayama Y, Imanaka T, Kato H. Structural basis for docking of peroxisomal membrane protein carrier Pex19p onto its receptor Pex3p. EMBO J 2010; 29:4083-93. [PMID: 21102411 PMCID: PMC3018794 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2010] [Accepted: 11/02/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Peroxisomes require peroxin (Pex) proteins for their biogenesis. The interaction between Pex3p, which resides on the peroxisomal membrane, and Pex19p, which resides in the cytosol, is crucial for peroxisome formation and the post-translational targeting of peroxisomal membrane proteins (PMPs). It is not known how Pex3p promotes the specific interaction with Pex19p for the purpose of PMP translocation. Here, we present the three-dimensional structure of the complex between a cytosolic domain of Pex3p and the binding-region peptide of Pex19p. The overall shape of Pex3p is a prolate spheroid with a novel fold, the 'twisted six-helix bundle.' The Pex19p-binding site is at an apex of the Pex3p spheroid. A 16-residue region of the Pex19p peptide forms an α-helix and makes a contact with Pex3p; this helix is disordered in the unbound state. The Pex19p peptide contains a characteristic motif, consisting of the leucine triad (Leu18, Leu21, Leu22), and Phe29, which are critical for the Pex3p binding and peroxisome biogenesis.
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- Yasuhiko Sato
- Department of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan
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- Department of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
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- Department of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan,Department of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, 46-29 Yoshida Shimoadachi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. Tel.: +81 75 753 4617; Fax: +81 75 753 9272; E-mail:
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Schleiff E, Becker T. Common ground for protein translocation: access control for mitochondria and chloroplasts. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2010; 12:48-59. [DOI: 10.1038/nrm3027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cell survival and death are complex matters. Too much survival may lead to cancer and too much cell death may result in tissue degeneration. In this chapter, we will first of all focus on the cellular survival mechanisms that promote correct folding and maintenance of protein function. These mechanisms include protein quality control (PQC) systems comprising molecular chaperones and intracellular proteases in the cytosol, endoplasmatic reticulum (ER) and in the mitochondria. In addition to the PQC systems, mechanisms elicited by misfolded proteins, known as unfolded protein responses (UPRs), including induction/activation of antioxidant systems are also present in the three compartments of the cell. Second, we will discuss the mechanisms by which misfolded proteins lead to the generation of oxidative stress in the form of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS). These species are produced mainly from superoxide (O2-) generated in the mitochondrial respiratory chain and from nitrogen oxide (NO) produced by the mitochondrial nitrogen oxide synthetase (mtNOS). Third, the effects of oxidative stress will be discussed, both with respect to mitochondrial dynamics, i.e., fission and fusion, and the related elimination of dysfunctional mitochondria by cellular cleaning systems, i.e., mitophagy or mitoptosis, and related to the generation and cellular effects of oxidatively modified proteins, which closes a vicious cycle of protein misfolding and oxidative stress.
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Bikwemu R, Wolfe AJ, Xing X, Movileanu L. Facilitated translocation of polypeptides through a single nanopore. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2010; 22:454117. [PMID: 21339604 PMCID: PMC3108026 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/45/454117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The transport of polypeptides through nanopores is a key process in biology and medical biotechnology. Despite its critical importance, the underlying kinetics of polypeptide translocation through protein nanopores is not yet comprehensively understood. Here, we present a simple two-barrier, one-well kinetic model for the translocation of short positively charged polypeptides through a single transmembrane protein nanopore that is equipped with negatively charged rings, simply called traps. We demonstrate that the presence of these traps within the interior of the nanopore dramatically alters the free energy landscape for the partitioning of the polypeptide into the nanopore interior, as revealed by significant modifications in the activation free energies required for the transitions of the polypeptide from one state to the other. Our kinetic model permits the calculation of the relative and absolute exit frequencies of the short cationic polypeptides through either opening of the nanopore. Moreover, this approach enabled quantitative assessment of the kinetics of translocation of the polypeptides through a protein nanopore, which is strongly dependent on several factors, including the nature of the translocating polypeptide, the position of the traps, the strength of the polypeptide-attractive trap interactions and the applied transmembrane voltage.
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- Robert Bikwemu
- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, 201 Physics Building, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, 201 Physics Building, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA
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- Institute of Natural Sciences and Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240 China
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- Department of Physics, Syracuse University, 201 Physics Building, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA
- Structural Biology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics Program, Syracuse University, 111 College Place, Syracuse, New York 13244-4100, USA
- The Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, Syracuse University, 121 Link Hall, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
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Feld GK, Thoren KL, Kintzer AF, Sterling HJ, Tang II, Greenberg SG, Williams ER, Krantz BA. Structural basis for the unfolding of anthrax lethal factor by protective antigen oligomers. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2010; 17:1383-90. [PMID: 21037566 PMCID: PMC3133606 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2010] [Accepted: 09/07/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The protein transporter anthrax lethal toxin is composed of protective antigen (PA), a transmembrane translocase, and lethal factor (LF), a cytotoxic enzyme. After its assembly into holotoxin complexes, PA forms an oligomeric channel that unfolds LF and translocates it into the host cell. We report the crystal structure of the core of a lethal toxin complex to 3.1-Å resolution; the structure contains a PA octamer bound to four LF PA-binding domains (LF(N)). The first α-helix and β-strand of each LF(N) unfold and dock into a deep amphipathic cleft on the surface of the PA octamer, which we call the α clamp. The α clamp possesses nonspecific polypeptide binding activity and is functionally relevant to efficient holotoxin assembly, PA octamer formation, and LF unfolding and translocation. This structure provides insight into the mechanism of translocation-coupled protein unfolding.
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- Geoffrey K Feld
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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Bakkes PJ, Jenewein S, Smits SHJ, Holland IB, Schmitt L. The rate of folding dictates substrate secretion by the Escherichia coli hemolysin type 1 secretion system. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:40573-80. [PMID: 20971850 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.173658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Secretion of the Escherichia coli toxin hemolysin A (HlyA) is catalyzed by the membrane protein complex HlyB-HlyD-TolC and requires a secretion sequence located within the last 60 amino acids of HlyA. The Hly translocator complex exports a variety of passenger proteins when fused N-terminal to this secretion sequence. However, not all fusions are secreted efficiently. Here, we demonstrate that the maltose binding protein (MalE) lacking its natural export signal and fused to the HlyA secretion signal is poorly secreted by the Hly system. We anticipated that folding kinetics might be limiting secretion, and we therefore introduced the "folding" mutation Y283D. Indeed this mutant fusion protein was secreted at a much higher level. This level was further enhanced by the introduction of a second MalE folding mutation (V8G or A276G). Secretion did not require the molecular chaperone SecB. Folding analysis revealed that all mutations reduced the refolding rate of the substrate, whereas the unfolding rate was unaffected. Thus, the efficiency of secretion by the Hly system is dictated by the folding rate of the substrate. Moreover, we demonstrate that fusion proteins defective in export can be engineered for secretion while still retaining function.
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- Patrick J Bakkes
- Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Universitaetsstrasse 1, 40225 Duesseldorf, Germany
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Yang Z, Li S, Zhang L, Ur Rehman A, Liang H. Translocation of α-helix chains through a nanopore. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:154903. [PMID: 20969422 DOI: 10.1063/1.3493332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The translocation of α-helix chains through a nanopore is studied through Langevin dynamics simulations. The α-helix chains exhibit several different characteristics about their average translocation times and the α-helix structures when they transport through the nanopores under the driving forces. First, the relationship between average translocation times τ and the chain length N satisfies the scaling law, τ∼N(α), and the scaling exponent α depends on the driving force f for the small forces while it is close to the Flory exponent (ν) in the other force regions. For the chains with given chain lengths, it is observed that the dependence of the average translocation times can be expressed as τ∼f(-1/2) for the small forces while can be described as τ∼f in the large force regions. Second, for the large driving force, the average number of α-helix structures N(h) decreases first and then increases in the translocation process. The average waiting time of each bead, especially of the first bead, is also dependent on the driving forces. Furthermore, an elasticity spring model is presented to reasonably explain the change of the α-helix number during the translocation and its elasticity can be locally damaged by the large driving forces. Our results demonstrate the unique behaviors of α-helix chains transporting through the pores, which can enrich our insights into and knowledge on biopolymers transporting through membranes.
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- Zhiyong Yang
- Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China
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Wang J, Fei B, Geahlen RL, Lu C. Quantitative analysis of protein translocations by microfluidic total internal reflection fluorescence flow cytometry. LAB ON A CHIP 2010; 10:2673-9. [PMID: 20820633 PMCID: PMC2948076 DOI: 10.1039/c0lc00131g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Protein translocation, or the change in a protein's location between different subcellular compartments, is a critical process by which intracellular proteins carry out their cellular functions. Aberrant translocation events contribute to various diseases ranging from metabolic disorders to cancer. In this study, we demonstrate the use of a newly developed single-cell tool, microfluidic total internal reflection fluorescence flow cytometry (TIRF-FC), for detecting both cytosol to plasma membrane and cytosol to nucleus translocations using the tyrosine kinase Syk and the transcription factor NF-κB as models. This technique detects fluorescent molecules at the plasma membrane and in the membrane-proximal cytosol in single cells. We were able to record quantitatively changes in the fluorescence density in the evanescent field associated with these translocation processes for large cell populations with single cell resolution. We envision that TIRF-FC will provide a new approach to explore the molecular biology and clinical relevance of protein translocations.
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- Jun Wang
- Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA, Tel: +1 540-231-8681
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Bohnsack MT, Schleiff E. The evolution of protein targeting and translocation systems. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2010; 1803:1115-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2010] [Revised: 05/26/2010] [Accepted: 06/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sangar MC, Bansal S, Avadhani NG. Bimodal targeting of microsomal cytochrome P450s to mitochondria: implications in drug metabolism and toxicity. Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol 2010; 6:1231-51. [PMID: 20629582 PMCID: PMC2940958 DOI: 10.1517/17425255.2010.503955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD Microsomal CYPs are critical for drug metabolism and toxicity. Recent studies show that these CYPs are also present in the mitochondrial compartment of human and rodent tissues. Mitochondrial CYP1A1 and 2E1 show both overlapping and distinct metabolic activities compared to microsomal forms. Mitochondrial CYP2E1 also induces oxidative stress. The mechanisms of mitochondria targeting of CYPs and their role in drug metabolism and toxicity are important factors to consider while determining the drug dose and in drug development. AREAS COVERED IN THIS REVIEW This review highlights the mechanisms of bimodal targeting of CYP1A1, 2B1, 2E1 and 2D6 to mitochondria and microsomes. The review also discusses differences in structure and function of mitochondrial CYPs. WHAT THE READERS WILL GAIN A comprehensive review of the literature on drug metabolism in the mitochondrial compartment and their potential for inducing mitochondrial dysfunction. TAKE HOME MESSAGE Studies on the biochemistry, pharmacology and pharmacogenetic analysis of CYPs are mostly focused on the molecular forms associated with the microsomal membrane. However, the mitochondrial CYPs in some individuals can represent a substantial part of the tissue pool and contribute in a significant way to drug metabolism, clearance and toxicity.
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- Michelle C Sangar
- University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Bibi E. Early targeting events during membrane protein biogenesis in Escherichia coli. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1808:841-50. [PMID: 20682283 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.07.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2010] [Revised: 07/21/2010] [Accepted: 07/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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All living cells have co-translational pathways for targeting membrane proteins. Co-translation pathways for secretory proteins also exist but mostly in eukaryotes. Unlike secretory proteins, the biosynthetic pathway of most membrane proteins is conserved through evolution and these proteins are usually synthesized by membrane-bound ribosomes. Translation on the membrane requires that both the ribosomes and the mRNAs be properly localized. Theoretically, this can be achieved by several means. (i) The current view is that the targeting of cytosolic mRNA-ribosome-nascent chain complexes (RNCs) to the membrane is initiated by information in the emerging hydrophobic nascent polypeptides. (ii) The alternative model suggests that ribosomes may be targeted to the membrane also constitutively, whereas the appropriate mRNAs may be carried on small ribosomal subunits or targeted by other cellular factors to the membrane-bound ribosomes. Importantly, the available experimental data do not rule out the possibility that cells may also utilize both pathways in parallel. In any case, it is well documented that a major player in the targeting pathway is the signal recognition particle (SRP) system composed of the SRP and its receptor (SR). Although the functional core of the SRP system is evolutionarily conserved, its composition and biological practice come with different flavors in various organisms. This review is dedicated mainly to the Escherichia (E.) coli SRP, where the biochemical and structural properties of components of the SRP system have been relatively characterized, yielding essential information about various aspects of the pathway. In addition, several cellular interactions of the SRP and its receptor have been described in E. coli, providing insights into their spatial function. Collectively, these in vitro studies have led to the current view of the targeting pathway [see (i) above]. Interestingly, however, in vivo studies of the role of the SRP and its receptor, with emphasis on the temporal progress of the pathway, elicited an alternative hypothesis [see (ii) above]. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Protein translocation across or insertion into membranes.
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- Eitan Bibi
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
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Marom M, Azem A, Mokranjac D. Understanding the molecular mechanism of protein translocation across the mitochondrial inner membrane: still a long way to go. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1808:990-1001. [PMID: 20646995 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2010] [Revised: 07/08/2010] [Accepted: 07/10/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In order to reach the final place of their function, approximately half of the proteins in any eukaryotic cell have to be transported across or into one of the membranes in the cell. In this article, we present an overview of our current knowledge concerning the structural properties of the TIM23 complex and their relationship with the molecular mechanism of protein transport across the mitochondrial inner membrane. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Protein translocation across or insertion into membranes.
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- Milit Marom
- Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Oliveira DL, Nakayasu ES, Joffe LS, Guimarães AJ, Sobreira TJP, Nosanchuk JD, Cordero RJB, Frases S, Casadevall A, Almeida IC, Nimrichter L, Rodrigues ML. Characterization of yeast extracellular vesicles: evidence for the participation of different pathways of cellular traffic in vesicle biogenesis. PLoS One 2010; 5:e11113. [PMID: 20559436 PMCID: PMC2885426 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2010] [Accepted: 05/21/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Extracellular vesicles in yeast cells are involved in the molecular traffic across the cell wall. In yeast pathogens, these vesicles have been implicated in the transport of proteins, lipids, polysaccharide and pigments to the extracellular space. Cellular pathways required for the biogenesis of yeast extracellular vesicles are largely unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We characterized extracellular vesicle production in wild type (WT) and mutant strains of the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae using transmission electron microscopy in combination with light scattering analysis, lipid extraction and proteomics. WT cells and mutants with defective expression of Sec4p, a secretory vesicle-associated Rab GTPase essential for Golgi-derived exocytosis, or Snf7p, which is involved in multivesicular body (MVB) formation, were analyzed in parallel. Bilayered vesicles with diameters at the 100-300 nm range were found in extracellular fractions from yeast cultures. Proteomic analysis of vesicular fractions from the cells aforementioned and additional mutants with defects in conventional secretion pathways (sec1-1, fusion of Golgi-derived exocytic vesicles with the plasma membrane; bos1-1, vesicle targeting to the Golgi complex) or MVB functionality (vps23, late endosomal trafficking) revealed a complex and interrelated protein collection. Semi-quantitative analysis of protein abundance revealed that mutations in both MVB- and Golgi-derived pathways affected the composition of yeast extracellular vesicles, but none abrogated vesicle production. Lipid analysis revealed that mutants with defects in Golgi-related components of the secretory pathway had slower vesicle release kinetics, as inferred from intracellular accumulation of sterols and reduced detection of these lipids in vesicle fractions in comparison with WT cells. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Our results suggest that both conventional and unconventional pathways of secretion are required for biogenesis of extracellular vesicles, which demonstrate the complexity of this process in the biology of yeast cells.
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- Débora L. Oliveira
- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Laboratório de Biotecnologia, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Keeling PJ. The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2010; 365:729-48. [PMID: 20124341 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 399] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Plastids and mitochondria each arose from a single endosymbiotic event and share many similarities in how they were reduced and integrated with their host. However, the subsequent evolution of the two organelles could hardly be more different: mitochondria are a stable fixture of eukaryotic cells that are neither lost nor shuffled between lineages, whereas plastid evolution has been a complex mix of movement, loss and replacement. Molecular data from the past decade have substantially untangled this complex history, and we now know that plastids are derived from a single endosymbiotic event in the ancestor of glaucophytes, red algae and green algae (including plants). The plastids of both red algae and green algae were subsequently transferred to other lineages by secondary endosymbiosis. Green algal plastids were taken up by euglenids and chlorarachniophytes, as well as one small group of dinoflagellates. Red algae appear to have been taken up only once, giving rise to a diverse group called chromalveolates. Additional layers of complexity come from plastid loss, which has happened at least once and probably many times, and replacement. Plastid loss is difficult to prove, and cryptic, non-photosynthetic plastids are being found in many non-photosynthetic lineages. In other cases, photosynthetic lineages are now understood to have evolved from ancestors with a plastid of different origin, so an ancestral plastid has been replaced with a new one. Such replacement has taken place in several dinoflagellates (by tertiary endosymbiosis with other chromalveolates or serial secondary endosymbiosis with a green alga), and apparently also in two rhizarian lineages: chlorarachniophytes and Paulinella (which appear to have evolved from chromalveolate ancestors). The many twists and turns of plastid evolution each represent major evolutionary transitions, and each offers a glimpse into how genomes evolve and how cells integrate through gene transfers and protein trafficking.
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- Patrick J Keeling
- Botany Department, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, University of British Columbia, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4.
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Hydrophobically stabilized open state for the lateral gate of the Sec translocon. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:5399-404. [PMID: 20203009 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914752107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Sec translocon is a central component of cellular pathways for protein translocation and membrane integration. Using both atomistic and coarse-grained molecular simulations, we investigate the conformational landscape of the translocon and explore the role of peptide substrates in the regulation of the translocation and integration pathways. Inclusion of a hydrophobic peptide substrate in the translocon stabilizes the opening of the lateral gate for membrane integration, whereas a hydrophilic peptide substrate favors the closed lateral gate conformation. The relative orientation of the plug moiety and a peptide substrate within the translocon channel is similarly dependent on whether the substrate is hydrophobic or hydrophilic in character, and the energetics of the translocon lateral gate opening in the presence of a peptide substrate is governed by the energetics of the peptide interface with the membrane. Implications of these results for the regulation of Sec-mediated pathways for protein translocation vs. membrane integration are discussed.
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Grouffaud S, Whisson SC, Birch PR, van West P. Towards an understanding on how RxLR-effector proteins are translocated from oomycetes into host cells. FUNGAL BIOL REV 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2010.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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van der Laan M, Hutu DP, Rehling P. On the mechanism of preprotein import by the mitochondrial presequence translocase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2010; 1803:732-9. [PMID: 20100523 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2009] [Revised: 01/05/2010] [Accepted: 01/11/2010] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Mitochondria are organelles of endosymbiontic origin that contain more than one thousand different proteins. The vast majority of these proteins is synthesized in the cytosol and imported into one of four mitochondrial subcompartments: outer membrane, intermembrane space, inner membrane and matrix. Several import pathways exist and are committed to different classes of precursor proteins. The presequence translocase of the inner mitochondrial membrane (TIM23 complex) mediates import of precursor proteins with cleavable amino-terminal presequences. Presequences direct precursors across the inner membrane. The combination of this presequence with adjacent regions determines if a precursor is fully translocated into the matrix or laterally sorted into the inner mitochondrial membrane. The membrane-embedded TIM23(SORT) complex mediates the membrane potential-dependent membrane insertion of precursor proteins with a stop-transfer sequence downstream of the mitochondrial targeting signal. In contrast, translocation of precursor proteins into the matrix requires the recruitment of the presequence translocase-associated motor (PAM) to the TIM23 complex. This ATP-driven import motor consists of mitochondrial Hsp70 and several membrane-associated co-chaperones. These two structurally and functionally distinct forms of the TIM23 complex (TIM23(SORT) and TIM23(MOTOR)) are in a dynamic equilibrium with each other. In this review, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of matrix translocation and membrane insertion by the TIM23 machinery.
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- Martin van der Laan
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Theg SM. Measurement of the energetics of protein transport across the chloroplast thylakoid membrane. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 619:323-337. [PMID: 20419419 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-412-8_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Protein transport across cellular membranes represents an unknown, possibly significant drain on the total energy pool. Many protein transport systems utilize a mixture of energetic inputs, with contributions from both NTP hydrolysis and transmembrane electrochemical gradients. Both of these parameters will have to be measured before we can know the cost to the cell of its considerable protein transport activities. We describe here methods to evaluate the magnitude of the DeltapH across the thylakoid membrane, which serves as the driving force for protein transport on the cpTat pathway, and to determine how much energy is drained therefrom per protein translocated. The methods derive from spectroscopic techniques, well known in the field of thylakoid energetics, to monitor the light-dependent DeltapH across the membrane and the rate of proton flux through the thylakoid lumen, combined with those to measure the rate of protein transport across the thylakoid membrane.
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- Steven M Theg
- Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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Devi L, Anandatheerthavarada HK. Mitochondrial trafficking of APP and alpha synuclein: Relevance to mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2010; 1802:11-9. [PMID: 19619643 PMCID: PMC2790550 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2009.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2009] [Accepted: 07/09/2009] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Mitochondrial dysfunction is an important intracellular lesion associated with a wide variety of diseases including neurodegenerative disorders. In addition to aging, oxidative stress and mitochondrial DNA mutations, recent studies have implicated a role for the mitochondrial accumulation of proteins such as plasma membrane associated amyloid precursor protein (APP) and cytosolic alpha synuclein in the pathogenesis of mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD), respectively. Both of these proteins contain cryptic mitochondrial targeting signals, which drive their transport across mitochondria. In general, mitochondrial entry of nuclear coded proteins is assisted by import receptors situated in both outer and inner mitochondrial membranes. A growing number of evidence suggests that APP and alpha synclein interact with import receptors to gain entry into mitochondrial compartment. Additionally, carboxy terminal cleaved product of APP, approximately 4 kDa Abeta, is also transported into mitochondria with the help of mitochondrial outer membrane import receptors. This review focuses on the mitochondrial targeting and accumulation of these two structurally different proteins and the mode of mechanism by which they affect the physiological functions of mitochondria.
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- Latha Devi
- Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, 3800 Spruce Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Animal Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, 3800 Spruce Street, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Dittmann K, Mayer C, Rodemann HP. Nuclear EGFR as novel therapeutic target: insights into nuclear translocation and function. Strahlenther Onkol 2009; 186:1-6. [PMID: 20082181 DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-2026-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2009] [Accepted: 09/25/2009] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Emerging evidence suggests the existence of a new mode of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) signaling in which activated EGFR undergoes nuclear translocation following treatment with ionizing radiation. The authors provide evidence that the nuclear EGFR transport is a stress-specific cellular reaction, which is linked to src-dependent EGFR internalization into caveolae. These flask-shaped pits can fuse with endoplasmic reticulum and the EGFR is sorted into a perinuclear localization. This compartment may serve as a reservoir for nuclear EGFR transport which is regulated by PKCepsilon (protein kinase Cepsilon). Nuclear EGFR is able to induce transcription of genes essential for cell proliferation and cell-cycle regulation. Moreover, nuclear EGFR has physical contact with compounds of the DNA repair machinery and is involved in removal of DNA damage. Anti-EGFR strategies target radiation-associated EGFR nuclear translocation in different manners. EGFR-inhibitory antibodies, i.e., cetuximab (Erbitux((R))), can block nuclear translocation by EGFR immobilization within the cytosol in responder cell lines, whereas tyrosine kinase inhibitors rather target nuclear kinase activity of EGFR linked with cytosolic or nuclear functions. However, both strategies can inhibit DNA repair following irradiation.
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MESH Headings
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/pharmacology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
- Antineoplastic Agents/pharmacology
- Caveolae/radiation effects
- Cell Cycle/genetics
- Cell Cycle/radiation effects
- Cell Division/genetics
- Cell Division/radiation effects
- Cell Line
- Cell Nucleus/drug effects
- Cell Nucleus/genetics
- Cell Nucleus/radiation effects
- Cell Survival/drug effects
- Cell Survival/genetics
- Cell Survival/radiation effects
- Cetuximab
- DNA Damage/genetics
- DNA Damage/radiation effects
- DNA Repair/drug effects
- DNA Repair/genetics
- DNA Repair/radiation effects
- ErbB Receptors/antagonists & inhibitors
- ErbB Receptors/genetics
- ErbB Receptors/radiation effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/radiation effects
- Genes, src/radiation effects
- Humans
- Protein Kinase C-epsilon/physiology
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/radiation effects
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic/radiation effects
- Translocation, Genetic/drug effects
- Translocation, Genetic/radiation effects
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/drug effects
- Tumor Cells, Cultured/radiation effects
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- Klaus Dittmann
- Division of Radiobiology and Molecular Environmental Research, Department of Radiooncology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Division of Radiobiology and Molecular Environmental Research, Department of Radiooncology, Eberhard Karls University, Röntgenweg 11, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.
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- Division of Radiobiology and Molecular Environmental Research, Department of Radiooncology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Division of Radiobiology and Molecular Environmental Research, Department of Radiooncology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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A statistical model for translocation of structured polypeptide chains through nanopores. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:10348-56. [PMID: 19572676 DOI: 10.1021/jp900947f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The translocation process of a globular protein (ubiquitin) across a cylindrical nanopore is studied via molecular dynamics simulations. The ubiquitin is described by a native-centric model on a Calpha carbon backbone to investigate the influence of protein-like structural properties on the translocation mechanism. A thermodynamical and kinetic characterization of the process is obtained by studying the statistics of blockage times, the mobility, and the translocation probability as a function of the pulling force F acting in the pore. The transport dynamics occurs when the force exceeds a threshold Fc depending on a free-energy barrier that ubiquitin has to overcome in order to slide along the channel. Such a barrier results from competition of the unfolding energy and the entropy associated with the confinement effects of the pore. We implement appropriate umbrella sampling simulations to compute the free-energy profile as a function of the position of the ubiquitin center of mass inside of the channel (reaction coordinate). This free energy is then used to construct a phenomenological drift-diffusion model in the reaction coordinate which explains and reproduces the behavior of the observables during the translocation.
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Ding D, Dave KR, Bhattacharya SK. On Message Ribonucleic Acids Targeting to Mitochondria. BIOCHEMISTRY INSIGHTS 2009. [DOI: 10.4137/bci.s3745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Mitochondria are subcellular organelles that provide energy for a variety of basic cellular processes in eukaryotic cells. Mitochondria maintain their own genomes and many of their endosymbiont genes are encoded by nuclear genomes. The crosstalk between the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes ensures mitochondrial biogenesis, dynamics and maintenance. Mitochondrial proteins are partly encoded by nucleus and synthesized in the cytosol and partly in the mitochondria coded by mitochondrial genome. The efficiency of transport systems that transport nuclear encoded gene products such as proteins and mRNAs to the mitochondrial vicinity to allow for their translation and/or import are recently receiving wide attention. There is currently no concrete evidence that nuclear encoded mRNA is transported into the mitochondria, however, they can be transported onto the mitochondrial surface and translated at the surface of mitochondria utilizing cytosolic machinery. In this review we present an overview of the recent advances in the mRNA transport, with emphasis on the transport of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial protein mRNA into the mitochondria.
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- Di Ding
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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Hu J, Li J, Qian X, Denic V, Sha B. The crystal structures of yeast Get3 suggest a mechanism for tail-anchored protein membrane insertion. PLoS One 2009; 4:e8061. [PMID: 19956640 PMCID: PMC2778870 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2009] [Accepted: 10/30/2009] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Tail-anchored (TA) proteins represent a unique class of membrane proteins that contain a single C-terminal transmembrane helix. The post-translational insertion of the yeast TA proteins into the ER membrane requires the Golgi ER trafficking (GET) complex which contains Get1, Get2 and Get3. Get3 is an ATPase that recognizes and binds the C-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD) of the TA proteins. We have determined the crystal structures of Get3 from two yeast species, S. cerevisiae and D. hansenii, respectively. These high resolution crystal structures show that Get3 contains a nucleotide-binding domain and a "finger" domain for binding the TA protein TMD. A large hydrophobic groove on the finger domain of S. cerevisiae Get3 structure might represent the binding site for TMD of TA proteins. A hydrophobic helix from a symmetry-related Get3 molecule sits in the TMD-binding groove and mimics the TA binding scenario. Interestingly, the crystal structures of the Get3 dimers from S. cerevisiae and D. hansenii exhibit distinct conformations. The S. cerevisiae Get3 dimer structure does not contain nucleotides and maintains an "open" conformation, while the D. hansenii Get3 dimer structure binds ADP and stays in a "closed" conformation. We propose that the conformational changes to switch the Get3 between the open and closed conformations may facilitate the membrane insertions for TA proteins.
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- Junbin Hu
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
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Akita M, Inoue H. Evaluating the energy-dependent "binding" in the early stage of protein import into chloroplasts. Methods Enzymol 2009; 466:43-64. [PMID: 21609857 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(09)66003-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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During protein import into chloroplasts, precursor proteins are synthesized in the cytosol with an amino-terminal extension signal and irreversibly bind to chloroplasts under stringent energy conditions, such as low levels of GTP/ATP and low temperature, to form the early translocation intermediates. Whether the states of the early-intermediates that are formed under different energy conditions are similar has not been well studied. To evaluate the early intermediate states, we analyzed how precursor proteins within the early intermediates behave by employing two different approaches, limited proteolysis and site-specific cross-linking. Our results indicate that three different combinations of three different early intermediate stages are present and that the extent of precursor translocation differs between these stages based upon temperature as well as hydrolysis of GTP and ATP. Furthermore, the transition from the second to the third stage was only observed by increasing the temperature. This transition is also accompanied by the hydrolysis of ATP and the movement of the transit peptide. These results suggest the presence of temperature-sensitive and temperature-insensitive ATP-hydrolyzing steps during the early stages of protein import.
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- Mitsuru Akita
- The United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Ehime University, 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Japan
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Sriskanthadevan S, Lee T, Lin Z, Yang D, Siu CH. Cell adhesion molecule DdCAD-1 is imported into contractile vacuoles by membrane invagination in a Ca2+- and conformation-dependent manner. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:36377-36386. [PMID: 19875452 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.057257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The cadA gene in Dictyostelium encodes a Ca(2+)-dependent cell adhesion molecule DdCAD-1 that contains two beta-sandwich domains. DdCAD-1 is synthesized in the cytoplasm as a soluble protein and then transported by contractile vacuoles to the plasma membrane for surface presentation or secretion. DdCAD-1-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein was expressed in cadA-null cells for further investigation of this unconventional protein transport pathway. Both morphological and biochemical characterizations showed that DdCAD-1-GFP was imported into contractile vacuoles. Time-lapse microscopy of transfectants revealed the transient appearance of DdCAD-1-GFP-filled vesicular structures in the lumen of contractile vacuoles, suggesting that DdCAD-1 could be imported by invagination of contractile vacuole membrane. To assess the structural requirements in this transport process, the N-terminal and C-terminal domains of DdCAD-1 were expressed separately in cells as GFP fusion proteins. Both fusion proteins failed to enter the contractile vacuole, suggesting that the integrity of DdCAD-1 is required for import. Such a requirement was also observed in in vitro reconstitution assays using His(6)-tagged fusion proteins and purified contractile vacuoles. Import of DdCAD-1 was compromised when two of its three Ca(2+)-binding sites were mutated, indicating a role for Ca(2+) in the import process. Spectral analysis showed that mutations in the Ca(2+)-binding sites resulted in subtle conformational changes. Indeed, proteins with altered conformation failed to enter the contractile vacuole, suggesting that the import signal is somehow integrated in the three-dimensional structure of DdCAD-1.
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- Shrivani Sriskanthadevan
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543
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- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada.
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Detecting folding intermediates of a protein as it passes through the bacterial translocation channel. Cell 2009; 138:1164-73. [PMID: 19766568 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.07.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2009] [Revised: 05/04/2009] [Accepted: 07/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Most bacterial exported proteins cross the cytoplasmic membrane as unfolded polypeptides. However, little is known about how they fold during or after this process due to the difficulty in detecting folding intermediates. Here we identify cotranslational and posttranslational folding intermediates of a periplasmic protein in which the protein and DsbA, a periplasmic disulfide bond-forming enzyme, are covalently linked by a disulfide bond. The cotranslational mixed-disulfide intermediate is, upon further chain elongation, resolved, releasing the oxidized polypeptide, thus allowing us to follow the folding process. This analysis reveals that two cysteines that are joined to form a structural disulfide can play different roles during the folding reaction and that the mode of translocation (cotranslational verse posttranslational) can affect the folding process of a protein in the periplasm. The latter finding leads us to propose that the activity of the ribosome (translation) can modulate protein folding even in an extracytosolic compartment.
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Chacinska A, Koehler CM, Milenkovic D, Lithgow T, Pfanner N. Importing mitochondrial proteins: machineries and mechanisms. Cell 2009; 138:628-44. [PMID: 19703392 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1086] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes and must be imported across one or both mitochondrial membranes. There is an amazingly versatile set of machineries and mechanisms, and at least four different pathways, for the importing and sorting of mitochondrial precursor proteins. The translocases that catalyze these processes are highly dynamic machines driven by the membrane potential, ATP, or redox reactions, and they cooperate with molecular chaperones and assembly complexes to direct mitochondrial proteins to their correct destinations. Here, we discuss recent insights into the importing and sorting of mitochondrial proteins and their contributions to mitochondrial biogenesis.
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- Agnieszka Chacinska
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, ZBMZ, Universität Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Emergence of Animals from Heat Engines – Part 1. Before the Snowball Earths. ENTROPY 2009. [DOI: 10.3390/e11030463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Widmaier DM, Tullman-Ercek D, Mirsky EA, Hill R, Govindarajan S, Minshull J, Voigt CA. Engineering the Salmonella type III secretion system to export spider silk monomers. Mol Syst Biol 2009; 5:309. [PMID: 19756048 PMCID: PMC2758716 DOI: 10.1038/msb.2009.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2009] [Accepted: 07/24/2009] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The type III secretion system (T3SS) exports proteins from the cytoplasm, through both the inner and outer membranes, to the external environment. Here, a system is constructed to harness the T3SS encoded within Salmonella Pathogeneity Island 1 to export proteins of biotechnological interest. The system is composed of an operon containing the target protein fused to an N-terminal secretion tag and its cognate chaperone. Transcription is controlled by a genetic circuit that only turns on when the cell is actively secreting protein. The system is refined using a small human protein (DH domain) and demonstrated by exporting three silk monomers (ADF-1, -2, and -3), representative of different types of spider silk. Synthetic genes encoding silk monomers were designed to enhance genetic stability and codon usage, constructed by automated DNA synthesis, and cloned into the secretion control system. Secretion rates up to 1.8 mg l(-1) h(-1) are demonstrated with up to 14% of expressed protein secreted. This work introduces new parts to control protein secretion in Gram-negative bacteria, which will be broadly applicable to problems in biotechnology.
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- Daniel M Widmaier
- Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program, University of California--San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
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Padmini E, Vijaya Geetha B. Modulation of ASK1 expression during overexpression of Trx and HSP70 in stressed fish liver mitochondria. Cell Stress Chaperones 2009; 14:459-67. [PMID: 19221896 PMCID: PMC2728287 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-009-0099-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2008] [Revised: 01/13/2009] [Accepted: 01/16/2009] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Mitochondrial heat shock protein 70 (mtHSP70) is found to play a primary role in cellular defense against physiological stress like exposure to environmental contaminants and helpful in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis by promoting the cell survival. In the present investigation, the environmental-stress-induced increase in mtHSP70 levels along with the quantification of apoptosis signal regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) and thioredoxin (Trx) were measured in the liver mitochondria of grey mullets (Mugil cephalus) collected from the polluted Ennore estuary and the unpolluted Kovalam estuary for a period of 2 years. The results showed elevated lipid peroxide (LPO) and decreased total antioxidant capacity along with the decrease in mitochondrial viability percentage. Mitochondrial HSP70, ASK1, and Trx levels were increased under this stress condition. A 42% increase in LPO levels and 18% decrease in mitochondrial survivality were observed in the polluted-site fish liver mitochondria when compared to the results of unpolluted estuary. We also report that, under observed oxidative stress condition in Ennore fish samples, the ASK1 levels are only moderately elevated (13% increase). This may be due to mitochondrial-HSP70-induced adaptive tolerance signaling for the activation of Trx (22% increase) which suppresses the ASK1 expression thereby promoting the cell survival that leads to the maintenance of the cellular homeostasis.
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- Ekambaram Padmini
- Research Department of Biochemistry, Bharathi Women’s College, Chennai, 600108 Tamil Nadu India
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- Research Department of Biochemistry, Bharathi Women’s College, Chennai, 600108 Tamil Nadu India
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Molecular machines drive essential biological processes, with the component parts of these machines each contributing a partial function or structural element. Mitochondria are organelles of eukaryotic cells, and depend for their biogenesis on a set of molecular machines for protein transport. How these molecular machines evolved is a fundamental question. Mitochondria were derived from an alpha-proteobacterial endosymbiont, and we identified in alpha-proteobacteria the component parts of a mitochondrial protein transport machine. In bacteria, the components are found in the inner membrane, topologically equivalent to the mitochondrial proteins. Although the bacterial proteins function in simple assemblies, relatively little mutation would be required to convert them to function as a protein transport machine. This analysis of protein transport provides a blueprint for the evolution of cellular machinery in general.
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Brodsky JL, Wojcikiewicz RJ. Substrate-specific mediators of ER associated degradation (ERAD). Curr Opin Cell Biol 2009; 21:516-21. [PMID: 19443192 PMCID: PMC2756615 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2009.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2009] [Revised: 04/09/2009] [Accepted: 04/14/2009] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Approximately one-third of newly synthesized eukaryotic proteins are targeted to the secretory pathway, which is composed of an organellar network that houses the enzymes and maintains the chemical environment required for the maturation of secreted and membrane proteins. Nevertheless, this diverse group of proteins may fail to achieve their native states and are consequently selected for ER associated degradation (ERAD). Over the past few years, significant effort has been made to dissect the components of the core ERAD machinery that is responsible for the destruction of most ERAD substrates. Interestingly, however, some ERAD substrates associate with dedicated chaperone-like proteins that target them for proteolysis or protect them from destruction. Other substrates fold and function normally but can be selected for ERAD by protein adaptors that identify and transmit regulatory cues.
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- Jeffrey L. Brodsky
- Department of Biological Sciences 274 Crawford Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Tel.412-624-4831; Fax.412-624-4759;
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- Department of Pharmacology 3307 Weiskotten Hall SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY 13210 Tel.315-464-7956; Fax.315-464-8014;
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Protein transport, especially into different cellular compartments, is a highly coordinated and regulated process. The molecular machineries which carry out these transport processes are highly complex in structure, function, and regulation. In the case of chloroplasts, thousands of protein molecules have been estimated to be transported across the double-membrane bound envelope per minute. In this brief review, we summarize current knowledge about the molecular interplay during precursor protein import into chloroplasts, focusing on the initial events at the outer envelope.
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We use single silicon nitride nanopores to study folded, partially folded, and unfolded single proteins by measuring their excluded volumes. The DNA-calibrated translocation signals of beta-lactoglobulin and histidine-containing phosphocarrier protein match quantitatively with that predicted by a simple sum of the partial volumes of the amino acids in the polypeptide segment inside the pore when translocation stalls due to the primary charge sequence. Our analysis suggests that the majority of the protein molecules were linear or looped during translocation and that the electrical forces present under physiologically relevant potentials can unfold proteins. Our results show that the nanopore translocation signals are sensitive enough to distinguish the folding state of a protein and distinguish between proteins based on the excluded volume of a local segment of the polypeptide chain that transiently stalls in the nanopore due to the primary sequence of charges.
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- David S Talaga
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
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Kutik S, Stroud DA, Wiedemann N, Pfanner N. Evolution of mitochondrial protein biogenesis. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2009; 1790:409-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2009.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2008] [Revised: 04/02/2009] [Accepted: 04/06/2009] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Anandatheerthavarada HK, Sepuri NBV, Avadhani NG. Mitochondrial targeting of cytochrome P450 proteins containing NH2-terminal chimeric signals involves an unusual TOM20/TOM22 bypass mechanism. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:17352-17363. [PMID: 19401463 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.007492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Previously we showed that xenobiotic inducible cytochrome P450 (CYP) proteins are bimodally targeted to the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of delivery of chimeric signal containing CYP proteins to the peripheral and channel-forming mitochondrial outer membrane translocases (TOMs). CYP+33/1A1 and CYP2B1 did not require peripheral TOM70, TOM20, or TOM22 for translocation through the channel-forming TOM40 protein. In contrast, CYP+5/1A1 and CYP2E1 were able to bypass TOM20 and TOM22 but required TOM70. CYP27, which contains a canonical cleavable mitochondrial signal, required all of the peripheral TOMs for its mitochondrial translocation. We investigated the underlying mechanisms of bypass of peripheral TOMs by CYPs with chimeric signals. The results suggested that interaction of CYPs with Hsp70, a cytosolic chaperone involved in the mitochondrial import, alone was sufficient for the recognition of chimeric signals by peripheral TOMs. However, sequential interaction of chimeric signal containing CYPs with Hsp70 and Hsp90 resulted in the bypass of peripheral TOMs, whereas CYP27A1 interacted only with Hsp70 and was not able to bypass peripheral TOMs. Our results also show that delivery of a chimeric signal containing client protein by Hsp90 required the cytosol-exposed NH(2)-terminal 143 amino acids of TOM40. TOM40 devoid of this domain was unable to import CYP proteins. These results suggest that compared with the unimodal mitochondrial targeting signals, the chimeric mitochondrial targeting signals are highly evolved and dynamic in nature.
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- Hindupur K Anandatheerthavarada
- From the Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- From the Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- From the Department of Animal Biology and the Mari Lowe Center for Comparative Oncology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
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Hu J, Li J, Qian X, Jin Z, Fu Z, Sha B. Preliminary X-ray crystallographic studies of yeast Get3. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2009; 65:489-91. [PMID: 19407384 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309109012317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2008] [Accepted: 04/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Tail-anchored (TA) proteins contain a single transmembrane domain (TMD) at the C-terminus. The post-translational insertion of TA proteins into the ER membrane requires the cooperation of the Golgi ER-trafficking (GET) complex, which contains Get1, Get2 and Get3. Get3 is a cytosolic ATPase which can recognize and bind the TMD of the TA proteins. Get1 and Get2 are ER transmembrane proteins which can recruit and form a complex with TA-bound Get3. The GET complex carries out an energy-dependent process that facilitates the insertion of the TA-protein TMD into the ER membrane. In order to investigate the mechanism by which the GET complex functions to promote protein insertion into the ER membrane, yeast Get3 has been crystallized. The crystals diffracted to 2.7 A resolution using a synchrotron X-ray source. The crystals belonged to space group P2(1)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = 220.26, b = 112.95, c = 48.27 A. There is one Get3 dimer in the asymmetric unit, which corresponds to a solvent content of approximately 65%.
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- Junbin Hu
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294, USA
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Saier MH, Ma CH, Rodgers L, Tamang DG, Yen MR. Protein secretion and membrane insertion systems in bacteria and eukaryotic organelles. ADVANCES IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY 2009; 65:141-97. [PMID: 19026865 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2164(08)00606-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Milton H Saier
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0116, USA
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Patham B, Duffy J, Lane A, Davis RC, Wipf P, Fewell SW, Brodsky JL, Mensa-Wilmot K. Post-translational import of protein into the endoplasmic reticulum of a trypanosome: an in vitro system for discovery of anti-trypanosomal chemical entities. Biochem J 2009; 419:507-17. [PMID: 19196237 PMCID: PMC2769561 DOI: 10.1042/bj20081787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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HAT (human African trypanosomiasis), caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, is an emerging disease for which new drugs are needed. Expression of plasma membrane proteins [e.g. VSG (variant surface glycoprotein)] is crucial for the establishment and maintenance of an infection by T. brucei. Transport of a majority of proteins to the plasma membrane involves their translocation into the ER (endoplasmic reticulum). Thus inhibition of protein import into the ER of T. brucei would be a logical target for discovery of lead compounds against trypanosomes. We have developed a TbRM (T. brucei microsome) system that imports VSG_117 post-translationally. Using this system, MAL3-101, equisetin and CJ-21,058 were discovered to be small molecule inhibitors of VSG_117 translocation into the ER. These agents also killed bloodstream T. brucei in vitro; the concentrations at which 50% of parasites were killed (IC50) were 1.5 microM (MAL3-101), 3.3 microM (equisetin) and 7 microM (CJ-21,058). Thus VSG_117 import into TbRMs is a rapid and novel assay to identify 'new chemical entities' (e.g. MAL3-101, equisetin and CJ-21,058) for anti-trypanosome drug development.
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- Bhargavi Patham
- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, 724 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, 724 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, 724 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, 724 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Chevron Science Center, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A
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- Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, 724 Biological Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, U.S.A
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