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Paetzel M. Structure and mechanism of Escherichia coli type I signal peptidase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2013; 1843:1497-508. [PMID: 24333859 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2013.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2013] [Revised: 11/26/2013] [Accepted: 12/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Type I signal peptidase is the enzyme responsible for cleaving off the amino-terminal signal peptide from proteins that are secreted across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. It is an essential membrane bound enzyme whose serine/lysine catalytic dyad resides on the exo-cytoplasmic surface of the bacterial membrane. This review discusses the progress that has been made in the structural and mechanistic characterization of Escherichia coli type I signal peptidase (SPase I) as well as efforts to develop a novel class of antibiotics based on SPase I inhibition. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Protein trafficking and secretion in bacteria. Guest Editors: Anastassios Economou and Ross Dalbey.
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- Mark Paetzel
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
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Kol MA, van Dalen A, de Kroon AIPM, de Kruijff B. Translocation of phospholipids is facilitated by a subset of membrane-spanning proteins of the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:24586-93. [PMID: 12714595 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m301875200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mechanism by which phospholipids are transported across biogenic membranes, such as the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, is unknown. We hypothesized that this process is mediated by the presence of the membrane-spanning segments of inner membrane proteins, rather than by dedicated flippases. In support of the hypothesis, it was demonstrated that transmembrane alpha-helical peptides, mimicking the membrane-spanning segments, mediate flop of 2-6-(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl) aminocaproyl (C6-NBD)-phospholipids (Kol, M. A., de Kroon, A. I., Rijkers, D. T., Killian, J. A., and de Kruijff, B. (2001) Biochemistry 40, 10500-10506). Here the dithionite reduction assay was used to measure transbilayer equilibration of C6-NBD-phospholipids in proteoliposomes, composed of Escherichia coli phospholipids and a subset of bacterial membrane proteins. It is shown that two well characterized integral proteins of the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, leader peptidase and the potassium channel KcsA, induce phospholipid translocation, most likely by their transmembrane domains. In contrast, the ATP-binding cassette transporter from the E. coli inner membrane MsbA, a putative lipid flippase, did not mediate phospholipid translocation, irrespective of the presence of ATP. OmpT, an outer membrane protein from E. coli, did not facilitate flop either, demonstrating specificity of protein-mediated phospholipid translocation. The results are discussed in the light of phospholipid transport across the E. coli inner membrane.
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- Matthijs A Kol
- Department Biochemistry of Membranes, Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, The Netherlands.
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van Dalen A, Killian A, de Kruijff B. Delta psi stimulates membrane translocation of the C-terminal part of a signal sequence. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:19913-8. [PMID: 10391938 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.28.19913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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For several proteins in Escherichia coli it has been shown that the protonmotive force (pmf) dependence of translocation can be varied with the signal sequence composition, suggesting an effect of the pmf on the signal sequence. To test this possibility, we analyzed the effect of the membrane potential on translocation of the signal sequence. For this purpose, a precursor peptide was used (SP+7), corresponding to the signal sequence of PhoE with the first seven amino acids of the mature part that can be processed by purified leader peptidase. Translocation was studied in pure lipid vesicles containing leader peptidase, with its active site inside the vesicles. In the presence of a positive inside Delta psi, the amount of processing of SP+7 was significantly higher than without a Delta psi, indicating that the translocation of the cleavage region is stimulated by Delta psi. Replacement of the helix-breaking glycine residue at position -10 in the signal sequence for a leucine abolished the effect of Delta psi on the translocation of the cleavage region. It is concluded that Delta psi directly acts on the wild type signal sequence by stimulating the translocation of its C terminus. We propose that Delta psi acts on the signal sequence by stretching it into a transmembrane orientation.
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- A van Dalen
- Department of Biochemistry of Membranes, Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, Institute of Biomembranes, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Both ATP and an electrochemical potential play roles in translocating proteins across the inner membrane of Escherichia coli. Recent discoveries have dissected the overall transmembrane movement into separate subreactions with different energy requirements, identified a translocation ATPase, and reconstituted both energy-requiring steps of the reaction from purified components. A more refined understanding of the energetics of this fundamental process is beginning to provide answers about the basic issues of how proteins move across the hydrophobic membrane barrier.
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- B L Geller
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-3804
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- K Ito
- Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto, Japan
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Zimmermann R, Zimmermann M, Wiech H, Schlenstedt G, Müller G, Morel F, Klappa P, Jung C, Cobet WW. Ribonucleoparticle-independent transport of proteins into mammalian microsomes. J Bioenerg Biomembr 1990; 22:711-23. [PMID: 2092035 DOI: 10.1007/bf00786927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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There are at least two different mechanisms for the transport of secretory proteins into the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum. Both mechanisms depend on the presence of a signal peptide on the respective precursor protein and involve a signal peptide receptor on the cis-side and signal peptidase on the trans-side of the membrane. Furthermore, both mechanisms involve a membrane component with a cytoplasmically exposed sulfhydryl. The decisive feature of the precursor protein with respect to which of the two mechanisms is used is the chain length of the polypeptide. The critical size seems to be around 70 amino acid residues (including the signal peptide). The one mechanism is used by precursor proteins larger than about 70 amino acid residues and involves two cytosolic ribonucleoparticles and their receptors on the microsomal surface. The other one is used by small precursor proteins and relies on the mature part within the precursor molecule and a cytosolic ATPase.
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- R Zimmermann
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Universität München, Federal Republic of Germany
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Signal peptidases, the endoproteases that remove the amino-terminal signal sequence from many secretory proteins, have been isolated from various sources. Seven signal peptidases have been purified, two from E. coli, two from mammalian sources, and three from mitochondrial matrix. The mitochondrial enzymes are soluble and function as a heterogeneous dimer. The mammalian enzymes are isolated as a complex and share a common glycosylated subunit. The bacterial enzymes are isolated as monomers and show no sequence homology with each other or the mammalian enzymes. The membrane-bound enzymes seem to require a substrate containing a consensus sequence following the -3, -1 rule of von Heijne at the cleavage site; however, processing of the substrate is strongly influenced by the hydrophobic region of the signal peptide. The enzymes appear to recognize an unknown three-dimensional motif rather than a specific amino acid sequence around the cleavage site. The matrix mitochondrial enzymes are metallo-endopeptidases; however, the other signal peptidases may belong to a unique class of proteases as they are resistant to chelators and most protease inhibitors. There are no data concerning the substrate binding site of these enzymes. In vivo, the signal peptide is rapidly degraded. Three different enzymes in Escherichia coli that can degrade a signal peptide in vitro have been identified. The intact signal peptide is not accumulated in mutants lacking these enzymes, which suggests that these peptidases individually are not responsible for the degradation of an intact signal peptide in vivo. It is speculated that signal peptidases and signal peptide hydrolases are integral components of the secretory pathway and that inhibition of the terminal steps can block translocation.
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- I K Dev
- Division of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Burroughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709
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de Vrije GJ, Batenburg AM, Killian JA, de Kruijff B. Lipid involvement in protein translocation in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 1990; 4:143-50. [PMID: 2181235 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1990.tb02024.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Signal peptides play an essential role in protein translocation. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the structure of signal peptides and signal peptide-lipid interactions and addresses the possibility that signal peptide-lipid interactions initiate membrane translocation of precursor proteins. A new model for protein translocation in Escherichia coli is proposed, which includes as central features conformational changes of the signal peptide and signal-peptide-induced local changes in membrane organization (non-bilayer lipids).
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- G J de Vrije
- Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Geller BL, Green HM. Translocation of Pro-OmpA across Inner Membrane Vesicles of Escherichia coli Occurs in Two Consecutive Energetically Distinct Steps. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)84728-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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de Vrije T, de Swart RL, Dowhan W, Tommassen J, de Kruijff B. Phosphatidylglycerol is involved in protein translocation across Escherichia coli inner membranes. Nature 1988; 334:173-5. [PMID: 3290692 DOI: 10.1038/334173a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Newly synthesized proteins to be exported out of the cytoplasm of bacterial cells have to pass across the inner membrane. In Gram-negative bacteria ATP, a membrane potential, the products of the sec genes and leader peptidases (enzymes which cleave the N-terminal signal peptides of the precursor proteins) are required. The mechanism of translocation, however, remains elusive. Important additional roles for membrane lipids have been repeatedly suggested both on theoretical grounds and on the basis of experiments with model systems but no direct evidence had been obtained. We demonstrate here, using mutants of Escherichia coli defective in the synthesis of the major anionic membrane phospholipids, that phosphatidylglycerol is involved in the translocation of newly synthesized outer-membrane proteins across the inner membrane.
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- T de Vrije
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Garcia PD, Ou JH, Rutter WJ, Walter P. Targeting of the hepatitis B virus precore protein to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane: after signal peptide cleavage translocation can be aborted and the product released into the cytoplasm. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1988; 106:1093-104. [PMID: 3283145 PMCID: PMC2114996 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.106.4.1093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The major hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein is a viral structural protein involved in nucleic acid binding. Its coding sequence contains an extension of 29 codons (the "precore" region) at the amino terminus of the protein which is present in a fraction of the viral transcripts. This region is evolutionarily conserved among mammalian and avian HBVs, suggesting it has functional importance, although at least for duck HBV it has been shown to be nonessential for replication of infectious virions. Using in vitro assays for protein translocation across the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, we found that the precore region of the HBV genome encodes a signal sequence. This signal sequence was recognized by signal recognition particle, which targeted the nascent precore protein to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane with efficiencies comparable to those of other mammalian secretory proteins. A 19-amino acid signal peptide was removed by signal peptidase on the lumenal side of the microsomal membrane, generating a protein similar to the HBV major core protein, but containing 10 additional amino acids from the precore region at its amino terminus. Surprisingly, we found that 70-80% of this signal peptidase-cleaved product was localized on the cytoplasmic side of the microsomal vesicles and was not associated with the membranes. We conclude that translocation was aborted by an unknown mechanism, then the protein disengaged from the translocation machinery and was released back into the cytoplasm. Thus, a cytoplasmically disposed protein was created whose amino terminus resulted from signal peptidase cleavage. The remaining 20-30% appeared to be completely translocated into the lumen of the microsomes. A deletion mutant lacking the carboxy-terminal nucleic acid binding domain of the precore protein was similarly partitioned between the lumen of the microsomes and the cytoplasmic compartment, indicating that this highly charged domain is not responsible for the aborted translocation. We discuss the implications of our findings for the protein translocation process and suggest a possible role in the virus life cycle.
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- P D Garcia
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448
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Robinson A, Austen B. The role of topogenic sequences in the movement of proteins through membranes. Biochem J 1987; 246:249-61. [PMID: 3318806 PMCID: PMC1148271 DOI: 10.1042/bj2460249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Recent advances have led to considerable convergence in ideas of the way topogenic sequences act to translocate proteins across various intracellular membranes (Table 2). Whereas co-translational translocation and processing were previously considered the norm at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, several instances of post-translational translocation into endoplasmic reticulum microsomes in vitro have now been described. However, it must be noted that post-translational translocation in vitro is much less efficient than when endoplasmic reticulum membranes are present during translation, and it is possible that in the intact cell translocation occurs during translation. Movement of proteins into chloroplasts and mitochondria occurs after translation. When translocation is post-translational, proteins may perhaps traverse the membrane as folded domains, and the conformational effects of topogenic sequences on these domains may be as envisaged in Wickner's 'membrane-trigger hypothesis'. Both signal and transit sequences possess amphipathic structures which are capable of interacting with phospholipid bilayers, and these interactions may disturb the bilayer sufficiently to allow entry of the following domains of protein. There is increasing evidence that GTP is required to bind ribosomes and their associated nascent chains to the endoplasmic reticulum membrane. Precisely how the cell's energy is applied to achieve translocation is not clear, but one possibility at the endoplasmic reticulum is that a GTP-hydrolysing transducing mechanism may exist to couple signal sequence receptor binding to movement of the nascent chain across the membrane. Electrochemical gradients are required for protein movement to the mitochondrial inner membrane and across the bacterial inner membrane. Cytoplasmic factors such as SRP, the secA gene product or a 40 kDa protein (for mitochondrial precursors) may act by binding to topogenic sequences and preventing precursor proteins as they are translated from folding into forms which cannot be translocated. Specificity in the cell may be achieved both by targetting interactions between these cytoplasmic factors and their receptors located in target membranes, and also by specific binding of the topogenic sequences to specific proteins integrated into the target membranes. Possible candidates for the latter are the protein of microsomal membranes that reacts with a photoreactive signal peptide to give a 45 kDa complex (Fig. 1), the secY gene product of the bacterial inner membrane, and receptors on the outer membranes of chloroplasts and mitochondria. Whether these aid translocation as well as recognition is not clear.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- A Robinson
- Department of Surgery, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting, London, U.K
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Deshaies RJ, Schekman R. A yeast mutant defective at an early stage in import of secretory protein precursors into the endoplasmic reticulum. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1987; 105:633-45. [PMID: 3305520 PMCID: PMC2114772 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.105.2.633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 349] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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We have devised a genetic selection for mutant yeast cells that fail to translocate secretory protein precursors into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Mutant cells are selected by a procedure that requires a signal peptide-containing cytoplasmic enzyme chimera to remain in contact with the cytosol. This approach has uncovered a new secretory mutant, sec61, that is thermosensitive for growth and that accumulates multiple secretory and vacuolar precursor proteins that have not acquired any detectable posttranslational modifications associated with translocation into the ER. Preproteins that accumulate at the sec61 block sediment with the particulate fraction, but are exposed to the cytosol as judged by sensitivity to proteinase K. Thus, the sec61 mutation defines a gene that is required for an early cytoplasmic or ER membrane-associated step in protein translocation.
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Moore KE, Miura S. A small hydrophobic domain anchors leader peptidase to the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47486-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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PFANNER NIKOLAUS, NEUPERT WALTER. Biogenesis of Mitochondrial Energy Transducing Complexes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152515-6.50011-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Briggs MS, Gierasch LM. Molecular mechanisms of protein secretion: the role of the signal sequence. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 1986; 38:109-80. [PMID: 3541538 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(08)60527-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Briggs MS, Gierasch LM, Zlotnick A, Lear JD, DeGrado WF. In vivo function and membrane binding properties are correlated for Escherichia coli lamB signal peptides. Science 1985; 228:1096-9. [PMID: 3158076 DOI: 10.1126/science.3158076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Wild-type and pseudorevertant signal peptides of the lamB gene product of Escherichia coli interact with lipid systems whereas a nonfunctional deletion mutant signal peptide does not. This conclusion is based on interaction of synthetic signal peptides with a lipid monolayer-water surface, conformational changes induced by presence of lipid vesicles in an aqueous solution of signal peptide, and capacities of the peptides to promote vesicle aggregation. Analysis of the signal sequences and previous conformational studies suggest that these lipid interaction properties may be attributable to the tendency of the functional signal peptides to adopt alpha-helical conformations. Although the possibility of direct interaction between the signal peptide and membrane lipids during protein secretion is controversial, the results suggest that conformationally related amphiphilicity and consequent membrane affinity of signal sequences are important for function in vivo.
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