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Kuzmina NV, Gavrilova AA, Fefilova AS, Romanovich AE, Kuznetsova IM, Turoverov KK, Fonin AV. Von-Hippel Lindau protein amyloid formation. The role of GST-tag. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2024; 715:150008. [PMID: 38685186 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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In the last decade, much attention was given to the study of physiological amyloid fibrils. These structures include A-bodies, which are the nucleolar fibrillar formations that appear in the response to acidosis and heat shock, and disassemble after the end of stress. One of the proteins involved in the biogenesis of A-bodies, regardless of the type of stress, is Von-Hippel Lindau protein (VHL). Known also as a tumor suppressor, VHL is capable to form amyloid fibrils both in vitro and in vivo in response to the environment acidification. As with most amyloidogenic proteins fusion with various tags is used to increase the solubility of VHL. Here, we first performed AFM-study of fibrils formed by VHL protein and by VHL fused with GST-tag (GST-VHL) at acidic conditions. It was shown that formed by full-length VHL fibrils are short heterogenic structures with persistent length of 2400 nm and average contour length of 409 nm. GST-tag catalyzes VHL amyloid fibril formation, superimpose chirality, increases length and level of hierarchy, but decreases rigidity of amyloid fibrils. The obtained data indicate that tagging can significantly affect the fibrillogenesis of the target protein.
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- Natalia V Kuzmina
- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bldg. 4, 31, Leninskiy ave., 119071, Moscow, Russia
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- Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Ave., 194064, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Center of Genomic Regulation (GRC), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, 08003, Spain
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- Resource Center of Molecular and Cell Technologies, St-Petersburg State University Research Park, Universitetskaya Emb. 7-9, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Ave., 194064, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Ave., 194064, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky Ave., 194064, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Koroleva ON, Kuzmina NV, Dubrovin EV, Drutsa VL. Atomic force microscopy of spherical intermediates on the pathway to fibril formation of influenza A virus nuclear export protein. Microsc Res Tech 2024; 87:1131-1145. [PMID: 38270267 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.24499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/07/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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The nuclear export protein of the influenza A virus (NEP) is involved in many important processes of the virus life cycle. This makes it an attractive target for the treatment of a disease caused by a virus. Previously it has been shown, that recombinant variants of NEP are highly prone to aggregation in solution under various conditions with the formation of amyloid-like aggregates. In the present work, the amyloid nature of NEP aggregates was evidenced by Congo red binding assays. Atomic force microscopy has shown that NEP can form two types of spherical nanoparticles, which provide an alternative pathway for the formation of amyloid-like fibrils. Type I of these "fibrillogenic" spheres, formed under physiological conditions, represents the micelle-like particles with height 10-60 nm, which can generate worm-like flexible fibrils with the diameter 2.5-4.0 nm, length 20-500 nm and the Young's modulus ~73 MPa. Type II spherical aggregates with size of about 400-1000 nm, formed at elevated temperatures, includes fractions of drop-like and vesicle-like particles, generating more rigid amyloid-like fibrils with height of ~8 nm, and length of up to 2 μm. The hypothetical mechanism of fibril formation via nanospherical structures was suggested. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: AFM has revealed two types of the influenza A virus nuclear export protein spherical aggregates. They provide an alternative pathway for the formation of amyloid-like fibrils. The mechanism of fibril formation via spherical structures is suggested.
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- Olga N Koroleva
- Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- National University of Science and Technology, MISIS, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Dubrovin EV, Kuzmina NV, Varlamova EA, Kolmogorov VS, Gorelkin PV, Erofeev AS, Popova AV, Batishchev OV. Nanoscale Characterization of Specific Interaction of Lytic Bacteriophages with Biofilms. Biophys J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.11.1748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Zvyagina AI, Naumova AD, Kuzmina NV, Martynov AG, Gorbunova YG, Kalinina MA. Surfactant-Assisted Lateral Self-Assembly of One-Dimensional Supramolecular Aggregates of Lutetium Double-Decker Phthalocyaninates. MACROHETEROCYCLES 2021. [DOI: 10.6060/mhc210233k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Batishchev OV, Kuzmina NV, Mozhaev AA, Goryashchenko AS, Mileshina ED, Orsa AN, Bocharov EV, Deyev IE, Petrenko AG. Activity-dependent conformational transitions of the insulin receptor-related receptor. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100534. [PMID: 33713705 PMCID: PMC8058561 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The insulin receptor (IR), insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor (IGF-1R), and insulin receptor-related receptor (IRR) form a mini family of predimerized receptor-like tyrosine kinases. IR and IGF-1R bind to their peptide agonists triggering metabolic and cell growth responses. In contrast, IRR, despite sharing with them a strong sequence homology, has no peptide-like agonist but can be activated by mildly alkaline media. The spatial structure and activation mechanisms of IRR have not been established yet. The present work represents the first account of a structural analysis of a predimerized receptor-like tyrosine kinase by high-resolution atomic force microscopy in their basal and activated forms. Our data suggest that in neutral media, inactive IRR has two conformations, where one is symmetrical and highly similar to the inactive Λ/U-shape of IR and IGF-1R ectodomains, whereas the second is drop-like and asymmetrical resembling the IRR ectodomain in solution. We did not observe complexes of IRR intracellular catalytic domains of the inactive receptor forms. At pH 9.0, we detected two presumably active IRR conformations, Γ-shaped and T-shaped. Both of conformations demonstrated formation of the complex of their intracellular catalytic domains responsible for autophosphorylation. The existence of two active IRR forms correlates well with the previously described positive cooperativity of the IRR activation. In conclusion, our data provide structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of alkali-induced IRR activation under mild native conditions that could be valuable for interpretation of results of IR and IGF-IR structural studies.
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- Oleg V Batishchev
- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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- A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics", Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudniy, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Kuzmina NV, Dubrovin EV, Koroleva ON, Drutsa VL, Zimmerberg J, Batishchev OV. Atomic Force Microscopy in the Study of Protein Self-Assembly. Biophys J 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.1203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Kuzmina NV, Loshkareva AS, Shilova LA, Shtykova EV, Knyazev DG, Zimmerberg J, Batishchev OV. Protein-Lipid Interactions in Formation of Viral Envelopes. Biophys J 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.11.2874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Koroleva ON, Dubrovin EV, Tolstova AP, Kuzmina NV, Laptinskaya TV, Yaminsky IV, Drutsa VL. A hypothetical hierarchical mechanism of the self-assembly of the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase σ(70) subunit. Soft Matter 2016; 12:1974-1982. [PMID: 26758573 DOI: 10.1039/c5sm02934a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Diverse morphology of aggregates of amyloidogenic proteins has been attracting much attention in the last few years, and there is still no complete understanding of the relationships between various types of aggregates. In this work, we propose the model, which universally explains the formation of morphologically different (wormlike and rodlike) aggregates on the example of a σ(70) subunit of RNA polymerase, which has been recently shown to form amyloid fibrils. Aggregates were studied using AFM in solution and depolarized dynamic light scattering. The obtained results demonstrate comparably low Young's moduli of the wormlike structures (7.8-12.3 MPa) indicating less structured aggregation of monomeric proteins than that typical for β-sheet formation. To shed light on the molecular interaction of the protein during the aggregation, early stages of fibrillization of the σ(70) subunit were modeled using all-atom molecular dynamics. Simulations have shown that the σ(70) subunit is able to form quasi-symmetric extended dimers, which may further interact with each other and grow linearly. The proposed general model explains different pathways of σ(70) subunit aggregation and may be valid for other amyloid proteins.
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- O N Koroleva
- Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 1/3, Moscow, 119991 Russian Federation
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Koroleva ON, Dubrovin EV, Khodak YA, Kuzmina NV, Yaminsky IV, Drutsa VL. The model of amyloid aggregation of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase σ70 subunit based on AFM data and in vitro assays. Cell Biochem Biophys 2013; 66:623-36. [PMID: 23306967 DOI: 10.1007/s12013-012-9507-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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To propose a model for recently described amyloid aggregation of E.coli RNA polymerase σ(70) subunit, we have investigated the role of its N-terminal region. For this purpose, three mutant variants of protein with deletions Δ1-73, Δ1-100 and Δ74-100 were constructed and studied in a series of in vitro assays and using atomic force microscopy (AFM). Specifically, all RNA polymerase holoenzymes, reconstituted with the use of mutant σ subunits, have shown reduced affinity for promoter-containing DNA and reduced activity in run-off transcription experiments (compared to that of WT species), thus substantiating the modern concept on the modulatory role of N-terminus in formation of open complex and transcription initiation. The ability of mutant proteins to form amyloid-like structures has been investigated using AFM, which revealed the increased propensity of mutant proteins to form rodlike aggregates with the effect being more pronounced for the mutant with the deletion Δ1-73 (10 fold increase). σ(70) subunit aggregation ability has shown complex dependence on the ionic surrounding, which we explain by Debye screening effect and the change of the internal state of the protein. Basing on the obtained data, we propose the model of amyloid fibril formation by σ(70) subunit, implying the involvement of N-terminal region according to the domain swapping mechanism.
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- Olga N Koroleva
- Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Dubrovin EV, Koroleva ON, Khodak YA, Kuzmina NV, Yaminsky IV, Drutsa VL. AFM study of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase σ⁷⁰ subunit aggregation. Nanomedicine 2011; 8:54-62. [PMID: 21703992 DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2011.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2011] [Revised: 05/20/2011] [Accepted: 05/21/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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UNLABELLED The self-assembly of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase σ⁷⁰ subunit was investigated using several experimental approaches. A novel rodlike shape was reported for σ⁷⁰ subunit aggregates. Atomic force microscopy reveals that these aggregates, or σ⁷⁰ polymers, have a straight rodlike shape 5.4 nm in diameter and up to 300 nm in length. Atomic force microscopy data, Congo red binding assay, and sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis confirm the amyloid nature of observed aggregates. The process of formation of rodlike structures proceeds spontaneously under nearly physiological conditions. E. coli RNA polymerase σ⁷⁰ subunit may be an interesting object for investigation of amyloidosis as well as for biotechnological applications that exploit self-assembled bionanostructures. Polymerization of σ⁷⁰ subunit may be a competitive process with its three-dimensional crystallization and association with core RNA polymerase. FROM THE CLINICAL EDITOR In this basic science study, the self-assembly of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase σ⁷⁰( subunit was investigated using atomic force microscopy and other complementary approaches.
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- Evgeniy V Dubrovin
- Department of Physics of Polymers and Crystals, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Russia.
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