Abstract
Large protein machines are tightly regulated through allosteric communication channels. Here we demonstrate the involvement of ultrafast conformational dynamics in allosteric regulation of CIpB, a hexameric AAA+ machine that rescues aggregated proteins. Each subunit of CIpB contains a unique coiled-coil structure, the middle domain (M domain), proposed as a control element that binds the co-chaperone DnaK. Using single-molecule FRET spectroscopy, we probe the M domain during the chaperone cycle and find it to jump on the microsecond time scale between two states, whose structures are determined. The M-domain jumps are much faster than the overall activity of CIpB, making it an effectively continuous, tunable switch. Indeed, a series of allosteric interactions are found to modulate the dynamics, including binding of nucleotides, DnaK and protein substrates. This mode of dynamic control enables fast cellular adaptation and may be a general mechanism for the regulation of cellular machineries.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1438 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published Online - 29 Mar 2019 |
Funding
G.H. is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 742637). P.G. is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 31003A_156948). The PhD research of H.M. is supported by Planning & Budgeting Committee of the Council of Higher Education of Israel. M.I. is the recipient of an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship (ALTF 317–2018), Y.B. is the incumbent of Beatrice Barton Research Fellowship, and G.H. is the incumbent of the Hilda Pomeraniec Memorial Professorial Chair. We thank Dr. Hagen Hofmann from the Weizmann Institute of Science for reading and commenting on the manuscript, and Prof. Francis Tsai from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, for discussion and advice at early stages of this work.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Chemistry
- General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Physics and Astronomy