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Purification of Hsp104, a Protein Disaggregase
Published on: September 30, 2011
A conserved strategy for structure change and energy transduction in Hsp104 and other AAA+ protein motors
Xiang Ye1, Leland Mayne2, S Walter Englander2
1Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Abstract:
The superfamily of massively large AAA+ protein molecular machines functions to convert the chemical energy of cytosolic ATP into physicomechanical form and use it to perform an extraordinary number of physical operations on proteins, nucleic acids, and membrane systems. Cryo-EM studies now reveal some aspects of substrate handling at high resolution, but the broader interpretation of AAA+ functional properties is still opaque. This paper integrates recent hydrogen exchange results for the typical AAA+ protein Hsp104 with prior information on several near and distantly related others. The analysis points to a widely conserved functional strategy. Hsp104 cycles through a long-lived loosely-structured energy-input "open" state that releases spent ADP and rebinds cytosolic ATP. ATP-binding energy is transduced by allosteric structure change to poise the protein at a high energy level in a more tightly structured "closed" state. The briefly occupied energy-output closed state binds substrate strongly and is catalytically active. ATP hydrolysis permits energetically downhill structural relaxation, which is coupled to drive energy-requiring substrate processing. Other AAA+ proteins appear to cycle through states that are analogous functionally if not in structural detail. These results revise the current model for AAA+ function, explain the structural basis of single-molecule optical tweezer kinetic phases, identify the separate energetic roles of ATP binding and hydrolysis, and specify a sequence of structural and energetic events that carry AAA+ proteins unidirectionally around a functional cycle to propel their diverse physical tasks.
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