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The ATP Costs and Time Required to Degrade Ubiquitinated Proteins by the 26 S Proteasome

Journal

JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 288, Issue 40, Pages 29215-29222

Publisher

AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.482570

Keywords

ATP; ATPases; Proteasome; Protein Degradation; Ubiquitin; 26 S Proteasome; AAA-ATPases; ATP Hydrolysis; Ubiquitin Conjugates

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health from NIGMS [R01 GM051923-17]
  2. Medical Research Council [G0802822] Funding Source: researchfish
  3. MRC [G0802822] Funding Source: UKRI

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The degradation of ubiquitinated proteins by 26 S proteasomes requires ATP hydrolysis. To investigate if the six proteasomal ATPases function independently or in a cyclic manner, as proposed recently, we used yeast mutants that prevent ATP binding to Rpt3, Rpt5, or Rpt6. Although proteasomes contain six ATPase subunits, each of these single mutations caused a 66% reduction in basal ATP hydrolysis, and each blocked completely the 2-3-fold stimulation of ATPase activity induced by ubiquitinated substrates. Therefore, the ATPase subunits must function in a ordered manner, in which each is required for the stimulation of ATPase activity by substrates. Although ATP is essential for multiple steps in proteasome function, when the rate of ATP hydrolysis was reduced incrementally, the degradation of Ub(5)-DHFR (where Ub is ubiquitin and DHFR is dihydrofolate reductase) decreased exactly in parallel. This direct proportionality implies that a specific number of ATPs is consumed in degrading a ubiquitinated protein. When the ubiquitinated DHFR was more tightly folded (upon addition of the ligand folate), the rate of ATP hydrolysis was unchanged, but the time to degrade a Ub(5)-DHFR molecule (approximate to 13 s) and the energy expenditure (50-80 ATPs/Ub(5)-DHFR) both increased by 2-fold. With a mutation in the ATPase C terminus that reduced gate opening into the 20 S proteasome, the energy costs and time required for conjugate degradation also increased. Thus, different ubiquitin conjugates activate similarly the ATPase subunit cycle that drives proteolysis, but polypeptide structure determines the time required for degradation and thus the energy cost.

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