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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 296, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1074/jbc.RA120.014739
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research VIDI Grant [723-016-007]
- Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation [CTI 18272.1]
In this study, the researchers used electron microscopy to reveal the unique tilted conformation of the cytosolic domain in FtsH, demonstrating its importance in the substrate entry pathway. Through structural and sequence analysis, a crucial unique polypeptide linker was identified. Deletion of this linker resulted in the complete elimination of FtsH proteolytic activity.
AAA+ proteases are degradation machines that use ATP hydrolysis to unfold protein substrates and translocate them through a central pore toward a degradation chamber. FtsH, a bacterial membrane-anchored AAA+ protease, plays a vital role in membrane protein quality control. How substrates reach the FtsH central pore is an open key question that is not resolved by the available atomic structures of cytoplasmic and periplasmic domains. In this work, we used both negative stain TEM and cryo-EM to determine 3D maps of the full-length Aquifex aeolicus FtsH protease. Unexpectedly, we observed that detergent solubilization induces the formation of fully active FtsH dodecamers, which consist of two FtsH hexamers in a single detergent micelle. The striking tilted conformation of the cytosolic domain in the FtsH dodecamer visualized by negative stain TEM suggests a lateral substrate entrance between the membrane and cytosolic domain. Such a substrate path was then resolved in the cryo-EM structure of the FtsH hexamer. By mapping the available structural information and structure predictions for the transmembrane helices to the amino acid sequence we identified a linker of similar to 20 residues between the second transmembrane helix and the cytosolic domain. This unique polypeptide appears to be highly flexible and turned out to be essential for proper functioning of FtsH as its deletion fully eliminated the proteolytic activity of FtsH.
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