Topologically knotted deubiquitinases exhibit unprecedented mechanostability to withstand the proteolysis by an AAA+ protease

Abstract More than one thousand knotted protein structures have been identified so far, but the functional roles of these knots remain elusive. It has been postulated that backbone entanglement may provide additional mechanostability. Here, we employed a bacterial proteasome, ClpXP, to mechanically...

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Autores principales: Manoj Kumar Sriramoju, Yen Chen, Yun-Tzai Cloud Lee, Shang-Te Danny Hsu
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Sumario:Abstract More than one thousand knotted protein structures have been identified so far, but the functional roles of these knots remain elusive. It has been postulated that backbone entanglement may provide additional mechanostability. Here, we employed a bacterial proteasome, ClpXP, to mechanically unfold 52-knotted human ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase (UCH) paralogs from their C-termini, followed by processive translocation into the proteolytic chamber for degradation. Our results revealed unprecedentedly slow kinetics of ClpXP-mediated proteolysis for the proteasome-associated UCHL5: ten thousand times slower than that of a green fluorescence protein (GFP), which has a comparable size to the UCH domain but much higher chemical and thermal stabilities. The ClpXP-dependent mechanostability positively correlates with the intrinsic unfolding rates of the substrates, spanning over several orders of magnitude for the UCHs. The broad range of mechanostability within the same protein family may be associated with the functional requirements for their differential malleabilities.