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ArticleeLife2019

Interactions between a subset of substrate side chains and AAA+ motor pore loops determine grip during protein unfolding.

Tristan A Bell, Tania A Baker, Robert T Sauer

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tristan A BellDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3668-8412
Tania A BakerDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0737-3411
Robert T SauerDepartment of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

PRE-DOCTORAL TRAINING IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCEST32GM007287 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BELL, STEPHEN P., KEATING, AMY E · 1985 to 2019
$40.8M
Sequence Determinants of Protein Structure and StabilityR01GM101988 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI SAUER, ROBERT T · 2012 to 2019
$3.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM101988NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007287NIH HHS 5T32GM-007287NIH HHS GM-101988
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most AAA+ remodeling motors denature proteins by pulling on the peptide termini of folded substrates, but it is not well-understood how motors produce grip when resisting a folded domain. Here, at single amino-acid resolution, we identify the determinants of grip by measuring how substrate tail sequences alter the unfolding activity of the unfoldase-protease ClpXP. The seven amino acids abutting a stable substrate domain are key, with residues 2-6 forming a core that contributes most significantly to grip. ClpX grips large hydrophobic and aromatic side chains strongly and small, polar, or charged side chains weakly. Multiple side chains interact with pore loops synergistically to strengthen grip. In combination with recent structures, our results support a mechanism in which unfolding grip is primarily mediated by non-specific van der Waal's interactions between core side chains of the substrate tail and a subset of YVG loops at the top of the ClpX axial pore.

Indexed as

Protein UnfoldingAmino Acid SequenceATPases Associated with Diverse Cellular ActivitiesEndopeptidase ClpEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsProtein BindingProteolysisSubstrate SpecificityATPases Associated with Diverse Cellular ActivitiesClpXP protease, E coliEndopeptidase ClpEscherichia coli ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsAAA+ enzymesATP-dependent protein unfoldingbiochemistrychemical biologyClpXPE. colimolecular biophysicsprotein degradationstructural biology

Identifiers

PMID31251172
PMCPMC6677533
OpenAlexW2955594927

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