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m‐AAA protease‐driven membrane dislocation allows intramembrane cleavage by rhomboid in mitochondria

24 Jan 2007-The EMBO Journal (European Molecular Biology Organization)-Vol. 26, Iss: 2, pp 325-335
TL;DR: Findings reveal for the first time a non‐proteolytic function of the m‐AAA protease during mitochondrial biogenesis and rationalise the requirement of a preceding step for intramembrane cleavage by rhomboid.
Abstract: Maturation of cytochrome c peroxidase (Ccp1) in mitochondria occurs by the subsequent action of two conserved proteases in the inner membrane: the m-AAA protease, an ATP-dependent protease degrading misfolded proteins and mediating protein processing, and the rhomboid protease Pcp1, an intramembrane cleaving peptidase. Neither the determinants preventing complete proteolysis of certain substrates by the m-AAA protease, nor the obligatory requirement of the m-AAA protease for rhomboid cleavage is currently understood. Here, we describe an intimate and unexpected functional interplay of both proteases. The m-AAA protease mediates the ATP-dependent membrane dislocation of Ccp1 independent of its proteolytic activity. It thereby ensures the correct positioning of Ccp1 within the membrane bilayer allowing intramembrane cleavage by rhomboid. Decreasing the hydrophobicity of the Ccp1 transmembrane segment facilitates its dislocation from the membrane and renders rhomboid cleavage m-AAA protease-independent. These findings reveal for the first time a non-proteolytic function of the m-AAA protease during mitochondrial biogenesis and rationalise the requirement of a preceding step for intramembrane cleavage by rhomboid.

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  • ...The m-AAA ATPase was found to play a role in the topogenesis of yeast cytochrome c peroxidase (112)....

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TL;DR: The first atomic model of a substrate-bound inner mitochondrial membrane AAA+ quality control protease, YME1, is presented and a translocation mechanism likely conserved for other AAA+ ATPases is revealed.
Abstract: We present the first atomic model of a substrate-bound inner mitochondrial membrane AAA+ quality control protease, YME1. Our ~3.4 A cryo-EM structure reveals how the ATPases form a closed spiral staircase encircling an unfolded substrate, directing it toward the flat, symmetric protease ring. Importantly, the structure reveals how three coexisting nucleotide states allosterically induce distinct positioning of tyrosines in the central channel, resulting in substrate engagement and translocation to the negatively charged proteolytic chamber. This tight coordination by a network of conserved residues defines a sequential, around-the-ring ATP hydrolysis cycle that results in step-wise substrate translocation. Furthermore, we identify a hinge-like linker that accommodates the large-scale nucleotide-driven motions of the ATPase spiral independently of the contiguous planar proteolytic base. These results define the first molecular mechanism for a mitochondrial inner membrane AAA+ protease and reveal a translocation mechanism likely conserved for other AAA+ ATPases.

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Abstract: Most chloroplast proteins are encoded by the nuclear genome and synthesized on cytosolic ribosomes. N-terminal transit peptides serve as targeting sequences to direct precursors of chloroplast proteins to receptors on the chloroplast surface. These receptors are part of the translocase of the outer

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  • ...Import of the mitochondrial protein Pcp1 requires the mitochondrial m-AAA protease, which is a homolog of the newly discovered chloroplast AAA-ATPase motor (Tatsuta et al., 2007)....

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TL;DR: Together, these studies have revealed the mechanics of ATP-driven protein destruction and significantly advanced the authors' understanding of how these proteases maintain mitochondrial health.

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TL;DR: This study investigated the role of the TM domains in the m-AAA protease by systematic replacement of one TM domain at a time in yeast and highlighted previously underappreciated biological roles of TM domains of the m -AAA proteases in mediating the recognition and dislocation of membrane-embedded substrates.

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  • ...In the case of Ccp1 maturation, the m-AAA protease acts as an ATPase by pulling the Ccp1 TM to the matrix prior to processing by a rhomboid protease, Pcp1, in the IM (10, 11)....

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  • ...The function of the m-AAA proteases is not limited to quality control, but it also assists with protein folding of a mitochondrial ribosome subunit, MrpL32 (9), and maturation of cytochrome c peroxidase (Ccp1) (10)....

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TL;DR: The structural organization of AAA+ proteins, the conformational changes they undergo, the range of different reactions they catalyse, and the diseases associated with their dysfunction are reviewed.
Abstract: The AAA+ (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) family is a large and functionally diverse group of enzymes that are able to induce conformational changes in a wide range of substrate proteins. The family's defining feature is a structurally conserved ATPase domain that assembles into oligomeric rings and undergoes conformational changes during cycles of nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. Here, we review the structural organization of AAA+ proteins, the conformational changes they undergo, the range of different reactions they catalyse, and the diseases associated with their dysfunction.

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  • ...This loop contains an aromatichydrophobic-glycine motif (FVG in Yta10 and Yta12), which is conserved within AAAþ proteins (Figure 7A) and has been linked to substrate translocation in other AAA proteins (Sauer et al, 2004; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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  • ...At the same time, they conduct the quality surveillance of cellular proteins and degrade misfolded proteins to peptides (Sauer et al, 2004; Ciechanover, 2005; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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  • ...Conserved residues in the pore loop are essential for Ccp1 processing Most AAAþ proteins form hexameric ring structures that allow substrates to enter the central channel (Sauer et al, 2004; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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  • ...This loop contains an aromatichydrophobic-glycine motif (FVG in Yta10 and Yta12), which is conserved within AAA proteins (Figure 7A) and has been linked to substrate translocation in other AAA proteins (Sauer et al, 2004; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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TL;DR: In this paper, the ubiquitin-proteasome system resolved the enigma of how cellular proteins are degraded in the lysosome and showed that non-lysosomal pathways have an important role in intracellular proteolysis, although their identity and mechanisms of action remained obscure.
Abstract: How the genetic code is translated into proteins was a key focus of biological research before the 1980s, but how these proteins are degraded remained a neglected area With the discovery of the lysosome, it was suggested that cellular proteins are degraded in this organelle However, several independent lines of experimental evidence strongly indicated that non-lysosomal pathways have an important role in intracellular proteolysis, although their identity and mechanisms of action remained obscure The discovery of the ubiquitin–proteasome system resolved this enigma

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TL;DR: M mammalian mitochondrial function and morphology is regulated through processing of OPA1 in a ΔΨ‐dependent manner through proteolytic cleavage of Mgm1, the yeast homolog of O PA1.
Abstract: The dynamin-like GTPase OPA1, a causal gene product of human dominant optic atrophy, functions in mitochondrial fusion and inner membrane remodeling. It has several splice variants and even a single variant is found as several processed forms, although their functional significance is unknown. In yeast, mitochondrial rhomboid protease regulates mitochondrial function and morphology through proteolytic cleavage of Mgm1, the yeast homolog of OPA1. We demonstrate that OPA1 variants are synthesized with a bipartite-type mitochondrial targeting sequence. During import, the matrix-targeting signal is removed and processed forms (L-isoforms) are anchored to the inner membrane in type I topology. L-isoforms undergo further processing in the matrix to produce S-isoforms. Knockdown of OPA1 induced mitochondrial fragmentation, whose network morphology was recovered by expression of L-isoform but not S-isoform, indicating that only L-isoform is fusion-competent. Dissipation of membrane potential, expression of m-AAA protease paraplegin, or induction of apoptosis stimulated this processing along with the mitochondrial fragmentation. Thus, mammalian mitochondrial function and morphology is regulated through processing of OPA1 in a ΔΨ-dependent manner.

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  • ...Of note, proteolytic processing of the Mgm1 homologue OPA1 in mammalian cells has recently been linked to an m-AAA protease (Ishihara et al, 2006)....

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TL;DR: The very large peptide bond ASP, -96 +/- 6 cal/mol/A2, profoundly affects the results of computational comparisons of protein stability which use ASPs derived from octanol-water partitioning data.
Abstract: Octanol-to-water solvation free energies of acetyl amino amides (Ac-X-amides) [Fauchere, J.L., & Pliska, V. (1983) Eur. J. Med. Chem. --Chim. Ther. 18,369] form the basis for computational comparisons of protein stabilities by means of the atomic solvation parameter formalism of Eisenberg and McLachlan [(1986) Nature 319, 199]. In order to explore this approach for more complex systems, we have determined by octanol-to-water partitioning the solvation energies of (1) the guest (X) side chains in the host-guest pentapeptides AcWL-X-LL, (2) the carboxy terminus of the pentapeptides, and (3) the peptide bonds of the homologous series of peptides AcWLm (m = 1-6). Solvation parameters were derived from the solvation energies using estimates of the solvent-accessible surface areas (ASA) obtained from hard-sphere Monte Carlo simulations. The measurements lead to a side chain solvation-energy scale for the pentapeptides and suggest the need for modifying the Asp, Glu, and Cys values of the "Fauchere-Pliska" solvation-energy scale fro the Ac-X-amides. We find that the unfavorable solvation energy of nonpolar residues can be calculated accurately by a solvation parameter of 22.8 +/- 0.8 cal/mol/A2, which agrees satisfactorily with the AC-X-amide data and thereby validates the Monte Carlo ASA results. Unlike the Ac-X-amide data, the apparent solvation energies of the uncharged polar residues are also largely unfavorable. This unexpected finding probably results, primarily, from differences in conformation and hydrogen bonding in octanol and buffer but may also be due to the additional flaking peptide bonds of the pentapeptides. The atomic solvation parameter (ASP) for the peptide bond is comparable to the ASP of the charged carboxy terminus which is an order of magnitude larger than the ASP of the uncharged polar side chains of the Ac-X-amides. The very large peptide bond ASP, -96 +/- 6 cal/mol/A2, profoundly affects the results of computational comparisons of protein stability which use ASPs derived from octanol-water partitioning data.

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"m‐AAA protease‐driven membrane disl..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...We determined the hydrophobicity of this region using the membrane protein explorer (MPEx) programme, which is based on experimentally derived Wimley–White hydropathy scale (Wimley et al, 1996)....

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01 Oct 2004-Cell
TL;DR: Exciting progress has been made in understanding how AAA(+) machines recognize specific proteins as targets and then carry out ATP-dependent dismantling of the tertiary and/or quaternary structure of these molecules during the processes of protein degradation and the disassembly of macromolecular complexes.

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"m‐AAA protease‐driven membrane disl..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Conserved residues in the pore loop are essential for Ccp1 processing Most AAAþ proteins form hexameric ring structures that allow substrates to enter the central channel (Sauer et al, 2004; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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  • ...At the same time, they conduct the quality surveillance of cellular proteins and degrade misfolded proteins to peptides (Sauer et al, 2004; Ciechanover, 2005; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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  • ...ATP-dependent unfolding of substrates allows substrate entry into barrel-like proteolytic chambers and results in complete degradation (Sauer et al, 2004)....

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  • ...This loop contains an aromatichydrophobic-glycine motif (FVG in Yta10 and Yta12), which is conserved within AAAþ proteins (Figure 7A) and has been linked to substrate translocation in other AAA proteins (Sauer et al, 2004; Hanson and Whiteheart, 2005)....

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