Direct Demonstration of ATP-dependent Release of SecA from a Translocating Preprotein by Surface Plasmon Resonance

Keyzer, Jeanine de; Does, Chris van der; Kloosterman, Tomas G.; Driessen, Arnold J. M.

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“…This is followed by a conformational change that occurs upon ATP binding at the translocon, and concomitantly, polypeptide chain movement proceeds. Hydrolysis of ATP results in the membrane deinsertion of SecA and release of SecA from the membrane surface (57). Considering that the signal peptide is likely to be passed through the relay system from SecA to SecY as the preprotein is translocated, it is important to ask how the SecY-signal peptide interaction is affected by SecA and nucleotides.…”

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Demonstration of a Specific Escherichia coli SecY−Signal Peptide Interaction

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Protein translocation in Escherichia coli is initiated by the interaction of a preprotein with the membrane translocase composed of a motor protein, SecA ATPase, and a membrane-embedded channel, the SecYEG complex. The extent to which the signal peptide region of the preprotein plays a role in SecYEG interactions is unclear, in part because studies in this area typically employ the entire preprotein. Using a synthetic signal peptide harboring a photoaffinity label in its hydrophobic core, we examined this interaction with SecYEG in a detergent micellar environment. The signal peptide was found to specifically bind SecY in a saturable manner and at levels comparable to those that stimulate SecA ATPase activity. Chemical and proteolytic cleavage of cross-linked SecY and analysis of the signal peptide adducts indicate that the binding was primarily to regions of the protein containing transmembrane domains seven and two. The signal peptide-SecY interaction was affected by the presence of SecA and nucleotides in a manner consistent with the transfer of signal peptide to SecY upon nucleotide hydrolysis at SecA. † This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant GM37639 (to D.A.K. Protein transport across, or integration into, biological membranes is a vital cellular process (1-3). Components of the Sec translocon, the membrane pore through which presecretory proteins (or membrane proteins) achieve membrane translocation (or integration), are the most conserved transport constituents throughout the three kingdoms of life (4).In Escherichia coli, the essential components of the translocase (5) include the membraneassociated form of SecA (6, 7) and the polytopic membrane proteins SecY, SecE (homologues of the mammalian Sec61α, Sec61γ, and the yeast ER 1 Sec61p, Sss1p, respectively), and SecG (8, 9); the latter three proteins form a stable trimeric SecYEG complex (10). SecA is an ATPase that powers the membrane translocation of hydrophilic polypeptides by coupling ATP hydrolysis with protein movement via concomitant SecA membrane insertion and deinsertion cycles (11,12). SecY protein has 10 transmembrane (TM1-TM10), six cytosolic (C1-C6), and five periplasmic (P1-P5) domains (13), and it forms the core of the passageway for the translocating polypeptide chain (14 (35,36). Suppressor analysis of prlA mutations using dysfunctional LamB signal peptides revealed that the suppressor mutations clustered in distinct regions, and TM7 of SecY was proposed to function in signal sequence recognition (37). Yet no investigation has focused on the direct interaction between a signal peptide and the E. coli translocon. Consequently, it remains unclear whether the nascent polypeptide chain is merely translocating in close proximity to SecY, SecY performs simply a proofreading function (37), or SecY is more intimately involved in the specific recognition of the signal peptide. Wang et al. Page 2Biochemistry. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 April 29. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscr...

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Demonstration of a Specific Escherichia coli SecY−Signal Peptide Interaction

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“…27 The dissociation rates of the Glu176 mutants do not differ significantly from cysteine-less SecYEG (Table 1), while the association rates of the mutants are slightly lower than that of cysteine-less SecYEG. The resulting changes in K D (k off /k on ) are therefore small.…”

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“…To study the binding of SecA to the SecY(R357) mutants, we immobilized IMVs containing the mutant SecYEG complexes on a Biacore Pioneer L1 chip and determined the association and dissociation rates for SecA by surface plasmon resonance (SPR). 27 The dissociation rates of the Arg357 mutants did not differ significantly from those of cysteine-less SecYEG ( Table 1). The association rate of SecY(R357E) was slightly lower than that of cysteine-less SecYEG, resulting in a lower affinity as defined by k off /k on .…”

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“…SPR measurements were performed on a Biacore 2000 essentially as described 27 but Tris-HCl (pH 8.0) was replaced by Hepes/NaOH (pH 7.0) in all steps. Approximately 3200 response units of IMVs were loaded on a Biacore Pioneer L1 chip, and SecA was injected at a (dimeric) concentration of 50 nM with a flow speed of 20 μl/min.…”

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“…Fitting of the association and dissociation rates from the corrected response curves was performed as described, and gave nearly identical values to those described for the previous setup. 27 …”

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Direct Demonstration of ATP-dependent Release of SecA from a Translocating Preprotein by Surface Plasmon Resonance

Cited by 40 publications

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Demonstration of a Specific Escherichia coli SecY−Signal Peptide Interaction

Demonstration of a Specific Escherichia coli SecY−Signal Peptide Interaction

Identification of Two Interaction Sites in SecY that Are Important for the Functional Interaction with SecA

Surface plasmon resonance for high‐throughput ligand screening of membrane‐bound proteins

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