Interactions of the chaperone Hsp104 with yeast Sup35 and mammalian PrP
AUTOR(ES)
Schirmer, Eric C.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
RESUMO
[PSI+] is a genetic element in yeast for which a heritable change in phenotype appears to be caused by a heritable change in the conformational state of the Sup35 protein. The inheritance of [PSI+] and the physical state of Sup35 in vivo depend on the protein chaperone Hsp104 (heat shock protein 104). Although these observations provide a strong genetic argument in support of the “protein-only” or “prion” hypothesis for [PSI+], there is, as yet, no direct evidence of an interaction between the two proteins. We report that when purified Sup35 and Hsp104 are mixed, the circular dichroism (CD) spectrum differs from that predicted by the addition of the proteins’ individual spectra, and the ATPase activity of Hsp104 is inhibited. Similar results are obtained with two other amyloidogenic substrates, mammalian PrP and β-amyloid 1-42 peptide, but not with several control proteins. With a group of peptides that span the PrP protein sequence, those that produced the largest changes in CD spectra also caused the strongest inhibition of ATPase activity in Hsp104. Our observations suggest that (i) previously described genetic interactions between Hsp104 and [PSI+] are caused by direct interaction between Hsp104 and Sup35; (ii) Sup35 and PrP, the determinants of the yeast and mammalian prions, respectively, share structural features that lead to a specific interaction with Hsp104; and (iii) these interactions couple a change in structure to the ATPase activity of Hsp104.
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