Structural principles of SNARE complex recognition by the AAA+ protein NSF
- Stanford University, United States
- University of Chicago, United States
Abstract
The recycling of SNARE proteins following complex formation and membrane fusion is an essential process in eukaryotic trafficking. A highly conserved AAA+ protein, NSF (N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor) and an adaptor protein, SNAP (soluble NSF attachment protein), disassembles the SNARE complex. We report electron-cryomicroscopy structures of the complex of NSF, αSNAP, and the full-length soluble neuronal SNARE complex (composed of syntaxin-1A, synaptobrevin-2, SNAP-25A) in the presence of ATP under non-hydrolyzing conditions at ~3.9 Å resolution. These structures reveal electrostatic interactions by which two αSNAP molecules interface with a specific surface of the SNARE complex. This interaction positions the SNAREs such that the 15 N-terminal residues of SNAP-25A are loaded into the D1 ring pore of NSF via a spiral pattern of interactions between a conserved tyrosine NSF residue and SNAP-25A backbone atoms. This loading process likely precedes ATP hydrolysis. Subsequent ATP hydrolysis then drives complete disassembly.
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The coordinates and corresponding EM density maps have been deposited in the PDB and EMDB, respectively.
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The 20S supercomplex engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus (class 1)Publicly available at the EMBL-EBI Protein Data Bank (accession no: EMD-9100).
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The 20S supercomplex engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus (class 1)Publicly available at the RCSB Protein Data Bank (accession no: 6MDM).
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The 20S supercomplex engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus (class 2)Publicly available at the EMBL-EBI Protein Data Bank (accession no: EMD-9101).
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The 20S supercomplex engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus (class 2)Publicly available at the RCSB Protein Data Bank (accession no: 6MDN).
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The D1 and D2 domain rings of NSF engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus within the 20S supercomplex (focused refinement on D1/D2 rings, class 1)Publicly available at the EMBL-EBI Protein Data Bank (accession no: EMD-9102).
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The D1 and D2 domain rings of NSF engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus within the 20S supercomplex (focused refinement on D1/D2 rings, class 1)Publicly available at the RCSB Protein Data Bank (accession no: 6MDO).
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The D1 and D2 domain rings of NSF engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus within the 20S supercomplex (focused refinement on D1/D2 rings, class 2)Publicly available at the EMBL-EBI Protein Data Bank (accession no: EMD-9103).
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The D1 and D2 domain rings of NSF engaging the SNAP-25 N-terminus within the 20S supercomplex (focused refinement on D1/D2 rings, class 2)Publicly available at the RCSB Protein Data Bank (accession no: 6MDP).
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Axel T Brunger
National Institutes of Health
- Axel T Brunger
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
- K Ian White
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2018, White et al.
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Structural principles of SNARE complex recognition by the AAA+ protein NSF
eLife 7:e38888.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.38888
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