Cytoplasmic protein misfolding titrates Hsp70 to activate nuclear Hsf1
Abstract
Hsf1 is an ancient transcription factor that responds to protein folding stress by inducing the heat-shock response (HSR) that restore perturbed proteostasis. Hsp70 chaperones negatively regulate the activity of Hsf1 via stress-responsive mechanisms that are poorly understood. Here we have reconstituted budding yeast Hsf1-Hsp70 activation complexes and find that surplus Hsp70 inhibits Hsf1 DNA-binding activity. Hsp70 binds Hsf1 via its canonical substrate binding domain and Hsp70 regulates Hsf1 DNA binding activity. During heat shock, Hsp70 is out-titrated by misfolded proteins derived from on-going translation in the cytosol. Pushing the boundaries of the regulatory system unveils a genetic hyper-stress program that is triggered by proteostasis collapse and involves an enlarged Hsf1 regulon. The findings demonstrate how an apparently simple chaperone-titration mechanism produces diversified transcriptional output in response to distinct stress loads.
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Sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under accession code GSE78136.
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The Swedish Cancer Society (CAN2018/711)
- Claes Andréasson
The Swedish Cancer Society (CAN2016/361)
- Claes Andréasson
Swedish Research Council (2015-05094)
- Claes Andréasson
Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (2017)
- Claes Andréasson
European Research Council (Starting Grant 758397)
- Marc R Friedländer
Swedish Research Council (2015-04611)
- Marc R Friedländer
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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© 2019, Masser et al.
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