Specific lid-base contacts in the 26S proteasome control the conformational switching required for substrate degradation

  1. Eric R Greene
  2. Ellen A Goodall
  3. Andres H de la Peña
  4. Mary E Matyskiela
  5. Gabriel C Lander
  6. Andreas Martin  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  2. The Scripps Research Institute, United States
  3. Celgene, United States

Abstract

The 26S proteasome is essential for proteostasis and the regulation of vital processes through ATP-dependent degradation of ubiquitinated substrates. To accomplish the multi-step degradation process, the proteasome's regulatory particle, consisting of lid and base subcomplexes, undergoes major conformational changes whose origin is unknown. Investigating the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteasome, we found that peripheral interactions between the lid subunit Rpn5 and the base AAA+-ATPase ring are important for stabilizing the substrate-engagement-competent state and coordinating the conformational switch to processing states upon substrate engagement. Disrupting these interactions perturbs the conformational equilibrium and interferes with degradation initiation, while later processing steps remain unaffected. Similar defects in early degradation steps are observed when eliminating hydrolysis in the ATPase subunit Rpt6, whose nucleotide state seems to control proteasome conformational transitions. These results provide important insight into interaction networks that coordinate conformational changes with various stages of degradation, and how modulators of conformational equilibria may influence substrate turnover.

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  1. Eric R Greene

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  2. Ellen A Goodall

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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  3. Andres H de la Peña

    Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, United States
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  4. Mary E Matyskiela

    Structral and Chemical Biology, Celgene, San Diego, United States
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  5. Gabriel C Lander

    Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, United States
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  6. Andreas Martin

    Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
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    a.martin@berkeley.edu
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    Andreas Martin, Reviewing editor, eLife.
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Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  • Andreas Martin

National Institutes of Health (R01-GM094497)

  • Andreas Martin

National Institutes of Health (DP2EB020402)

  • Gabriel C Lander

American Cancer Society (132279-PF-18-189-01-DMC)

  • Andres H de la Peña

Pew Charitable Trusts

  • Gabriel C Lander

National Institutes of Health (S10OD021634)

  • Gabriel C Lander

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Reviewing Editor

  1. Franz-Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany

Version history

  1. Received: June 30, 2019
  2. Accepted: November 27, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: November 28, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: December 13, 2019 (version 2)

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© 2019, Greene et al.

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  1. Eric R Greene
  2. Ellen A Goodall
  3. Andres H de la Peña
  4. Mary E Matyskiela
  5. Gabriel C Lander
  6. Andreas Martin
(2019)
Specific lid-base contacts in the 26S proteasome control the conformational switching required for substrate degradation
eLife 8:e49806.
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