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Unstructured regions in IRE1α specify BiP-mediated destabilisation of the luminal domain dimer and repression of the UPR

  1. Niko Amin-Wetzel
  2. Lisa Neidhardt
  3. Yahui Yan
  4. Matthias P Mayer
  5. David Ron  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  2. University of Heidelberg, Germany
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50793
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  1. Niko Amin-Wetzel
  2. Lisa Neidhardt
  3. Yahui Yan
  4. Matthias P Mayer
  5. David Ron
(2019)
Unstructured regions in IRE1α specify BiP-mediated destabilisation of the luminal domain dimer and repression of the UPR
eLife 8:e50793.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50793
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Abstract

Coupling of endoplasmic reticulum stress to dimerisation‑dependent activation of the UPR transducer IRE1 is incompletely understood. Whilst the luminal co-chaperone ERdj4 promotes a complex between the Hsp70 BiP and IRE1's stress-sensing luminal domain (IRE1LD) that favours the latter's monomeric inactive state and loss of ERdj4 de-represses IRE1, evidence linking these cellular and in vitro observations is presently lacking. We report that enforced loading of endogenous BiP onto endogenous IRE1α repressed UPR signalling in CHO cells and deletions in the IRE1α locus that de-repressed the UPR in cells, encode flexible regions of IRE1LD that mediated BiP‑induced monomerisation in vitro. Changes in the hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry profile of IRE1LD induced by ERdj4 and BiP confirmed monomerisation and were consistent with active destabilisation of the IRE1LD dimer. Together, these observations support a competition model whereby waning ER stress passively partitions ERdj4 and BiP to IRE1LD to initiate active repression of UPR signalling.

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Diffraction data have been deposited in PDB under the accession code 6SHCAll data generated or analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files have been provided for Figures 1 - 7.

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  1. Niko Amin-Wetzel

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  2. Lisa Neidhardt

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  3. Yahui Yan

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  4. Matthias P Mayer

    Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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  5. David Ron

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Medical Research Council

  • Niko Amin-Wetzel

European Molecular Biology Organization

  • Lisa Neidhardt

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB1036 TP9)

  • Matthias P Mayer

Wellcome (Wellcome 996 100140)

  • David Ron

Wellcome (Wellcome 200848/Z/16/Z)

  • David Ron

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (MA 1278/4-3)

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  1. Niko Amin-Wetzel
  2. Lisa Neidhardt
  3. Yahui Yan
  4. Matthias P Mayer
  5. David Ron
(2019)
Unstructured regions in IRE1α specify BiP-mediated destabilisation of the luminal domain dimer and repression of the UPR
eLife 8:e50793.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50793

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