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Near-atomic structures of the BBSome reveal the basis for BBSome activation and binding to GPCR cargoes

  1. Shuang Yang
  2. Kriti Bahl
  3. Hui-Ting Chou
  4. Jonathan Woodsmith
  5. Ulrich Stelzl
  6. Thomas Walz  Is a corresponding author
  7. Maxence V Nachury  Is a corresponding author
  1. Rockefeller University, United States
  2. UCSF, United States
  3. University of Graz, Austria
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55954
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  1. Shuang Yang
  2. Kriti Bahl
  3. Hui-Ting Chou
  4. Jonathan Woodsmith
  5. Ulrich Stelzl
  6. Thomas Walz
  7. Maxence V Nachury
(2020)
Near-atomic structures of the BBSome reveal the basis for BBSome activation and binding to GPCR cargoes
eLife 9:e55954.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55954
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Abstract

Dynamic trafficking of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) out of cilia is mediated by the BBSome. In concert with its membrane recruitment factor, the small GTPase ARL6/BBS3, the BBSome ferries GPCRs across the transition zone, a diffusion barrier at the base of cilia. Here, we present the near-atomic structures of the BBSome by itself and in complex with ARL6GTP, and we describe the changes in BBSome conformation induced by ARL6GTP binding. Modeling the interactions of the BBSome with membranes and the GPCR Smoothened (SMO) reveals that SMO, and likely also other GPCR cargoes, must release their amphipathic helix 8 from the membrane to be recognized by the BBSome.

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Structural data have been deposited into the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) and the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB). The EM density map for the BBSome has been deposited under accession code EMD-21251 and the EM density map for the BBSome-ARL6 complex has been deposited under accession code EMD-21259. The corresponding atomic models have been deposited under accession codes 6VNW and 6VOA.

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  1. Shuang Yang

    Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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  2. Kriti Bahl

    Department of Ophthalmology, UCSF, San Francisco, United States
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  3. Hui-Ting Chou

    Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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  4. Jonathan Woodsmith

    Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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  5. Ulrich Stelzl

    Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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  6. Thomas Walz

    Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy, Rockefeller University, New York, United States
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  7. Maxence V Nachury

    Department of Ophthalmology, UCSF, San Francisco, United States
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    maxence.nachury@ucsf.edu
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Funding

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01-GM089933)

  • Maxence V Nachury

Research to Prevent Blindness (Stein Innovator Award A131667)

  • Maxence V Nachury

National Eye Institute (R01- EY031462)

  • Thomas Walz
  • Maxence V Nachury

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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  1. Andrew P Carter, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom

Version history

  1. Received: February 12, 2020
  2. Accepted: June 8, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: June 8, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: June 23, 2020 (version 2)

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  1. Shuang Yang
  2. Kriti Bahl
  3. Hui-Ting Chou
  4. Jonathan Woodsmith
  5. Ulrich Stelzl
  6. Thomas Walz
  7. Maxence V Nachury
(2020)
Near-atomic structures of the BBSome reveal the basis for BBSome activation and binding to GPCR cargoes
eLife 9:e55954.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55954

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