Fine interaction profiling of VemP and mechanisms responsible for its translocation-coupled arrest-cancelation

  1. Ryoji Miyazaki
  2. Yoshinori Akiyama
  3. Hiroyuki Mori  Is a corresponding author
  1. Kyoto University, Japan

Abstract

Bacterial cells utilize monitoring substrates, which undergo force-sensitive translation elongation arrest, to feedback-regulate a Sec-related gene. Vibrio alginolyticus VemP controls the expression of SecD/F that stimulates a late step of translocation by undergoing export-regulated elongation arrest. Here, we attempted at delineating the pathway of the VemP nascent-chain interaction with Sec-related factors, and identified the signal recognition particle (SRP) and PpiD (a membrane-anchored periplasmic chaperone) in addition to other translocon components and a ribosomal protein as interacting partners. Our results showed that SRP is required for the membrane-targeting of VemP, whereas PpiD acts cooperatively with SecD/F in the translocation and arrest-cancelation of VemP. We also identified the conserved Arg-85 residue of VemP as a crucial element that confers PpiD-dependence to VemP and plays an essential role in the regulated arrest-cancelation. We propose a scheme of the arrest-cancelation processes of VemP, which likely monitors late steps in the protein translocation pathway.

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All data generated and analyzed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. Source data files have been provided for Figures 2, 3 and 4, Figure 2-figure supplements 1, 3 and 4 and Figure 5-figure supplements 1 and 2.

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  1. Ryoji Miyazaki

    Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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    The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
  2. Yoshinori Akiyama

    Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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  3. Hiroyuki Mori

    Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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    hiromori@infront.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18H06047)

  • Ryoji Miyazaki

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K21179)

  • Ryoji Miyazaki

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20K15715)

  • Ryoji Miyazaki

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15H01532)

  • Yoshinori Akiyama

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (18H02404)

  • Yoshinori Akiyama

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H05666)

  • Hiroyuki Mori

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17H05879)

  • Hiroyuki Mori

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K07334)

  • Hiroyuki Mori

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20K06556)

  • Hiroyuki Mori

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation.

Reviewing Editor

  1. Suzanne R Pfeffer, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: August 31, 2020
  2. Accepted: December 11, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 15, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 8, 2021 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record updated: January 13, 2021 (version 3)

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© 2020, Miyazaki et al.

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.

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  1. Ryoji Miyazaki
  2. Yoshinori Akiyama
  3. Hiroyuki Mori
(2020)
Fine interaction profiling of VemP and mechanisms responsible for its translocation-coupled arrest-cancelation
eLife 9:e62623.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62623

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