Fine interaction profiling of VemP and mechanisms responsible for its translocation-coupled arrest-cancelation
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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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.
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© 2020, Miyazaki et al.
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