Abstract
The redox-regulated chaperone Hsp33 protects organisms against oxidative stress that leads to protein unfolding. Activation of Hsp33 is triggered by the oxidative unfolding of its own redox-sensor domain, making Hsp33 a member of a recently discovered class of chaperones that require partial unfolding for full chaperone activity. Here we address the long-standing question of how chaperones recognize client proteins. We show that Hsp33 uses its own intrinsically disordered regions to discriminate between unfolded and partially structured folding intermediates. Binding to secondary structure elements in client proteins stabilizes Hsp33's intrinsically disordered regions, and this stabilization appears to mediate Hsp33's high affinity for structured folding intermediates. Return to nonstress conditions reduces Hsp33's disulfide bonds, which then significantly destabilizes the bound client proteins and in doing so converts them into less-structured, folding-competent client proteins of ATP-dependent foldases. We propose a model in which energy-independent chaperones use internal order-to-disorder transitions to control substrate binding and release.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 947-957 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Cell |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2 Mar 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We thank Dr. Rüdiger for providing us with the raw data of the DnaK peptide array, Drs. Yosseff and Schreiber for the use of ProteOn and the analysis software, and Dr. Kay for purified Arc repressor protein. We thank Dr. Mayer for running the DnaK binding predictor on the CS sequence. We are grateful to Drs. Bardwell, Xu, and Walter for critically commenting on the manuscript. This project was supported by National Institutes of Health grants GM065318 to U.J. and GM084174 to M.C.F. and by the European Molecular Biology Organization and Human Frontiers postdoctoral fellowship to D.R.