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1. Structural and kinetic basis for the regulation and potentiation of Hsp104 function

   https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1073/pnas.192196811  

   Xiang Ye https:/ and S. Walter Englander (April 2020, PNAS nexus)

   Hsp104 provides a valuable model for the many essential proteostatic functions performed by the AAA+ superfamily of protein molecular machines. We developed and used a powerful hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry (HX MS) analysis that can provide positionally resolved information on structure, dynamics, and energetics of the Hsp104 molecular machinery, even during functional cycling. HX MS reveals that the ATPase cycle is rate-limited by ADP release from nucleotide-binding domain 1 (NBD1). The middle domain (MD) serves to regulate Hsp104 activity by slowing ADP release. Mutational potentiation accelerates ADP release, thereby increasing ATPase activity. It reduces time in the open state, thereby decreasing substrate protein loss. During active cycling, Hsp104 transits repeatedly between whole hexamer closed and open states. Under diverse conditions, the shift of open/closed balance can lead to premature substrate loss, normal processing, or the generation of a strong pulling force. HX MS exposes the mechanisms of these functions at near-residue resolution. 

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2. Hydrogen exchange reveals Hsp104 architecture, structural dynamics, and energetics in physiological solution

   https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1816184116  

   Ye, Xiang; Lin, Jiabei; Mayne, Leland; Shorter, James; Englander, S. Walter (March 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

   Hsp104 is a large AAA+ molecular machine that can rescue proteins trapped in amorphous aggregates and stable amyloids by drawing substrate protein into its central pore. Recent cryo-EM studies image Hsp104 at high resolution. We used hydrogen exchange mass spectrometry analysis (HX MS) to resolve and characterize all of the functionally active and inactive elements of Hsp104, many not accessible to cryo-EM. At a global level, HX MS confirms the one noncanonical interprotomer interface in the Hsp104 hexamer as a marker for the spiraled conformation revealed by cryo-EM and measures its fast conformational cycling under ATP hydrolysis. Other findings enable reinterpretation of the apparent variability of the regulatory middle domain. With respect to detailed mechanism, HX MS determines the response of each Hsp104 structural element to the different bound adenosine nucleotides (ADP, ATP, AMPPNP, and ATPγS). They are distinguished most sensitively by the two Walker A nucleotide-binding segments. Binding of the ATP analog, ATPγS, tightly restructures the Walker A segments and drives the global open-to-closed/extended transition. The global transition carries part of the ATP/ATPγS-binding energy to the somewhat distant central pore. The pore constricts and the tyrosine and other pore-related loops become more tightly structured, which seems to reflect the energy-requiring directional pull that translocates the substrate protein. ATP hydrolysis to ADP allows Hsp104 to relax back to its lowest energy open state ready to restart the cycle. 

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3. The middle domain of Hsp104 can ensure substrates are functional after processing

   https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011424  

   Buchholz, Hannah E; Dorweiler, Jane E; Guereca, Sam; Wisniewski, Brett T; Shorter, James; Manogaran, Anita L (October 2024, PLOS Genetics)

   Chernoff, Yury O (Ed.)

   Molecular chaperones play a central role in protein disaggregation. However, the molecular determinants that regulate this process are poorly understood. Hsp104 is an AAA+ ATPase that disassembles stress granules and amyloids in yeast through collaboration with Hsp70 and Hsp40.In vitrostudies show that Hsp104 processes different types of protein aggregates by partially translocating or threading polypeptides through the central pore of the hexamer. However, it is unclear how Hsp104 processing influences client protein functionin vivo. The middle domain (MD) of Hsp104 regulates ATPase activity and interactions with Hsp70. Here, we tested how MD variants, Hsp104^A503Sand Hsp104^A503V, process different protein aggregates. We establish that engineered MD variants fail to resolve stress granules but retain prion fragmentation activity required for prion propagation. Using the Sup35 prion protein, ourin vitroandin vivodata indicate that the MD variants can disassemble Sup35 aggregates, but the disaggregated protein has reduced GTPase and translation termination activity. These results suggest that the middle domain can play a role in sensing certain substrates and plays an essential role in ensuring the processed protein is functional. 

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4. Cyclic-di-GMP and ADP bind to separate domains of PilB as mutual allosteric effectors

   https://doi.org/10.1042/BCJ20190809  

   Dye, Keane J.; Yang, Zhaomin (January 2020, Biochemical Journal)

   PilB is the assembly ATPase for the bacterial type IV pilus (T4P), and as a consequence, it is essential for T4P-mediated bacterial motility. In some cases, PilB has been demonstrated to regulate the production of exopolysaccharide (EPS) during bacterial biofilm development independently of or in addition to its function in pilus assembly. While the ATPase activity of PilB resides at its C-terminal region, the N terminus of a subset of PilBs forms a novel cyclic-di-GMP (cdG)-binding domain. This multi-domain structure suggests that PilB binds cdG and adenine nucleotides through separate domains which may influence the functionality of PilB in both motility and biofilm development. Here, Chloracidobacterium thermophilum PilB is used to investigate ligand binding by its separate domains and by the full-length protein. Our results confirm the specificity of these individual domains for their respective ligands and demonstrate communications between these domains in the full-length protein. It is clear that when the N- and the C-terminal domains of PilB bind to cdG and ADP, respectively, they mutually influence each other in conformation and in their binding to ligands. We propose that the interactions between these domains in response to their ligands play critical roles in modulating or controlling the functions of PilB as a regulator of EPS production and as the T4P assembly ATPase. 

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5. Viral packaging ATPases utilize a glutamate switch to couple ATPase activity and DNA translocation

   https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024928118  

   Pajak, Joshua; Atz, Rockney; Hilbert, Brendan J.; Morais, Marc C.; Kelch, Brian A.; Jardine, Paul J.; Arya, Gaurav (April 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

   Many viruses utilize ringed packaging ATPases to translocate double-stranded DNA into procapsids during replication. A critical step in the mechanochemical cycle of such ATPases is ATP binding, which causes a subunit within the motor to grip DNA tightly. Here, we probe the underlying molecular mechanism by which ATP binding is coupled to DNA gripping and show that a glutamate-switch residue found in AAA+ enzymes is central to this coupling in viral packaging ATPases. Using free-energy landscapes computed through molecular dynamics simulations, we determined the stable conformational state of the ATPase active site in ATP- and ADP-bound states. Our results show that the catalytic glutamate residue transitions from an active to an inactive pose upon ATP hydrolysis and that a residue assigned as the glutamate switch is necessary for regulating this transition. Furthermore, we identified via mutual information analyses the intramolecular signaling pathway mediated by the glutamate switch that is responsible for coupling ATP binding to conformational transitions of DNA-gripping motifs. We corroborated these predictions with both structural and functional experimental measurements. Specifically, we showed that the crystal structure of the ADP-bound P74-26 packaging ATPase is consistent with the structural coupling predicted from simulations, and we further showed that disrupting the predicted signaling pathway indeed decouples ATPase activity from DNA translocation activity in the φ29 DNA packaging motor. Our work thus establishes a signaling pathway that couples chemical and mechanical events in viral DNA packaging motors. 

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