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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2008-12-09
    Description: Aeroallergy results from maladaptive immune responses to ubiquitous, otherwise innocuous environmental proteins. Although the proteins targeted by aeroallergic responses represent a tiny fraction of the airborne proteins humans are exposed to, allergenicity is a quite public phenomenon-the same proteins typically behave as aeroallergens across the human population. Why particular proteins tend to act as allergens in susceptible hosts is a fundamental mechanistic question that remains largely unanswered. The main house-dust-mite allergen, Der p 2, has structural homology with MD-2 (also known as LY96), the lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding component of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 signalling complex. Here we show that Der p 2 also has functional homology, facilitating signalling through direct interactions with the TLR4 complex, and reconstituting LPS-driven TLR4 signalling in the absence of MD-2. Mirroring this, airway sensitization and challenge with Der p 2 led to experimental allergic asthma in wild type and MD-2-deficient, but not TLR4-deficient, mice. Our results indicate that Der p 2 tends to be targeted by adaptive immune responses because of its auto-adjuvant properties. The fact that other members of the MD-2-like lipid-binding family are allergens, and that most defined major allergens are thought to be lipid-binding proteins, suggests that intrinsic adjuvant activity by such proteins and their accompanying lipid cargo may have some generality as a mechanism underlying the phenomenon of allergenicity.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843411/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2843411/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Trompette, Aurelien -- Divanovic, Senad -- Visintin, Alberto -- Blanchard, Carine -- Hegde, Rashmi S -- Madan, Rajat -- Thorne, Peter S -- Wills-Karp, Marsha -- Gioannini, Theresa L -- Weiss, Jerry P -- Karp, Christopher L -- R01 AI075159/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI075159-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014648/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL067736/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL067736-05/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Jan 29;457(7229):585-8. doi: 10.1038/nature07548. Epub 2008 Dec 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Molecular Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19060881" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Air ; Allergens/chemistry/genetics/*immunology/*metabolism ; Animals ; Antigens, Dermatophagoides/chemistry/genetics/*immunology/*metabolism ; Arthropod Proteins ; Asthma/genetics/immunology ; Cell Line ; Disease Models, Animal ; Female ; Humans ; Lipopolysaccharides/immunology ; Lymphocyte Antigen 96/chemistry/deficiency/genetics/immunology/metabolism ; Mice ; Molecular Mimicry/*immunology ; Protein Binding ; Toll-Like Receptor 4/deficiency/genetics/*immunology/*metabolism
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2009-08-14
    Description: Targeting of newly synthesized membrane proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum is an essential cellular process. Most membrane proteins are recognized and targeted co-translationally by the signal recognition particle. However, nearly 5% of membrane proteins are 'tail-anchored' by a single carboxy-terminal transmembrane domain that cannot access the co-translational pathway. Instead, tail-anchored proteins are targeted post-translationally by a conserved ATPase termed Get3. The mechanistic basis for tail-anchored protein recognition or targeting by Get3 is not known. Here we present crystal structures of yeast Get3 in 'open' (nucleotide-free) and 'closed' (ADP.AlF(4)(-)-bound) dimer states. In the closed state, the dimer interface of Get3 contains an enormous hydrophobic groove implicated by mutational analyses in tail-anchored protein binding. In the open state, Get3 undergoes a striking rearrangement that disrupts the groove and shields its hydrophobic surfaces. These data provide a molecular mechanism for nucleotide-regulated binding and release of tail-anchored proteins during their membrane targeting by Get3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mateja, Agnieszka -- Szlachcic, Anna -- Downing, Maureen E -- Dobosz, Malgorzata -- Mariappan, Malaiyalam -- Hegde, Ramanujan S -- Keenan, Robert J -- MC_UP_A022_1007/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Sep 17;461(7262):361-6. doi: 10.1038/nature08319. Epub 2009 Aug 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Gordon Center for Integrative Science, Room W238, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19675567" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Diphosphate/metabolism ; Adenosine Triphosphatases/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Aluminum Compounds/chemistry/metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Fluorides/chemistry/metabolism ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Methanococcus ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Multimerization ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*chemistry ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2010-08-03
    Description: Hundreds of proteins are inserted post-translationally into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane by a single carboxy-terminal transmembrane domain (TMD). During targeting through the cytosol, the hydrophobic TMD of these tail-anchored (TA) proteins requires constant chaperoning to prevent aggregation or inappropriate interactions. A central component of this targeting system is TRC40, a conserved cytosolic factor that recognizes the TMD of TA proteins and delivers them to the ER for insertion. The mechanism that permits TRC40 to find and capture its TA protein cargos effectively in a highly crowded cytosol is unknown. Here we identify a conserved three-protein complex composed of Bat3, TRC35 and Ubl4A that facilitates TA protein capture by TRC40. This Bat3 complex is recruited to ribosomes synthesizing membrane proteins, interacts with the TMDs of newly released TA proteins, and transfers them to TRC40 for targeting. Depletion of the Bat3 complex allows non-TRC40 factors to compete for TA proteins, explaining their mislocalization in the analogous yeast deletion strains. Thus, the Bat3 complex acts as a TMD-selective chaperone that effectively channels TA proteins to the TRC40 insertion pathway.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928861/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928861/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mariappan, Malaiyalam -- Li, Xingzhe -- Stefanovic, Sandra -- Sharma, Ajay -- Mateja, Agnieszka -- Keenan, Robert J -- Hegde, Ramanujan S -- MC_UP_A022_1007/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- ZIA HD008862-02/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Aug 26;466(7310):1120-4. doi: 10.1038/nature09296. Epub 2010 Aug 1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20676083" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Carrier Proteins/metabolism ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Humans ; Membrane Proteins/*metabolism ; Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism ; Protein Transport ; Ribosomes/*metabolism ; Signal Recognition Particle/metabolism ; Ubiquitins/metabolism
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2013-01-22
    Description: Vascular patterning is critical for organ function. In the eye, there is simultaneous regression of embryonic hyaloid vasculature (important to clear the optical path) and formation of the retinal vasculature (important for the high metabolic demands of retinal neurons). These events occur postnatally in the mouse. Here we have identified a light-response pathway that regulates both processes. We show that when mice are mutated in the gene (Opn4) for the atypical opsin melanopsin, or are dark-reared from late gestation, the hyaloid vessels are persistent at 8 days post-partum and the retinal vasculature overgrows. We provide evidence that these vascular anomalies are explained by a light-response pathway that suppresses retinal neuron number, limits hypoxia and, as a consequence, holds local expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGFA) in check. We also show that the light response for this pathway occurs in late gestation at about embryonic day 16 and requires the photopigment in the fetus and not the mother. Measurements show that visceral cavity photon flux is probably sufficient to activate melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells in the mouse fetus. These data thus show that light--the stimulus for function of the mature eye--is also critical in preparing the eye for vision by regulating retinal neuron number and initiating a series of events that ultimately pattern the ocular blood vessels.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3746810/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3746810/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rao, Sujata -- Chun, Christina -- Fan, Jieqing -- Kofron, J Matthew -- Yang, Michael B -- Hegde, Rashmi S -- Ferrara, Napoleone -- Copenhagen, David R -- Lang, Richard A -- AR-47363/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY001869/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014648/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY021636/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY022917/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY023179/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Feb 14;494(7436):243-6. doi: 10.1038/nature11823. Epub 2013 Jan 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Visual Systems Group, Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute, Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23334418" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Count ; Cell Hypoxia/radiation effects ; Eye/*blood supply/*growth & development/metabolism/radiation effects ; Female ; Fetus/cytology/embryology/metabolism/*radiation effects ; *Light ; Light Signal Transduction/*radiation effects ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Neovascularization, Pathologic ; Neovascularization, Physiologic/radiation effects ; Photons ; Retinal Ganglion Cells/cytology/metabolism/radiation effects ; Retinal Neurons/cytology/metabolism/*radiation effects ; Rod Opsins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/metabolism
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2011-08-26
    Description: Tail-anchored (TA) membrane proteins destined for the endoplasmic reticulum are chaperoned by cytosolic targeting factors that deliver them to a membrane receptor for insertion. Although a basic framework for TA protein recognition is now emerging, the decisive targeting and membrane insertion steps are not understood. Here we reconstitute the TA protein insertion cycle with purified components, present crystal structures of key complexes between these components and perform mutational analyses based on the structures. We show that a committed targeting complex, formed by a TA protein bound to the chaperone ATPase Get3, is initially recruited to the membrane through an interaction with Get2. Once the targeting complex has been recruited, Get1 interacts with Get3 to drive TA protein release in an ATPase-dependent reaction. After releasing its TA protein cargo, the now-vacant Get3 recycles back to the cytosol concomitant with ATP binding. This work provides a detailed structural and mechanistic framework for the minimal TA protein insertion cycle.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3760497/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3760497/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mariappan, Malaiyalam -- Mateja, Agnieszka -- Dobosz, Malgorzata -- Bove, Elia -- Hegde, Ramanujan S -- Keenan, Robert J -- MC_UP_A022_1007/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- R01 GM086487/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01GM086487/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Aug 24;477(7362):61-6. doi: 10.1038/nature10362.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866104" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Transport ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/metabolism/*physiology ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2011-07-12
    Description: A substantial proportion of the genome encodes membrane proteins that are delivered to the endoplasmic reticulum by dedicated targeting pathways. Membrane proteins that fail targeting must be rapidly degraded to avoid aggregation and disruption of cytosolic protein homeostasis. The mechanisms of mislocalized protein (MLP) degradation are unknown. Here we reconstitute MLP degradation in vitro to identify factors involved in this pathway. We find that nascent membrane proteins tethered to ribosomes are not substrates for ubiquitination unless they are released into the cytosol. Their inappropriate release results in capture by the Bag6 complex, a recently identified ribosome-associating chaperone. Bag6-complex-mediated capture depends on the presence of unprocessed or non-inserted hydrophobic domains that distinguish MLPs from potential cytosolic proteins. A subset of these Bag6 complex 'clients' are transferred to TRC40 for insertion into the membrane, whereas the remainder are rapidly ubiquitinated. Depletion of the Bag6 complex selectively impairs the efficient ubiquitination of MLPs. Thus, by its presence on ribosomes that are synthesizing nascent membrane proteins, the Bag6 complex links targeting and ubiquitination pathways. We propose that such coupling allows the fast tracking of MLPs for degradation without futile engagement of the cytosolic folding machinery.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150218/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150218/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hessa, Tara -- Sharma, Ajay -- Mariappan, Malaiyalam -- Eshleman, Heather D -- Gutierrez, Erik -- Hegde, Ramanujan S -- MC_UP_A022_1007/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- ZIA HD008861-02/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jul 10;475(7356):394-7. doi: 10.1038/nature10181.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21743475" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Arsenite Transporting ATPases/metabolism ; Cattle ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cytoplasm/metabolism ; Endoplasmic Reticulum/metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Molecular Chaperones/metabolism ; Multiprotein Complexes/metabolism ; Neuropeptide Y/chemistry ; Prions/chemistry/*metabolism ; Prolactin/chemistry ; Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/metabolism ; Protein Folding ; Protein Precursors/chemistry ; Protein Sorting Signals/physiology ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Transport ; Ribosomes/metabolism ; Ubiquitin/metabolism ; *Ubiquitination
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    Publication Date: 2015-08-08
    Description: Termination of protein synthesis occurs when a translating ribosome encounters one of three universally conserved stop codons: UAA, UAG or UGA. Release factors recognize stop codons in the ribosomal A-site to mediate release of the nascent chain and recycling of the ribosome. Bacteria decode stop codons using two separate release factors with differing specificities for the second and third bases. By contrast, eukaryotes rely on an evolutionarily unrelated omnipotent release factor (eRF1) to recognize all three stop codons. The molecular basis of eRF1 discrimination for stop codons over sense codons is not known. Here we present cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures at 3.5-3.8 A resolution of mammalian ribosomal complexes containing eRF1 interacting with each of the three stop codons in the A-site. Binding of eRF1 flips nucleotide A1825 of 18S ribosomal RNA so that it stacks on the second and third stop codon bases. This configuration pulls the fourth position base into the A-site, where it is stabilized by stacking against G626 of 18S rRNA. Thus, eRF1 exploits two rRNA nucleotides also used during transfer RNA selection to drive messenger RNA compaction. In this compacted mRNA conformation, stop codons are favoured by a hydrogen-bonding network formed between rRNA and essential eRF1 residues that constrains the identity of the bases. These results provide a molecular framework for eukaryotic stop codon recognition and have implications for future studies on the mechanisms of canonical and premature translation termination.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591471/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591471/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Brown, Alan -- Shao, Sichen -- Murray, Jason -- Hegde, Ramanujan S -- Ramakrishnan, V -- 096570/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_U105184332/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MC_UP_A022_1007/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- WT096570/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2015 Aug 27;524(7566):493-6. doi: 10.1038/nature14896. Epub 2015 Aug 5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26245381" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; Binding Sites ; Codon/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Codon, Terminator/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; Eukaryota ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Nucleotides/chemistry/metabolism ; Peptide Termination Factors/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Messenger/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Ribosomal, 18S/genetics ; Ribosomes/chemistry/metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Substrate Specificity
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