Publication Date:
2014-04-18
Description:
Newly synthesized membrane proteins must be accurately inserted into the membrane, folded and assembled for proper functioning. The protein YidC inserts its substrates into the membrane, thereby facilitating membrane protein assembly in bacteria; the homologous proteins Oxa1 and Alb3 have the same function in mitochondria and chloroplasts, respectively. In the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, YidC functions as an independent insertase and a membrane chaperone in cooperation with the translocon SecYEG. Here we present the crystal structure of YidC from Bacillus halodurans, at 2.4 A resolution. The structure reveals a novel fold, in which five conserved transmembrane helices form a positively charged hydrophilic groove that is open towards both the lipid bilayer and the cytoplasm but closed on the extracellular side. Structure-based in vivo analyses reveal that a conserved arginine residue in the groove is important for the insertion of membrane proteins by YidC. We propose an insertion mechanism for single-spanning membrane proteins, in which the hydrophilic environment generated by the groove recruits the extracellular regions of substrates into the low-dielectric environment of the membrane.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kumazaki, Kaoru -- Chiba, Shinobu -- Takemoto, Mizuki -- Furukawa, Arata -- Nishiyama, Ken-ichi -- Sugano, Yasunori -- Mori, Takaharu -- Dohmae, Naoshi -- Hirata, Kunio -- Nakada-Nakura, Yoshiko -- Maturana, Andres D -- Tanaka, Yoshiki -- Mori, Hiroyuki -- Sugita, Yuji -- Arisaka, Fumio -- Ito, Koreaki -- Ishitani, Ryuichiro -- Tsukazaki, Tomoya -- Nureki, Osamu -- England -- Nature. 2014 May 22;509(7501):516-20. doi: 10.1038/nature13167. Epub 2014 Apr 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan [2] Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan [3]. ; 1] Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan [2]. ; 1] Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan [2] Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. ; Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan. ; Cryobiofrontier Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, 3-18-8 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate 020-8550, Japan. ; Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. ; Global Research Cluster, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan. ; SR Life Science Instrumentation Unit, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan. ; Department of Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshidakonoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. ; Department of Bioengineering Sciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. ; Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Shogoin Kawara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. ; Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan. ; Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan. ; 1] Department of Systems Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan [2] JST, PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24739968" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Arginine/metabolism
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Bacillus/*chemistry
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Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Cell Membrane/chemistry/*metabolism
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Conserved Sequence
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Molecular Chaperones/chemistry/metabolism
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Protein Folding
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Static Electricity
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Structure-Activity Relationship
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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