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Annual Review of Physiology

Volume 80, 2018

Mechanical Protein Unfolding and Degradation

Abstract

AAA+ proteolytic machines use energy from ATP hydrolysis to degrade damaged, misfolded, or unneeded proteins. Protein degradation occurs within a barrel-shaped self-compartmentalized peptidase. Before protein substrates can enter this peptidase, they must be unfolded and then translocated through the axial pore of an AAA+ ring hexamer. An unstructured region of the protein substrate is initially engaged in the axial pore, and conformational changes in the ring, powered by ATP hydrolysis, generate a mechanical force that pulls on and denatures the substrate. The same conformational changes in the hexameric ring then mediate mechanical translocation of the unfolded polypeptide into the peptidase chamber. For the bacterial ClpXP and ClpAP AAA+ proteases, the mechanical activities of protein unfolding and translocation have been directly visualized by single-molecule optical trapping. These studies in combination with structural and biochemical experiments illuminate many principles that underlie this universal mechanism of ATP-fueled protein unfolding and subsequent destruction.

Keyword(s): AAA+ unfolding machines, ATP-dependent proteolysis, ClpAP, ClpXP, optical trapping, substrate translocation
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Mechanical Protein Unfolding and Degradation
Annual Review of Physiology 80, 413 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physiol-021317-121303
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