Length recognition at the N-terminal tail for the initiation of FtsH-mediated proteolysis

AUTOR(ES)

Chiba, Shinobu

FONTE

Oxford University Press

RESUMO

FtsH-mediated proteolysis against membrane proteins is processive, and presumably involves dislocation of the substrate into the cytosol where the enzymatic domains of FtsH reside. To study how such a mode of proteolysis is initiated, we manipulated N-terminal cytosolic tails of three membrane proteins. YccA, a natural substrate of FtsH was found to require the N-terminal tail of 20 amino acid residues or longer to be degraded by FtsH in vivo. Three unrelated sequences of this segment conferred the FtsH sensitivity to YccA. An artificially constructed TM9-PhoA protein, derived from SecY, as well as the SecE protein, were sensitized to FtsH by addition of extra amino acid sequences to their N-terminal cytosolic tails. Thus, FtsH recognizes a cytosolic region of sufficient length (∼20 amino acids) to initiate the processive proteolysis against membrane proteins. Such a region is typically at the N-terminus and can be diverse in amino acid sequences.

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