PMID:11259663

Citation	Reid, BG, Fenton, WA, Horwich, AL and Weber-Ban, EU (2001) ClpA mediates directional translocation of substrate proteins into the ClpP protease. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98:3768-72
Abstract	The intracellular degradation of many proteins is mediated in an ATP-dependent manner by large assemblies comprising a chaperone ring complex associated coaxially with a proteolytic cylinder, e.g., ClpAP, ClpXP, and HslUV in prokaryotes, and the 26S proteasome in eukaryotes. Recent studies of the chaperone ClpA indicate that it mediates ATP-dependent unfolding of substrate proteins and directs their ATP-dependent translocation into the ClpP protease. Because the axial passageway into the proteolytic chamber is narrow, it seems likely that unfolded substrate proteins are threaded from the chaperone into the protease, suggesting that translocation could be directional. We have investigated directionality in the ClpA/ClpP-mediated reaction by using two substrate proteins bearing the COOH-terminal ssrA recognition element, each labeled near the NH(2) or COOH terminus with fluorescent probes. Time-dependent changes in both fluorescence anisotropy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer between donor fluorophores in the ClpP cavity and the substrate probes as acceptors were measured to monitor translocation of the substrates from ClpA into ClpP. We observed for both substrates that energy transfer occurs 2--4 s sooner with the COOH-terminally labeled molecules than with the NH(2)-terminally labeled ones, indicating that translocation is indeed directional, with the COOH terminus of the substrate protein entering ClpP first.
Links	PubMed PMC31127 Online version:10.1073/pnas.071043698
Keywords	Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism; Adenosine Triphosphatases/physiology; Adenosine Triphosphate/analogs & derivatives; Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism; Biological Transport; Endopeptidase Clp; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins; Fluorescence Polarization; Kinetics; Muramidase/metabolism; RNA, Bacterial/metabolism; Serine Endopeptidases/metabolism; Serine Endopeptidases/physiology; Substrate Specificity
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