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Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
Reprint requests to: Naoki Tanaka, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan; e-mail: tanaka{at}ipc.kit.ac.jp; fax: +81-75-724-7710.
(RECEIVED March 31, 2004; FINAL REVISION July 22, 2004; ACCEPTED August 5, 2004)
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N), indicating that MDH refolding was affected by interaction with the N-terminal domain. In addition, the MDH refolding yield increased 50% in the presence of the ClpB N-terminal fragment (ClpBN). Fluorescence polarization analysis showed that this chaperone-like activity is explained best by a weak interaction between ClpBN and the reversible aggregate of MDH. The dissociation constant of ClpBN and the reversible aggregate was estimated as 45 µM from the calculation of the refolding kinetics. Amino acid substitutions at Leu 97 and Leu 110 on the ClpBN surface reduced the chaperone-like activity and the affinity to the substrate. In addition, these residues are involved in stimulation of ATPase activity in ClpB. Thus, Leu 97 and Leu 110 are responsible for the substrate recognition and the regulation of ATP-induced ClpB conformational change. Keywords: molecular chaperone; ClpB; chaperone-like activity; protein aggregate; refolding; amino acid substitution; substrate binding site
Abbreviations: ClpBN, N-terminal domain of ClpB ClpB
N, ClpB protein with a deleted N-terminal domain MDH, malate dehydrogenase GdnHCl, guanidine hydrochloride Kd, dissociation constant
Article published online ahead of print. Article and publication date are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.04780704.
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The ClpB N-terminal domain contains about 150 amino acid residues, including two repeated structural domains each of about 70 amino acid residue (Lo et al. 2001). The crystal structure of TClpB showed a large rearrangement of the N-terminal domain, demonstrating that this domain is mobile and does not form a tight interface with the rest of the molecule (Lee et al. 2003). The function of the ClpB N-terminal domain and the nature of the protein aggregates that bind to this domain have not been determined. The N-terminal domain of a Synechococcus ClpB homolog is essential for cell viability (Eriksson et al. 2001), while other studies have indicated that this domain is not essential for resolubilization of protein aggregates and development of thermotolerance (Clarke and Eriksson 2002; Mogk et al. 2003).
The effect of deletion of the N-terminal domain on luciferase refolding in the presence of the DnaK chaperone system was studied (Barnett et al. 2000). When ClpB was present in the refolding buffer, almost 100% of luciferase was refolded, although the refolding yield was only 1%2% in the presence of ClpB protein with a deleted N-terminal domain (ClpB
N). Other studies showed that substitution of amino acids in the N-terminal domain shown in Figure 1
affected chaperone activity of full-length ClpB. Substitution of the conserved residues Thr 7, Asp 103, and Glu 109 with Ala did not affect substrate binding, but the chaperone activity for luciferase refolding was reduced (Liu et al. 2002). Leu 93, Leu 97, and Leu 110 in the hydrophobic groove from helices A5, A6, and A8 were substituted with Gln, and these mutants exhibited severe defects in chaperone activity (Li and Sha 2003). In contrast, TClpB and TClpB
N showed the same chaperone activity for luciferase refolding from the urea-denatured state (Beinker et al. 2002) suggesting that the TClpB N-terminal domain was not essential for TClpB chaperone activity.
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It has been shown that the GroEL molecular chaperone system (2 µM GroEL, 8 µM GroES, and 10 mM ATP) increases the MDH refolding yield by a factor of 6.5, due to the interaction with the reversible aggregation (Ranson et al. 1995). Substoichiometric amounts of GroEL efficiently increased the MDH refolding yield, indicating that GroEL catalytically reverses the reversible aggregation step, and the rate constant from the intermediate to the collapsed monomer increased to 0.1 sec1. We examined the effect of ClpB on the MDH refolding in the absence of ATP. As shown in the closed circles plotted in Figure 2B
, ClpB interfered with the refolding of MDH as in the case of the luciferase refolding. Previous studies also reported that GroEL alone interfered with the protein refolding in the particular conditions (Buchner et al. 1991; Schmidt and Buchner 1992). This is because the substrate polypeptide, which tightly bound to GroEL in refolding process, was not released from GroEL in the absence of ATP and GroES. Similarly, the effect of ClpB on the protein refolding would be explained by the tight binding to the intermediates of MDH (folded inactive monomer or reversible aggregate) as shown in equation 2:
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Previous study showed that the self-association of ClpB is weak in the absence of ATP (Zolkiewski et al. 1999), and not only hexamer, but smaller oligomers and monomer (Beinker et al. 2002) are also populated in the ClpB solution in our experimental condition. The higher oligomers would be responsible to the tight binding of the MDH intermediates because the substrate affinity of lower oligomers and monomer should be low due to the smaller number of the binding sites. We have performed the refolding experiments in the presence of ClpB and 10 mM ATP. As shown in the squares plotted in Figure 2
, A and B, we found that the refolding yields of luciferase and MDH were further reduced. This is a contrast to the fact that the protein refolding yield was slightly increased by HSP104 in the presence of ATP (Glover and Lindquist 1998). However, these results cannot be compared because residual GdnHCl in the refolding buffer inhibits ClpB ATPase activity (Glover and Lindquist 1998; Jung and Masison 2001) and the conformational change in ClpB is not induced in our conditions. Therefore, the reduced refolding yield in the presence of ATP would be due to the increased population of higher oligomers in ClpB. This is consistent to our explanation that higher oligomers are involved in the tight binding to the MDH intermediates. The effect of ClpB on the heat-induced MDH aggregate in the presence and absence of ATP has been studied previously (Goloubinoff et al. 1999). Turbidity of an MDH aggregate solution was monitored before and after ClpB addition. In contrast to the studies reported here, those studies found that ClpB alone did not significantly affect MDH aggregates. Instead, turbidity increased in the presence of ClpB and ATP. This turbidity increase may be due to fragmentation of large aggregates by ATP-induced conformational changes.
To examine the contribution of the ClpB N-terminal domain to ClpB binding to the MDH intermediates, we studied the refolding of MDH and luciferase in the presence of ClpB
N. Neither the refolding kinetics of luciferase nor MDH was affected by ClpB
N (the crosses plotted in Fig. 2A,B
), indicating that deletion of the ClpB N-terminal domain reduces ClpB interaction with the MDH intermediates. When interaction between ClpB and the MDH intermediates is reduced by deletion of the ClpB N-terminal domain, the ClpB
N oligomer may dissociate thereby decreasing the number of the binding sites. This may explain the reason for the lack of ClpB
N-intermediates interaction. However, a previous study has shown that self-association of ClpB
N is stronger than that of wild-type ClpB (Barnett et al. 2000), so reduced ClpB
N-intermediates interaction cannot be due to ClpB
N oligomer dissociation. Therefore, we conclude that the ClpB N-terminal domain is responsible for ClpB binding to the MDH intermediates.
Previous studies reported that the chaperone activity of ClpB was significantly reduced by the deletion of N-terminal domain (Barnett et al. 2000), while TClpB and TClpB
N showed the same chaperone activity (Beinker et al. 2002). However, these results cannot be simply compared because different substrate concentrations were used in each study (25 nM for ClpB study, 180 nM for TClpB study) and luciferase aggregation is a function of protein concentration (Herbst et al. 1997). A larger fraction of the luciferase might be in larger size aggregates and recognized by the ClpB linker domain in the higher luciferase concentration in the TClpB study. This possibility is consistent with the result that the maximum refolding yield in the TClpB study (40%) is much lower than that in the ClpB study (100%). The function of the ClpB N-terminal domain might be more easily observed in conditions of low protein concentration, in which a larger fraction of luciferase is in smaller size aggregates. Another study showed that the ClpB N-terminal domain is not essential for dissociation of aggregates of luciferase and MDH that had been heat treated (Mogk et al. 2003). This effect may be due to a larger fraction of the aggregates produced by heat treatment having a larger size and to the function of the ClpB linker domain.
Effect of ClpBN on MDH refolding
We examined the effect of ClpBN on the refolding of MDH denatured by GdnHCl. In contrast to the effect of ClpB, the MDH refolding yield increased about 50% in the presence of 40 µM ClpBN (Fig. 3A
), and increased with increasing concentrations of ClpBN (Fig. 3B
). To examine the mechanism of this chaperone-like activity, the MDH refolding experiments were performed in the presence of polyethylene glycol or BSA, which have been reported to prevent the protein aggregation (Jaenicke and Rudolph 1986; Cleland and Randolph 1992) by the nonspecific binding to the folding intermediate. We found that polyethylene glycol did not affect the refolding kinetics of MDH in the experimental condition in Figure 3
. On the other hand, the MDH refolding yield was decreased with the increase of the BSA concentration from 0 to 40 µM in the same condition. The conformation of serum albumin is a sticky partially folded form in reduced condition (Lee and Hirose 1992), and its tight binding to MDH intermediates might be responsible for the reduced refolding yield. These results are distinct from the effect of ClpBN on MDH refolding, and the mechanism of chaperone-like activity of ClpBN cannot be explained by the nonspecific binding. However, unlike the effect of GroEL on MDH refolding, ClpBN needs to be present in greater than equimolar quantities relative to the aggregate substrate for its chaperone-like activity, and the mechanism cannot be explained by ClpBN catalyzing dissociation of reversible MDH aggregates. Previous studies found that molecular chaperones facilitate protein refolding without ATP-induced conformational change by the weak binding to folding intermediates to prevent aggregation (Ayling and Baneyx 1996; Zahn et al. 1996; Ben-Zvi et al. 1998; Chatellier et al. 1998; Tanaka and Fersht 1999; Tanaka et al. 2002). The ClpBN chaperone-like activity may be explained by a similar mechanism. We confirmed that ClpBN binds MDH in the refolding process using fluorescence anisotropy assays (Fig. 4
). An increase in measured anisotropy as a function of macromolecule concentration is a measure of macromolecule binding (Tanaka and Fersht 1999). The ClpBN N-terminal amino acid was labeled with FITC (FITC-ClpBN) and anisotropy measured in the presence of different concentrations of refolded MDH. The anisotropy value of FITC-ClpBN increased immediately after the diluting denatured MDH (within 20 sec), and kept almost the same value for several minutes. The change of the measured anisotropy of FITC-ClpBN increased with increasing MDH concentration (Fig. 4
), indicating binding between MDH and ClpBN.
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The kinetics of MDH refolding in the presence of ClpBN shown in equation 3 was calculated, using the kinetic constants shown in equation 1. The value of the dissociation constant (Kd) between the reversible aggregate and ClpBN was determined by numerical analysis of the data in Figure 3A
. The theoretical curve showed the best fit to the data for Kd = 45 µM. The affinity of ClpBN to the MDH intermediate is much lower than that of N-terminal domain of ClpB because of the lower number of the binding sites. This would be the reason why the effect of ClpBN on the MDH refolding is opposite to that of ClpB. We have previously investigated the substrate interaction of the molecular chaperone GroEL using its fragment of the substrate binding domain (Tanaka and Fersht 1999). The affinity between the substrate and the fragment of the substrate binding domain was low (Kd = 100200 µM). Substrate affinity of the GroEL oligomer heptameric ring enables tight substrate binding and recognition of a diverse range of substrates (Ben-Zvi et al. 1998). Similarly, the ClpB N-terminal domain may recognize protein aggregates by the accumulation of weak substrate interactions at multiple sites.
Identification of the ClpB N-terminal domain substrate binding site
To identify the ClpBN residues at the substrate binding site, we examined the effect of ClpBN mutants on MHD refolding. The seven mutated residues in ClpB, performed previously (Liu et al. 2002; Li and Sha 2003), were produced in ClpBN by site-directed mutagenesis. In addition, because Leu 14 and Leu 91 are conserved in the ClpB family (Fig. 1B
) and are candidates for the substrate binding site, these two amino acids were changed by mutation to Gln in ClpBN. Therefore, we carried out site-directed mutagenesis on the nine amino acids on the molecular surface shown in Figure 1
. No observable difference was found between the CD spectra of wild-type ClpBN and its mutants (Fig. 5
). Experiments of MDH refolding from the GdnHCl-denatured state were carried out in the presence of 30 µM ClpBN wild-type or mutant protein. The relative values for the MDH refolding yields after 2.5 h incubation are summarized in Figure 6
. This figure shows that the MDH refolding yields in the presence of ClpBNL97Q and ClpBNL110Q were lower than wild-type, suggesting reduced interaction of these mutants with the substrate. The refolding yields in the presence of other mutants were in the same level or slightly higher than the wild type. The increased chaperone-like activity may be because the mutation induced small conformational changes thereby changing the orientation of residues at the substrate binding site. We have performed the fluorescence anisotropy assays to confirm that the mutations affect the interaction between ClpBN and MDH. As shown in Figure 4
, an increase in measured anisotropy was significantly reduced in ClpBNL97Q and ClpBNL110Q, indicating that the substrate binding was reduced in these mutants.
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In the studies reported here, we found that the refolding yield of MDH was reduced in the presence of full-length ClpB, whereas ClpBN increased the refolding yield. Fluorescence polarization analysis showed that these results were explained best by the fact that ClpB N-terminal domain interacts with the reversible aggregate of MDH in the refolding process. Interaction between the N-terminal domain and substrate is weak, but is enhanced by multiple binding sites in ClpB oligomers. We found that Leu 97 and Leu 110 in the ClpB N-terminal domain hydrophobic groove are involved in the binding of the protein aggregates.
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N, and ClpBN were generously provided by Prof. Zolkieski (Kansas State University). ClpB and ClpB
N expression and purification were performed as described previously (Barnett et al. 2000). A QuikChange site-directed mutagenesis kit (Stratagene) was used to generate desired mutations into target genes (using a pair of completely complementary primers) and to amplify the full-length plasmid. ClpBN and its mutants were expressed in E. coli BL21(DE3)plys, purified by affinity chromatography on a Ni-NTA-agarose column and cleaved from the histidine tail by thrombin digestion, essentially as described previously (Tek and Zolkiewski 2002). The cleaved protein was further purified by size-exclusion HPLC (Superdex 200, Pharmacia) in 50 mM Tris (pH 7.5), 200 mM KCl.
Refolding experiments
Refolding experiments for firefly (Photinus pyralis) luciferase (Promega) and mitochondrial MDH (Sigma) were performed as described previously. Briefly, 6.1 µM denatured luciferase in 5 M GdnHCl was diluted 100-fold in refolding buffer (100 mM potassium phosphate [pH 7.8], 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM DTE) at 5°C (Herbst et al. 1998), and 140 µM (monomer concentration) denatured MDH in 3 M GdnHCl was diluted 100-fold in refolding buffer (50 mM TEA [pH 7.5], 50 mM KCl, 20 mM MgCl2, 2 Mm DTT) at 30°C (Ranson et al. 1995). The refolding yield was estimated from the enzymatic activity. Numerical analysis of kinetic data was performed with the Gepasi software program (Mendes 1997).
Spectroscopic measurements
Fluorescence anisotropy measurements were made with a Shimadzu RF2000 spectrofluorimeter (Kyoto, Japan) with an excitation wavelength of 490 nm and an emission wavelength of 520 nm. The ClpB N-terminal amino group was labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) for 4 h at pH 8.0, and excess FITC was removed using a PD10 column (Amersham Pharmacia). The final protein concentration was determined with the BCA protein assay and the concentration of FITC was determined by absorbance at 490 nm (68,000 M1 cm1). The labeling ratio for fluorescent derivatives of RCMLA was confirmed to be 1.0. Anisotropy values of 0.1 µM FITC-ClpBN were measured at 30-sec intervals during MDH refolding. CD measurements were made with a Jasco-720 spectropolarimeter using a 1-mm path length cell.
DSC
Calorimetric measurements were performed by Nano-DSC II Model 6100 (Calorimetry Science Co.). Most experiments were done at a scan rate of 2.0°C/min and protein concentrations of 0.71.5 mg/mL. All data analysis of baseline subtraction, concentration normalization, and deconvolution was performed with software from Calorimetry Science.
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