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Address correspondence to Matthias Müller, Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany. Tel.: 49-761-203-5265. Fax: 49-761-203-5274. email: matthias.mueller{at}biochemie.uni-freiburg.de
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Key Words: L23; nascent polypeptide chains; protein targeting; signal recognition particle; Trigger factor
Abbreviations used in this paper: DSS, disuccinimidyl suberate; INV, inside-out, inner membrane vesicle; RNC, ribosomenascent chain complex; SRP, signal recognition particle; TF, Trigger factor; Tmd-Phe, L-4'-(3-[trifluoromethyl]-3H-diazirin-3-yl) phenylalanine.
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Introduction |
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In addition, E. coli possesses a group of inner membrane proteins, characterized by large translocated domains, that exhibit a combined dependence on SRP/FtsY and SecA. Detailed studies demonstrated that integration of the transmembrane helices of these proteins requires exclusively SRP (Scotti et al., 1999; Neumann-Haefelin et al., 2000; Lee and Bernstein, 2001), whereas the SecA requirement is confined to the translocation of the extended hydrophilic domains (Neumann-Haefelin et al., 2000) of these membrane proteins.
The combined data available therefore suggest that gram-negative bacteria select between two export routes converging at the SecYE translocon and that they must possess discriminatory mechanisms to choose the right cargo. Similar to the situation in the lower eukaryote yeast, in which the SRP-dependent route is reserved to secretory proteins with more hydrophobic signal sequences (Ng et al., 1996), the bacterial SRP selects inner membrane proteins on the basis of their longer and more hydrophobic signal anchor sequences (Valent et al., 1997; de Gier et al., 1998). This implies that signal sequences of secretory E. coli proteins do not come into, or at least do not remain in, contact with SRP when they emerge from the ribosome. In fact, when analyzed by cross-linking, ribosome-associated secretory proteins have largely been found in contact with Trigger factor (TF) (Valent et al., 1995, 1997; Beck et al., 2000; Beha et al., 2003). TF is a ribosome-associated chaperone and peptidyl-prolyl isomerase involved in folding of both secretory and cytosolic proteins (Hesterkamp et al., 1996). Interestingly, both TF and Ffh have recently been found to use the same ribosomal protein L23 located at the orifice of the exit tunnel (Nissen et al., 2000) as docking site, which might suggest a potential competition for emerging nascent polypeptides (Kramer et al., 2002; Gu et al., 2003; Ullers et al., 2003).
To elucidate the molecular environment and contacts of a signal sequence at the ribosome, we have conducted an in vitro analysis of growing nascent chains of the bacterial secretory protein pOmpA. Using site-specific cross-linking we find that at least TF, Ffh, SecA, and the ribosomal protein L23 itself are crowding around an emerging signal sequence. Our results suggest that TF might fulfil an important regulatory function controlling access of Ffh and SecA, but not SecB, to secretory proteins.
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When the nascent pOmpA chains were extended by 23 additional residues (pOmpA-89), cross-linking of Ffh to Tmd-Phe in position 11 (Fig. 3, lane 15) had vanished while the photoprobe placed in position 3 still revealed residual contacts (Fig. 3, lane 20). In contrast, SecA remained a dominating interaction partner also at this length of nascent pOmpA (Fig. 3, lanes 17 and 18). Different from the two shorter chains, both Tmd-Phe constructs of pOmpA-89 were now found also in the vicinity of TF (Fig. 3, lanes 14 and 19) and of additional proteins (Fig. 3, lanes 12 and 17, star and arrow), which will be referred to in the description of Fig. 6. Whereas the TF adducts of the signal sequence of pOmpA-89 were still rather weak (Fig. 3, lanes 12 and 17, asterisk), they became considerably more pronounced after the length of the nascent pOmpA chains had increased to 105 (Fig. 3, lanes 22 and 24) and 126 (Fig. 3, lanes 27 and 29) amino acids.
Due to the unique locations of the cross-linker, all of the adducts depicted in Fig. 3 reflect binding partners of the signal sequence of pOmpA RNCs. As all these experiments were performed with the same amounts of SecA, Ffh, and TF present, they clearly disclose a length-dependent interaction selectivity of the nascent signal sequence. The combined results then suggest that the signal sequence comes into close proximity to TF only after the nascent chain has grown beyond 7080 amino acids in length. Below that size, it is freely accessible to Ffh and SecA.
Exposure of multiple binding sites for TF within the mature part of a nascent secretory E. coli protein
The fact that in order for TF to associate with the signal sequence of pOmpA RNCs, >14 downstream amino acids had to be exposed (as in pOmpA-89, compare with Fig. 1) suggested an involvement of the mature part of pOmpA in binding of TF. Therefore nascent pOmpA chains, 105, 126, and 192 amino acids long, were analyzed, each one carrying Tmd-Phe at a position downstream of the signal sequence as indicated in Fig. 1. Upon UV irradiation, cross-linking products appeared (Fig. 4) whose pattern varied with the position of the cross-linker (Fig. 4, e.g., compare lanes 2, 5, 8, 11, and 14). Most of them were coimmunoprecipitated with anti-TF antibodies (Fig. 4, lanes 3, 6, 9, and 12). One of these TF adducts (asterisk) exhibited almost the same electrophoretic mobility for all Tmd-Phe constructs of a given chain length (Fig. 4, compare lanes 2, 5, 8, and 11). Its size corresponds to the sum of the respective pOmpA nascent chain (e.g., 13 kD for pOmpA-126) and TF, which runs aberrantly on SDS-PAGE at 58 kD. The origin of the more slowly moving TF cross-reactive species remained elusive. Similar patterns of multiple TF cross-links, however, are also obtained when chemical cross-linkers are used (Beck et al., 2000; Kramer et al., 2002; Deuerling et al., 2003). The electrophoretic mobility of cross-linking products that were not recognized by anti-TF antiserum (marked ) varied with the position of Tmd-Phe within a given chain (Fig. 4, lanes 2, 5, 8, 11, and 14) rather than with its length (Fig. 4, compare lanes 14 and 17). These bands therefore have probably been generated by intramolecular cross-links of the cosynthesized full-size pOmpA.
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All Tmd-Phe positions shown for pOmpA-126 in Fig. 4 plus additional ones at residues 124 and 145 also resulted in cross-links to TF when RNCs of the longer pOmpA-192 chain were analyzed (unpublished data). These results are consistent with the frequent occurrence of TF-binding sites previously identified on a variety of cytosolic and secretory E. coli proteins (Patzelt et al., 2001). If the exposure of such an authentic TF-binding site within the mature sequence of pOmpA was a prerequisite for the interaction of TF with the signal sequence, it would explain why short pOmpA RNCs were not found cross-linked to TF.
TF prevents cotranslational targeting of pOmpA RNCs
As demonstrated above, in reaching cross-linkable vicinity to TF, the nascent signal sequence of pOmpA lost its accessibility to Ffh and SecA. This finding raised the possibility that TF after binding to the signal sequence of a secretory protein might control its accessibility to proteins specialized in signal sequence recognition, such as Ffh and SecA. We therefore asked for the consequences of a deficiency of TF on pOmpA RNCs. In E. coli, one of the hallmarks of RNCs containing SRP substrates is their cotranslational targeting to INVs, which can be visualized by flotation centrifugation (Neumann-Haefelin et al., 2000). In contrast, RNCs of a secretory protein such as pOmpA, which are not recognized by SRP, virtually do not floate with INVs. Fig. 5 A (bottom) illustrates that the vast majority of pOmpA-192 RNCs is recovered from the pellet fraction (P) of the sucrose gradient (Fig. 5 A, lanes 5 and 10), and the addition of INVs does not lead to any significant increase in RNCs floating with the membrane fraction (Fig. 5 A, lanes 2 and 7).
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Upon exit, the signal sequence of pOmpA remains in immediate vicinity to the ribosome via ribosomal protein L23
The moderate extent by which pOmpA RNCs interacted with Ffh in the absence of TF (Fig. 5 C) suggested that the signal sequence might come into contact with additional binding partners when relieved from its association with TF. When pOmpA-126 RNCs were synthesized in the absence of TF and without exogenously added Ffh and SecA, a prominent 24-kD cross-link was formed by disuccinimidyl suberate (DSS) (Fig. 6 A, star). This adduct was coimmunoprecipitated with antibodies raised against ribosomal protein L23 of E. coli (Fig. 6 A, lane 5), whereas antisera directed against the ribosomal proteins L19, L22, and L24, which are all exposed on the surface of the large ribosomal subunit (Nissen et al., 2000), did not visibly precipitate any material (Fig. 6 A, lanes 3, 4, and 6). A very faint reaction was observed with anti-L29 antibodies (Fig. 6 A, lane 7) precipitating a minor cross-link of 20 kD (Fig. 6 A, lane 2, arrow).
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As shown above, the signal sequence of pOmpA-89 RNCs had displayed highest versatility in its molecular contacts, still being accessible to SecA but already found in the vicinity of TF. If L23 were a constitutive part of the molecular environment of a nascent signal sequence in E. coli, it was expected to become apparent by a cross-link with the signal sequence of pOmpA-89 despite the presence of TF. This, in fact, is demonstrated in Fig. 6 B (lanes 10 and 11) by coimmunoprecipitation. The L23 adduct of pOmpA-89 had become visible after UV irradiation also in previous experiments (compare with Fig. 3, stars). The additional 15-kD cross-link of pOmpA-89 that usually appeared together with the L23 adduct (arrows in Fig. 3, lanes 12 and 17, and Fig. 6 B, lane 10) could stem from ribosomal protein L29, although a clear identification has not yet been possible. Thus, shortly after exiting the ribosomal tunnel, the signal sequence of pOmpA seems to be apposed to L23, where it remains accessible to proteins such as Ffh and SecA; these contacts are all blocked upon further growth to a total chain length of 7080 residues, from which point on, the signal sequence remains shielded by TF.
TF is not involved in controlling access of SecB to pOmpA
A common denominator of the combined results presented thus far is that TF is involved in determining the accessibility of nascent pOmpA, in particular that of its signal sequence, to Ffh and SecA. Hence, we asked if this would also apply to the export-specific chaperone SecB. A controversial issue has remained if SecB was able to associate with the signal sequences of E. coli secretory proteins (for review see Muller et al., 2001). We therefore analyzed pOmpA-126 RNCs carrying Tmd-Phe in the signal sequence by UV-induced cross-linking after synthesis in the presence of exogenously added SecB (Fig. 7). While TF (asterisk) yielded the only prominent cross-link of intact RNCs (Fig. 7, top, lane 2), a clear SecB adduct was obtained after releasing pOmpA-126 from the ribosome by puromycin (Fig. 7, lanes 5 and 6, triangle). Virtually the same results were obtained when the cross-linker was placed at position 35 within the mature part of pOmpA (lanes 712). Clearly SecB can associate also with the signal sequence of pOmpA but only after its release from the ribosome.
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Why is the contact between TF and the signal sequence of pOmpA not established from the time of exposure on the ribosome? This is unlikely to be due to a docking site of TF that is further away from the exiting polypeptide chain than that of Ffh. Both proteins dock at L23 (Kramer et al., 2002; Gu et al., 2003; Ullers et al., 2003). Moreover, as illustrated in Fig. 4, pOmpA-105 with Tmd-Phe at position 62 gave rise to TF cross-links, although residue 62 is predicted to be only 13 amino acids distal from the exit site (compare with Fig. 1). On the contrary, in pOmpA-66 carrying Tmd-Phe at position 11, the cross-linker is located 25 residues outside of the ribosome and does not react with TF. This result therefore suggests that it is the signal sequence, per se, that cannot associate with TF when nascent pOmpA chains are short, and that binding probably can occur only after TF has first associated with the nascent chain at one of the verified recognition sites downstream of the signal sequence. The mechanism by which such a secondary interaction between TF and the signal sequence could be accomplished is unclear. Two speculative scenarios are conceivable. Perhaps TF itself has more than one binding site for nascent chains such that an initially cryptic one for the signal sequence might be exposed only after TF has associated with the substrate via its constitutive binding site. This situation would require some conformational change within the chaperone itself. Alternatively, two TF molecules might bind sequentially first to the mature part of pOmpA and then to the signal sequence, with the previous interaction somehow being required to expose or release the signal sequence as depicted in Fig. 8. Such a subsequent exposure of the signal sequence could be brought about by a TF-assisted conformational change within the nascent chain. Consistent with the idea of two TF monomers binding to one substrate would be the two- to threefold molar excess of TF over ribosomes (Patzelt et al., 2002) and the formation of TF dimers both in solution (Patzelt et al., 2002) and at the ribosome (Blaha et al., 2003).
Alternatively, a sequential association of the signal sequence of pOmpA first with Ffh and then with TF, as demonstrated here, might be a reflection of a mutually exclusive interaction of both proteins with L23, as recently suggested (Ullers et al., 2003). Several experimental approaches to measure binding of TF to ribosomes suggest that the majority of nontranslating E. coli 50S and 70S ribosomes are in complex with TF (Patzelt et al., 2002; Blaha et al., 2003; Maier et al., 2003). As we found the emerging signal sequence of pOmpA accessible to Ffh at a stage of synthesis at which TF has not yet tightly associated with its substrate, this situation might have arisen from a substrate-regulated exchange of TF by Ffh at L23. In theory, this could be achieved by the nascent signal sequence when still traversing the ribosomal peptide tunnel, as evidence has recently accumulated for the ability of the ribosome to sense the nature of a nascent peptide when still embedded in the exit tunnel (Liao et al., 1997; Gong and Yanofsky, 2002; Nakatogawa and Ito, 2002).
Surprisingly, also SecA was found cross-linked to the signal sequence of short nascent chains before they interacted with TF. As mentioned above, this finding is difficult to reconcile with the established function of SecA in the posttranslational targeting of secretory proteins to the SecY translocon of E. coli. For this to occur, a cotranslational interaction with the signal sequence is hardly required, although reports on a cotranslational substrate interaction by SecA exist (Chun and Randall, 1994; Behrmann et al., 1998). A certain relevance of the binding of SecA to pOmpA-RNCs might be deduced from the fact that under our experimental conditions, a similar cotranslational association with pOmpA was not observed for SecB. In accordance with this, only SecA has thus far been detected in association with nontranslating ribosomes (Liebke, 1987; Hoffschulte et al., 1994), with its docking site on the ribosome, however, being totally unknown.
Finally, as recently found for the signal anchor sequence of a membrane protein (Ullers et al., 2003), the ribosomal protein L23 turned out to be yet another protein competing for an interaction with a nascent signal sequence. While this could be shown to occur for an intermediary size of RNCs (pOmpA-89), even in longer nascent chains, in which the signal sequence was found associated with TF, it remained closely spaced to L23, as indicated by the cross-links to L23 in the absence of TF. While this alternative cross-linking to TF and L23 on the one hand reflects the immediate vicinity of both proteins, with TF docking at L23, it simultaneously argues against a free mobility of pOmpA's NH2 terminus after leaving the ribosomal exit tunnel. The collective data rather suggest that the signal sequence remains fixed to the surface of the ribosome via at least L23 and TF.
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Materials and methods |
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In vitro synthesis
The various pOmpA derivatives were synthesized by the reconstituted transcription/translation system previously described (Koch et al., 1999; Beck et al., 2000). Salt-washed ribosomes and the fraction of cytosolic translation factors were prepared from E. coli strains MRE 600 (Cammack and Wade, 1965), SL119 (Lesley et al., 1991), and C600 tig (Deuerling et al., 1999). For use in the
Tig system, a TF-free preparation of T7 RNA polymerase was obtained from Promega. Readthrough of stop codons by the use of suppressor tRNA charged with Tmd-Phe has been detailed elsewhere (Beck et al., 2000). When appropriate, INVs were added 1015 min after starting in vitro synthesis reactions.
Synthesis of pOmpA RNCs was achieved by addition of the following oligodeoxynucleotides: pOmpA-50, 5'-CCAGTTGGTTTTCATGGGTC-3' (2.5 µg/25 µl reaction); pOmpA-66, 5'-AAGCCAACATACGGGTTAAC-3' (3 µg); pOmpA-89, 5'-AGCTTTGTATGCACCGTTTTC-3' (2.5 µg); pOmpA-105, 5'-GGTCGTCAGTGATTGGGTAACC-3' (3 µg); pOmpA-126, 5'-TAAACGTTGGATTTAGTGTC-3' (3 µg); and pOmpA-192, 5'-GGAGCTGCCTCGCCCTGACC-3' (3 µg). RNaseH (Biozym) and a 10Sa RNA antisense oligodeoxynucleotide were added routinely (Beck et al., 2000). To release the ribosome from RNCs, puromycin was added to the reaction mixture at a final concentration of 0.8 mM with a further incubation for 10 min at 37°C.
Cross-linking
For chemical cross-linking using DSS (Pierce Chemical Co.), triethanolamine acetate was replaced by Hepes-NaOH during the previous translation reaction (Beck et al., 2000). UV irradiation ( = 365 nm) of Tmd-Phecontaining samples was done for 10 min, placing the UV lamp directly over closed reaction tubes in an ice bucket.
Purification of E. coli Ffh
The chromosomal ffh gene of E. coli strain MZ9 (lac,
phoA, phoB+, phoR-) was amplified by PCR using the P48BamHI (5'-ACAAGGGATCCCGATTAGCGACCAGGGA-3') and P48NdeI (5'-CGAGAGCATATGTTTGATAATTTAACCGAT-3') primers. The PCR product was digested by BamHI and NdeI and cloned under T7 promoter control downstream of a 10His tag in pET19b (Novagen) or pET10N (Truscott et al., 2001), resulting in plasmids pET19b-P48 and pET10N-P48.
For the purification of 10HisFfh, E. coli strain BL21 (DE3) pLysS (Studier et al., 1990) containing pET19b-P48 or pET10N-P48 was grown at 37°C in LB medium containing ampicillin and chloramphenicol and 0.4% glucose. 10 ml of an overnight culture was used to inoculate 1 liter of fresh glucose-free medium. When cells had grown at 30°C to an OD580 (optical density at 580 nm) of 0.45, 0.5 mM isopropyl-ß-D-thiogalactopyranoside was added and growth continued to an OD580 of 1.35. Cells were then harvested and resuspended in buffer A (50 mM potassium phosphate, pH 7.2, 300 mM NaCl) containing the protease inhibitors aprotinin (2 µg/ml), leupeptin (0.5 µg/ml), E64 (10 µg/ml), and PMSF (1 mM). After breaking cells by three passages through a French pressure cell at 8,000 psi, an S-30 was prepared, supplemented again with protease inhibitors, and applied in two batches to a 5-ml HiTrap chelating column (Amersham Biosciences) loaded with NiCl2 and equilibrated with buffer A. The gel matrix was washed first with buffer A and subsequently with buffer A containing 150 mM imidazol until no more material absorbing at 280 nm was eluted. 10HisFfh was eluted with buffer A containing 300 mM imidazol, and 1.5 ml eluate was immediately applied to a 5-ml HiTrap desalting column (Amersham Biosciences), previously equilibrated with 50 mM triethanolamine acetate, pH 7.5, 50 mM KCH3COO, 5 mM Mg(CH3COO)2. 10HisFfh was eluted with the same buffer adjusted to 50% glycerol and stored at -20°C.
Miscellaneous
Published protocols were used for the preparation of native and urea-extracted INVs and the protease protection assay (Koch et al., 1999), flotation centrifugation (Neumann-Haefelin et al., 2000), immunoprecipitation on fourfold scaled-up reactions using polyclonal antibodies (Schafer et al., 1999), and purification of SecA (Helde et al., 1997), FtsY (Koch et al., 1999), and T7 RNA polymerase (Beck et al., 2000). Antibodies were raised in rabbits against Ffh (Koch et al., 1999) and SecA. Antibodies against E. coli TF and purified TF were a gift from E. Deuerling (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany). To reconstitute TF ribosomes with TF, 0.5 nmol of
TF ribosomes was incubated with 1.2 nmol purified TF for 30 min at 30°C. After incubation, ribosomes were centrifuged for 1 h at 90,000 rpm in a Beckman Coulter TLA-100 ultracentrifuge, and the ribosome pellet was resuspended in 50 mM triethanolamine acetate, pH 7.5, 50 mM KCH3COO, 5 mM Mg(CH3COO)2 to give a final concentration of 10 µM. As a control,
TF ribosomes were incubated with buffer (20 mM triethanolamine acetate, pH 7.5, 100 mM NaCl, 10 mM EDTA) instead of TF and treated as described above. TF binding to
TF ribosomes was verified by Western blotting with
-TF antibodies.
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This work was supported by grants from the Sonderforschungsbereich 388, a fellowship to G. Eisner from the Graduiertenkolleg 434 (Biochemie der Enzyme), the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, and the Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne. M. Müller was also supported by the QLK3-CT-1999-00917 grant of the European Union.
Submitted: 12 June 2003
Accepted: 26 August 2003
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