TY - BOOK
T1 - Structural and Functional studies of FICD
T2 - a new unfolded protein response target
AU - Cordeiro, Ana Paula
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The FIC proteins are present in more than 3000 species that are distributed in all kingdoms oflife. FIC proteins are widespread in bacteria, but there is a single representative in animals. It isknown that the main ER-resident chaperone BiP is regulated by FICD AMPylation and de-AMPylation, which switches BiP to an inactive or active state according to unfolded protein loadin the cell. This inactivation is accomplished by a defective J protein-driven ATP hydrolysisfollowing BiP AMPylation that impairs stable engagement of substrates by BiP. In addition,FICD features an auto-AMPylation activity that it has not been well explored and its biologicalrelevance remains unknown. In some FIC proteins, auto-modification of the protein relievesauto-inhibition and, therefore, is a prerequisite for target AMPylation. Still, there are many openquestions about the regulation of the endogenous FICD activity to be addressed. Here weinvestigated further the interaction between FICD and BiP in addition to FICD auto-AMPylation.FICD binding to BiP was characterized by pull-down assays and the affinity of this interactionwas quantified by MST measurements. Auto-AMPylation assays were performed for distinctFICD mutants to evaluate if changes in this self-modification affects target modification.Further, our findings showed that FICD auto-AMPylation can be detected as a gel-shift by SDSPAGEanalysis, and that oligomerization disruption of FICD can release auto-inhibition. Overall,our findings are a starting point to the importance of auto-AMPylation for FICD regulation inorder to exert its function as an UPR target in the ER. However, further assays are still requiredto assess the exact mechanism in which auto-AMPylation impacts the target AMPylation.
AB - The FIC proteins are present in more than 3000 species that are distributed in all kingdoms oflife. FIC proteins are widespread in bacteria, but there is a single representative in animals. It isknown that the main ER-resident chaperone BiP is regulated by FICD AMPylation and de-AMPylation, which switches BiP to an inactive or active state according to unfolded protein loadin the cell. This inactivation is accomplished by a defective J protein-driven ATP hydrolysisfollowing BiP AMPylation that impairs stable engagement of substrates by BiP. In addition,FICD features an auto-AMPylation activity that it has not been well explored and its biologicalrelevance remains unknown. In some FIC proteins, auto-modification of the protein relievesauto-inhibition and, therefore, is a prerequisite for target AMPylation. Still, there are many openquestions about the regulation of the endogenous FICD activity to be addressed. Here weinvestigated further the interaction between FICD and BiP in addition to FICD auto-AMPylation.FICD binding to BiP was characterized by pull-down assays and the affinity of this interactionwas quantified by MST measurements. Auto-AMPylation assays were performed for distinctFICD mutants to evaluate if changes in this self-modification affects target modification.Further, our findings showed that FICD auto-AMPylation can be detected as a gel-shift by SDSPAGEanalysis, and that oligomerization disruption of FICD can release auto-inhibition. Overall,our findings are a starting point to the importance of auto-AMPylation for FICD regulation inorder to exert its function as an UPR target in the ER. However, further assays are still requiredto assess the exact mechanism in which auto-AMPylation impacts the target AMPylation.
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M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Structural and Functional studies of FICD
PB - Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
ER -