title: 83-kilodalton heat shock proteins of trypanosomes are potent peptide-stimulated ATPases.
abstract: A Crithidia fasciculata 83-kDa protein purified during a separate study of C. fasciculata trypanothione synthetase was shown to have ATPase activity and to belong to the hsp90 family of stress proteins. Because no ATPase activity has previously been reported for the hsp90 class, ATP utilization by C. fasciculata hsp83 was characterized: this hsp83 has an ATPase kcat of 150 min-1 and a Km of 60 microM, whereas the homologous mammalian hsp90 binds ATP but has no ATPase activity. Crithidia fasciculata hsp83 undergoes autophosphorylation on serine and threonine at a rate constant of 3.3 x 10(-3) min-1. Similar analysis was performed on recombinant Trypanosoma cruzi hsp83, and comparable ATPase parameters were obtained (kcat = 100 min-1, Km = 80 microM, kautophosphorylation = 6.3 x 10(-3) min-1). The phosphoenzyme is neither on the ATPase hydrolytic pathway nor does it affect ATPase catalytic efficiency. Both C. fasciculata and T. cruzi hsp83 show up to fivefold stimulation of ATPase activity by peptides of 6-24 amino acids.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nadeau
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Engman
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D016831:Crithidia fasciculata / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases