Binding of the chaperone Jac1 protein and cysteine desulfurase Nfs1 to the iron-sulfur cluster scaffold Isu protein is mutually exclusive.
Biogenesis of mitochondrial iron-sulfur (Fe/S) cluster proteins requires the interaction of multiple proteins with the highly conserved 14-kDa scaffold protein Isu, on which clusters are built prior to their transfer to recipient proteins. For example, the assembly process requires the cysteine desulfurase Nfs1, which serves as the sulfur donor for cluster assembly. The transfer process requires Jac1, a J-protein Hsp70 cochaperone. We recently identified three residues on the surface of Jac1 that form a hydrophobic patch critical for interaction with Isu. The results of molecular modeling of the Isu1-Jac1 interaction, which was guided by these experimental data and structural/biophysical information available for bacterial homologs, predicted the importance of three hydrophobic residues forming a patch on the surface of Isu1 for interaction with Jac1. Using Isu variants having alterations in residues that form the hydrophobic patch on the surface of Isu, this prediction was experimentally validated by in vitro binding assays. In addition, Nfs1 was found to require the same hydrophobic residues of Isu for binding, as does Jac1, suggesting that Jac1 and Nfs1 binding is mutually exclusive. In support of this conclusion, Jac1 and Nfs1 compete for binding to Isu. Evolutionary analysis revealed that residues involved in these interactions are conserved and that they are critical residues for the biogenesis of Fe/S cluster protein in vivo. We propose that competition between Jac1 and Nfs1 for Isu binding plays an important role in transitioning the Fe/S cluster biogenesis machinery from the cluster assembly step to the Hsp70-mediated transfer of the Fe/S cluster to recipient proteins.
From the University of Gdansk, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, Gdansk 80822, Poland and.
Julia
J
Majewska
Szymon J
SJ
Ciesielski
Brenda
B
Schilke
Jacek
J
Kominek
Anna
A
Blenska
Wojciech
W
Delewski
Ji-Yoon
JY
Song
Jaroslaw
J
Marszalek
Elizabeth A
EA
Craig
Rafal
R
Dutkiewicz
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D013437:Carbon-Sulfur Lyases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008954:Models, Biological; D008958:Models, Molecular; D018832:Molecular Chaperones / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000166:cytology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013466:Sulfurtransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
D000596:Amino Acids; C121520:ISU1 protein, S cerevisiae; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins; C115914:JAC1 protein, S cerevisiae; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D018832:Molecular Chaperones; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D013466:Sulfurtransferases; C115912:NFS1 protein, S cerevisiae; D013437:Carbon-Sulfur Lyases; C080546:cysteine desulfurase
ISC System; Iron-Sulfur Protein; J-protein; Mitochondria; Molecular Chaperone; Scaffold Proteins; Yeast