Targeted proteolysis is a hallmark of life.It is especially important in long-lived cells that can be found in higher eukaryotes,like plants.This task is mainly fulfilled by the ubiquitin–proteasome system.Thus,prote...Targeted proteolysis is a hallmark of life.It is especially important in long-lived cells that can be found in higher eukaryotes,like plants.This task is mainly fulfilled by the ubiquitin–proteasome system.Thus,proteolysis by the 26S proteasome is vital to development,immunity,and cell division.Although the yeast and animal proteasomes are well characterized,there is only limited information on the plant proteasome.We determined the first plant 26S proteasome structure from Spinacia oleracea by single-particle electron cryogenic microscopy at an overall resolution of 3.3 A°.We found an almost identical overall architecture of the spinach proteasome compared with the known structures from mammals and yeast.Nevertheless,we noticed a structural difference in the proteolytic active b1 subunit.Furthermore,we uncovered an unseen compression state by characterizing the proteasome’s conformational landscape.We suspect that this new conformation of the 20S core protease,in correlation with a partial opening of the unoccupied gate,may contribute to peptide release after proteolysis.Our data provide a structural basis for the plant proteasome,which is crucial for further studies.展开更多
A successful tissue regeneration is a very complex process that requires a precise coordination of many molecular,cellular and physiological events.One of the critical steps is to convert the injury signals into regen...A successful tissue regeneration is a very complex process that requires a precise coordination of many molecular,cellular and physiological events.One of the critical steps is to convert the injury signals into regeneration signals to initiate tissue regeneration.Although many efforts have been made to investigate the mechanisms triggering tissue regeneration,the fundamental questions remain unresolved.One of the major obstacles is that the injury and the initiation of regeneration are two highly coupled processes and hard to separate from one another.In this article,we review the major events occurring at the early injury/regeneration stage in a range of species,and discuss the possible common mechanisms during initiation of tissue regeneration.展开更多
基金D.L.B.and N.G.B.are supported by NIH R35GM128855 and the Univer-sity Cancer Research Fund(UCRF)H.D.T.and B.F.were supported by NIH grant R01GM125769The IMP,the whole Haselbach lab,and espe-cially S.K.are supported by Boehringer Ingelheim.
文摘Targeted proteolysis is a hallmark of life.It is especially important in long-lived cells that can be found in higher eukaryotes,like plants.This task is mainly fulfilled by the ubiquitin–proteasome system.Thus,proteolysis by the 26S proteasome is vital to development,immunity,and cell division.Although the yeast and animal proteasomes are well characterized,there is only limited information on the plant proteasome.We determined the first plant 26S proteasome structure from Spinacia oleracea by single-particle electron cryogenic microscopy at an overall resolution of 3.3 A°.We found an almost identical overall architecture of the spinach proteasome compared with the known structures from mammals and yeast.Nevertheless,we noticed a structural difference in the proteolytic active b1 subunit.Furthermore,we uncovered an unseen compression state by characterizing the proteasome’s conformational landscape.We suspect that this new conformation of the 20S core protease,in correlation with a partial opening of the unoccupied gate,may contribute to peptide release after proteolysis.Our data provide a structural basis for the plant proteasome,which is crucial for further studies.
基金Ji-Feng Fei was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China 2019YFE0106700the Natural Science Foundation of China 31970782,Project of Department of Education of Guangdong Province 2018KZDXM027+1 种基金Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province 2018B030332001,2019B030335001Yanmei Liu was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China 32070819,91854112,91750203.
文摘A successful tissue regeneration is a very complex process that requires a precise coordination of many molecular,cellular and physiological events.One of the critical steps is to convert the injury signals into regeneration signals to initiate tissue regeneration.Although many efforts have been made to investigate the mechanisms triggering tissue regeneration,the fundamental questions remain unresolved.One of the major obstacles is that the injury and the initiation of regeneration are two highly coupled processes and hard to separate from one another.In this article,we review the major events occurring at the early injury/regeneration stage in a range of species,and discuss the possible common mechanisms during initiation of tissue regeneration.
