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T Published August4,2003 Owen Pornillos, Introduction of thehumanHrsprotein HIV Gagmimicsthe Tsg101-recruiting activity (the “latedomain”)bindsdirectlytotheNH addition totheP(S/T)APsequencefoundinHIV-1Gag, factors thatcancatalyzereleaseoftheenvelopedvirion.In to facilitateviralbuddingbyrecruitingadditionalcellular (Tsg101; forreviewseePornillosetal.,2002c).Tsg101appears site forthecellularprotein,tumorsusceptibilitygene101 canbeeither SerorThr;Fig.1),whichisadocking position domain tetrapeptidemotifP(S/T)AP(wherethesecond Demirov etal.,2002b).AllHIV-1strainscontainthelate Gag p6region(Göttlingeretal.,1991;Huang1995; the presenceofa“latedomain”locatedinCOOH-terminal of HIV-1virionsandGagVLPsfrommostcelltypesrequires (VLPs) thatresembleauthenticHIVvirions.Efficientrelease proteins, HIV-1Gagcanformextracellularvirus-likeparticles see Göttlinger,2001).Evenintheabsenceofanyotherviral and formsthestructuralshellofimmaturevirus(forreview The HIVGagproteinorchestratesviralassemblyandbudding, 2 1 that Tsg101 bindstheCOOH-terminalregionofendo- endosomal membrane hasnotbeenknown. Now, wereport which Tsg101 isrecruitedfromthecytoplasm ontothe vesicular bodies(MVBs).However, themechanism by the lumenoflateendosomalcompartmentscalledmulti- Tsg101 isrequiredforbiogenesisofvesicles thatbudinto ubiquitin E2variant (UEV)domainof Tsg101. Inthecell, Marielle Payne, http://www.jcb.org/cgi/doi/10.1083/jcb.200302138 The Journal ofCellBiology, Volume 162, Number 3,August 4,2003 425–434 multivesicular body proteinsorting; budding;virions;ubiquitin;vacuolar Key words: virus of MolecularBiology,10550NorthTorrey PinesRoad,LaJolla,CA92037. O. Pornillos’presentaddressisTheScripps ResearchInstitute,Department Tel.: (801)595-8203.Fax:581-7959. email:[email protected] University ofUtah,20N,1900E, Rm. 211,SaltLakeCity,UT84132. Address correspondencetoWesleyI.Sundquist,Dept.ofBiochemistry, this paper. O. Pornillos,D.S.Higginson,andK.M.Straycontributedequally to
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A conserved P(S/T)APtetrapeptide motifwithinGag Tsg101 tofacilitatethefinal stagesofvirusbudding. he HIV-1 Gagproteinrecruitsthecellularfactor
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2 Hubert E. Wang, 1 Kirsten M.Stray, Kirsten 2 -terminal 2 ScottG.Morham, 1 virus bindtotheNH al., 2002;Timminset2003). 2001; Stracketal.,2000;KikonyogoYasuda E3ligases(Xiangetal.,1996;Harty1999, ubiquitin any aminoacid),whichbindstheNedd4proteinfamilyof best characterizedoftheseisthePPXYmotif(whereX characterized inseveralotherenvelopedRNAviruses.The distinct latedomainsequenceshavealsobeenidentifiedand All fourP(S/T)APresiduesarerequiredforlatedomainactivity cally recognizesP(S/T)APsequences(Pornillosetal.,2002a). enzymes inthatitdisplaysahydrophobicgroovespecifi- al., 2002a).Tsg101UEValsodiffersfromthecanonicalE2 (Moraes etal.,2001;VanDemarkPornillos et active sitecysteineresiduerequiredforubiquitintransfer related toubiquitinE2–conjugatingenzymes,butlackthe 2003). UEVdomainsalsobindubiquitinandarestructurally and Allen,2002;Pornillosetal.,2002b;Timmins al., 2001;VerPlanketDemirov2002a;Myers domain ofTsg101(Garrusetal.,2001;Martin-Serrano et the Hrs mediated, inpart,by bindingofthe Tsg101 UEVdomainto kinase substrate (Hrs;residues222–777). This interaction is somal proteinhepatocyte growth factor–regulatedtyrosine gene 101; kinase substrate;MVB,multivesicular body;Tsg101,tumorsusceptibility fortransport;Hrs,hepatocytegrowthfactor–regulatedtyrosine required Abbreviations usedinthispaper:ESCRT, endosomalsortingcomplex VLP, virus-likeparticle;Vps,vacuolar proteinsorting. viral budding. ponents oftheMVBvesicle fissionmachinery tofacilitate this Hrsactivity, andthereby usurps Tsg101 andother com- the endosomalmembrane. HIV-1 Gagapparentlymimics indicate thatHrsnormallyfunctionstorecruit Tsg101 to that aremissingnative latedomains. These observations Tsg101 andrescuethebuddingofvirus-likeGagparticles Robert D.Fisher, The P(S/T)APlatedomainsofHIV-1,HIV-2,andEbola
348 UEV, ubiquitinE2variant;UIM,ubiquitin-interacting motif; PSAP 2 and Wesley I.Sundquist 351 motif.Importantly, Hrs 1 2 Jennifer E.Garrus, -terminal ubiquitinE2variant(UEV) 222–777 1 1
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Downloaded from from Downloaded on June 22, 2016 22, June on jcb.rupress.org The Journal of Cell Biology Published August4,2003 426 Pelchen-Matthews etal.,2003).InHrs,the FYVEdomain some celllines (Göttlinger,2001;Raposo etal.,2002; tains signalsthattargetGag totheplasmamembranein N-myristoylated MAdomain bindsmembranes,andcon- proximal membrane-targeting domains.InHIV-1Gag,the similarities (Fig.1).First,both proteinscontainamino- the HrsandHIV-1Gagproteins exhibitseveralintriguing et al.,2002;Bache2003b). Tsg101; Bilodeauetal.,2002;BishopRaiborg dosome (andthereforeappearstofunctionupstreamof it interactswithubiquitylatedcargoproteinsontheearlyen- al., 2002;ShihetBache2003b)andbecause biogenesis (Piperetal.,1995;Odorizzi1998;Lloyd et cause itisrequiredforreceptordown-regulationandMVB factor thatrecruitsTsg101toendosomalmembranesbe- and Stenmark,2002).Hrsisanattractivecandidateforthe strate (Hrs;yeastVps27p;Raiborgetal.,2001a; (2) hepatocytegrowthfactor–regulatedtyrosinekinasesub- motifs (Garrusetal.,2001),including(1)Tsg101itself;and searches revealedseveralVpsproteinswithPTAPorPSAP of Tsg101totheendosomalmembrane.Proteindatabase interactions mightoccurandplayaroleintherecruitment T)AP motifshavenotbeendescribed,wereasonedthatsuch cruited tothemembranehasnotbeenelucidated. However, themechanismbywhichTsg101/ESCRT-Iisre- sents akeystepinthecommitmenttovesicleformation. Thus, recruitmentofTsg101tothemembranesurfacerepre- tein sortingandvesicleformation(Babstetal.,2002a,b). and otherproteinscomplexesrequiredtocompletepro- to recruitthedownstreamESCRT-II,ESCRT-III,Vps4, uitin modifications(Katzmannetal.,2001);and(2)ithelps interactions betweentheTsg101UEVdomainandubiq- functions: (1)itbindsubiquitylatedcargoproteinsviadirect Tsg101/ESCRT-I appearstoperformatleasttwoessential endosome duringMVBbiogenesis.Onceonthemembrane, that arerecruitedfromthecytoplasmontosurfaceof lysosome, wheretheyaredegradedbyhydrolasesandlipases. these vesiclesandtheirproteincargosintothelumenof (MVBs). MVBscanthenfusewithlysosomesandrelease late endosomalcompartmentstoformmultivesicularbodies into microdomainsthatultimatelybudassmallvesicles delivered toendosomalmembraneswheretheyaresorted al., 2002).Inthispathway,monoubiquitylatedproteinsare for destructioninthelysosome(forreviewseeKatzmannet membrane proteinssuchascellsurfacereceptorsaretargeted vacuolar proteinsorting(Vps)pathway,inwhichintegral 2001). Tsg101andESCRT-Iperformessentialrolesinthe transport-I (ESCRT-I)proteincomplex(Katzmannetal., subunit oftheendosomalsortingcomplexrequiredfor elements foundincellularproteins. speculate thattheTsg101UEVdomainmaybindP(S/T)AP ral P(S/T)APsequences,anditisthereforereasonableto Tsg101 UEVdomainpresumablydidnotevolvetobindvi- 2002a,b). However,despitethissequencespecificity,the within theTsg101UEVbindingsite(Pornillosetal., (Huang etal.,1995),andallfourmakeimportantcontacts The domainorganizationand biochemicalpropertiesof Although interactionsbetweenTsg101andcellularP(S/ ESCRT-I isoneofaseriessolubleproteincomplexes In thecell,Tsg101(yeastVps23p)normallyfunctionsasa The JournalofCellBiology
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Volume 162,Number3,2003 key aspectsofthesemodelsforHrsfunctionandviralmimicry. brane. Experimentsdescribedinthispaperweredesignedtotest cle formationtositesofviralbuddingontheplasmamem- tions ofHrs,andtherebyredirectthemachineryMVBvesi- Gag proteinhasevolvedtomimictheTsg101-recruitingfunc- brane throughadirectinteractionwithHrs;and(2)theHIV-1 which (1)Tsg101isnormallyrecruitedtotheendosomalmem- al., 2000;Freed,2002;Pornilloset2002c). Nedd4 substratesandforPPXYvirallatedomains(Rotinet This sequencematchestheconsensussitesforcellular ubiquitylates Hrs,theproteindoesharboraPPEYmotif. al., 2002),andalthoughitisnotyetknownwhetherNedd4 Rsp5p) familyofubiquitinligases(Katzetal.,2002;Polo UIM-containing proteinsaresubstratesfortheNedd4(yeast et al.,2002;RaiborgShih2002).Other Falquet, 2001;Bishopetal.,2002;LloydPolo motif(UIM;Youngetal.,1998;Hofmannand interacting requires acis-actingsequencemotifcalledtheubiquitin- receptor down-regulationthroughtheMVBpathway,and (Strack etal.,2000,2002).Hrsubiquitylationisessentialfor mains havebeenshowntorecruitubiquitinligaseactivities virus budding(forreviewseeVogt,2000),andvirallatedo- not beendemonstrated,ubiquitintransferisimportantfor role forHIVGagubiquitylationinretrovirusbuddinghas Gag proteinsaremonoubiquitylated.Althoughafunctional ently unstructured)regions.Third,bothHrsandHIV-1 contain P(S/T)APmotifswithinproline-rich(andappar- et al.,2001b;Katzmann2003).Second,bothproteins branes (Komadaetal.,1997;Odorizzi1998;Raiborg binds PI(3)PandtherebytargetsHrstoendosomalmem- P(S/T)AP andPPEYmotifsarealsoindicated. “steadiness box/Vps28bindingsite”(Fengetal.,2000).Locationsof variant; PRD,proline-richdomain;COIL,putativecoiled-coil;SBOX, interaction domainsbyaverticaldashedline.UEV,ubiquitinE2 binding domainsseparatedfromtheCOOH-terminalprotein–protein the sameaffinity toanine-aminoacidpeptide astothein- UEV binding epitope issmall,andthedomain bindswith from thehumanTsg101and Hrsproteins.TheTsg101 to emphasizetheirsimilarities,withtheNH Tsg101 andHrsproteins. Figure 1. bind toisolatedP(S/T)APmotifs fromHIV-1 First, wetestedwhethertheUEV domainofTsg101could Gag, Tsg101,andHrs Tsg101 UEVbindstheP(S/T)AP motifsfromHIV-1 Results The precedingobservationsareconsistentwithamodelin Domain organizationoftheHIV-1Gagandhuman TheHIVGagandHrsproteinsarealigned 2 -terminal membrane- NL4–3
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Downloaded from from Downloaded on June 22, 2016 22, June on jcb.rupress.org The Journal of Cell Biology Published August4,2003 personal communication). ited almostundetectableTsg101UEVbinding(Fisher,R., ined someisolatedP(S/T)APpeptidesequencesthatexhib- lute bindingaffinitiessignificantly.Indeed,wehaveexam- flanking thecentralP(S/T)APmotifcanmodulateabso- the P(S/T)APmotifsofallthreeproteins,butsequences PTAP peptide.Hence,theTsg101UEVdomaincanbind (Hrs) weakerthanTsg101UEVbindingtotheHIV-1 binding affinitieswerefourfold(Tsg101)andsevenfold tides fromTsg101andHrs(Fig.2).However,the the PTAPmotifwasmutatedtoLeu(Fig.2). bind toacontrolpeptideinwhichthesecondProresidue interaction wasspecific,astheTsg101UEVdomaindidnot BD orADalone didnotproducesignificant in whichoneof thetwoplasmidsencoded onlytheGal4p activity (Fig.3A,topleft).In contrast,controlexperiments strain J693,resultinginsignificant levelsof sion (Hrs-AD)werecotransfected intothereporteryeast sion (Tsg101-BD)andanHrs–Gal4p activationdomainfu- Plasmids expressingaTsg101–Gal4p bindingdomainfu- proteins wasexaminedindirected yeasttwo-hybridassays. The interactionoffull-lengthTsg101andwild-typeHrs Interaction offull-lengthTsg101andHrsproteins tact HIV-1p6protein( tetrapeptides depicted), butthatsequencesflankingthecentralP(S/T)AP motif doesnotsignificantlyaffecttheTsg101bindingaffinity(not Note thatsubstitutionofSforTatthesecondpositionP(S/T)AP fits tosimple1:1bindingmodelsusedobtain binding affinities. HIV-1 GagPTAPmotif(negativecontrol).Solidlinesshowtheoptimal motifs ofHIV-1Gag,Tsg101,andHrs,aswellamutantformthe UEV domaintoimmobilizedfusionpeptidesspanningtheP(S/T)AP the concentration-dependentbindingofpurifiedrecombinantTsg101 HIV-1 Gag,Tsg101,andHrs. Figure 2. dissociation constant(K dissociation librium responsesfitasimple1:1bindingmodelwith dependent bindingtotheGagPTAPpeptide,andequi- ments. Asexpected,Tsg101UEVexhibitedconcentration- Tsg101 UEVdomainbindinginBIAcorebiosensorexperi- T)AP motifsfromGag,Tsg101,andHrsweretestedfor Therefore, 10-aminoacidpeptidesspanningthecentralP(S/ The Tsg101UEVdomainalsoboundtoP(S/T)APpep- The Tsg101UEVdomainbindstheP(S/T)APmotifsfrom can modulateTsg101bindingaffinitysignificantly. d 20 Biosensorbindingisothermsshowing 25 C ) of21