Complementary Role of Co- and Post-Translational Events in De Novo Protein Biogenesis
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Complementary Role of Co- and Post-Translational Events in De Novo Protein Biogenesis
Abstract
The relation between co- and post-translational protein folding and aggregation in the cell is poorly understood. Here, we employ a combination of fluorescence anisotropy decays in the frequency domain, fluorescence-detected solubility assays, and NMR spectroscopy to explore the role of the ribosome in protein folding within a biologically relevant context. First, we find that a primary function of the ribosome is to promote cotranslational nascent-protein solubility, thus supporting cotranslational folding even in the absence of molecular chaperones. Under these conditions, however, only a fraction of the soluble expressed protein is folded and freely tumbling in solution. Hence, the ribosome alone is insufficient to guarantee quantitative formation of the native state of the apomyoglobin (apoMb) model protein. Right after biosynthesis, nascent chains encoding apoMb emerge from the ribosomal exit tunnel and undergo a crucial irreversible post-translational kinetic partitioning between further folding and aggregation. Mutational analysis in combination with protein-expression kinetics and NMR show that nascent proteins can attain their native state only when the relative rates of soluble and insoluble product formation immediately upon release from the ribosome are tilted in favor of soluble species. Finally, the outcome of the above immediately post-translational kinetic partitioning is much more sensitive to amino acid sequence perturbations than the native fold, which is rather mutation-insensitive. Hence, kinetic channeling of nascent-protein conformation upon release from the ribosome may be a major determinant of evolutionary pressure.
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