Structural basis for recruitment of the ATPase activator Aha1 to the Hsp90 chaperone machinery

Philippe Meyer, Chrisostomos Prodromou, Chunyan Liao, Bin Hu, S Mark Roe, Cara K Vaughan, Ignacija Vlasic, Barry Panaretou, Peter W Piper, Laurence H Pearl

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Abstract

Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone essential for the activation and assembly of many key eukaryotic signalling and regulatory proteins. Hsp90 is assisted and regulated by co-chaperones that participate in an ordered series of dynamic multiprotein complexes, linked to Hsp90s conformationally coupled ATPase cycle. The co-chaperones Aha1 and Hch1 bind to Hsp90 and stimulate its ATPase activity. Biochemical analysis shows that this activity is dependent on the N-terminal domain of Aha1, which interacts with the central segment of Hsp90. The structural basis for this interaction is revealed by the crystal structure of the N-terminal domain (1–153) of Aha1 (equivalent to the whole of Hch1) in complex with the middle segment of Hsp90 (273–530). Structural analysis and mutagenesis show that binding of N-Aha1 promotes a conformational switch in the middle-segment catalytic loop (370–390) of Hsp90 that releases the catalytic Arg 380 and enables its interaction with ATP in the N-terminal nucleotide-binding domain of the chaperone.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)511-519
JournalEMBO Journal
Volume23
Issue number3
Early online date23 Jan 2004
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Feb 2004
Externally publishedYes

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