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

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.
Mesh Terms:
Binding Sites, Catalysis, Genes, Suppressor, HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins, Models, Molecular, Molecular Chaperones, Molecular Sequence Data, Protein Binding, Protein Structure, Secondary, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Sequence Alignment, Structure-Activity Relationship
EMBO J.
Date: Feb. 11, 2004
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