In Situ Analysis Reveals the TRiC Duty Cycle and PDCD5 As an Open-state Cofactor

Overview

Journal Nature

Specialty Science

Date 2024 Dec 11

PMID 39663456

Authors

Huaipeng Xing

Remus R E Rosenkranz

Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga

Ting-Ting Lee

Tomas Majtner

Stefanie Bohm

Beata Turonova

Judith Frydman

Martin Beck

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Abstract

The ring-shaped chaperonin T-complex protein ring complex (TRiC; also known as chaperonin containing TCP-1, CCT) is an ATP-driven protein-folding machine that is essential for maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Its dysfunction is related to cancer and neurodegenerative disease. Despite its importance, how TRiC works in the cell remains unclear. Here we structurally analysed the architecture, conformational dynamics and spatial organization of the chaperonin TRiC in human cells using cryo-electron tomography. We resolved distinctive open, closed, substrate-bound and prefoldin-associated states of TRiC, and reconstructed its duty cycle in situ. The substrate-bound open and symmetrically closed TRiC states were equally abundant. Closed TRiC containing substrate forms distinctive clusters, indicative of spatial organization. Translation inhibition did not fundamentally change the distribution of duty cycle intermediates, but reduced substrate binding for all states as well as cluster formation. From our in-cell structures, we identified the programmed cell death protein 5 (PDCD5) as an interactor that specifically binds to almost all open but not closed TRiC, in a position that is compatible with both substrate and prefoldin binding. Our data support a model in which TRiC functions at near full occupancy to fold newly synthesized proteins inside cells. Defining the TRiC cycle and function inside cells lays the foundation to understand its dysfunction during cancer and neurodegeneration.

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