Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States.
Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
Elife. 2024 Jul 4;13:e84798. doi: 10.7554/eLife.84798.
Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) deficiency is an important contributing factor to neurological and metabolic diseases. However, how the proteostasis network orchestrates the folding and assembly of multi-subunit membrane proteins is poorly understood. Previous proteomics studies identified Hsp47 (Gene: ), a heat shock protein in the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, as the most enriched interacting chaperone for gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA) receptors. Here, we show that Hsp47 enhances the functional surface expression of GABA receptors in rat neurons and human HEK293T cells. Furthermore, molecular mechanism study demonstrates that Hsp47 acts after BiP (Gene: ) and preferentially binds the folded conformation of GABA receptors without inducing the unfolded protein response in HEK293T cells. Therefore, Hsp47 promotes the subunit-subunit interaction, the receptor assembly process, and the anterograde trafficking of GABA receptors. Overexpressing Hsp47 is sufficient to correct the surface expression and function of epilepsy-associated GABA receptor variants in HEK293T cells. Hsp47 also promotes the surface trafficking of other Cys-loop receptors, including nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and serotonin type 3 receptors in HEK293T cells. Therefore, in addition to its known function as a collagen chaperone, this work establishes that Hsp47 plays a critical and general role in the maturation of multi-subunit Cys-loop neuroreceptors.
蛋白质动态平衡(蛋白质稳态)缺陷是神经和代谢疾病的一个重要致病因素。然而,蛋白质稳态网络如何协调多亚基膜蛋白的折叠和组装还知之甚少。以前的蛋白质组学研究鉴定了热休克蛋白 47(基因:),内质网腔中的热休克蛋白,作为γ-氨基丁酸 A 型(GABA)受体最丰富的相互作用伴侣。在这里,我们表明 Hsp47 增强了 GABA 受体在大鼠神经元和人 HEK293T 细胞中的功能性表面表达。此外,分子机制研究表明,Hsp47 在 BiP(基因:)之后起作用,并且优先结合 GABA 受体的折叠构象,而不会在 HEK293T 细胞中诱导未折叠蛋白反应。因此,Hsp47 促进 GABA 受体亚基-亚基相互作用、受体组装过程和 GABA 受体的正向转运。过表达 Hsp47足以纠正 HEK293T 细胞中与癫痫相关的 GABA 受体变体的表面表达和功能。Hsp47 还促进了其他 Cys-环受体在 HEK293T 细胞中的表面转运,包括烟碱型乙酰胆碱受体和 5-羟色胺 3 型受体。因此,除了作为胶原蛋白伴侣的已知功能外,这项工作还确立了 Hsp47 在多亚基 Cys-环神经受体的成熟中起着关键和普遍的作用。