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Formation of Transient Protein Aggregate-like Centers Is a General Strategy Postponing Degradation of Misfolded Intermediates.

ABSTRACT: When misfolded intermediates accumulate during heat shock, the protein quality control system promotes cellular adaptation strategies. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, thermo-sensitive proteins assemble upon stress into protein aggregate-like centers, PACs, to escape from degradation. The role of this protein deposition strategy has been elusive due to the use of different model systems and reporters, and to the addition of artificial inhibitors, which made interpretation of the results difficult. Here, we compare fission and budding yeast model systems, expressing the same misfolding reporters in experiments lacking proteasome or translation inhibitors. We demonstrate that mild heat shock triggers reversible PAC formation, with the collapse of both reporters and chaperones in a process largely mediated by chaperones. This assembly postpones proteasomal degradation of the misfolding reporters, and their Hsp104-dependent disassembly occurs during stress recovery. Severe heat shock induces formation of cytosolic PACs, but also of nuclear structures resembling nucleolar rings, NuRs, presumably to halt nuclear functions. Our study demonstrates that these distantly related yeasts use very similar strategies to adapt and survive to mild and severe heat shock and that aggregate-like formation is a general cellular scheme to postpone protein degradation and facilitate exit from stress.

SUBMITTER: Boronat S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10342647 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Formation of Transient Protein Aggregate-like Centers Is a General Strategy Postponing Degradation of Misfolded Intermediates.

Boronat Susanna S Cabrera Margarita M Vega Montserrat M Alcalá Jorge J Salas-Pino Silvia S Daga Rafael R RR Ayté José J Hidalgo Elena E

International journal of molecular sciences 20230707 13

When misfolded intermediates accumulate during heat shock, the protein quality control system promotes cellular adaptation strategies. In <i>Schizosaccharomyces pombe</i>, thermo-sensitive proteins assemble upon stress into protein aggregate-like centers, PACs, to escape from degradation. The role of this protein deposition strategy has been elusive due to the use of different model systems and reporters, and to the addition of artificial inhibitors, which made interpretation of the results diff ...[more]

PMID: 37446379

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Formation of Transient Protein Aggregate-like Centers Is a General Strategy Postponing Degradation of Misfolded Intermediates.

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