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The Escherichia coli chaperonin GroEL/ES (GroE) is one of the most extensively studied molecular chaperones. So far, ~80 proteins in E. coli are identified as GroE substrates that obligately require GroE for folding in vivo. In GroE-depleted cells, these substrates, when overexpressed, tend to form aggregates, whereas the GroE substrates expressed at low or endogenous levels are degraded, probably due to misfolded states. However, the protease(s) involved in the degradation process has not been identified. We conducted a mass-spectrometry-based proteomics approach to investigate the effects of three ATP-dependent proteases, Lon, ClpXP, and HslUV, on the E. coli proteomes under GroE-depleted conditions. A label-free quantitative proteomic method revealed that Lon protease is the dominant protease that degrades the obligate GroE substrates in the GroE-depleted cells. The deletion of DnaK/DnaJ, the other major E. coli chaperones, in the ∆lon strain did not cause major alterations in the expression or folding of the obligate GroE substrates, supporting the idea that the folding of these substrates is predominantly dependent on GroE.

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Tatsuya Niwa, Yuhei Chadani, Hideki Taguchi. Shotgun Proteomics Revealed Preferential Degradation of Misfolded In Vivo Obligate GroE Substrates by Lon Protease in Escherichia coli. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 2022 Jun 11;27(12)

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PMID: 35744894

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