14-3-3 Proteins Form a Guidance Complex with Chloroplast Precursor Proteins in Plants

AUTOR(ES)

May, Timo

FONTE

American Society of Plant Physiologists

RESUMO

Transit sequences of chloroplast-destined precursor proteins are phosphorylated on a serine or threonine residue. The amino acid motif around the phosphorylation site is related to the phosphopeptide binding motif for 14-3-3 proteins. Plant 14-3-3 proteins interact specifically with wheat germ lysate–synthesized chloroplast precursor proteins and require an intact phosphorylation motif within the transit sequence. Chloroplast precursor proteins do not interact with 14-3-3 when synthesized in the heterologous reticulocyte lysate. In contrast, a precursor protein destined for plant mitochondria was found to be associated with 14-3-3 proteins present in the reticulocyte lysate but not with 14-3-3 from wheat germ lysate. This indicates an unrecognized selectivity of 14-3-3 proteins for precursors from mitochondria and plastids in plants in comparison to fungi and animals. The heterooligomeric complex has an apparent size of 200 kD. In addition to the precursor protein, it contains 14-3-3 (probably as a dimer) and a heat shock protein Hsp70 isoform. Dissociation of the precursor complex requires ATP. Protein import experiments of precursor from the oligomeric complex into intact pea chloroplasts reveal three- to fourfold higher translocation rates compared with the free precursor, which is not complexed. We conclude that the 14-3-3–Hsp70–precursor protein complex is a bona fide intermediate in the in vivo protein import pathway in plants.

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