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Hsp90 shapes protein and RNA evolution to balance trade-offs between protein stability and aggregation

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Acquisition of mutations is central to evolution; however, the detrimental effects of most mutations on protein folding and stability limit protein evolvability. Molecular chaperones, which suppress aggregation and facilitate polypeptide… Click to show full abstract

Acquisition of mutations is central to evolution; however, the detrimental effects of most mutations on protein folding and stability limit protein evolvability. Molecular chaperones, which suppress aggregation and facilitate polypeptide folding, may alleviate the effects of destabilizing mutations thus promoting sequence diversification. To illuminate how chaperones can influence protein evolution, we examined the effect of reduced activity of the chaperone Hsp90 on poliovirus evolution. We find that Hsp90 offsets evolutionary trade-offs between protein stability and aggregation. Lower chaperone levels favor variants of reduced hydrophobicity and protein aggregation propensity but at a cost to protein stability. Notably, reducing Hsp90 activity also promotes clusters of codon-deoptimized synonymous mutations at inter-domain boundaries, likely to facilitate cotranslational domain folding. Our results reveal how a chaperone can shape the sequence landscape at both the protein and RNA levels to harmonize competing constraints posed by protein stability, aggregation propensity, and translation rate on successful protein biogenesis.It remains poorly understood whether and how chaperones control protein evolution. Here the authors show how the chaperone Hsp90 shapes the sequence space of its client, poliovirus protein P1, at the polypeptide and RNA level to balance the evolutionary trade-offs between protein stability, aggregation and translation rate.

Keywords: aggregation; evolution; protein stability; stability aggregation; stability

Journal Title: Nature Communications
Year Published: 2018

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