Decoding the intrinsic mechanism that prohibits ALIX interaction with ESCRT and viral proteins.
Decoding the intrinsic mechanism that prohibits ALIX interaction with ESCRT and viral proteins.
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10.1042/bj20100862
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2010-12-15
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Kuang J
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Zhou X;Si J;Corvera J;Gallick GE;Kuang J
The adaptor protein ALIX links retroviruses to ESCRT machinery during retroviral budding. This function of ALIX requires its interaction with the ESCRT-III component CHMP4 at the N-terminal Bro1 domain and retroviral Gag proteins at the middle V domain. Since cytoplasmic or recombinant ALIX is unable to interact with CHMP4 or retroviral Gag proteins under non-denaturing conditions, we constructed ALIX truncations and mutations to define the intrinsic mechanism through which ALIX interactions with these partner proteins are prohibited. Our results demonstrate that an intramolecular interaction between Patch 2 in the Bro1 domain and the TSG101 docking site in the Pro-rich domain locks ALIX into a closed conformation that renders ALIX unable to interact with CHMP4 and retroviral Gag proteins. Relieving the intramolecular interaction of ALIX, by ectopically expressing a binding partner for one of the intramolecular interaction sites or by deleting one of these sites, promotes ALIX interaction with these partner proteins and facilitates ALIX association with the membrane. Ectopic expression of a GFP-ALIX mutant with a constitutively open conformation, but not the wild type protein increases EIAV budding from HEK293 cells. These findings predict that relieving the autoinhibitory intramolecular interaction of ALIX is a critical step for ALIX to participate in retroviral budding.