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Phytaspase is Capable of Detaching the Endoplasmic Reticulum Retrieval Signal from Tobacco Calreticulin-3

Version 1 : Received: 10 November 2023 / Approved: 10 November 2023 / Online: 10 November 2023 (14:01:01 CET)

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Teplova, A.D.; Pigidanov, A.A.; Serebryakova, M.V.; Golyshev, S.A.; Galiullina, R.A.; Chichkova, N.V.; Vartapetian, A.B. Phytaspase Is Capable of Detaching the Endoplasmic Reticulum Retrieval Signal from Tobacco Calreticulin-3. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 16527. Teplova, A.D.; Pigidanov, A.A.; Serebryakova, M.V.; Golyshev, S.A.; Galiullina, R.A.; Chichkova, N.V.; Vartapetian, A.B. Phytaspase Is Capable of Detaching the Endoplasmic Reticulum Retrieval Signal from Tobacco Calreticulin-3. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24, 16527.

Abstract

Soluble chaperones residing in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) play vitally important roles in folding and quality control of newly synthesized proteins that transiently pass through the ER en route to their final destinations. These soluble residents of the ER are themselves endowed with an ER retrieval signal that enables the cell to bring the escaped residents back from the Golgi. Here, by using purified proteins, we showed that Nicotiana tabacum phytaspase, a plant aspartate-specific protease, introduces two breaks at the C-terminus of the N. tabacum ER resident calreticulin-3. These cleavages resulted in removal of either a dipeptide or a hexapeptide from the C-terminus of calreticulin-3 encompassing part or all of the ER retrieval signal. Consistently, expression of the calreticulin-3 derivative mimicking the phytaspase cleavage product in Nicotiana benthamiana cells demonstrated loss of the ER accumulation of the protein. Notably, upon its escape from the ER, calreticulin-3 was further processed by an unknown protease(s) to generate the free N-terminal (N) domain of calreticulin-3, which was ultimately secreted into the apoplast. Our study thus identified a specific proteolytic enzyme capable of precise detachment of the ER retrieval signal from a plant ER resident protein, with implications for the further fate of the escaped resident.

Keywords

calreticulin-3; endoplasmic reticulum; phytaspase; plant cell; protein trafficking; proteolytic processing; retrieval signal

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences

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