Distinct metabolic states of a cell guide alternate fates of mutational buffering through altered proteostasis.

Nature Communications
Kanika VermaKausik Chakraborty

Abstract

Metabolic changes alter the cellular milieu; can this also change intracellular protein folding? Since proteostasis can modulate mutational buffering, if change in metabolism has the ability to change protein folding, arguably, it should also alter mutational buffering. Here we find that altered cellular metabolic states in E. coli buffer distinct mutations on model proteins. Buffered-mutants have folding problems in vivo and are differently chaperoned in different metabolic states. Notably, this assistance is dependent upon the metabolites and not on the increase in canonical chaperone machineries. Being able to reconstitute the folding assistance afforded by metabolites in vitro, we propose that changes in metabolite concentrations have the potential to alter protein folding capacity. Collectively, we unravel that the metabolite pools are bona fide members of proteostasis and aid in mutational buffering. Given the plasticity in cellular metabolism, we posit that metabolic alterations may play an important role in cellular proteostasis.

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
protein folding
Fluorescence
flow cytometry
RNA-seq
FACS
PCR
amplicon sequencing
Protein Assay
protein estimation

Software Mentioned

FluorEssence
FastQC
CONSURF
OriginPro
XCMS
FoldX
DAVID
Trimmomatic
VADAR
MAVEN

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