Chloroplast gene expression is tightly regulated and majorly controlled on the level of protein synthesis. Fine-tuning of translation is vital for plant development, acclimation to environmental challenges and for the assembly of major protein complexes such as the photosynthesis machinery. However, many regulatory mediators and the interaction network of chloroplast ribosomes are not known to date. We report here on a deep proteomic analysis of the plastidic ribosome interaction network in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells. Affinity-purification of ribosomes was achieved via endogenous affinity tagging of the chloroplast-encoded protein Rpl5, yielding a specific enrichment of >650 chloroplast-localized proteins. The ribosome interaction network was validated for several proteins and provides a new source of mainly conserved factors directly linking translation with central processes such as protein folding, photosystem biogenesis, redox control, RNA maturation, energy and metabolite homeostasis. Our approach provided the first evidence for the existence of a plastidic co-translational acting N-acetyltransferase (cpNAT1). Expression of tagged cpNAT1 confirmed its ribosome-association, and we demonstrated the ability of cpNAT1 to acetylate substrate proteins at their N-terminus. Our dataset establishes that the chloroplast protein synthesis machinery acts as nexus in a highly choreographed, spatially interconnected protein network and underscores its wide-ranging regulatory potential during gene expression. ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY Affinity purification of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast ribosomes and subsequent proteomic analysis revealed a broad spectrum of interactors ranging from global translation control to specific pathways.
The proteomic inventory reveals the chloroplast ribosome as nexus within a diverse protein network
L. Westrich,Vincent Leon Gotsmann,Claudia Herkt,Fabian Ries,Tanja Kazek,R. Trösch,S. Ramundo,J. Nickelsen,Laura Armbruster,M. Wirtz,Z. Storchová,Markus Raeschle,Felix Willmund
Published 2019 in bioRxiv
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2019-12-13
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