Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Myopathy associated BAG3 mutations lead to protein aggregation by stalling Hsp70 networks

  • Melanie Meister-Broekema,
  • Rebecca Freilich,
  • Chandhuru Jagadeesan,
  • Jennifer N. Rauch,
  • Rocio Bengoechea,
  • William W. Motley,
  • E. F. Elsiena Kuiper,
  • Melania Minoia,
  • Gabriel V. Furtado,
  • Maria A. W. H. van Waarde,
  • Shawn J. Bird,
  • Adriana Rebelo,
  • Stephan Zuchner,
  • Peter Pytel,
  • Steven S. Scherer,
  • Federica F. Morelli,
  • Serena Carra,
  • Conrad C. Weihl,
  • Steven Bergink,
  • Jason E. Gestwicki,
  • Harm H. Kampinga

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07718-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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BAG3 is a Hsp70 co-chaperone that is highly expressed in muscles. Here the authors show that several myofibrillar myopathy causing BAG3 mutations are not impaired in Hsp70 binding, but rather impair the ADP-ATP exchange step of the Hsp70 cycle, causing the aggregation of BAG3, Hsp70 and Hsp70 clients and leading to a collapse of protein homeostasis.