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Originally published In Press as doi:10.1074/jbc.M002035200 on April 25, 2000

J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 275, Issue 29, 22597-22604, July 21, 2000
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The Molecular Chaperones Hsp90 and Hsc70 Are Both Necessary and Sufficient to Activate Hormone Binding by Glucocorticoid Receptor*

Thavamani Rajapandi, Lois E. Greene, and Evan EisenbergDagger

From the Laboratory of Cell Biology, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Received for publication, March 10, 2000

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Glucocorticoid receptors must be complexed with Hsp90 in order to bind steroids, and it has been reported that at least three other proteins, Hop, Hsc70, and a J-domain protein (either Hsp40 or Ydj1), are required for formation of active Hsp90-steroid receptor complex. In the present study, we reinvestigated activation of stripped steroid receptors isolated from either L cells or WCL2 cells. Surprisingly, we found, using highly purified proteins, that only Hsp90 and Hsc70 are required for the activation of glucocorticoid receptors in the presence of steroids; in the absence of steroids, either p23 or molybdate are also required as reported previously. Addition of Hop or Ydj1 had no affect on the rate or magnitude of the activation of the stripped receptors, and quantitative Western blots confirmed that neither Hop or Hsp40 were present in our protein preparations or in the stripped receptors. Furthermore, a truncated recombinant Hsp70 that does not bind Hop or Hsp40 was as effective as wild-type Hsp70 in activating stripped receptor. Since Hsc70 does not bind directly to Hsp90 but both proteins bind to Hop, it has been suggested that Hop acts as a bridge between Hsp90 and Hsp70. However, we found that after Hsc70 or Hsp90 bind directly to the stripped receptors, they are fully reactivated by Hsp90 or Hsc70, respectively. We, therefore, conclude that Hsp90 and Hsc70 bind independently to stripped glucocorticoid receptors and alone are sufficient to activate them to bind steroids.

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A number of nuclear hormone receptors and protein kinases involved in signal transduction occur in multi-protein complexes containing heat shock proteins and several additional proteins (1, 2). GR1 isolated from the cytosol in such multi-protein complexes bind glucocorticoid, but, when the receptors are immunoadsorbed and then stripped of Hsp90 and other associated proteins by treatment with high salt, they no longer do so (3, 4). Although addition of Hsp90 to the stripped receptors does not reactivate them, they can be reactivated by treating them with rabbit reticulocyte lysate (RRL) in the presence of ATP (3, 4). Therefore, considerable effort has gone into determining what factors in RRL, in addition to Hsp90, are required for reactivation of immunoadsorbed stripped GR (5). Fractionation of RRL and reactivation of stripped GR with the various fractions revealed that, in addition to ATP, three proteins are essential for reactivation of stripped GR: Hsp90, Hsp70, and Hop (5). Pratt and associates (6-8) suggested that these three proteins bind together in a complex termed the foldosome. They then suggested that the foldosome interacts with the hormone binding domain of GR in an ATP-dependent reaction that activates its hormone binding activity, possibly by partially unfolding the hormone-binding domain exposing its steroid binding site. Since Hsp70 does not directly interact with Hsp90, it was thought that Hop mediated the binding of Hsp70 to Hsp90 in the foldosome (7, 9).

In addition to the three proteins, Hsp90, Hsp70, and Hop, that form the foldosome, two additional proteins, p23 and Hsp40 (Ydj1), have been reported to be involved in activating hormone binding by GR (5, 10, 11). Although Hsp90, Hsp70, and Hop alone are able to activate GR, the activated receptors are unstable. Therefore, unless steroids are actually present during the activation process, the receptors will not bind steroids unless a fourth protein, p23, is present and binds to Hsp90 to stabilize the activated receptor complex (5, 7); for reasons that are not clear, molybdate can substitute for p23 in this stabilization reaction (8). Although a basal level of activation can be achieved by Hsp90, Hsp70, and Hop, Pratt and associates showed that catalytic amounts of a J-domain protein such as Ydj1 increase the level of activation (11). J-domain proteins often act as partner proteins of Hsp70, by facilitating the binding of substrates to Hsp70, but the mechanism of action of J-domain proteins in facilitating activation of steroid receptors by Hsp90, Hsp70, and Hop is unclear. BAG-1 also modulates the ability of GR to bind hormone in a concentration-dependent manner (12).

There are several difficulties with the foldosome model for activation of GR. First, in contrast to Hsp70 and Hsp90, Hop apparently acts catalytically rather than stoichiometrically in activating the progesterone receptors and perhaps GR as well (25). Second, in contrast to Hsp90 and possibly Hsp70, Hop is not present in the activated steroid receptor complex (1, 14). Third, there is strong evidence that Hsp70 as well as Hsp90 can bind directly to GR (1, 15, 16, 27), raising questions as to whether a complex of Hsp70, Hsp90, and Hop (26) is indeed required for activation. Finally, elimination of Sti1, the homolog of Hop in yeast, had no effect on the formation of the Hsp70-Hsp90-steroid receptor complex in vivo (17).

Our laboratory has been studying the properties of various Hsp70s mutated at their active sites. Preparatory to studying the ability of these Hsp70 mutants to participate in reactivation of stripped GR, we reinvestigated the reactivation process using highly purified Hsc70, Hsp90, Hop, and the J-domain protein Ydj1. To our surprise, we found that we could reactivate the stripped GR with just highly purified Hsp70 and Hsp90; Hop was not required, and Ydj1 reduced rather than increased the level of activation. We conclude that Hsp70 and Hsp90 bind directly and independently to GR, and the binding of these two proteins is all that is required to reactivate the stripped receptors to bind steroids.

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Materials-- [6,7-3H]Triamcinolone acetonide (42.8 Ci/mmol) was obtained from NEN Life Science Products. Untreated RRL was from Green Hectares (Oregon, WI). Protein A-Sepharose was obtained from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Anti-mouse Ig horseradish peroxidase conjugate was from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech. Complete-Mini protease inhibitor mixture was from Roche Molecular Biochemicals. The BuGR2 monoclonal IgG against the GR, anti-Hsp40, anti-Hsp70, and anti-Hsp90 were from Affinity Bioreagents (Golden, CO). DS14F5 monoclonal IgG against Hop was kindly provided by David O. Toft (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN). Hybridoma cells producing the FiGR monoclonal IgG against the GR were from ATCC. ECL reagent was from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech.

Bacterial Strains and Plasmids-- Escherichia coli BL21/DE3 containing plasmid pET23 expressing human p23 was a gift from Dr. David O. Toft. E. coli cells expressing human Hop were kindly provided by Dr. David F. Smith (University of Nebraska Medical School, Omaha, NE). Plasmid encoding 60-kDa recombinant Hsp70 was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis using the oligonucleotide containing the stop codon at position 607 of human hsp70.

Protein Purification-- Hsc70 was purified from bovine brain cytosol by sequential chromatography on DE52, hydroxylapatite, and ATP-agarose as described previously (18). Recombinant Human Hsp70 was purified from E. coli as described previously (19). Hsp90 was purified from bovine brain cytosol as described previously (20), except that the purified Hsp90 was passed through the hydroxylapatite column twice to remove any contaminant Hop. Human p23 was purified from bacterial lysate by chromatography on DE52 as described (21). Fractions containing p23 were identified by SDS-PAGE pooled, concentrated by ammonium sulfate, dialyzed against buffer C (20 mM imidazole, pH 7.0, 25 mM KCl, 2 mM magnesium acetate, 2 mM ammonium sulfate, 1 mM dithiothreitol), aliquoted, and stored at -70 °C. Ydj1 was purified from E. coli as described previously (22, 23). Human Hop was purified from E. coli as described previously (13).

Preparation of Cytosol-- L929 mouse fibroblast cells were grown in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum. Cells were washed three times with Hanks' balanced saline solution and suspended in 1.5 volumes of buffer containing 10 mM Hepes, pH 7.35, 1 mM EDTA, 20 mM sodium molybdate, and 1 tablet of Complete-Mini protease inhibitor mixture plus 5 ml of buffer. Cells were ruptured by Dounce homogenization and centrifuged for 30 min at 37,000 rpm to prepare the cytosol. The supernatant was aliquoted, flash-frozen, and stored at -70 °C. WCL2 cell cytosol was provided by Gordan Hager's laboratory (NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD).

GR Heterocomplex Assembly-- GR was immunoadsorbed at 4 °C from either WCL2 or L929 cell cytosol using either FiGR or BuGR2 antibodies prebound with protein A-Sepharose. GR was stripped of the associated proteins by incubating the immune pellets with TEG buffer (10 mM TES, pH 7.6, 50 mM NaCl, 4 mM EDTA, 10% glycerol) containing 0.5 M NaCl and subsequent washing with TEG buffer and 10 mM Hepes, pH 7.4. Immune pellets containing GR stripped of Hsp90 and associated proteins were incubated with 50 µl of RRL or with various mixtures of proteins (5 µM Hsp90, 1 µM Hsp70, 1 µM Hop, 5 µM p23, and Ydj1 if necessary) and adjusted to 50 µl with HKD buffer (10 mM Hepes, 100 mM KCl, and 5 mM dithiothreitol, pH 7.35), containing 20 mM sodium molybdate, 5 mM ATP, 25 mM creatine phosphate, 5 mM magnesium acetate, and 10 units/ml creatine phosphokinase. The assay mixtures were incubated for 30 min at 25 °C with suspension of the pellets by shaking the tubes using a rotator. At the end of the incubation, the pellets were washed twice with 1 ml of ice-cold TEGM buffer with 5 mM dithiothreitol (TEG buffer with 20 mM sodium molybdate) and assayed for steroid-binding capacity and, in some experiments, for receptor-associated proteins.

Assay of Steroid Binding-- Immune pellets to be assayed for steroid binding were incubated for 2 h at 4 °C in 100 µl of buffer containing 10 mM Hepes, pH 7.5, 1 mM EDTA, 20 mM molybdate plus 50 nM [3H]triamcinolone acetonide. Samples were then washed three times with 1 ml of TEGM buffer and counted by liquid scintillation. The steroid binding is expressed as counts/min of [3H]triamcinolone acetonide bound per FiGR immune pellet from 100 µl of cytosol.

Western Blotting-- To assay GR and associated proteins, immune pellets were resolved on 4-20% SDS-polyacrylamide gels and transferred to nitrocellulose membranes. The membranes were probed with 2 µg/ml BuGR2 for GR, 1 µg/ml for hsp90, 1 µg/ml for Hsc70, 1 µg/ml DS14F5 mouse ascites for Hop, and 1 µg/ml of anti-Hsp40 antibody. The immunoblots were then incubated a second time with the appropriate horseradish peroxidase-conjugated counter antibody, and immunoreactive proteins were visualized by ECL.

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In the experiments on reactivation of GR by RRL or purified proteins, we employed essentially the same procedure used by Pratt and associates (5) except that they activated the receptor at 30 °C and incubated overnight with hormone, whereas we activated at 25 °C and incubated with hormone for 2 h. However, we found no difference in our results whether we used their procedure or our own. We immunoadsorbed receptors from the cytosol of either WCL2 cells or L cells using BuGR2, stripped them with 0.5 M NaCl, and then reconstituted the heterocomplex by incubating the stripped receptors with either RRL or purified proteins at 25 °C. We routinely obtained 80-100% restoration of steroid binding activity with RRL and about 50-60% reconstitution with pure proteins, i.e. about 60-65% of the activity obtained with RRL (Fig. 1, A and B).


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Fig. 1.   Activation of GR in the absence of Hop. GR from WCL2 (A) or L929 (B) cell cytosol was immunoadsorbed with FiGR-protein A-Sepharose, and Hsp90 and other associated proteins were stripped from the immune pellets with 0.5 M sodium chloride. Salt-stripped GR immune pellet was reactivated with 50 µl of buffer containing 1 µM Hsc70, 5 µM Hsp90, and 1 µM p23 in the presence and absence of 1 µM Hop. The efficiency of heterocomplex assembly and the reactivation for the steroid binding activity of GR were determined by incubating the immune pellet with 50 nM [3H]triamcinolone acetonide at 4 °C. Lane 1, unstripped receptor; lane 2, stripped receptor; lane 3, stripped receptor reactivated with RRL; lanes 4 and 5, stripped receptor reactivated with Hsp90, Hsc70, and p23 in the absence (lane 4) and presence (lane 5) of Hop.

Surprisingly, where our results significantly differ from those of Pratt's laboratory is that, with both steroid receptors obtained from WCL2 cells (Fig. 1A) and from L cells (Fig. 1B), addition of purified Hop to stripped receptor did not significantly affect restoration of steroid binding activity of the receptor by the purified proteins. Furthermore, the activation of GR for hormone binding occurred even in the absence of p23. As observed by Pratt's laboratory (7, 8), when reconstitution of the stripped receptors was carried out in the presence of steroids, it was not necessary for p23 to be present because, even though the reconstituted receptor complex is unstable in the absence of p23, it binds steroid before its activated conformation decays. Our results show that both with steroid receptors obtained from WCL2 cells (Fig. 2A) and with those from L cells (Fig. 2B), we obtained the activation of GR not only in the absence of p23 but also in the absence of Hop. Therefore, our results strongly suggest that Hop is not required for activation of stripped receptors; Hsp90 and Hsc70 alone are sufficient for reactivation of GR for hormone binding.


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Fig. 2.   Hsp90 and Hsc70 alone activate GR in the presence of ligand. GR was immunoadsorbed from 100 µl of WCL2 (A) or 300 µl of L929 (B) cell cytosol, receptor-associated proteins were stripped from the immune pellets with 0.5 M NaCl, and the immune pellets were then incubated for 20 min at 25 °C with an ATP-regenerating system and steroid. Lane 1, stripped receptor; lane 2, stripped receptor incubated with Hsp90, Hsc70, and p23; lanes 3 and 4, stripped receptor incubated with Hsp90 and Hsc70 in the absence and presence of Hop.

Although our results showed that Hop is not necessary for reactivation of the stripped GR, it still was possible that it might increase the rate of reactivation. We, therefore, measured the rate of reactivation using purified proteins both in the presence and absence of Hop. Our results (Fig. 3) showed that, as previously reported for reactivation by RRL, the rate of reactivation of the stripped receptor by purified Hsp90, Hsc70, p23, and Hop had a half-life of about 2 min. Furthermore, we found that the rate of reactivation was almost identical in the absence of Hop. Therefore, Hop is not only unnecessary for reactivation, it also does not affect the rate of reactivation by Hps90, Hsc70, and p23.


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Fig. 3.   Rate of activation of GR in the presence and absence of Hop. GR was immunoadsorbed from WCL2 cell cytosol, receptor-associated proteins were stripped from the immune pellets with 0.5 M NaCl, and the salt-stripped immune pellets were then incubated at 25 °C with 50 µl of buffer containing an ATP-regenerating system, 5 µM Hsp90, 1 µM Hsc70, 5 µM p23, and in the presence (black-triangle) and absence (black-square) of Hop. The efficiency of heterocomplex assembly and the reactivation for the steroid binding activity of GR was determined by incubating the immune pellet with 50 nM [3H]triamcinolone acetonide at 4 °C.

Although the foldosome model (1, 6) implies that approximately equal amounts of Hop, Hsp70, and Hsp90 are required for reactivation of stripped GR, reactivation of the stripped progesterone receptor required much less Hop than Hsp70 and Hsp90; only a 1:1 molar ratio of Hop to progesterone receptor was required (25). To determine whether this level of Hop was present in the stripped GR or in the purified Hsc70 and Hsp90 used in the reconstitution experiments, we carried out quantitative Western blots (Fig. 4). These experiments were carried out with 80 nM active GR plus either 1 µM Hsc70, 5 µM Hsp90, or both present. In addition, we determined the level of Hop present in the purified Hsc70 and Hsp90 in the absence of receptor. Before stripping, 80 nM active GR contained only about 0.4 nM Hop (Fig. 4B, lane 1) in agreement with other studies, suggesting that even unstripped receptors contain only a small amount of Hop since it appears to be transiently associated with the activated complex. Following stripping, Hop was undetectable by Western blotting showing that the stripped receptors contained much less than the 0.2 nM Hop standard (Fig. 4B, lane 9). Furthermore, after Hsc70, Hsp90, or both were added to the receptors, Hop was still undetectable nor was Hop detectable in the purified Hsc70 or Hsp90. We also performed this experiment using recombinant Hsp90 from baculovirus/Sf9 cells and recombinant Hsp70 from E. coli, and again we obtained similar levels of reactivation of the GR. Therefore, the level of Hop present in our reactivation experiments was less than 0.25% of the active steroid receptor and less than 0.1% of the Hsc70 and Hsp90 present, strongly suggesting that our results are not due to the presence of catalytic amounts of Hop.


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Fig. 4.   Salt-stripped GR, purified Hsp90, and Hsc70 from bovine brain do not contain Hop. GR was immunoadsorbed from 100 µl of WCL2 cell cytosol, receptor-associated proteins were stripped from the immune pellets with 0.5 M NaCl, and the immune pellets were then washed three times with 10 mM Hepes buffer. Salt-stripped GR was mixed with 5 µM Hsp90, 1 µM Hsc70, or both 5 µM Hsp90 and 1 µM Hsc70 and then resolved by 4-20% SDS-PAGE. The proteins were visualized by staining with Coomassie Blue (A) or Western blotting (B) with antibodies against Hop. Lane 1, unstripped GR; lane 2, salt-stripped GR; lane 3, salt-stripped GR mixed with 5 µM Hsp90; lane 4, salt-stripped GR mixed with 5 µM Hsp90 and 1 µM Hsc70; lane 5, salt-stripped GR mixed with 1 µM Hsc70; lane 6, 5 µM Hsp90; lane 7, 1 µM Hsc70 lane 8, blank; lanes 9-11, 0.2, 20, and 40 nM of purified Hop, respectively; lane 12, molecular weight marker. The asterisk indicates Hop in the unstripped receptor.

There is evidence that Hop binds to the 10-kDa C-terminal end of Hsc70 (24). Therefore, assuming that Hsp70 and Hsc70 act similarly in this regard, a truncated Hsp70 missing its 10-kDa C-terminal end should be as effective as wild-type Hsp70 in the reactivation process if Hop is not required for reactivation of GR. When we tested this prediction, our results showed that wild-type and truncated Hsp70 were equally effective in reactivation of GR and, furthermore, in neither case did Hop have a significant effect on reactivation (Fig. 5). These data provide further evidence that Hop is not required for reactivation of GR.


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Fig. 5.   Hop binding domain of Hsp70 is not necessary for activation of GR. GR was immunoadsorbed and reactivated as described in the legend to Fig. 1. Lane 1, stripped GR; lanes 2 and 3, stripped GR reactivated by Hsp90, recombinant Hsp70, and p23 in the absence and presence of Hop, respectively; lanes 4 and 5, stripped GR reactivated by Hsp90, truncated 60-kDa Hsp70, and p23 in the presence and absence of Hop, respectively.

The 10-kDa C-terminal end of Hsc70 not only binds Hop but also the J-domain protein Hsp40 (24). Therefore, our observation that the truncated Hsp70 was as effective as wild-type Hsp70 in reactivating GR suggests that, like Hop, J- domain proteins may also have little or no effect on reactivation of GR. To investigate this question, we first determined the level of contaminant Hdj1 present in our mixture of GR, Hsc70, and Hsp90. Based on the quantitative Western blots in Fig. 6, we estimated that 80 nM active GR contained less than 0.04 nM Hsp40. This small amount of Hsp40 was removed when the receptor was stripped. However, upon readdition of 1 µM Hsc70, 5 µM Hsp90, or both, we found that the level of Hsp40 returned to about 0.04 nM, less than 0.1% of the active GR and less than 0.01% of the Hsc70 and Hsp90. Since, in previous studies, the maximum effect of the J-domain protein Ydj1 occurred at levels approximately equal to that of active receptor and about one-tenth the level of Hsp70 and Hsp90 (11, 24), it seems highly unlikely that the small amount of Hsp40 present in our system affected reactivation of GR. In agreement with this view, we found that addition of 0.25 or 1 µM Ydj1 decreased rather than increased reactivation of GR (Fig. 7). Likewise, addition of recombinant Hdj1 also did not affect the reactivation of GR (data not shown). We find, therefore, that, like Hop, Hsp40 does not play a significant role in reactivation of stripped GR.


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Fig. 6.   Salt-stripped GR and purified Hsp90 and Hsc70 contain negligible amounts of Hsp40. GR was immunoadsorbed from 100 µl of WCL2 cell cytosol, receptor-associated proteins were stripped from the immune pellets with 0.5 M NaCl, and the immune pellets were then washed four times with 10 mM Hepes buffer. Salt-stripped GR was mixed with 5 µM Hsp90, 1 µM Hsc70, or both 5 µM Hsp90 and 1 µM Hsc70 and resolved by 4-20% SDS-PAGE. The proteins were visualized by staining with Coomassie Blue (A) or Western blotting (B) with antibodies against Hsp40. Lane 1, unstripped GR; lane 2, salt-stripped GR; lane 3, salt-stripped GR mixed with 5 µM Hsp90; lane 4, salt-stripped GR mixed with 5 µM Hsp90, 1 µM Hsc70; lane 5, salt-stripped GR mixed with 1 µM Hsc70; lanes 6-8 are 20, 50, and 100 nM Hdj1, respectively.


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Fig. 7.   Activation of GR in the absence of Ydj1. GR was immunoadsorbed from 100 µl of WCL2 cell cytosol, receptor-associated proteins were stripped from the immune pellets with 0.5 M NaCl, and the immune pellets were then incubated for 20 min at 25 °C with buffer (lane 1); RRL (lane 2); purified Hsp90, Hsc70, p23, ATP, and 0 (lane 3), 0.25 µM (lane 4), or 1 µM (lane 5) Ydj1.

Since our results suggest that only Hsc70 and Hsp90 are required for reactivation of GR and both Hsc70 and Hsp90 bind directly to GR, we were interested in determining whether, following the binding of one of these two proteins to the receptor, reactivation would occur when the second protein bound. Such an experiment can only be carried out if, following stripping, the receptor does not irreversibly denature while it is being incubated with the first protein at 25 °C before the second protein is added. Therefore, we first tested whether the stripped receptor retains its ability to be reactivated when incubated for various times at 25 °C. We found that, following incubation of the stripped receptor for 1 h at 25 °C, it could still be fully reactivated by RRL (data not shown). Similarly, incubation of the stripped receptor for 20 min at 25 °C had no effect on its ability to be reconstituted with purified proteins (Fig. 8, lanes 2 and 3). Therefore, the stripped receptor does not irreversibly denature when incubated at 25 °C.


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Fig. 8.   Activation of GR by sequential addition of Hsp90 and Hsc70. GR was immunoadsorbed to BuGR2-protein A-Sepharose from WCL2 cell cytosol, and the immune pellet was treated with 0.5 M NaCl to remove all the receptor-associated proteins. Salt-stripped immune pellet (lane 1) was incubated on ice for 20 min with no additions (lane 2) or at 25 °C for 20 min with no additions (lane 3), with 5 µM Hsp90 and 5 µM p23 in the absence (lane 4) and presence of ATP (lane 5) or with 1 µM Hsc70 in the absence (lane 6) and presence of ATP (lane 7). Unbound proteins were removed by centrifugation, and the immune pellet washed three times before the addition of Hsp90, Hsc70, and p23 (lanes 2 and 3), Hsc70 (lanes 4 and 5), or Hsp90 and p23 (lanes 6 and 7), and then incubated for 20 min at 25 °C. The steroid binding activity was determined by incubating the immune pellet with 50 nM 3[H]triamcinolone acetonide.

We next incubated the stripped receptor with Hsp90 and p23 at 25 °C in the presence and absence of ATP and then removed unbound Hsp90 and p23. In agreement with other studies, we found that stripped receptor with bound Hsp90 and p23 was completely inactive (data not shown). However, when the receptor with bound Hsp90 and p23 was then incubated with Hsc70 in the presence of ATP, it regained considerable steroid binding activity particularly when the initial incubation with Hsp90 and p23 was carried out in the presence of ATP (Fig. 8, lanes 4 and 5). Similar results were obtained when the stripped receptor was first incubated with Hsc70, unbound Hsc70 removed, and then Hsp90 and p23 added in the presence of ATP. No activity was observed following the initial incubation with Hsc70, but considerable activity was recovered following incubation with Hsp90 and p23 in the presence of ATP. Interestingly, more activity was recovered when the stripped receptor was incubated with Hsc70 in the absence than in the presence of ATP, possibly because somewhat more Hsc70 was initially bound to the receptor in the absence of ATP.

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In the present study, we showed that GR isolated from either WCL2 cells or L cells and stripped of their associated proteins can be reconstituted in the presence of ATP with the addition of only two proteins, Hsc70 and Hsp90. In earlier studies on reconstitution of GR, others found that, in addition to Hsc70 and Hsp90, reconstitution of stripped GR required Hop (5-8). Since Hsp70 does not bind directly to Hsp90, it was suggested that Hop linked Hsp70 to Hsp90 in a complex, the foldosome (5-9, 25), that then functioned as a unit to reconstitute glucocorticoid binding to stripped receptors (6, 7).

In the studies on Hop, Pratt and associates (5) used a bacterial extract containing recombinant Hop rather than purified Hop. Therefore, it was not clear from their data whether Hop acted stoichiometrically with Hsp70 and Hsp90, as might be expected from the foldosome model, or whether it acted at a much lower concentration. In the latter case, it is possible that, as our data suggest, Hsp70 and Hsp90 play a unique role in reconstitution of GR with Hop only playing a modulatory role. Even in this case, however, our data differ in that we were able to reconstitute GR in the complete absence of Hop and, moreover, we could not detect any significant difference in the rate of reactivation in the presence and absence of Hop. This difference from the results of Pratt and associates may be related to the fact that GR can assume multiple conformations, and this may particularly be the case for the stripped receptor. Therefore, it is possible that subtle differences in the conformation of GR may account for whether or not Hop plays a modulatory role in the reconstitution of GR by Hsp90 and Hsp70.

In this regard, the GR and progesterone receptors differ significantly in their properties following stripping of Hsp90 and associated proteins, perhaps because here, too, subtle differences occur in the conformations of the two receptors. In contrast to GR, which immediately loses its ability to bind substrate following stripping but can then be reactivated, the progesterone receptor retains its ability to bind substrate following stripping and only slowly loses this activity during incubation at 25 °C. However, once it loses its activity, in contrast to GR, it cannot be reactivated. Toft and associates (25) have shown that if Hsp90, Hsp70, Hop, and Ydj1 are present during incubation at 25 °C, the progesterone receptor does not lose its substrate binding ability. Interestingly, in these studies (25), although Hop and Ydj1 were required along with Hsp70 and Hsp90 to maintain the activity of the progesterone receptor, they were not required at stoichiometric levels equal to Hsp70 and Hsp90, as might be expected if they were components of a foldosome. Rather, they were present at much lower concentrations, about equal to the concentration of the progesterone receptor. Therefore, although the earlier data suggest that Hop and Ydj1 play a modulatory role in maintaining the activity of the stripped progesterone receptor, Hsp70 and Hsp90 appear to be the primary proteins required for maintaining its activity in agreement with our results on GR. This view is also supported by data showing that the yeast homolog of Hop, Sti1, is not required for activation of GR in vivo (17).

Based on our data showing that Hsc70 and Hsp90 bind independently to GR and that the order of their binding has little effect on reactivation of the stripped receptor, we propose, as shown in Fig. 9, that Hsc70 and Hsp90 bind to separate sites on the stripped receptor and that this binding in the presence of ATP is sufficient to reactivate the stripped receptor. Future studies using mutant Hsp70s and purified GR will be required to determine whether both ATP binding and hydrolysis by Hsc70 are required for reconstitution of the stripped receptor.


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Fig. 9.   Assembly of the active GR complex: high salt dissociates Hsp90 and Hsp70 from GR, which then assumes an inactive conformation. Both Hsp90 and Hsp70 bind independently to GR, but, when only one of the two proteins bind, the GR remains in the inactive conformation. However, when both proteins bind in the presence of ATP, GR regains its active conformation and then can bind hormone. If hormone is not present, either p23 or molybdate will maintain the receptor in the active conformation.


    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We thank Dr. Gordon Hager and Dr. Barbour Warren for the WCL2 cell cytosol; Dr. David Toft for the anti-Hop monoclonal antibody, plasmid expressing p23, and for the recombinant Hsp90; Dr. David Smith for the plasmid expressing Hop.

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Published, JBC Papers in Press, April 25, 2000, DOI 10.1074/jbc.M002035200

    ABBREVIATIONS

The abbreviations used are: GR, glucocorticoid receptor; Hsp70, 70-kDa heat shock protein; Hsc70, the constitutive isoform of Hsp70; Hsp90, 90-kDa heat shock protein; Hop(p60), Hsp70 and Hsp90 organizing protein; PAGE, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; RRL, rabbit reticulocyte lysate; TES, N-tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid; BuGR2, monoclconal IgG antibody against GR; FiGR, monoclonal IgG antibody that binds to the same epitope as BuGR2.

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