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. 2020 Jan 13;32(3):536–542. doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00300

Table 1. List of Experimental Results Supporting Each Chaperone ATPase as Part of the Chloroplast Protein Import Motor.

Major Conclusion Experimental Approach Reference Notes
Hsp93
 Hsp93 is a component of import complexes Anti-Toc75 antibody coimmunoprecipitated Hsp93 (Nielsen et al., 1997) No cross-linker used, solubilized with 1% decylmaltoside
(Akita et al., 1997) Cross-linked with dithiobis(succinimidylpropionate) (DSP)
Anti-cpHsc70 antibody coimmunoprecipitated Hsp93, Toc75, and Toc34 (Su and Li, 2010) Toc75 identified by both immunoblotting and mass spectrometry
Hsp93 cofractionated with other translocon components, including Toc75, in sucrose density gradients (Nielsen et al., 1997)
Anti-Toc34 antibody coimmunoprecipitated Hsp93, Toc75, and Tic20 (Kouranov et al., 1998) Untreated chloroplasts or chloroplasts cross-linked in the presence of 400 nM preprotein; solubilized with 1% Triton X-100
 Hsp93 is a component of complexes actively engaged in protein import Bound prRBCS, prLHCP, and prPC, but not outer-membrane OEP14, were coimmunoprecipitated by anti-Hsp93 antibodies (Nielsen et al., 1997) No cross-linker used, solubilized with 1% decylmaltoside
PrRBCS was coimmunoprecipitated by anti-Hsp93 antibodies in import time course (Chou et al., 2003) Cross-linked with 0.5 mM DSP and solubilized with Triton X-100
Translocating prRBCS and prL11 coimmunoprecipitated by anti-Hsp93 antibodies (Su and Li, 2010) If preproteins added after chloroplast lysis, no coimmunoprecipitation was observed
Hsp93 detected in soluble import complexes purified using preprotein-GST fusions and GSH beads (Rosano et al., 2011) Recombinant preprotein used is pea ferredoxin-NADP reductase transit peptide fused to GST
Anti-Hsp93 antibody immunoprecipitated large (>700 kD on SDS-PAGE) cross-linked complex containing preproteins (Akita et al., 1997)
 hsp93 mutant chloroplasts are defective in protein import into chloroplasts In vitro translated preproteins imported into chloroplasts isolated from mutant and wild-type plants (Constan et al., 2004) hsp93V-knockout Arabidopsis plants
(Kovacheva et al., 2005 hsp93V-knockout Arabidopsis plants; both prRBCS (photosynthetic) and prL11 (nonphotosynthetic) preproteins used
(Kovacheva et al., 2007; Flores-Pérez et al., 2016) Double mutants of hsp93V knockout and hsp93III knockdown
(Su and Li, 2010) hsp93V-knockout Arabidopsis plants have an import defect; the cphsc70-1 hsp93V double mutant has a more severe import defect
Transient expression of preproteins in protoplasts isolated from hsp93V mutant and wild-type plants (Lee et al., 2018)
 Association of Hsp93 with the inner envelope membrane is important for its functions Hsp93V-∆N deletion mutant cannot complement the hsp93V null mutant; AtHsp93V-∆N has the same ATPase activity but severely reduced membrane and Tic110 association (Chu and Li, 2012) Hsp93V-∆N is an Hsp93V mutant with the N-terminal domain deleted
 Hsp93 directly binds transit peptides Escherichia coli expressed recombinant ClpC2 (i.e. Hsp93III) and ClpD specifically bind preproteins in vitro (Rosano et al., 2011) The preprotein used is pea ferredoxin-NADP reductase transit peptide fused to GST
Transit peptides of translocating preproteins directly cross-linked to Hsp93 at early stages of active import into chloroplasts (Huang et al., 2016) Two different preproteins, prRBCS and prTic40, were used
Hsp90C
 Hsp90C is a component of complexes containing translocating preproteins Hsp90C, together with Toc75 and Tic110, specifically copurified with bound preproteins, prRBCS or prTic40 (Inoue et al., 2013)
 Inhibition of Hsp90 ATPase activity reduces protein import Treatment of isolated chloroplasts with the Hsp90 inhibitor, radicicol, reversibly inhibits ATP-dependent protein import (Inoue et al., 2013)
cpHsp70
 Hsp70 binds to chloroplast transit peptides Hsp70 binds prSSU and prFd transit peptides (Ivey et al., 2000) Both DnaK and Hsc70 isoforms of Hsp70 were tested
Transit peptides containing Hsp70 binding elements were targeted to chloroplasts, whereas those without were not (Chotewutmontri and Bruce, 2015)
 cpHsp70 is essential in Arabidopsis and Physcomitrella Targeted knockout of cpHsp70-2 in the moss, Physcomitrella, is lethal (Shi and Theg, 2010) Physcomitrella has three cpHsp70 genes, knockout of cpHsp70-1 and cpHsp70-3 are without obvious phenotype
T-DNA insertion knockout of both copies of cpHsp70 in Arabidopsis is lethal (Su and Li, 2010) Individual knockouts are not lethal
 Reduced cpHsp70 slows protein import into chloroplasts Knockouts of individual cpHsp70 genes in Arabidopsis display reduced rates of protein import in young chloroplasts (Su and Li, 2010)
Temperature-sensitive mutants of moss cpHsp70-2 display reduced rates of protein import after a heat shock (Shi and Theg, 2010) Two different temperature-sensitive mutants behaved similarly
 cpHsp70 is a component of import complexes Anti-Hsp70 antibodies coimmunoprecipitate Hsp93 and Tic40 in moss (Shi and Theg, 2010) In CGE knockdown mutant with preproteins added
Anti-cpHsp70 antibodies coimmunoprecipitate Toc75, Toc34, Tic110, Tic40, and Hsp93 in pea (Pisum sativum) chloroplasts (Su and Li, 2010) No preprotein addition, indicating that cpHsp70 is preassembled in import complexes
 cpHsp70 is in complexes containing translocating preproteins Anti-cpHsp70 antibodies coimmunoprecipitate translocating preproteins, prSSU and prCGE, in moss (Shi and Theg, 2010) In CGE knockdown mutant with preprotein added
Anti-cpHsp70 antibodies coimmunoprecipitate translocating preproteins, prRBCS and prL11, in pea chloroplasts (Su and Li, 2010)
 cpHsp70 cochaperones are required for chloroplast protein import CGE knockdown mutants display reduced rates of chloroplast protein import in moss (Shi and Theg, 2010)
 Change of cpHsp70 Km for ATP hydrolysis translates into change of ATP requirement for protein import Chloroplasts harboring cpHsp70 with a 2.6-fold increased Km for ATP hydrolysis required 3.1 times as much ATP to import prSSU (Liu et al., 2014) Two different cpHsp70 amino acid substitutions behaved similarly