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A Natively Monomeric Deubiquitinase UCH-L1 Forms Highly Dynamic but Defined Metastable Oligomeric Folding Intermediates Yun-Tzai Cloud Lee, and Shang-Te Danny Hsu J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00815 • Publication Date (Web): 24 Apr 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on April 25, 2018

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A Natively Monomeric Deubiquitinase UCH-L1

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Forms Highly Dynamic but Defined Metastable

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Oligomeric Folding Intermediates

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Yun-Tzai Cloud Lee a,b and Shang-Te Danny Hsu a,b,* a

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Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan

Institute of Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author

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Tel +886-2-27855696 ext5121; FAX: +886-2-27889759;

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E-mail: [email protected]

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Abstract Oligomerization of misfolded protein species is implicated in many human disorders.

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Here we showed by size-exclusion chromatography-coupled multi-angle light scattering (SEC-

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MALS) and small angle X-ray scattering (SEC-SAXS) that urea-induced folding intermediate of

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human ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase, UCH-L1, can form well-defined dimer and tetramer

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under denaturing conditions despite being highly disordered. Introduction of a Parkinson disease-

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associated mutation, I93M, resulted in increased aggregation propensity and formation of

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irreversible precipitants in the presence of moderate amount of urea. Since UCH-L1 exhibits

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highly populated partially unfolded forms under native conditions that resemble urea-induced

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folding intermediates, it is likely that these metastable dimer and tetramer can form under

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physiological conditions. Our findings highlighted the unique strength of integrated SEC-

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MALS/SAXS in quantitative analyses of the structure and dynamics of oligomeric folding

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intermediates that enabled us to extract information that is inaccessible to conventional

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biophysical techniques.

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KEYWORDS: aggregation, folding intermediate, Parkinson’s disease, SAXS, UCH-L1.

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Protein folding often involves the formation of folding intermediates that contain partially

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unfolded forms (PUFs), which tend to self-associate leading to accumulation of aggregation-

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prone toxic oligomers and eventually causing debilitating human disorders such as Alzheimer’s

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disease and Parkinson’s disease (PD).1-2 While protein misfolding is a common feature shared

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among many neurodegenerative diseases and non-neuropathic systemic amyloidosis, detailed

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structural features of the early oligomers of the pathogenic proteins vary significantly.3

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Continuous efforts have been devoted into gaining mechanistic insights of protein misfolding

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and amyloid formation.4-5 In many cases, conformational rearrangements within the early

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oligomers are found to be closely associated with their seeding effects.6-7 Extensive studies have

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been reported to address the question of the exact number of monomers within different types of

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early oligomers and how they subsequently form proto-filaments and the eventual amyloid

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fibrils.8-9

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Human ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase, UCH-L1 (also known as PGP9.5 or PARK5), is

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a deubiquitinase that is highly expressed in neurons.10 It is a potential risk factor in PD and is

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frequently found together with α-synuclein inclusions in Lewy bodies, the hallmark of PD. A

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familial isoleucine to methionine mutation at residue position 93 in UCH-L1 (I93M) has been

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identified in one German family with late onset autosomal dominant PD so that it is associated

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with increased risk of PD.11 This mutation is located adjacent to the catalytic site, which could be

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responsible for the reduced DUB activity,11 increased aggregation propensity,12 and aberrant

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interactions with cellular factors such as molecular chaperones, e.g., Hsc70 and Hsp90, with the

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potential to interfere with chaperone-mediated autophagy and accumulation of α-synuclein

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aggregates.13

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aggregation propensity.14-17

Post-translational modifications by reactive metabolite can cause similar

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Using solution state NMR spectroscopy, we observed significant structural perturbations

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far beyond the I93M mutation sites evidenced by significant chemical shift perturbations18

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despite the indistinguishable crystal structures between UCH-L1 wild type (WT) and the I93M

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variant.19-20 We further demonstrated that the I93M mutation significantly reduces the folding

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stability and accelerates the urea-induced unfolding kinetics of UCH-L1.18 Recently, we

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identified two obligatory and distinct kinetic folding intermediates being populated along each of

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the two parallel folding pathways connecting the native and denatured states of UCH-L1.21

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Furthermore, native and pulsed-labeling NMR hydrogen-deuterium exchange (HDX) analyses

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revealed the presence of highly populated PUFs of UCH-L1 that share the same structural

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features with chemically induced folding intermediates.21 Although UCH-L1 is monomeric in

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solution under the native condition, we observed significant protein concentration dependency in

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the equilibrium intermediate population induced by urea (Figure S1) that was overlooked in

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previous equilibrium analyses.18,

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intermediate of UCH-L1 is oligomeric.

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This result implies that the chemically induced folding

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To further characterize the nature of these oligomeric folding intermediates, we carried

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out analytical size-exclusion chromatography-coupled multi-angle static light scattering (SEC-

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MALS) to determine the oligomeric states of UCH-L1 in the presence of varying amounts of

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urea (Figure 1A).

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Figure 1. Urea-induced oligomerization of UCH-L1. (A) SEC-MALS profiles of UCH-L1 in the

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presence of different urea concentrations as indicated. The calculated MWs are indicated at the

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peak positions. The dotted line and solid line indicate light scattering (LS) and UV absorption at

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280 nm (UV280). (B) Correlation between calculated and theoretical MWs (MWCalc and MWTheo)

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associated with the individual elution peaks in (A). (C) Elution peak integrals corresponding to

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monomer (open blue), dimer (open green) and tetramer (open orange) as a function of urea

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concentration. Intrinsic fluorescence-derived native, intermediate and denatured state populations

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(these populations were derived from an equilibrium three-state folding model at a protein

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concentration of ca. 40 µM as shown in Figure S1) are shown in dash blue line, shaded gray area

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and dashed red line, respectively.

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The results revealed the emergence of a well-defined dimeric UCH-L1 elution peak in the

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presence of 1.9 M urea and subsequent emergence of tetrameric UCH-L1 elution peak on

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increasing urea concentration, ranging from 2.7 to 3.7 M urea. The molecular weights (MWs) of

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the dimer and tetramer elution peaks derived from SEC-MALS were in perfect match with the

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theoretical values (Figure 1B and Table S1 in Supporting Information). Furthermore, the

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populations of the different oligomeric states as a function of urea concentration agreed well with

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the three-state population distributions derived from intrinsic fluorescence (Figure 1C and

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Supporting Information). In bulk fluorescence measurements, the optical contributions of

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different oligomeric states to the intermediate population could not be resolved. Therefore the

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intermediate population (gray area in Figure 1c) corresponded to a lump sum of different

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oligomeric forms. Time-dependent SEC-MALS analysis indicated that UCH-L1 fully converted

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into dimer when mixed with 3.5 M urea within instrument dead time of 2.5 minutes; subsequent

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emergence of tetrameric population was observed after 10 minute and beyond, indicating a

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sequential oligomerization process for the chemically-induced folding intermediates (Figure S3).

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Global fitting of the loss of dimeric population and the increase of tetrameric population of

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UCH-L1 at 3.5 M urea yielded a slow apparent rate of the tetramer formation (kapp= 0.022 ±

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0.005 h-1; Figure S3). Note that the kinetic analysis was carried out without considering the

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protein concentration dependency. Due to instrument limitation, SEC-MALS analysis was

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limited to urea concentration up to 4 M. To cover a wider range of urea concentrations, we

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applied chemical cross-linking using (bis[sulfosuccinimidyl] suberate (BS3) in the presence of 0-

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8 M urea, followed by SDS-PAGE imaging analyses to quantify the amount of dimer and

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tetramer as a function of urea concentration. The results showed peak distributions of dimer and

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tetramer populations that were general agreement with the intrinsic fluorescence-derived

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distributions, confirming that the intrinsic oligomerization propensity of urea-induced folding

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intermediates of UCH-L1 (Figure S4).

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SEC-MALS analysis of the PD-associated I93M variant of UCH-L1 showed a similar

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trend of oligomerization of urea-induced folding intermediates with a much more pronounced

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aggregation propensity (Figure 2A).

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Figure 2. Increased aggregation propensity of PD-associated I93M variant. (A) SEC-MALS

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profiles of I93M in the presence of different urea concentrations as indicated. UV absorbance at

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280 nm (UV280) and light scattering intensity (LS) are shown in solid and dashed lines,

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respectively. (B) MW profiles of I93M variant in the presence of 1.89 M urea. The calculated

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MWs of monomer (blue), dimer (red) are indicated in kDa, and that of large aggregate is shown

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in green down to the void volume (6 ml) (C) Sample turbidity (black bars) as a function of urea

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concentration and was superimposed with the three-state fractional populations of I93M at a

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protein concentration of ca. 40 µM.

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In the presence of 1-2 M urea, higher oligomers were observed by SEC-MALS resulting

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in a continuum of MW distribution to the void volume with an apparent MW beyond one

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megadalton (Figure 2B). Prolonged overnight incubation under these conditions lead to visible

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precipitates with significant turbidity that could be quantified by optical absorbance at 550 nm

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(OD550nm; Figure 2C). The peak distribution of precipitating aggregates coincided with the

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emergence of intermediate population, consistent with the previously reported increased

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aggregation propensity caused by I93M mutation in vitro and in vivo.13-14

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Collectively, our data suggested hierarchical formation of UCH-L1 oligomers upon urea-

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induced unfolding starting from a partially unfolded monomeric folding intermediate followed

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by the formation of dimer and tetramer (Figure S3). In the case of I93M, whose PUFs and

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folding intermediates may be different from that of the WT, exhibited a much higher aggregation

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propensity that could easily self-assemble into amorphous aggregates. To assess the structural

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features of these oligomers under non-native conditions, we carried out size exclusion

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chromatography-coupled small angle X-ray scattering analysis (SEC-SAXS),22-23 which has been

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applied to study protein folding and self-association under a variety of experimental

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conditions,24-26 to deconvolute the scattering contributions originated from the different

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oligomeric states (Figure 3A).

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Figure 3. SAXS analyses for native and non-native forms of UCH-L1. (A) The SAXS profiles of

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the native state, monomeric and dimeric folding intermediates at 2.7 M urea were colored in

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black, blue and orange, respectively. (B) The Kratky plots transformed from the SAXS profiles.

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(C) The pair-wised distance distributions derive from the SAXS profiles using GNOM within the

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ATSAS software suite. 27 (D) Rg values of UCH-L1 in their native and urea-denatured folding

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intermediate states as a function of chain length. The red line and blue line are the empirical

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Flory’s power law for chemically denatured proteins and for native proteins, respectively.17

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SAXS data were collected from well-separated SEC elution peaks corresponding to the native

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UCH-L1 without urea, and the monomeric and dimeric of UCH-L1 in the presence of 2.5, 2.7

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and 3.0 M urea (grey shades in Figure S5A). The SEC-SAXS elution peak of the tetrameric

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folding intermediate of UCH-L1 was weak and overlapped with that of the dimeric intermediate

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in the presence of high urea concentration, which prevented further quantitative analyses (Figure

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S5A). For native, monomeric UCH-L1, the SAXS profile showed good agreement with the

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back-calculated SAXS profile based on the reported crystal structure of UCH-L1; the scattering

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contributions of the flexible hexahistidine tag at the C-terminus were included by using

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AllosMod-FoXS (Figure S5A and S6A).28-29

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For the monomeric folding intermediate of UCH-L1, a significant reduction in the peak height

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of the Kratky plot was observed compared to that of the native profile (Figure 3B), indicating

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that the monomeric folding intermediate is partially unfolded. This is corroborated by the pair-

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wise distance distribution, P(r) (Figure 3C) and the increase radius of gyration (Rg) from 17.9 Å

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to 29.3 Å, derived from Guinier approximation (Figures 3D and S6). In order to characterize this

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partially folding intermediate, we performed molecular dynamic simulation to generate an

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ensemble of structures that collectively match the experimental SAXS profile collected in the

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presence of 3.3 M urea (Figure S6). Considering that a stable core structure encompassing the

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central β-sheet and α-helix 2 of UCH-L1 was observed in our earlier pulsed-labeling NMR HDX

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analysis,21 the structural protections were used as restrains during the ensemble modeling

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(Supporting Information). A subset of conformations that closely resembles the monomeric

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folding intermediate was selected and the results showed partially unfolded peripheral helices

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and extended termini (inset in Figure 3D and Figure S6). Despite the partial unfolding, the

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monomeric folding intermediate of UCH-L1 is relatively compact according to its Rg value in

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comparison with other native proteins (Figure 3D).30-31 Due to the lack of independent local

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structural information regarding the dimeric folding intermediate, we did not apply the same

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modeling procedure to obtain a structural ensemble. Nonetheless, the corresponding Kratky plot,

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P(r) and Rg value (Figures 3) all indicated the presence of a highly disordered structure that

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adopts an expanded random coil-like ensemble. How such a disordered ensemble manages to

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form a well-defined dimer remains to be established. To the best of our knowledge, our findings

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represent the first example defined sequential and reversible oligomerization events of

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chemically induced folding intermediates starting from a monomeric native state.

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In this work, we identified by SEC-MALS the formation of well-defined UCH-L1 dimer

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and tetramer under non-native conditions (Figure 1). The oligomerization process of UCH-L1

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WT was fully reversible upon removal of urea. Prolonged incubation of the PD-associated I93M

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variant, however, lead to irreversible precipitation when incubated with moderate amounts of

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urea, indicating that UCH-L1 is metastable and that the I93M mutation could tip the balance of

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proteostasis towards aggregation, causing cellular stress.

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restrained molecular modeling revealed a less compact monomeric folding intermediate

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compared to the native monomer, and that partially unfolded UCH-L1 can assemble into specific

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dimer and subsequently into tetramer. Our current findings highlighted the intrinsic shortcoming

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of intrinsic fluorescence and far-UV circular dichroism that are insensitive to changes in the

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oligomeric state of UCH-L1. The folding pathways of UCH-L1 therefore need to be revised in

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light of our current findings.

Furthermore, SEC-SAXS and

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We recently reported that UCH-L1 exhibits highly populated PUFs under native

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conditions, which share common structural features with urea-induced folding intermediates.21 It

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is conceivable that UCH-L1 may dimerize under native conditions despite being sparsely

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populated. Indeed, dimerization of UCH-L1 under the native state has been reported to display

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unusual ubiquitin ligase activity.32 Considering the geometry of ubiquitin binding site of UCH-

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L1, it would require substantial conformational rearrangements for the binding crevice to

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simultaneously accommodate two ubiquitin molecules by dimeric UCH-L1 for isopeptide bond

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formation. In summary, our findings echoed the notion of the fine balance between cellular

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protein abundance and solubility in proteostasis as UCH-L1 is highly expressed in neuronal cells

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with the ability to transiently populate oligomeric states with considerable conformational

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disorder.21 Structural perturbation and destabilization by the PD-associated I93M mutation could

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lead to irreversible precipitation when its folding intermediates are significantly populated and

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perturbed, which may occur under physiological conditions with elevated oxidative stress or

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aberrant proteostasis.14

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ASSOCIATED CONTENT

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Supporting Information.

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Supporting Information Available: The Supporting Information detailing materials and methods

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is available free of charge via the Internet at http://pubs.acs.org. It contains the thermodynamics

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parameters derived from urea-induced equilibrium unfolding, chemical cross-linking, SEC-

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MALS/SAXS and SAXS-based ensemble structural modeling results.

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AUTHOR INFORMATION

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Corresponding Author

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Tel +886-2-27855696 ext5121; FAX: +886-2-27889759;

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E-mail: [email protected]

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The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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This work is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST104-2113-M-001-

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016, MOST105-2113-M-001-005, and MOST 106-2113-M-001-004) and Academia Sinica,

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Taiwan. S.-T.D.H. is a recipient of the Career Development Award (CDA-00025/2010-C) from

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the International Human Frontier Science Program. We are grateful to the staff of BL23A1 of the

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National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC, Taiwan) for their expert assistance in

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SAXS data collection.

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