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Structure of ATP synthase under strain during catalysis.

ABSTRACT: ATP synthases are macromolecular machines consisting of an ATP-hydrolysis-driven F₁ motor and a proton-translocation-driven F_O motor. The F₁ and F_O motors oppose each other's action on a shared rotor subcomplex and are held stationary relative to each other by a peripheral stalk. Structures of resting mitochondrial ATP synthases revealed a left-handed curvature of the peripheral stalk even though rotation of the rotor, driven by either ATP hydrolysis in F₁ or proton translocation through F_O, would apply a right-handed bending force to the stalk. We used cryoEM to image yeast mitochondrial ATP synthase under strain during ATP-hydrolysis-driven rotary catalysis, revealing a large deformation of the peripheral stalk. The structures show how the peripheral stalk opposes the bending force and suggests that during ATP synthesis proton translocation causes accumulation of strain in the stalk, which relaxes by driving the relative rotation of the rotor through six sub-steps within F₁, leading to catalysis.

SUBMITTER: Guo H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9038767 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

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Structure of ATP synthase under strain during catalysis.

Guo Hui H Rubinstein John L JL

Nature communications 20220425 1

ATP synthases are macromolecular machines consisting of an ATP-hydrolysis-driven F1 motor and a proton-translocation-driven FO motor. The F1 and FO motors oppose each other's action on a shared rotor subcomplex and are held stationary relative to each other by a peripheral stalk. Structures of resting mitochondrial ATP synthases revealed a left-handed curvature of the peripheral stalk even though rotation of the rotor, driven by either ATP hydrolysis i ...[more]

PMID: 35468906

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