Background: Exposure of cells to severe heat stress causes not only misfolding and aggregation of proteins but also inhibition of translation and storage of mRNA in cytosolic heat stress granules (heat-SGs), limiting newly synthesized protein influx into overloaded proteome repair systems. How these two heat stress responses connect is unclear.

Results: Here, we show that both S. cerevisiae and D. melanogaster heat-SGs contain mRNA, translation machinery components (excluding ribosomes), and molecular chaperones and that heat-SGs coassemble with aggregates of misfolded, heat-labile proteins. Components in these mixed assemblies exhibit distinct molecular motilities reflecting differential trapping. We demonstrate that heat-SG disassembly and restoration of translation activity during heat stress recovery is intimately linked to disaggregation of damaged proteins present in the mixed assemblies and requires Hsp104 and Hsp70 activity.

Conclusions: Chaperone-driven protein disaggregation directly coordinates timing of translation reinitiation with protein folding capacity during cellular protein quality surveillance, enabling efficient protein homeostasis.

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Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Cherkasov V, Hofmann S, Druffel-Augustin S, Mogk A, Tyedmers J, Stoecklin G, Bukau B

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