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Stability and disassembly properties of human naive Hsp60 and bacterial GroEL chaperonins

Journal

BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 208, Issue -, Pages 68-75

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2015.07.006

Keywords

Hsp60; GroEL; SAXS; CD; Guanidinium chloride; Denaturation

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  1. Italian MIUR within the FIRB Futuro in Ricerca Program [RBFR12SIPT]

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Human Hsp60 chaperonin and its bacterial homolog GroEL, in association with the corresponding co-chaperonins Hsp10 and GroES, constitute important chaperone systems promoting the proper folding of several mitochondrial proteins. Hsp60 is also currently described as a ubiquitous molecule with multiple roles both in health conditions and in several diseases. Naive Hsp60 bearing the mitochondrial import signal has been recently demonstrated to present different oligomeric organizations with respect to GroEL, suggesting new possible physiological functions. Here we present a combined investigation with circular dichroism and small-angle X-ray scattering of structure, self-organization, and stability of naive Hsp60 in solution in comparison with bacterial GroEL Experiments have been performed in different concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride, monitoring the dissociation of tetradecamers into heptamers and monomers, until unfolding. GroEL is proved to be more stable with respect to Hsp60, and the unfolding free energy as well as its dependence on denaturant concentration is obtained. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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