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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 556-563Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb1244
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM065318, GM065318, R01 GM065318-04] Funding Source: Medline
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The redox-regulated chaperone Hsp33 is specifically activated upon exposure of cells to peroxide stress at elevated temperatures. Here we show that Hsp33 harbors two interdependent stress-sensing regions located in the C-terminal redox-switch domain of Hsp33: a zinc center sensing peroxide stress conditions and an adjacent linker region responding to unfolding conditions. Neither of these sensors works sufficiently in the absence of the other, making the simultaneous presence of both stress conditions a necessary requirement for Hsp33's full activation. Upon activation, Hsp33's redox-switch domain adopts a natively unfolded conformation, thereby exposing hydrophobic surfaces in its N-terminal substrate-binding domain. The specific activation of Hsp33 by the oxidative unfolding of its redox-switch domain makes this chaperone optimally suited to quickly respond to oxidative stress conditions that lead to protein unfolding.
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