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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
Volume 456, Issue 1, Pages 8-18Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2006.10.003
Keywords
protein folding; protein assembly; thermostability; co-chaperonin protein; Aquilex aeolicus; GroES
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM08280, T32 GM008280, GM059663] Funding Source: Medline
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To compare folding/assembly processes of heptameric co-chaperonin proteins 10 (cpn10) from different species and search for the origin of thermostability in hyper-thermo stable Aquifex aeolicus cpn10 (Aaepn10), we have studied two bacterial variants-Aacpn10 and Eseherichia coli cpn10 (GroES)-and compared the results to data on Homo sapiens cpn10 (hmcpn10). Equilibrium denaturation of GroES by urea, guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) and temperature results in coupled heptamer-to-monomer transitions in all cases. This is similar to the behavior of Aacpn10 but differs from hmcpn10 denaturation in urea. Time-resolved experiments reveal that GroES unfolds before heptamer dissociation, whereas refolding/reassembly begins with folding of individual monomers; these assemble in a slower step. The sequential folding/assembly mechanism for GroES is rather similar to that observed for Aacpn10 but contradicts the parallel paths of hmcpn10. We reveal that Aacpn10's stability profile is shifted upwards, broadened, and also moved horizontally to higher temperatures, as compared to that of GroES. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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