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EMBO REPORTS
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 136-140Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf035
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Protein disulfide isomerases (PDIs) catalyse the formation of native disulfide bonds in protein folding pathways. The key steps involve disulfide formation and isomerization in compact folding intermediates. The high-resolution structures of the a and b domains of PDI are now known, and the overall domain architecture of PDI and its homologues can be inferred. The isolated a and a' domains of PDI are good catalysts of simple thiol-disulfide interchange reactions but require additional domains to be effective as catalysts of the rate-limiting disulfide isomerizations in protein folding pathways. The V domain of PDI has a specific binding site for peptides and its binding properties differ in specificity between members of the PDI family. A model of PDI function can be deduced in which the domains function synergically: the b' domain binds unstructured regions of polypeptide, while the a and a' domains catalyse the chemical isomerization steps.
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