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CRYOBIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 319-323Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/cryo.2000.2287
Keywords
GroEL; low temperature; ATP hydrolysis
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM59833-01] Funding Source: Medline
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The chaperonins GroEL and GroES were shown to facilitate the refolding of urea-unfolded rhodanese in an ATP-dependent process at 25 or 37 degreesC. A diminished chaperonin activity was observed at 10 degreesC, however, At low temperature. GroEL retains irs ability to Form a complex with urea-unfolded rhodanese or with GroES. GroEL is also able to bind ATP at 10 degreesC. Interestingly, the ATPase activity of GroEL was highly decreased at low temperatures. Hydrolysis of ATP by GroEL was 60%; less at 10 degreesC than ar 25 degreesC. We conclude that the reduced hydrolysis of ATP by GroEL is a major but perhaps not the only Factor responsible for the diminished chaperonin activity at 10 degreesC, GroEL may Function primarily at higher temperatures in which the ability of GroEL to hydrolyze ATP is nor compromised. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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