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CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 1008-1017Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.06.016
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- NIGMS [R01-GM42762]
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Australian Research Council
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The function of ScHSP26 is thermally controlled: the heat shock that causes the destabilization of target proteins leads to its activation as a molecular chaperone. We investigate the structural and dynamical properties of ScHSP26 oligomers through a combination of multiangle light scattering, fluorescence spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. We show that ScHSP26 exists as a heterogeneous oligomeric ensemble at room temperature. At heat-shock temperatures, two shifts in equilibria are observed: toward dissociation and to larger oligomers. We examine the quaternary dynamics of these oligomers by investigating the rate of exchange of subunits between them and find that this not only increases with temperature but proceeds via two separate processes. This is consistent with a conformational change of the oligomers at elevated temperatures which regulates the disassembly rates of this thermally activated protein.
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