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NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 3, 页码 233-237出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb901
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The eukaryotic cytoplasmic chaperonin containing TCP-1 (CCT) is a hetero-oligomeric complex that assists the folding of actins, tubulins and other proteins in an ATP- dependent manner. To understand the allosteric transitions that occur during the functional cycle of CCT, we imaged the chaperonin complex in the presence of different ATP concentrations. Labeling by monoclonal antibodies that bind specifically to the CCT and CCT subunits enabled alignment of all the CCT subunits of a given type in different particles. The analysis shows that the apo state of CCT has considerable apparent conformational heterogeneity that decreases with increasing ATP concentration. In contrast with the concerted allosteric switch of GroEL, ATP- induced conformational changes in CCT are found to spread around the ring in a sequential fashion that may facilitate domain- by-domain substrate folding. The approach described here can be used to unravel the allosteric mechanisms of other ring-shaped molecular machines.
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