| Literature DB >> 31371450 |
Lavi S Bigman1, Amnon Horovitz2.
Abstract
The chaperonin GroEL and its co-chaperonin GroES form both GroEL-GroES bullet-shaped and GroEL-GroES2 football-shaped complexes. The residence time of protein substrates in the cavities of these complexes is about 10 and 1 s, respectively. There has been much controversy regarding which of these complexes is the main functional form. Here, we show using computational analysis that GroEL protein substrates have a bimodal distribution of folding times, which matches these residence times, thereby suggesting that both bullet-shaped and football-shaped complexes are functional. More generally, co-existing complexes with different stoichiometries are not mutually exclusive with respect to having a functional role and can complement each other.Entities:
Keywords: GroEL; PSIPRED; bioinformatics; chaperonin; kinetics; molecular machines; protein folding
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Year: 2019 PMID: 31371450 PMCID: PMC6746456 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.AC119.010299
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biol Chem ISSN: 0021-9258 Impact factor: 5.157