Chaperone rings in protein folding and degradation
AUTOR(ES)
Horwich, Arthur L.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Chaperone rings play a vital role in the opposing ATP-mediated processes of folding and degradation of many cellular proteins, but the mechanisms by which they assist these life and death actions are only beginning to be understood. Ring structures present an advantage to both processes, providing for compartmentalization of the substrate protein inside a central cavity in which multivalent, potentially cooperative interactions can take place between the substrate and a high local concentration of binding sites, while access of other proteins to the cavity is restricted sterically. Such restriction prevents outside interference that could lead to nonproductive fates of the substrate protein while it is present in non-native form, such as aggregation. At the step of recognition, chaperone rings recognize different motifs in their substrates, exposed hydrophobicity in the case of protein-folding chaperonins, and specific “tag” sequences in at least some cases of the proteolytic chaperones. For both folding and proteolytic complexes, ATP directs conformational changes in the chaperone rings that govern release of the bound polypeptide. In the case of chaperonins, ATP enables a released protein to pursue the native state in a sequestered hydrophilic folding chamber, and, in the case of the proteases, the released polypeptide is translocated into a degradation chamber. These divergent fates are at least partly governed by very different cooperating components that associate with the chaperone rings: that is, cochaperonin rings on one hand and proteolytic ring assemblies on the other. Here we review the structures and mechanisms of the two types of chaperone ring system.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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