PMID:16537402
| Citation |
Stan, G, Brooks, BR, Lorimer, GH and Thirumalai, D (2006) Residues in substrate proteins that interact with GroEL in the capture process are buried in the native state. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103:4433-8 |
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| Abstract |
We have used a bioinformatic approach to predict the natural substrate proteins for the Escherichia coli chaperonin GroEL based on two simple criteria. Natural substrate proteins should contain binding motifs similar in sequence to the mobile loop peptide of GroES that displaces the binding motif during the chaperonin cycle. Secondly, each substrate protein should contain multiple copies of the binding motif so that the chaperonin can perform "work" on the substrate protein. To validate these criteria, we have used a database of 252 proteins that have been experimentally shown to interact with the chaperonin machinery in vivo. More than 80% are identified by these criteria. The binding motifs of all 79 proteins in the database with a known three-dimensional structure are buried (<50% solvent-accessible surface area) in the native state. Our results show that the binding motifs are inaccessible in the native state but become solvent-exposed in unfolded state, thus enabling GroEL to distinguish between unfolded and native states. The structures of the binding motif in the native states of the substrate proteins include alpha-helices, beta-strands, and random coils. The diversity of secondary structures implies that there are large and varied conformational transitions in the recognition motifs after their displacement by the mobile loops of GroES. |
| Links |
PubMed PMC1450189 Online version:10.1073/pnas.0600433103 |
| Keywords |
Binding Sites; Chaperonin 60/chemistry; Chaperonin 60/metabolism; Computational Biology; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Models, Molecular; Protein Conformation; Protein Folding; Protein Interaction Mapping; Substrate Specificity |
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