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Substrate binding site flexibility of the small heat shock protein molecular chaperones.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Sept 2009
Jaya Nomalie, Garcia Victor, Vierling Elizabeth
Abstract excerpt
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) serve as a first line of defense against stress-induced cell damage by binding and maintaining denaturing proteins in a folding-competent state. In contrast to the well-defined substrate binding regions of ATP-dependent chaperones, interactions between sHSPs and substrates are poorly understood. Defining substrate-binding sites of sHSPs is key to understanding their cellular...
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