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Using steered molecular dynamics to predict and assess Hsp70 substrate-binding domain mutants that alter prion propagation.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Jan 2013
Xu Linan, Hasin Naushaba, Shen Manli, He Jianwei, Xue Youlin, Zhou Xiaohong, Perrett Sarah, Song Youtao, Jones Gary W
Abstract excerpt
Genetic screens using Saccharomyces cerevisiae have identified an array of cytosolic Hsp70 mutants that are impaired in the ability to propagate the yeast [PSI(+)] prion. The best characterized of these mutants is the Ssa1 L483W mutant (so-called SSA1-21), which is located in the substrate-binding domain of the protein. However, biochemical analysis of some of these Hsp70 mutants has so far failed to provide...
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