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Active cage mechanism of chaperonin-assisted protein folding demonstrated at single-molecule level.
Journal of molecular biology - 29 Jul 2014
Gupta Amit J, Haldar Shubhasis, Miličić Goran, Hartl F Ulrich, Hayer-Hartl Manajit
Abstract excerpt
The cylindrical chaperonin GroEL and its lid-shaped cofactor GroES of Escherichia coli have an essential role in assisting protein folding by transiently encapsulating non-native substrate in an ATP-regulated mechanism. It remains controversial whether the chaperonin system functions solely as an infinite dilution chamber, preventing off-pathway aggregation, or actively enhances folding kinetics by modulating the...
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