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SUBMITTER: Qbadou S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1456943 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qbadou Soumya S Becker Thomas T Mirus Oliver O Tews Ivo I Soll Jürgen J Schleiff Enrico E
The EMBO journal 20060413 9
Precursor protein targeting toward organellar surfaces is assisted by different cytosolic chaperones. We demonstrate that the chloroplast protein translocon subunit Toc64 is the docking site for Hsp90 affiliated preproteins. Thereby, Hsp90 is recognised by the clamp type TPR domain of Toc64. The subsequent transfer of the preprotein from Toc64 to the major receptor of the Toc complex, namely Toc34, is affinity driven and nucleotide dependent. We propose that Toc64 acts as an initial docking site ...[more]