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SUBMITTER: Gassler CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC28025 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gässler C S CS Buchberger A A Laufen T T Mayer M P MP Schröder H H Valencia A A Bukau B B
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19981201 26
Hsp70 chaperones assist protein folding by ATP-controlled cycles of substrate binding and release. ATP hydrolysis is the rate-limiting step of the ATPase cycle that causes locking in of substrates into the substrate-binding cavity of Hsp70. This key step is strongly stimulated by DnaJ cochaperones. We show for the Escherichia coli Hsp70 homolog, DnaK, that stimulation by DnaJ requires the linked ATPase and substrate-binding domains of DnaK. Functional interaction with DnaJ is affected by mutatio ...[more]