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SUBMITTER: Zhuravleva A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3521165 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell 20121201 6
The allosteric mechanism of Hsp70 molecular chaperones enables ATP binding to the N-terminal nucleotide-binding domain (NBD) to alter substrate affinity to the C-terminal substrate-binding domain (SBD) and substrate binding to enhance ATP hydrolysis. Cycling between ATP-bound and ADP/substrate-bound states requires Hsp70s to visit a state with high ATPase activity and fast on/off kinetics of substrate binding. We have trapped this "allosterically active" state for the E. coli Hsp70, DnaK, and id ...[more]