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SUBMITTER: Yu HY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4570866 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Hyun Young HY Ziegelhoffer Thomas T Craig Elizabeth A EA
FEBS letters 20150803 19 Pt B
At their C-termini, cytosolic Hsp70s have an EEVD tetrapeptide that interacts with J-protein co-chaperones of the B, but not A, class. This interaction is required for partnering with yeast B-type J-proteins in protein folding. Here we report conservation of this feature. Human B-type J-proteins also have a stringent EEVD requirement. Human A-type J-proteins function less well than their yeast orthologs with Hsp70ΔEEVD. Changes in the zinc binding domain, a domain absent in B-type J-proteins, ov ...[more]