title: Peptide-binding specificity of the molecular chaperone BiP.
abstract: Members of the heat-shock protein family (hsp70s) can distinguish folded from unfolded proteins. This property is crucial to the role of hsp70s as molecular chaperones and is attributable to the amino-acid specificity of the peptide-binding site. The specificity for peptide ligands is investigated using a set of peptides of random sequence but defined chain length. The peptide-binding site selects for aliphatic residues and accommodates them in an environment energetically equivalent to the interior of a folded protein.
authors.affiliation: Program in Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics, Rockefeller Research Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York 10021.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Flynn
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pohl
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Flocco
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Rothman
mesh_terms: D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D001665:Binding Sites; D001667:Binding, Competitive; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; C060153:KAR2 protein, yeast; D010455:Peptides; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases