title: Truncated GroEL monomer has the ability to promote folding of rhodanese without GroES and ATP.
abstract: Similar to chaperonins from other sources, intact chaperonin from Escherichia coli (GroEL) exists as a tetradecamer, and the ability to promote folding of other proteins has been considered to be dependent on this oligomeric structure. However, the peptide fragments of GroEL of molecular size 34-50 kDa, which are produced by limited proteolysis of monomeric GroEL and are unable to assemble into an oligomer, retain the ability to promote folding of rhodanese even though the yield of productive folding is lower than the intact GroEL/GroES/ATP system. This promotion by truncated GroEL obeys rapid kinetics and does not require GroES and ATP.
authors.affiliation: Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization, R-1, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Makino
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D002417:Cattle; D018835:Chaperonin 10; D018834:Chaperonin 60; D004926:Escherichia coli; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000201:enzymology; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000502:physiology; D017510:Protein Folding; D013884:Thiosulfate Sulfurtransferase / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D018835:Chaperonin 10; D018834:Chaperonin 60; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D013884:Thiosulfate Sulfurtransferase