title: Isolation and characterization of a DnaJ-like protein in rats: the C-terminal 10-kDa domain of hsc70 is not essential for stimulating the ATP-hydrolytic activity of hsc70 by a DnaJ-like protein.
abstract: A DnaJ-like protein, RDJ1, was isolated from a rat brain cDNA library. The protein is predicted to have 397 amino acid residues and shares 99% identity to that of HDJ2, a human DnaJ-like protein. RDJ1 was also shown to rescue the temperature-sensitive lethality of a strain containing a mutated cytosolic DnaJ in yeast, ydj1-151. Fragments containing the J-domain of RDJ1 either with or without the G/F motif were expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified proteins stimulated the ATPase activity of hsc70 and of the 60-kDa N-terminal fragment of hsc70. These results imply that RDJ1 can interact with the N-terminal 60-kDa fragment of hsc70 to activate ATP hydrolysis by hsc70.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Brodsky
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D050883:HSC70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D050956:HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006868:Hydrolysis; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D051381:Rats; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D018076:DNA, Complementary; C494635:DnaJ protein, E coli; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D050883:HSC70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D050956:HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; C494371:HSPA8 protein, human; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; C494373:Hspa8 protein, rat; C112659:RDJ1 protein, rat; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate