Swapping nucleotides, tuning Hsp70.
Molecular chaperones such as heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) are crucial for protein folding. Crystal structures of Hsp70 in a complex with the nucleotide exchange factor (NEF) Hsp110 reported in this issue of Cell (Polier et al., 2008) and in Molecular Cell (Schuermann et al., 2008) provide new insights into how NEF action specifies Hsp70 cellular function.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. dmcyr@med.unc.edu
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D050957:HSP110 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D017510:Protein Folding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
D050957:HSP110 Heat-Shock Proteins; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; C494656:SSE1 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins