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Development of free-energy-based models for chaperonin containing TCP-1 mediated folding of actin

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2008-12-06
ICR Author
Willison, Keith
Author
Altschuler, GM
Willison, KR
Type
Journal Article
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Abstract
A free-energy-based approach is used to describe the mechanism through which chaperonin-containing TCP-1 (CCT) folds the. lament-forming cytoskeletal protein actin, which is one of its primary substrates. The experimental observations on the actin folding and unfolding pathways are collated and then re-examined from this perspective, allowing us to determine the position of the CCT intervention on the actin free-energy folding landscape. The essential role for CCT in actin folding is to provide a free-energy contribution from its ATP cycle, which drives actin to fold from a stable, trapped intermediate I-3, to a less stable but now productive folding intermediate I-2. We develop two hypothetical mechanisms for actin folding founded upon concepts established for the bacterial type I chaperonin GroEL and extend them to the much more complex CCT system of eukaryotes. A new model is presented in which CCT facilitates free-energy transfer through direct coupling of the nucleotide hydrolysis cycle to the phases of actin substrate maturation.
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https://repository.icr.ac.uk/handle/internal/2416
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2008.0185
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Chromatin Regulation
Language
eng
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2008-12-06
Citation
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, 2008, 5 pp. 1391 - 1408
Publisher
ROYAL SOC

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