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QRB Discovery, 2021 Abstract Chaperones protect other proteins against misfolding and aggregation, a key requirement for maintaining biological function. Experimental observations of changes in solubility of amyloid proteins in the presence of certain chaperones are discussed here in terms of thermodynamic driving forces.
Sara Linse +2 more
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BioEssays, 2012 AbstractMolecular chaperones assist de novo protein folding and facilitate the refolding of stress‐denatured proteins. The molecular chaperone concept was coined nearly 35 years ago, and since then, tremendous strides have been made in understanding how these factors support protein folding.
Quan, Shu, Bardwell, James C. A.
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Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2011 This review describes the properties of some rare eukaryotic chaperones that each assist in the folding of only one target protein. In particular, we describe (1) the tubulin cofactors, (2) p47, which assists in the folding of collagen, (3) α-hemoglobin stabilizing protein (AHSP), (4) the adenovirus L4-100 K protein, which is a chaperone of the major ...
Szolajska, Ewa, Chroboczek, Jadwiga
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Pharmacological Research, 2012 Cells continuously turn over proteins through cycles of synthesis and degradation in order to maintain a functional proteome and to exert a tight control in the levels of regulatory proteins. Selective degradation of proteins was initially thought to be an exclusive function of the ubiquitin-proteasome system, however, over the years, the contribution ...
Susmita, Kaushik, Ana Maria, Cuervo
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Molecular chaperone genes in the sugarcane expressed sequence database (SUCEST)
Genetics and Molecular Biology, 2001 Some newly synthesized proteins require the assistance of molecular chaperones for their correct folding. Chaperones are also involved in the dissolution of protein aggregates making their study significant for both biotechnology and medicine and the ...
Júlio C. Borges +2 more
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Chaperones in Neurodegeneration [PDF]
The Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 Cellular protein homeostasis (proteostasis) maintains the integrity of the proteome and includes protein synthesis, folding, oligomerization, and turnover; chaperone proteins assist with all of these processes. Neurons appear to be especially susceptible to failures in proteostasis, and this is now increasingly recognized as a major origin of ...
Lindberg, Iris +5 more
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Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 As part of their life-cycle, malaria parasites undergo rapid cell multiplication and division, with one parasite giving rise to over 20 new parasites within the course of 48 h.
Julian Barth +2 more
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Enzymes as chaperones and chaperones as enzymes
FEBS Letters, 1998 Chaperones and foldases are two groups of accessory proteins which assist maturation of nascent peptides into functional proteins in cells. Protein disulfide isomerase, a foldase, and ATP‐dependent proteases, responsible for degradation of misfolded proteins in cells, both have intrinsic chaperone activities.
Wang, Chih-Chen, Tsou, Chen-Lu
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The ESX-1 Substrate PPE68 Has a Key Function in ESX-1-Mediated Secretion in Mycobacterium marinum
mBio, 2022 Mycobacteria use specialized type VII secretion systems (T7SSs) to secrete proteins across their diderm cell envelope. One of the T7SS subtypes, named ESX-1, is a major virulence determinant in pathogenic species such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and ...
Merel P. M. Damen +7 more
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Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2014 The folding and assembly of myosin motor proteins is essential for most movement processes at the cellular, but also at the organism level. Importantly, myosins, which represent a very diverse family of proteins, require the activity of general and specialized folding factors to develop their full motor function.
Hellerschmied, Doris, Clausen, Tim
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