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In Situ Monitoring of Transiently Formed Molecular Chaperone Assemblies in Bacteria, Yeast, and Human Cells
Published on: September 2, 2019
Plasmodium falciparum J-dot localized J domain protein A8iJp modulates the chaperone activity of human HSPA8
Welka Sahu1, Tapaswini Bai1, Aleena Das1
1School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India.
Abstract:
Plasmodium falciparum renovates the host erythrocyte to survive during intraerythrocytic development. This renovation requires many parasite proteins to unfold and move outside the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane, and chaperone-regulated protein folding becomes essential for the exported proteins to function. We report on a type-IV J domain protein (JDP), PF3D7_1401100, which we found to be processed before export and trafficked inside the lumen of parasite-derived structures known as J-dots. We found this protein to have holdase activity, as well as stimulate the ATPase and aggregation suppression activity of the human HSP70 chaperone HsHSPA8; thus, we named it "HSPA8-interacting J protein" (A8iJp). Moreover, we found a subset of HsHSPA8 to co-localize with A8iJp inside the infected human erythrocyte. Our results suggest that A8iJp modulates HsHSPA8 chaperone activity and may play an important role in host erythrocyte renovation.
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