Conocimiento de la actividad de la chaperona Hsp70 a partir de una estructura cristalina de la levadura Hsp110 Sse1

Qinglian Liu1, Wayne A Hendrickson

  • 1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.

Cell
|October 10, 2007
PubMed
Resumen

La proteína de choque térmico 110s (Hsp110s) se revela como parientes cercanos de Hsp70 a través del análisis estructural. Este hallazgo aclara el vínculo evolutivo y los mecanismos alostéricos dentro de la superfamilia Hsp70.

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