Probeando la densidad y la dinámica del agua en la cavidad GroEL de la chaperona

John M Franck1, Miri Sokolovski, Naama Kessler

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States.

Resumen

El agua confinada dentro del complejo de chaperonina GroEL-GroES se comporta de manera similar al agua a granel, lo que desafía las suposiciones anteriores sobre los entornos de plegamiento de proteínas. Este hallazgo sugiere que las propiedades del agua dentro de la cavidad de la chaperonina no impiden significativamente el plegamiento de las proteínas.

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