Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ellis, R.J. (University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)

Titel

Molecular chaperones: the plant connection

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 1990-11, Vol.250 (4983), p.954-959

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Society for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Molecular chaperones are a family of unrelated proteins found in all types of cell. They mediate the correct assembly of other polypeptides, but are not components of the mature assembled structures. Chaperones function by binding specifically to interactive protein surfaces that are exposed transiently during many cellular processes and so prevent them from undergoing incorrect interactions that might produce nonfunctional structures. The concept of molecular chaperones originated largely from studies of the chloroplast enzyme rubisco, which fixes carbon dioxide in plant photosynthesis; the function of chaperones forces a rethinking of the principle of protein self-assembly