Antibodies are complex biomolecules and their correct folding and assembly has to be carefully monitored in the endoplasmic reticulum. An important control element is the molecular chaperone BiP, a member of the Hsp70 family. In this work, the selectivity of BiP for substrates was analyzed revealing that BiP preferentially binds to linear and not kinked substrates. The conformational transitions of the individual domains of BiP were analyzed using single particle FRET (in collaboration with Prof. Don Lamb, LMU, München) revealing concerted domain orientations upon nucleotide, peptide and protein substrate binding. Importantly, the protein substrate is bound by BiP in a different conformation than the peptide. The lid sub-domain plays an important role in the discrimination of protein and peptide substrates and its function is modulated by the co-chaperone ERdJ3.
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Antibodies are complex biomolecules and their correct folding and assembly has to be carefully monitored in the endoplasmic reticulum. An important control element is the molecular chaperone BiP, a member of the Hsp70 family. In this work, the selectivity of BiP for substrates was analyzed revealing that BiP preferentially binds to linear and not kinked substrates. The conformational transitions of the individual domains of BiP were analyzed using single particle FRET (in collaboration with Prof...
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