The degradation of cytoplasmatic proteins is an ATP-dependent process. Substrates are targeted to single soluble protease, the 26S proteasome, in eukaryotes and to a number of unrelated proteases is prokaryotes. A surprising link emerged with the discovery of the ATP-dependent protease HslVU. Its protease component HslV shares ~20% sequence similarity and a conserved fold with the 20S proteasome betha-subunits. HslU is a member of the Hsp100 (Clp) family of ATPases. The genes HslV and HslU were overexpressed, purified and crystallized in the combinations (1) HslU, (2) HslU +AMP-PNP, (3) HslV+HslU+AMP-PNP. The three structures were solved. The influence of the positvely and negatively charged residues near the gamma-phosphate of the nucleotide on nucleotide-binding, ATP-hydrolysis and proteolytic activity was studied by mutagenesis and biochemical experiments. Also the influence of two dozen HslU mutants on the SulA-MBP degradation by HslVU was determined
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The degradation of cytoplasmatic proteins is an ATP-dependent process. Substrates are targeted to single soluble protease, the 26S proteasome, in eukaryotes and to a number of unrelated proteases is prokaryotes. A surprising link emerged with the discovery of the ATP-dependent protease HslVU. Its protease component HslV shares ~20% sequence similarity and a conserved fold with the 20S proteasome betha-subunits. HslU is a member of the Hsp100 (Clp) family of ATPases. The genes HslV and HslU were...
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