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Coupled chaperone action in folding and assembly of hexadecameric Rubisco.

Cuimin Liu, Anna L Young, Amanda Starling-Windhof, Andreas Bracher, Sandra Saschenbrecker, Bharathi Vasudeva Rao, Karnam Vasudeva Rao, Otto Berninghausen, Thorsten Mielke, F Ulrich Hartl and 2 more

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Article in Nature, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.

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91 citing papers in PubMed.

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12 authors.

Cuimin LiuDepartment of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany.
Anna L Young
Amanda Starling-Windhof
Andreas Bracher
Sandra Saschenbrecker
Bharathi Vasudeva Rao
Karnam Vasudeva Rao
Otto Berninghausen
Thorsten Mielke
F Ulrich Hartl
Roland Beckmann
Manajit Hayer-Hartl

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Form I Rubisco (ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase), a complex of eight large (RbcL) and eight small (RbcS) subunits, catalyses the fixation of atmospheric CO(2) in photosynthesis. The limited catalytic efficiency of Rubisco has sparked extensive efforts to re-engineer the enzyme with the goal of enhancing agricultural productivity. To facilitate such efforts we analysed the formation of cyanobacterial form I Rubisco by in vitro reconstitution and cryo-electron microscopy. We show that RbcL subunit folding by the GroEL/GroES chaperonin is tightly coupled with assembly mediated by the chaperone RbcX(2). RbcL monomers remain partially unstable and retain high affinity for GroEL until captured by RbcX(2). As revealed by the structure of a RbcL(8)-(RbcX(2))(8) assembly intermediate, RbcX(2) acts as a molecular staple in stabilizing the RbcL subunits as dimers and facilitates RbcL(8) core assembly. Finally, addition of RbcS results in RbcX(2) release and holoenzyme formation. Specific assembly chaperones may be required more generally in the formation of complex oligomeric structures when folding is closely coupled to assembly.

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Protein FoldingProtein MultimerizationBacterial ProteinsChaperonin 10Chaperonin 60Cryoelectron MicroscopyHoloenzymesModels, MolecularMolecular ChaperonesProtein BindingProtein Structure, QuaternaryProtein Structure, TertiaryRibulose-Bisphosphate CarboxylaseSynechococcusBacterial ProteinsChaperonin 10Chaperonin 60HoloenzymesMolecular ChaperonesRbcX protein, cyanobacteriaRibulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase

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