TCB Publications - Abstract

TCB Publications - Abstract

Kai Zhang, Li Wang, Yanxin Liu, Kwok-Yan Chan, Xiaoyun Pang, Klaus Schulten, Zhiyang Dong, and Fei Sun. Flexible interwoven termini determine the thermal stability of thermosomes. Protein & Cell, 4:432-444, 2013. (PMC: 3740188)

ZHAN2013 Group II chaperonins, which assemble as double-ring complexes, assist in the refolding nascent peptides or denatured proteins in an ATP-dependent manner. The molecular mechanism of group II chaperonin assembly and thermal stability is yet to be elucidated. Here, we selected the group II chaperonins (cpn-$\alpha$ and cpn-$\beta$), also called thermosomes, from Acidianus tengchongensis and investigated their assembly and thermal stability. We found that the binding of ATP or its analogs contributed to the successful assembly of thermosomes and enhanced their thermal stabilities. Cpn-$\beta$ is more thermally stable than cpn-$\alpha$, while the thermal stability of the hetero thermosome cpn-$\alpha$$\beta$ is intermediate. Cryo-electron microscopy reconstructions of cpn-$\alpha$ and cpn-$\beta$ revealed the interwoven densities of their non-conserved flexible N/C-termini around the equatorial planes. The deletion or swapping of their termini and pH-dependent thermal stability assays revealed the key role of the termini electrostatic interactions in the assembly and thermal stability the thermosomes.

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