Publication Date:
1999-12-03
Description:
Polypeptides emerging from the ribosome must fold into stable three-dimensional structures and maintain that structure throughout their functional lifetimes. Maintaining quality control over protein structure and function depends on molecular chaperones and proteases, both of which can recognize hydrophobic regions exposed on unfolded polypeptides. Molecular chaperones promote proper protein folding and prevent aggregation, and energy-dependent proteases eliminate irreversibly damaged proteins. The kinetics of partitioning between chaperones and proteases determines whether a protein will be destroyed before it folds properly. When both quality control options fail, damaged proteins accumulate as aggregates, a process associated with amyloid diseases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wickner, S -- Maurizi, M R -- Gottesman, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Dec 3;286(5446):1888-93.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10583944" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism
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Amyloid/metabolism
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Animals
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Endopeptidases/*metabolism
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Eukaryotic Cells/metabolism
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Humans
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Models, Biological
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Molecular Chaperones/*metabolism
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Prions/metabolism
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Prokaryotic Cells/metabolism
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Protein Biosynthesis
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*Protein Folding
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Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Ubiquitins/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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