Gianguzza F, Ragusa M A, Roccheri M C, Di Liegro I, Rinaldi A M
Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo A. Monroy, Palermo, Italy.
Cell Stress Chaperones. 2000 Apr;5(2):87-9. doi: 10.1379/1466-1268(2000)005<0087:iacoap>2.0.co;2.
Chaperonins are ubiquitous proteins that facilitate protein folding in an adenosine triphosphate-dependent manner. Here we report the isolation of a sea urchin cDNA (Plhsp60) coding for mitochondrial chaperonin (Cpn60), whose basal expression is further enhanced by heat shock. The described cDNA corresponds to a full-length mRNA encoding a protein of 582 amino acids, the first 32 of which constitute a putative mitochondrial targeting leader sequence. Comparative analysis has demonstrated that this protein is highly conserved in evolution.
伴侣蛋白是普遍存在的蛋白质,它们以三磷酸腺苷依赖的方式促进蛋白质折叠。在此,我们报告了一种编码线粒体伴侣蛋白(Cpn60)的海胆cDNA(Plhsp60)的分离,其基础表达在热休克后进一步增强。所述cDNA对应于一个全长mRNA,编码一个582个氨基酸的蛋白质,其中前32个氨基酸构成一个推定的线粒体靶向前导序列。比较分析表明,这种蛋白质在进化过程中高度保守。