• Title/Summary/Keyword: Biological Molecular

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Trigger Factor Interacts with DnaA Protein to Stimulate its Interaction with DnaA Box

  • Lee, Yong-Sun;Lee, June;Kim, Hak-Kyun;Kang, Sukhyun;Han, Joo-Seok;Kim, Jae-Bum;Hwang, Deog-Su
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • 제7권1호
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2003
  • While screening proteins that interact with DnaA protein, the initiator protein for Escherichia coil chromosomal DNA replication, we found a 52-kD sized protein which bound to DnaA protein in a salt-dependent manner. This protein was identified as trigger factor, a ribosome-associated peptidyl-prolyl- cisltrans isomerase with chaperone activity. Trigger factor was overproduced and purified to near homogeneity, and its effect on the function of DnaA protein was examined, Enhanced binding of DnaA protein to DnaA box with no apparent supershift in the gel-shift experiments suggested that trigger factor, by virtue of its chaperone activity, exerts a change on DnaA protein thus increasing its binding affinity for DnaA box.