N. Plesofskyvig et R. Brambl, CHARACTERIZATION OF AN 88-KDA HEAT-SHOCK-PROTEIN OF NEUROSPORA-CRASSATHAT INTERACTS WITH HSP30, The Journal of biological chemistry, 273(18), 1998, pp. 11335-11341
The small heat shock protein of Neurospora crassa, Hsp30, when employe
d in affinity chromatography, bound two cellular proteins that were id
entified as Hsp70 and Hsp88. Both Hsp70 and Hsp88 bound to Hsp30 in pr
eference to other proteins, but binding of Hsp88 was more selective fo
r Hsp30, and a direct interaction was observed, Transcripts for Hsp88,
a newly characterized protein, are present at normal temperature, but
they are strongly induced by heat shock. Its cDNA sequence predicts a
protein with homology to mammalian Hsp110 family proteins, which are
distantly related to Hsp70 Hsp88 and its homologues show greater simil
arity to Hsp70 in its N-terminal ATPase domain than in the C-terminal
peptide-binding domain, and its ATP-binding motifs are conserved. Neve
rtheless, the N-terminal domain of Hsp88 land related proteins) is con
sistently more hydrophobic and more basic than that of Hsp70 proteins.
Within the C-terminal domain, the sequence corresponding to the DnaK
alpha subdomain is conserved in the HspB8/Hsp110 family proteins, wher
eas the DnaK beta subdomain sequence is not conserved. The interaction
between Hsp70 and Hsp30 may reflect their cooperation as cochaperones
for denatured proteins, whereas Hsp88 and Hsp30 may form a complex th
at interacts with potential substrates.