RESEARCH ARTICLE


Subunit Mobility and the Chaperone Activity of Recombinant αB-Crystallin



A Krushelnitsky*, 1, N Mukhametshina1, Y Gogolev1, N Tarasova1, D Faizullin1, T Zinkevich2, O Gnezdilov2, V Fedotov1
1 Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia
2 Kazan Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia


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* the Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia;E-mail: krushelnitsky@mail.knc.ru


Abstract

The comparison of the chaperone-like activity of native and covalently cross-linked human αB-crystallins has confirmed the important role of the subunit mobility in the chaperoning mechanism. Our data clearly demonstrate that the chaperone-like activity of α-crystallin is not only a surface phenomenon as was suggested by some researchers.