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Conformation of GroEL-bound α-lactalbumin probed by mass spectrometry

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The conformation of a three-disulphide derivative of bovine α-lactalbumin bound to the molecular chaperone GroEL has been investigated by monitoring directly its hydrogen exchange kinetics using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. The bound protein is weakly protected from exchange to an extent closely similar to that of an uncomplexed molten globule state of the three-disulphide protein. Binding to GroEL in this system appears to involve relatively disordered partly folded states resembling intermediates formed in the very early stages of kinetic folding of many proteins in vitro.

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  4. Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    Mark Mayhew & F. Ulrich Hartl

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Robinson, C., Groß, M., Eyles, S. et al. Conformation of GroEL-bound α-lactalbumin probed by mass spectrometry. Nature 372, 646–651 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/372646a0

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