Conformational changes in the chaperonin GroEL: new insights into the allosteric mechanism.

Conformational changes are known to play a crucial role in the function of the bacterial GroE chaperonin system. Here, results are presented from an essential dynamics analysis of known experimental structures and from computer simulations of GroEL using the CONCOORD method. The results indicate a possible direct form of inter-ring communication associated with internal fluctuations in the nucleotide-binding domains upon nucleotide and GroES binding that are involved in the allosteric mechanism of GroEL. At the level of conformational transitions in entire GroEL rings, nucleotide-induced structural changes were found to be distinct and in principle uncoupled from changes occurring upon GroES binding. However, a coupling is found between nucleotide-induced conformational changes and GroES-mediated transitions, but only in simulations of GroEL double rings, and not in simulations of single rings. This provides another explanation for the fact that GroEL functions a double ring system.

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