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IPR002194

Chaperonin TCP-1, conserved site

InterPro entry
Short nameChaperonin_TCP-1_CS

Description

The TCP-1 protein
[1, 2]
(Tailless Complex Polypeptide 1) was first identified in mice where it is especially abundant in testis but present in all cell types. It has since been found and characterised in many other animal species, as well as in yeast, plants and protists. TCP-1 is a highly conserved protein of about 60kDa (556 to 560 residues) which participates in a hetero-oligomeric 900kDa double-torus shaped particle
[3]
with 6 to 8 other different subunits. These subunits, the chaperonin containing TCP-1 (CCT) subunit beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta and eta are evolutionary related to TCP-1 itself
[4, 5]
. The CCT is known to act as a molecular chaperone for tubulin, actin and probably some other proteins.

The CCT subunits are highly related to archaebacterial counterparts:


 * TF55 and TF56
[6]
, a molecular chaperone from Sulfolobus shibatae. TF55 has ATPase activity, is known to bind unfolded polypeptides and forms a oligomeric complex of two stacked nine-membered rings.
 * Thermosome
[7]
, from Thermoplasma acidophilum. The thermosome is composed of two subunits (alpha and beta) and also seems to be a chaperone with ATPase activity. It forms an oligomeric complex of eight-membered rings.


The TCP-1 family of proteins are weakly, but significantly
[8]
, related to the cpn60/groEL chaperonin family (see
IPR001844
).

References

1.Protein folding. Cytosolic chaperonin confirmed. Ellis J. Nature 358, 191, (1992). View articlePMID: 1352857

2.TCP1 - molecular chaperonin of the cytoplasm? Nelson RJ, Craig EA. Curr. Biol. 2, 487-9, (1992). View articlePMID: 15335898

3.T-complex polypeptide-1 is a subunit of a heteromeric particle in the eukaryotic cytosol. Lewis VA, Hynes GM, Zheng D, Saibil H, Willison K. Nature 358, 249-52, (1992). View articlePMID: 1630492

4.Identification of six Tcp-1-related genes encoding divergent subunits of the TCP-1-containing chaperonin. Kubota H, Hynes G, Carne A, Ashworth A, Willison K. Curr. Biol. 4, 89-99, (1994). View articlePMID: 7953530

5.Cystosolic chaperonin subunits have a conserved ATPase domain but diverged polypeptide-binding domains. Kim S, Willison KR, Horwich AL. Trends Biochem. Sci. 19, 543-8, (1994). View articlePMID: 7846767

6.A molecular chaperone from a thermophilic archaebacterium is related to the eukaryotic protein t-complex polypeptide-1. Trent JD, Nimmesgern E, Wall JS, Hartl FU, Horwich AL. Nature 354, 490-3, (1991). View articlePMID: 1836250

7.Primary structure of the thermosome from Thermoplasma acidophilum. Waldmann T, Lupas A, Kellermann J, Peters J, Baumeister W. Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 376, 119-26, (1995). PMID: 7794526

8.What is a chaperonin? Hemmingsen SM. Nature 357, 650, (1992). View articlePMID: 1352040

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