Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

The dynamic dimer structure of the chaperone Trigger Factor

  • Leonor Morgado,
  • Björn M. Burmann,
  • Timothy Sharpe,
  • Adam Mazur,
  • Sebastian Hiller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02196-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The bacterial chaperone Trigger Factor (TF) is a dynamic protein and its dimer structure is unknown. Here the authors present a protocol combining NMR, computational and biophysical methods for the structural characterization of large dynamic protein complexes and show that TF forms a symmetric head-to-tail dimer.