By Peter Raven, George Johnson, Kenneth Mason, Jonathan Losos, Susan Singer
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Bacteria’s proteins fail to fold to the right shape. Protein Folding and Disease Molecular biologists have now identified more than 17 kinds of proteins that act as molecular chaperones. Many There are tantalizing suggestions that chaperone protein are heat shock proteins, produced in greatly elevated deficiencies may play a role in certain diseases by failing to amounts if a cell is exposed to elevated temperature; high facilitate the intricate folding of key proteins. Cystic fibrosis temperatures cause proteins to unfold, and heat shock is a hereditary disorder in which a mutation disables a prochaperonins help the cell’s proteins refold.
6 The 20 common amino acids. Each amino acid has the same chemical backbone, but differs in the side, or R, group it possesses. Six of the amino acids are nonpolar because they have —CH2 or —CH3 in their R groups. Two of the six are bulkier because they contain ring structures, which classifies them also as aromatic. Another six are polar because they have oxygen or just hydrogen in their R groups; these amino acids, which are uncharged, differ from one another in how polar they are. Five other amino acids are polar and, because they have a terminal acid or base in their R group, are capable of ionizing to a charged form.
Many proteins can be fully unfolded (“denatured”) and will spontaneously refold back into their characteristic shape. The stability of a protein, once it has folded into its 3-D shape, is strongly influenced by how well its interior fits together. When two nonpolar chains in the interior are in very close proximity, they experience a form of molecular attraction called van der Waal’s forces. Individually quite weak, these forces can add up to a strong attraction when many of them come into play, like the combined strength of hundreds of hooks and loops on a strip of Velcro.
