SGD Paper 
Mizumura H, et al. (1999) Stable association of 70-kDa heat shock protein induces latent multisite specificity of a unisite-specific endonuclease in yeast mitochondria. J Biol Chem 274(36):25682-90
Abstract: The multisite-specific endonuclease Endo.SceI of yeast mitochondria is unique among endonucleases because its 50-kDa subunit forms a stable dimer with the mitochondrial 70-kDa heat shock protein (mtHSP70), which otherwise fulfills a chaperone function by binding transiently to unfolded proteins. Here we show that the mtHSP70 subunit confers broader sequence specificity, greater stability, and higher activity on the 50-kDa subunit. The 50-kDa subunit alone displayed weaker activity and highly sequence-specific endonuclease activity. The 50-kDa protein exists as a heterodimer with mtHSP70 in vivo, allowing Endo.SceI to cleave specifically at multiple sites on mitochondrial DNA. Endo.SceI may have evolved from a highly specific endonuclease that gained broader sequence specificity after becoming a stable partner of mtHSP70.
| Status: Published | Type: Journal Article | PubMed ID: 10464305 |
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