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Review
. 2020 Mar 26;401(4):423-434.
doi: 10.1515/hsz-2019-0341.

Aha-type co-chaperones: the alpha or the omega of the Hsp90 ATPase cycle?

Paul LaPointe  1 , Rebecca Mercier  1 , Annemarie Wolmarans  2
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Aha-type co-chaperones: the alpha or the omega of the Hsp90 ATPase cycle?

Paul LaPointe et al. Biol Chem. .
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Abstract

Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a dimeric molecular chaperone that plays an essential role in cellular homeostasis. It functions in the context of a structurally dynamic ATP-dependent cycle to promote conformational changes in its clientele to aid stability, maturation, and activation. The client activation cycle is tightly regulated by a cohort of co-chaperone proteins that display specific binding preferences for certain conformations of Hsp90, guiding Hsp90 through its functional ATPase cycle. Aha-type co-chaperones are well-known to robustly stimulate the ATPase activity of Hsp90 but other roles in regulating the functional cycle are being revealed. In this review, we summarize the work done on the Aha-type co-chaperones since the 1990s and highlight recent discoveries with respect to the complexity of Hsp90 cycle regulation.

Keywords: ATPase; ATPase stimulation; Aha-type; Aha1; Hsp90; co-chaperones.

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