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Cotranslational Folding of Proteins

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We suppose that folding of proteins occurs cotranslationally by the following scheme. The polypeptide chains enter the folding sites from protein translocation complexes (ribosome, translocation machinery incorporated in membranes) directionally with the N-terminus and gradually. The chain starts to fold as soon as its N-terminal residue enters the folding site from the translocation complex. The folding process accompanies the translocation of the chain to its folding site and is completed after the C-terminal residue leaves the translocation complex. Proteins fold in sequential stages, by translocation of their polypeptide into folding compartments. At each stage a particular conformation of the N-terminal part of the chain that has emerged from the translocation complex is formed. The formation of both the particular conformations of the N-terminal chain segment at each folding stage and the final native protein conformation at the last stage occurs in a time that does not exceed the duration of the fastest elongation cycle on the ribosome.

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Basharov, M.A. Cotranslational Folding of Proteins. Biochemistry (Moscow) 65, 1380–1384 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002800822475

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