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Like many proteins, Lon is a '''flexible''' peptide which has different '''three-dimensional conformations'''. The protein can therefore pass from one conformation to another by hydrolysis of [https://biologydictionary.net/atp/ ATP]. | Like many proteins, Lon is a '''flexible''' peptide which has different '''three-dimensional conformations'''. The protein can therefore pass from one conformation to another by hydrolysis of [https://biologydictionary.net/atp/ ATP]. | ||
With these conformational changes, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_site active sites] of the Lon protein are protected from the external environment in the oligomeric complex that forms the degradation chamber. | |||
This form of degradation chamber is also found in bacteria, plants, fungi and metazoan, the similarities with bacteria are most probably due to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis endosymbiotic theory]. | |||
