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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'''. | 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]. | 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]. | ||
This protein has a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteolysis '''proteolytic'''] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein) '''chaperone''']-like activity, it cannot unfold aggregated proteins, but can participate in the assembling of some complexes). These two enzymatic activities are separated on two polypeptide chains forming a complex or two separate domains on the same polypeptide chain. | |||
