The beta-crystallins are a family of long-lived, abundant structural proteins that are coexpressed in the vertebrate lens. As beta-crystallins form heteromers, a process that involves transient exposure of hydrophobic interfaces, we have examined whether in vivobeta-crystallin assembly is enhanced by protein chaperones, either small heat shock proteins, Hsp27 or alphaB-crystallin, or Hsp70. We show here that betaA4-crystallin is abundantly expressed in HeLa cells, but rapidly degraded, irrespective of the presence of Hsp27, alphaB-crystallin or Hsp70. Degradation is even enhanced by Hsp70. Coexpression of betaA4-crystallin with betaB2-crystallin yielded abundant soluble betaA4-betaB2-crystallin heteromers; betaB1-crystallin was much less effective in solubilizing betaA4-crystallin. As betaB2-crystallin competed for betaA4-crystallin with Hsp70 and the proteasomal degradation pathway, betaB2-crystallin probably captures an unstable betaA4-crystallin intermediate. We suggest that the proper folding of betaA4-crystallin is not mediated by general chaperones but requires a heteromeric partner, which then also acts as a dedicated chaperone towards betaA4-crystallin.
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