Hsp104 is classified as a. AAA+ ATPases and a subgroup of Hsp100/Clp, because of the usage of Atp hydrolysis for structural modulation of other proteins.
Removing the aggregates without the hsp104 is insufficient there highlighting the importance of this heat shock protein and its interactions.
In hsp104 NBD1 is where ATP hydrolysis occurs, NBD2 C-terminus is shown to express the configuration of the structure by nucleotide-dependent hexamerazation.
These NBDs have diaphragms, which are conserved loops that interact in the middle of the channel inside the chaperone by coupling the ATP hydrolysis and polypeptide transport.
[5] The Hsp104 homohexamer (Figure A) is a part of an unfolding/threading mechanism that aggregates pass through and single polypeptides are extracted.
Hsp104 and Hsp70 also interact to recover native state of proteins that were exposed to heat and formed aggregates.
Some sHsps increase their molecular weight with partially folded proteins and are able to perform disaggregation by Hsp100/ClpB.