“…0006-2960/93/0432-12571 $04.00/0 We2 and others (Callebaut et al, 1992;Tai et al, 1992;Trandinh et al, 1992) have examined the primary structure of mammalian hsp56 for the presence of domains within the polypeptide, with special emphasis on regions which might show homology to known FK506-binding proteins such as FKBP-12 (Harding et al, 1989;Siekierka et al, 1989;Standaert et al, 1990), FKBP-13 (Jin et al, 1991), and (Galat et al, 1992;Jin et al, 1992). A region with clear homology to FKBP-12, one we have designated FK506-binding domain I, is located near the N-terminus of hsp56, comprising residues 31-135 of the 59-kDa protein (Lebeau et al, 1992;Callebaut et al, 1992;Tai et al, 1992). In fact, this domain is roughly 50% identical in sequence to FKBP-12 and FKBP-13 (Callebaut et al, 1992;Tai et al, 1992).…”