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Structural study of α-filamin repeats 14-16
Uppsala universitet, Medicinska vetenskapsområdet, Medicinska fakulteten, Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-94971OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-94971DiVA, id: diva2:169009
Tilgjengelig fra: 2006-10-18 Laget: 2006-10-18bibliografisk kontrollert
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1. Structural Study of the WH2 Family and Filamin: Implications for Actin Cytoskeleton Regulation
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2006 (engelsk)Doktoravhandling, med artikler (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [en]

Cellular processes like motility, chemotaxis, phagocytosis and morphogenesis are dependent on the dynamic regulation of the actin cytoskeleton. This cytoskeleton system is tightly controlled by a number of diverse actin-binding proteins (ABPs) by various mechanisms described as nucleation, polymerization, capping, severing, depolymerization and sequestration. The ABPs are grouped based on sequence identity as in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome protein homology domain 2 (WH2), and the calponin homology domain (CH) containing proteins.

In this work, we elucidate the crystal structures of hybrids of gelsolin domain 1 with thymosin β4, ciboulot domain 2, and the second WH2 domain of N-WASP each bound to actin. We show that the single WH2 motif containing protein thymosin β4 in part sequesters actin by binding its pointed end via a C-terminal helix. This interaction prevents the addition of bound actin protomers to the barbed end of the filament. We propose that sequence variations in some WH2 motifs conferred F-actin binding ability to multiple repeat-containing proteins. These F-actin binding domains interact with the barbed end of a filament and the adjacent WH2 motifs are then freed to add their bound actin to the growing filament end. We demonstrate the binding of ciboulot domains 2 and 3 to both G- and F-actin and that full length ciboulot is capable of binding two actin monomers simultaneously.

We have also cloned, expressed, purified and crystallized rod domains 14-16 from the actin crosslinking protein a-filamin. Preliminary X-ray crystallography data gives us hope that we shall be able to solve the structure of this triple domain repeat.

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2006. s. 54
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Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, ISSN 1651-6206 ; 182
Emneord
Biochemistry, Actin, Thymosin, Ciboulot, N-WASP, Filamin, Calponin homology domain, WH2, Protein Crystallography, Biokemi
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7188 (URN)91-554-6679-6 (ISBN)
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2006-11-08, C10:301, BMC, Hursagata 3, SE 751 23, Uppsala, 13:15
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