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ArticleBiophysical journal2008

Clathrin triskelia show evidence of molecular flexibility.

Matthew L Ferguson, Kondury Prasad, Hacene Boukari, Dan L Sackett, Susan Krueger, Eileen M Lafer, Ralph Nossal

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Mechanisms shaping cell membranes.Current opinion in cell biology · 2014
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  7. Systems biology and physical biology of clathrin-mediated endocytosis.Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro · 2011
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Authors and funding

7 authors.

Matthew L FergusonDepartment of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
Kondury Prasad
Hacene Boukari
Dan L Sackett
Susan Krueger
Eileen M Lafer
Ralph Nossal

Funding

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE SYNAPSER01NS029051 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI LAFER, EILEEN M. · 1990 to 2012
$4.0M
Integrative Cell BiophysicsZIAHD008841 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI NOSSAL, RALPH · 2009 to 2015
$2.5M
Biophysical Methods and ModelsZ01HD000260 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI NOSSAL, RALPH J · 1998 to 2008
$1.1M
Molecular Biology of the SynapseR56NS029051 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI LAFER, EILEEN M. · 2008 to 2013
$744k
Intramural NIH HHSNINDS NIH HHS NS29051NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS029051NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS029051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clathrin triskelion, which is a three-legged pinwheel-shaped heteropolymer, is a major component in the protein coats of certain post-Golgi and endocytic vesicles. At low pH, or at physiological pH in the presence of assembly proteins, triskelia will self-assemble to form a closed clathrin cage, or "basket". Recent static light scattering and dynamic light scattering studies of triskelia in solution showed that an individual triskelion has an intrinsic pucker similar to, but differing from, that inferred from a high resolution cryoEM structure of a triskelion in a clathrin basket. We extend the earlier solution studies by performing small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments on isolated triskelia, allowing us to examine a higher q range than that probed by static light scattering. Results of the SANS measurements are consistent with the light scattering measurements, but show a shoulder in the scattering function at intermediate q values (0.016 A(-1)), just beyond the Guinier regime. This feature can be accounted for by Brownian dynamics simulations based on flexible bead-spring models of a triskelion, which generate time-averaged scattering functions. Calculated scattering profiles are in good agreement with the experimental SANS profiles when the persistence length of the assumed semiflexible triskelion is close to that previously estimated from the analysis of electron micrographs.

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Models, ChemicalModels, MolecularClathrinComputer SimulationProtein ConformationProtein FoldingClathrin

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PMID18502808
PMCPMC2483746

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