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ArticleBiochemistry2008

Identification of phosphorylation-induced changes in vimentin intermediate filaments by site-directed spin labeling and electron paramagnetic resonance.

Josh T Pittenger, John F Hess, Madhu S Budamagunta, John C Voss, Paul G Fitzgerald

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Article in Biochemistry, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Metal Ion Binding of Vimentin Tail Domain Fragments.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2026
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  2. The important interplay between metal ions and the intermediate filament protein vimentin.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Josh T PittengerDepartment of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA.
John F Hess
Madhu S Budamagunta
John C Voss
Paul G Fitzgerald

Funding

VISION RESEARCH CORE GRANTP30EY012576 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI LISA M OAKES · 1999 to 2026
$18.9M
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF OCULAR LENS BEADED FILAMENTSR01EY008747 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI FITZGERALD, PAUL GILLESPIE · 1990 to 2010
$4.5M
SDSL-EPR STUDY OF INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT STRUCTURER01EY015560 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI FITZGERALD, PAUL GILLESPIE · 2006 to 2015
$3.0M
The structural basis of apoE4's role in Alzheimer's DiseaseR01AG029246 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI VOSS, JOHN CARL · 2007 to 2011
$1.3M
EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTIONC06RR012088 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI CURRY, FITZ-ROY E · 1996 to 1996
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NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR012088NCRR NIH HHS C06 RR-12088-01NEI NIH HHS EY017575NEI NIH HHS P30 EY012576NEI NIH HHS R01 EY008747NEI NIH HHS R01 EY015560NIA NIH HHS AG029246NIA NIH HHS R01 AG029246
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphorylation drives the disassembly of the vimentin intermediate filament (IF) cytoskeleton at mitosis. Chromatographic analysis has suggested that phosphorylation produces a soluble vimentin tetramer, but little has been determined about the structural changes that are caused by phosphorylation or the structure of the resulting tetramer. In this study, site-directed spin labeling and electron paramagnetic resonance (SDSL-EPR) were used to examine the structural changes resulting from protein kinase A phosphorylation of vimentin IFs in vitro. EPR spectra suggest that the tetrameric species resulting from phosphorylation is the A11 configuration. EPR spectra also establish that the greatest degree of structural change was found in the linker 2 and the C-terminal half of the rod domain, despite the fact that most phosphorylation occurs in the N-terminal head domain. The phosphorylation-induced changes notably affected the proposed "trigger sequences" located in the linker 2 region, which have been hypothesized to mediate the induction of coiled-coil formation. These data are the first to document specific changes in IF structure resulting from a physiologic regulatory mechanism and provide further evidence, also generated by SDSL-EPR, that the linker regions play a key role in IF structure and regulation of assembly/disassembly.

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Spin LabelsChromatography, LiquidElectron Spin Resonance SpectroscopyElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelPhosphorylationTandem Mass SpectrometryVimentinSpin LabelsVimentin

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PMID18803396
PMCPMC2656440

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