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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2009

The crystal structure of the C-terminus of adseverin reveals the actin-binding interface.

Sakesit Chumnarnsilpa, Wei Lin Lee, Shalini Nag, Balakrishnan Kannan, Mårten Larsson, Leslie D Burtnick, Robert C Robinson

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Sakesit ChumnarnsilpaInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (ASTAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673.
Wei Lin Lee
Shalini Nag
Balakrishnan Kannan
Mårten Larsson
Leslie D Burtnick
Robert C Robinson
Agency for Science, Technology and Research · SGInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology · SGUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adseverin is a member of the calcium-regulated gelsolin superfamily of actin severing and capping proteins. Adseverin comprises 6 homologous domains (A1-A6), which share 60% identity with the 6 domains from gelsolin (G1-G6). Adseverin is truncated in comparison to gelsolin, lacking the C-terminal extension that masks the F-actin binding site in calcium-free gelsolin. Biochemical assays have indicated differences in the interaction of the C-terminal halves of adseverin and gelsolin with actin. Gelsolin contacts actin through a major site on G4 and a minor site on G6, whereas adseverin uses a site on A5. Here, we present the X-ray structure of the activated C-terminal half of adseverin (A4-A6). This structure is highly similar to that of the activated form of the C-terminal half of gelsolin (G4-G6), both in arrangement of domains and in the 3 bound calcium ions. Comparative analysis of the actin-binding surfaces observed in the G4-G6/actin structure suggests that adseverin in this conformation will also be able to interact with actin through A4 and A6, whereas the A5 surface is obscured. A single residue mutation in A4-A6 located at the predicted A4/actin interface completely abrogates actin sequestration. A model of calcium-free adseverin, constructed from the structure of gelsolin, predicts that in the absence of a gelsolin-like C-terminal extension the interaction between A2 and A6 provides the steric inhibition to prevent interaction with F-actin. We propose that calcium binding to the N terminus of adseverin dominates the activation process to expose the F-actin binding site on A2.

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ActinsBinding SitesCalciumCrystallography, X-RayGelsolinHumansHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationIonsMicroscopy, FluorescenceMolecular ConformationMutationProtein BindingProtein Structure, TertiaryRecombinant ProteinsActinsCalciumGelsolinIonsRecombinant Proteinsscinderin

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PMID19666531
PMCPMC2720849
OpenAlexW2061230511

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