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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2016

Structure determination of helical filaments by solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

Lichun He, Benjamin Bardiaux, Mumdooh Ahmed, Johannes Spehr, Renate König, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Ulfert Rand, Thorsten Lührs, Christiane Ritter

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Lichun HeLaboratory for Macromolecular Interactions, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany;ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0772-0452
Benjamin BardiauxUnité de Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS UMR 3528, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France;ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4014-9195
Mumdooh AhmedLaboratory for Macromolecular Interactions, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Suez University, Suez, 43533, Egypt;
Johannes SpehrLaboratory for Macromolecular Interactions, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany;
Renate KönigResearch Group "Host-Pathogen Interactions", Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, 63225 Langen, Germany;
Heinrich LünsdorfCentral Unit for Microscopy, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany;
Ulfert RandImmune Aging and Chronic Infection, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany;
Thorsten LührsSeNostic GmbH, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.
Christiane RitterLaboratory for Macromolecular Interactions, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany; Christiane.Ritter@helmholtz-hzi.de.
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research · DECentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRPaul Ehrlich Institut · DESuez University · EG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The controlled formation of filamentous protein complexes plays a crucial role in many biological systems and represents an emerging paradigm in signal transduction. The mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein (MAVS) is a central signal transduction hub in innate immunity that is activated by a receptor-induced conversion into helical superstructures (filaments) assembled from its globular caspase activation and recruitment domain. Solid-state NMR (ssNMR) spectroscopy has become one of the most powerful techniques for atomic resolution structures of protein fibrils. However, for helical filaments, the determination of the correct symmetry parameters has remained a significant hurdle for any structural technique and could thus far not be precisely derived from ssNMR data. Here, we solved the atomic resolution structure of helical MAVS(CARD) filaments exclusively from ssNMR data. We present a generally applicable approach that systematically explores the helical symmetry space by efficient modeling of the helical structure restrained by interprotomer ssNMR distance restraints. Together with classical automated NMR structure calculation, this allowed us to faithfully determine the symmetry that defines the entire assembly. To validate our structure, we probed the protomer arrangement by solvent paramagnetic resonance enhancement, analysis of chemical shift differences relative to the solution NMR structure of the monomer, and mutagenesis. We provide detailed information on the atomic contacts that determine filament stability and describe mechanistic details on the formation of signaling-competent MAVS filaments from inactive monomers.

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Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingHEK293 CellsHumansModels, MolecularMutagenesisProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryReproducibility of ResultsSolventsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingSolventsgrid searchinnate immunityMAVSprotein structuresolid-state NMR

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PMID26733681
PMCPMC4725487
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