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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Mechanism of actin filament branch formation by Arp2/3 complex revealed by a high-resolution cryo-EM structureof the branch junction.

Steven Z Chou, Moon Chatterjee, Thomas D Pollard

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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27 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Arp2/3-mediated bidirectional actin assembly by SPIN90 dimers.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025
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  10. Molecular mechanism of Arp2/3 complex activation by nucleation-promoting factors and an actin monomer.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Steven Z ChouDepartment of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.ORCID 0000-0002-5307-376X
Moon ChatterjeeDepartment of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
Thomas D PollardDepartment of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.ORCID 0000-0002-1785-2969
Yale University · US

Funding

MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF CELLULAR MOTILITYR01GM026338 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI POLLARD, THOMAS D. · 1985 to 2020
$9.8M
Mechanism of cytokinesis in fission yeastR01GM026132 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI POLLARD, THOMAS D. · 1985 to 2021
$8.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM026132NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM026338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We reconstructed the structure of actin filament branch junctions formed by fission yeast Arp2/3 complex at 3.5 Å resolution from images collected by electron cryo-microscopy. During specimen preparation, all of the actin subunits and Arp3 hydrolyzed their bound adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and dissociated the γ-phosphate, but Arp2 retained the γ-phosphate. Binding tightly to the side of the mother filament and nucleating the daughter filament growing as a branch requires Arp2/3 complex to undergo a dramatic conformational change where two blocks of structure rotate relative to each other about 25° to align Arp2 and Arp3 as the first two subunits in the branch. During branch formation, Arp2/3 complex acquires more than 8,000 Å

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Actin-Related Protein 2-3 ComplexSchizosaccharomycesActin CytoskeletonCryoelectron MicroscopyPhosphatesResearchActin-Related Protein 2-3 ComplexPhosphatesactinArp2/3 complexcryo-electron microscopypolymerization

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PMID36442092
PMCPMC9894260
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