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NATURE
Volume 518, Issue 7539, Pages 435-438Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nature14023
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- Medical Research Council, UK [MC_UP_A025_1011]
- Wellcome Trust New Investigator Award [WT100387]
- EMBO Young Investigator Award
- Medical Research Council [1352465, 1274168, MC_UP_A025_1011] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_UP_A025_1011] Funding Source: UKRI
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Members of the dynein family, consisting of cytoplasmic and axonemal isoforms, are motors that move towards the minus ends of microtubules. Cytoplasmic dynein-1 (dynein-1) plays roles in mitosis and cellular cargo transport(1), and is implicated in viral infections(2) and neurodegenerative diseases(3). Cytoplasmic dynein-2 (dynein-2) performs intraflagellar transport(4) and is associated with human skeletal ciliopathies(5). Dyneins share a conserved motor domain that couples cycles of ATP hydrolysis with conformational changes to produce movement(6-9). Here we present the crystal structure of the human cytoplasmic dynein-2 motor bound to the ATP-hydrolysis transition state analogue ADP. vanadate(10). The structure reveals a closure of the motor's ring of six AAA+ domains (ATPases associated with various cellular activites: AAA1-AAA6). This induces a steric clash with the linker, the key element for the generation of movement, driving it into a conformation that is primed to produce force. Ring closure also changes the interface between the stalk and buttress coiled-coil extensions of the motor domain. This drives helix sliding in the stalk which causes the microtubule binding domain at its tip to release from the microtubule. Our structure answers the key questions of how ATP hydrolysis leads to linker remodelling and microtubule affinity regulation.
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