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Structural basis underlying specific biochemical activities of non-muscle tropomyosin isoforms

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CELL REPORTS
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages -

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111900

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The actin cytoskeleton plays a critical role in various cellular processes. Tropomyosins are important proteins that regulate actin filaments. This study reveals the molecular mechanisms of how different tropomyosin isoforms interact with actin filaments, leading to their differential functions in myosin II activation and protection against ADF/cofilin-catalyzed severing.
The actin cytoskeleton is critical for cell migration, morphogenesis, endocytosis, organelle dynamics, and cytokinesis. To support diverse cellular processes, actin filaments form a variety of structures with specific architectures and dynamic properties. Key proteins specifying actin filaments are tropomyosins. Non-muscle cells express several functionally non-redundant tropomyosin isoforms, which differentially control the inter-actions of other proteins, including myosins and ADF/cofilin, with actin filaments. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms have remained elusive. By determining the cryogenic electron microscopy structures of actin filaments decorated by two functionally distinct non-muscle tropomyosin isoforms, Tpm1.6 and Tpm3.2, we reveal that actin filament conformation remains unaffected upon binding. However, Tpm1.6 and Tpm3.2 follow different paths along the actin filament major groove, providing an explanation for their incapability to co-polymerize on actin filaments. We also elucidate the molecular basis underlying specific roles of Tpm1.6 and Tpm3.2 in myosin II activation and protecting actin filaments from ADF/cofilin-catalyzed severing.

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