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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 511-522Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.10.007
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Cofilin plays a key role in the choreography of actin dynamics via its ability to sever actin filaments and increase the rate of monomer dissociation from pointed ends. The exact manner by which phosphoinositides bind to cofilin and inhibit its interaction with actin has proven difficult to ascertain. We determined the structure of chick cofilin and used NMR chemical shift mapping and structure-directed mutagenesis to unambiguously locate its recognition site for phosphoinositides (Pis). This structurally unique recognition site requires both the acyl chain and head group of the PI for a productive interaction, and it is not inhibited by phosphorylation of cofilin. We propose that the interaction of cofilin with membrane-bound Pis abrogates its binding to both actin and actin-interacting protein 1, and facilitates spatiotemporal regulation of cofilin activity.
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