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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 237-244Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.03.010
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- Medical Research Council [MC_U105178939] Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [MC_U105178939] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105178939] Funding Source: researchfish
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Recent structural work on nuclear transport factors of the importin-P superfamily of karyopherins has shown that these proteins are superhelices of HEAT repeats that are able to assume different conformations in different functional states. The inherent flexibility of these helicoids facilitates the accommodation of different binding partners by an induced-fit type of mechanism. Moreover, the energy stored by distorting these molecules may partially balance binding energies to enable assembly and disassembly of their complexes with relatively small energy changes. Flexibility appears to be an intrinsic feature of such superhelices and might be functionally important not only for karyopherins and nuclear transport, but also for HEAT repeat proteins from other biological systems.
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