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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 14, Pages 6112-6122Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.14.6112-6122.2005
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA21765, P30 CA021765] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM071596, R01 GM071596] Funding Source: Medline
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alpha-Actinin and vinculin orchestrate reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton following the formation of adhesion junctions. alpha-Actinin interacts with vinculin through the binding of an alpha-helix (alpha VBS) present within the R4 spectrin repeat of its central rod domain to vinculin's N-terminal seven-helical bundle domain (Vh1). The Vh1:alpha VBS structure suggests that alpha VBS first unravels from its buried location in the triple-helical R4 repeat to allow it to bind to vinculin. alpha VBS binding then induces novel conformational changes in the N-terminal helical bundle of Vh1, which disrupt its intramolecular association with vinculin's tail domain and which differ from the alterations in Vh1 provoked by the binding of talin. Surprisingly, alpha VBS binds to Vh1 in an inverted orientation compared to the binding of talin's VBSs to vinculin. Importantly, the binding of alpha VBS and talin's VBSs to vinculin's Vh1 domain appear to also trigger distinct conformational changes in full-length vinculin, opening up distant regions that are buried in the inactive molecule. The data suggest a model where vinculin's Vh1 domain acts as a molecular switch that undergoes distinct structural changes provoked by talin and alpha-actinin binding in focal adhesions versus adherens junctions, respectively.
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