期刊
JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
卷 170, 期 2, 页码 319-324出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.12.013
关键词
Coiled-coil protein; Ala clusters; Actin filament; Thin filament regulation; Disordered protein; Tropomyosin
资金
- NIH [RO1 GM36326]
Tropomyosin is a two-chained alpha-helical coiled coil that binds along the length of the actin filament and regulates its function. The paper addresses the question of how a simple coiled-coil sequence encodes the information for binding and regulating the actin filament, its universal target. Determination of the tropomyosin sequence confirmed Crick's predicted heptapeptide repeat of hydrophobic interface residues and revealed additional features that have been shown to be important for its function: a 7-fold periodicity predicted to correspond to actin binding sites and interruptions of the canonical interface with destabilizing residues, such as Ala. Evidence from published work is summarized, leading to the proposal of a paradigm that binding of tropomyosin to the actin filament requires local instability as well as regions of flexibility. The flexibility derives from bends and local unfolding at regions with a destabilized coiled-coil interface, as well as from the dynamic end-to-end complex. The features are required for tropomyosin to assume the form of the helical actin filament, and to bind to actin monomers along its length. The requirement of instability/flexibility for binding may be generalized to the binding of other coiled coils to their targets. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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