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Cook AD, Roberts AJ, Atherton J, Tewari R, Topf M, Moores CA. Cryo-EM structure of a microtubule-bound parasite kinesin motor and implications for its mechanism and inhibition. J Biol Chem 2021; 297:101063. [PMID: 34375637 PMCID: PMC8526983 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Plasmodium parasites cause malaria and are responsible annually for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Kinesins are a superfamily of microtubule-dependent ATPases that play important roles in the parasite replicative machinery, which is a potential target for antiparasite drugs. Kinesin-5, a molecular motor that cross-links microtubules, is an established antimitotic target in other disease contexts, but its mechanism in Plasmodium falciparum is unclear. Here, we characterized P. falciparum kinesin-5 (PfK5) using cryo-EM to determine the motor's nucleotide-dependent microtubule-bound structure and introduced 3D classification of individual motors into our microtubule image processing pipeline to maximize our structural insights. Despite sequence divergence in PfK5, the motor exhibits classical kinesin mechanochemistry, including ATP-induced subdomain rearrangement and cover neck bundle formation, consistent with its plus-ended directed motility. We also observed that an insertion in loop5 of the PfK5 motor domain creates a different environment in the well-characterized human kinesin-5 drug-binding site. Our data reveal the possibility for selective inhibition of PfK5 and can be used to inform future exploration of Plasmodium kinesins as antiparasite targets.
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- Alexander D Cook
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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Xu X, Walter WJ, Liu Q, Machens I, Nick P. A rice class-XIV kinesin enters the nucleus in response to cold. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3588. [PMID: 29483672 PMCID: PMC5827730 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21816-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Higher plants possess a large number of kinesins, but lack the minus-end directed dynein motors. However, the kinesin class XIV has strongly expanded, and minus-end directed motors from this class may have taken over functions of cytoplasmic dyneins. In this study, we address the functional aspects of a novel rice homologue of the Arabidopsis class-XIV kinesins ATK1 and ATK5. Since a loss-of-function rice mutant of this kinesin is not viable, the function was studied in tobacco BY-2 as heterologous system. OsDLK-GFP stably expressed in BY-2 cells decorates cortical microtubules, but also can shift into the nucleus of interphase cells. Because of this peculiar localisation, we coined the name Dual Localisation Kinesin (DLK). The nuclear import of this protein is strongly and reversibly promoted in response to cold. During mitosis, OsDLK is repartitioned between spindle and phragmoplast. Motility assays in vitro using show that OsDLK can convey mutual sliding of microtubules and moves at a velocity comparable to other class-XIV kinesins. When tobacco cells overexpressing OsDLK are synchronised, they exhibit a delayed entry into metaphase, while the later phases of mitosis are accelerated. The data are discussed in relation to additional functions of this kinesin type, beyond their transport along microtubules.
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- Xiaolu Xu
- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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- Molecular Plant Physiology, Biocentre Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Molecular Plant Physiology, Biocentre Klein Flottbek, University of Hamburg, 22609, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Structure of a kinesin-tubulin complex and implications for kinesin motility. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:1001-7. [PMID: 23872990 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The typical function of kinesins is to transport cargo along microtubules. Binding of ATP to microtubule-attached motile kinesins leads to cargo displacement. To better understand the nature of the conformational changes that lead to the power stroke that moves a kinesin's load along a microtubule, we determined the X-ray structure of human kinesin-1 bound to αβ-tubulin. The structure defines the mechanism of microtubule-stimulated ATP hydrolysis, which releases the kinesin motor domain from microtubules. It also reveals the structural linkages that connect the ATP nucleotide to the kinesin neck linker, a 15-amino acid segment C terminal to the catalytic core of the motor domain, to result in the power stroke. ATP binding to the microtubule-bound kinesin favors neck-linker docking. This biases the attachment of kinesin's second head in the direction of the movement, thus initiating each of the steps taken.
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Ab initio reconstruction of helical samples with heterogeneity, disorder and coexisting symmetries. J Struct Biol 2009; 167:97-105. [PMID: 19447181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2008] [Revised: 05/02/2009] [Accepted: 05/07/2009] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We describe modifications of the single particle helical reconstruction approach devised for the analysis of a sample that could not be processed with existing methods due to its variable and short range helical order. The added steps of reference-free two-dimensional image classification and alignment, and automated microtubule removal from images, have particular application to proteins or protein complexes that assemble around microtubules. The method was successfully applied to the Dam1 complex, an essential component of the yeast kinetochore that couples replicated chromosomes to spindle microtubules during mitosis. Because of its novel mode of binding, which does not involve a footprint on the microtubule lattice, new steps to deal with the disorder and heterogeneity of the Dam1 complex assembly were required to gain structural information about this complex both routinely and efficiently.
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Hirose K, Löwe J, Alonso M, Cross RA, Amos LA. 3D electron microscopy of the interaction of kinesin with tubulin. Cell Struct Funct 2004; 24:277-84. [PMID: 15216883 DOI: 10.1247/csf.24.277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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We have studied the structure of microtubules decorated with kinesin motor domains in different nucleotide states by 3D electron microscopy. Having docked the atomic coordinates of both dimeric ADP.kinesin and tubulin heterodimer into a map of kinesin dimers bound to microtubules in the presence of ADP, we try to predict which regions of the proteins interact in the weakly binding state. When either the presence of 5'-adenylyimidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) or an absence of nucleotides puts motor domains into a strongly-bound state, the 3D maps show changes in the motor domains which modify their interaction with beta-tubulin. The maps also show differences in beta-tubulin conformation compared with undecorated microtubules or those decorated with weakly-bound motors. Strongly-bound ncd appears to produce an identical change.
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- K Hirose
- Natl Inst Advanced Interdisciplinary Res, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Mizuno N, Toba S, Edamatsu M, Watai-Nishii J, Hirokawa N, Toyoshima YY, Kikkawa M. Dynein and kinesin share an overlapping microtubule-binding site. EMBO J 2004; 23:2459-67. [PMID: 15175652 PMCID: PMC449763 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2004] [Accepted: 04/20/2004] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Dyneins and kinesins move in opposite directions on microtubules. The question of how the same-track microtubules are able to support movement in two directions remains unanswered due to the absence of details on dynein-microtubule interactions. To address this issue, we studied dynein-microtubule interactions using the tip of the microtubule-binding stalk, the dynein stalk head (DSH), which directly interacts with microtubules upon receiving conformational change from the ATPase domain. Biochemical and cryo-electron microscopic studies revealed that DSH bound to tubulin dimers with a periodicity of 80 A, corresponding to the step size of dyneins. The DSH molecule was observed as a globular corn grain-like shape that bound the same region as kinesin. Biochemical crosslinking experiments and image analyses of the DSH-kinesin head-microtubule complex revealed competition between DSH and the kinesin head for microtubule binding. Our results demonstrate that dynein and kinesin share an overlapping microtubule-binding site, and imply that binding at this site has an essential role for these motor proteins.
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- Naoko Mizuno
- Department of Cell Biology, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9039, USA. Tel.: +1 214 648 6333; Fax: +1 214 648 8694; E-mail:
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Krebs A, Goldie KN, Hoenger A. Complex formation with kinesin motor domains affects the structure of microtubules. J Mol Biol 2004; 335:139-53. [PMID: 14659746 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Microtubules are highly dynamic components of the cytoskeleton. They are important for cell movement and they are involved in a variety of transport processes together with motor proteins, such as kinesin. The exact mechanism of these transport processes is not known and so far the focus has been on structural changes within the motor domains, but not within the underlying microtubule structure. Here we investigated the interaction between kinesin and tubulin and our experimental data show that microtubules themselves are changing structure during that process. We studied unstained, vitrified samples of microtubules composed of 15 protofilaments using cryo electron microscopy and helical image analysis. 3D maps of plain microtubules and microtubules decorated with kinesin have been reconstructed to approximately 17A resolution. The alphabeta-tubulin dimer could be identified and, according to our data, alpha- and beta-tubulin adopt different conformations in plain microtubules. Significant differences were detected between maps of plain microtubules and microtubule-kinesin complexes. Most pronounced is the continuous axial inter-dimer contact in the microtubule-kinesin complex, suggesting stabilized protofilaments along the microtubule axis. It seems, that mainly structural changes within alpha-tubulin are responsible for this observation. Lateral effects are less pronounced. Following our data, we believe, that microtubules play an active role in intracellular transport processes through modulations of their core structure.
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- A Krebs
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Bhullar B, Zhang Y, Junco A, Oko R, van der Hoorn FA. Association of kinesin light chain with outer dense fibers in a microtubule-independent fashion. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:16159-68. [PMID: 12594206 PMCID: PMC3178653 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m213126200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Conventional kinesin I motor molecules are heterotetramers consisting of two kinesin light chains (KLCs) and two kinesin heavy chains. The interaction between the heavy and light chains is mediated by the KLC heptad repeat (HR), a leucine zipper-like motif. Kinesins bind to microtubules and are involved in various cellular functions, including transport and cell division. We recently isolated a novel KLC gene, klc3. klc3 is the only known KLC expressed in post-meiotic male germ cells. A monoclonal anti-KLC3 antibody was developed that, in immunoelectron microscopy, detects KLC3 protein associated with outer dense fibers (ODFs), unique structural components of sperm tails. No significant binding of KLC3 with microtubules was observed with this monoclonal antibody. In vitro experiments showed that KLC3-ODF binding occurred in the absence of kinesin heavy chains or microtubules and required the KLC3 HR. ODF1, a major ODF protein, was identified as the KLC3 binding partner. The ODF1 leucine zipper and the KLC3 HR mediated the interaction. These results identify and characterize a novel interaction between a KLC and a non-microtubule macromolecular structure and suggest that KLC3 could play a microtubule-independent role during formation of sperm tails.
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- Bhupinder Bhullar
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada
- To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, 330 Hospital Dr. N. W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada. Tel.: 403-220-3323; Fax: 403-283-8727;
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Kar S, Fan J, Smith MJ, Goedert M, Amos LA. Repeat motifs of tau bind to the insides of microtubules in the absence of taxol. EMBO J 2003; 22:70-7. [PMID: 12505985 PMCID: PMC140040 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The tau family of microtubule-associated proteins has a microtubule-binding domain which includes three or four conserved sequence repeats. Pelleting assays show that when tubulin and tau are co- assembled into microtubules, the presence of taxol reduces the amount of tau incorporated. In the absence of taxol, strong binding sites for tau are filled by one repeat motif per tubulin dimer; additional tau molecules bind more weakly. We have labelled a repeat motif with nanogold and used three-dimensional electron cryomicroscopy to compare images of microtubules assembled with labelled or unlabelled tau. With kinesin motor domains bound to the microtubule outer surface to distinguish between alpha- and beta-tubulin, we show that the gold label lies on the inner surface close to the taxol binding site on beta-tubulin. Loops within the repeat motifs of tau have sequence similarity to an extended loop which occupies a site in alpha-tubulin equivalent to the taxol-binding pocket in beta-tubulin. We propose that loops in bound tau stabilize microtubules in a similar way to taxol, although with lower affinity so that assembly is reversible.
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
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Hoenger A, Doerhoefer M, Woehlke G, Tittmann P, Gross H, Song YH, Mandelkow E. Surface topography of microtubule walls decorated with monomeric and dimeric kinesin constructs. Biol Chem 2000; 381:1001-11. [PMID: 11076033 DOI: 10.1515/bc.2000.123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The surface topography of opened-up microtubule walls (sheets) decorated with monomeric and dimeric kinesin motor domains was investigated by freeze-drying and unidirectional metal shadowing. Electron microscopy of surface-shadowed specimens produces images with a high signal/noise ratio, which enable a direct observation of surface features below 2 nm detail. Here we investigate the inner and outer surface of microtubules and tubulin sheets with and without decoration by kinesin motor domains. Tubulin sheets are flattened walls of microtubules, keeping lateral protofilament contacts intact. Surface shadowing reveals the following features: (i) when the microtubule outside is exposed the surface relief is dominated by the bound motor domains. Monomeric motor constructs generate a strong 8 nm periodicity, corresponding to the binding of one motor domain per alpha-beta-tubulin heterodimer. This surface periodicity largely disappears when dimeric kinesin motor domains are used for decoration, even though it is still visible in negatively stained or frozen hydrated specimens. This could be explained by disorder in the binding of the second (loosely tethered) kinesin head, and/or disorder in the coiled-coil tail. (ii) Both surfaces of undecorated sheets or microtubules, as well as the inner surface of decorated sheets, reveal a strong 4 nm repeat (due to the periodicity of tubulin monomers) and a weak 8 nm repeat (due to slight differences between alpha- and beta-tubulin). The differences between alpha- and beta-tubulin on the inner surface are stronger than expected from cryo-electron microscopy of unstained microtubules, indicating the existence of tubulin subdomain-specific surface properties that reflect the surface corrugation and hence metal deposition during evaporation. The 16 nm periodicity visible in some negatively stained specimens (caused by the pairing of cooperatively bound kinesin dimers) is not detected by surface shadowing.
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- A Hoenger
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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Taylor HC, Satir P, Holwill ME. Assessment of inner dynein arm structure and possible function in ciliary and flagellar axonemes. CELL MOTILITY AND THE CYTOSKELETON 2000; 43:167-77. [PMID: 10379841 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0169(1999)43:2<167::aid-cm8>3.0.co;2-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The construction and assessment of a three-dimensional computer-generated model of inner dynein arms on a 96-nm repeat unit of an axonemal doublet is described. The model is based on published electron micrographs of axonemes from Tetrahymena cilia and eel sperm, which were prepared using several different techniques: negative stain, freeze etch, and thin section. The inner arm structure is represented as three inner dynein arm complexes containing four inner dynein arms (IDAs), three dyads, and one single-headed arm, each capable of bridging the interdoublet gap. The IDA structures in the model have been correlated with the domains containing dynein heavy-chain isoforms mapped by several authors using genetic analyses of Chlamydomonas mutants. The model is consistent with micrographic evidence from axonemes of cilia and flagella from other organisms that led previously to conflicting structural interpretations. In this reconciling interpretation, the different alignments of the IDAs relative to the corresponding outer dynein arms observed in micrographs of differently prepared samples, result from the IDAs being arrested at different stages of their cycles of activity in each preparation. By interpolating between these positions of arrest, cycles of activity are proposed for each of the IDAs during which the arms attach to the neighbouring doublet microtubule and drive it tipwards.
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- H C Taylor
- Department of Physics, King's College London, United Kingdom.
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Vale RD, Case R, Sablin E, Hart C, Fletterick R. Searching for kinesin's mechanical amplifier. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2000; 355:449-57. [PMID: 10836498 PMCID: PMC1692751 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Kinesin, a microtubule-based motor, and myosin, an actin-based motor, share a similar core structure, indicating that they arose from a common ancestor. However, kinesin lacks the long lever-arm domain that is believed to drive the myosin power stroke. Here, we present evidence that a much smaller region of ca. 10-40 amino acids serves as a mechanical element for kinesin motor proteins. These 'neck regions' are class conserved and have distinct structures in plus-end and minus-end-directed kinesin motors. Mutagenesis studies also indicate that the neck regions are involved in coupling ATP hydrolysis and energy into directional motion along the microtubule. We suggest that the kinesin necks drive motion by undergoing a conformational change in which they detach and re-dock onto the catalytic core during the ATPase cycle. Thus, kinesin and myosin have evolved unique mechanical elements that amplify small, nucleotide-dependent conformational changes that occur in their similar catalytic cores.
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- R D Vale
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
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Atomic resolution three-dimensional structures of two oppositely directed kinesin motors - conventional kinesin and non-claret disjunctional (ncd) protein - are now available in their functional dimeric form. A detailed model of the microtubule has also been recently obtained by docking the 3.7 A structure of tubulin into a 20 A map of the microtubule. Recent structural studies of kinesin motors and their microtubule tracks are contributing to our current understanding of kinesin motor mechanisms.
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- E P Sablin
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
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Han Y, Sablin EP, Nogales E, Fletterick RJ, Downing KH. Visualizing a new binding site of ncd-motor domain on tubulin. J Struct Biol 1999; 128:26-33. [PMID: 10600555 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Ncd is a microtubule minus-end directed motor of the kinesin superfamily. Previously it has been shown that ncd and kinesin motor domains share the same major binding site on microtubules. Here we report a three-dimensional EM reconstruction of negatively stained two-dimensional Zn-induced tubulin crystal sheets (Zn-sheets) decorated with the ncd motor domain at a resolution of 16 A. This work has revealed a second specific binding site for the ncd motor domain. The motor binding site on the tubulin Zn-sheets spans both alpha and beta tubulin subunits. This binding site is located at a position different from the previously identified ncd binding site on microtubules and may play a role in motor function.
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- Y Han
- Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Hirose K, Löwe J, Alonso M, Cross RA, Amos LA. Congruent docking of dimeric kinesin and ncd into three-dimensional electron cryomicroscopy maps of microtubule-motor ADP complexes. Mol Biol Cell 1999; 10:2063-74. [PMID: 10359615 PMCID: PMC25414 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.6.2063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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We present a new map showing dimeric kinesin bound to microtubules in the presence of ADP that was obtained by electron cryomicroscopy and image reconstruction. The directly bound monomer (first head) shows a different conformation from one in the more tightly bound empty state. This change in the first head is amplified as a movement of the second (tethered) head, which tilts upward. The atomic coordinates of kinesin.ADP dock into our map so that the tethered head associates with the bound head as in the kinesin dimer structure seen by x-ray crystallography. The new docking orientation avoids problems associated with previous predictions; it puts residues implicated by proteolysis-protection and mutagenesis studies near the microtubule but does not lead to steric interference between the coiled-coil tail and the microtubule surface. The observed conformational changes in the tightly bound states would probably bring some important residues closer to tubulin. As expected from the homology with kinesin, the atomic coordinates of nonclaret disjunctional protein (ncd).ADP dock in the same orientation into the attached head in a map of microtubules decorated with dimeric ncd.ADP. Our results support the idea that the observed direct interaction between the two heads is important at some stages of the mechanism by which kinesin moves processively along microtubules.
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- K Hirose
- National Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan
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A single kinesin molecule can move "processively" along a microtubule for more than 1 micrometer before detaching from it. The prevailing explanation for this processive movement is the "walking model," which envisions that each of two motor domains (heads) of the kinesin molecule binds coordinately to the microtubule. This implies that each kinesin molecule must have two heads to "walk" and that a single-headed kinesin could not move processively. Here, a motor-domain construct of KIF1A, a single-headed kinesin superfamily protein, was shown to move processively along the microtubule for more than 1 micrometer. The movement along the microtubules was stochastic and fitted a biased Brownian-movement model.
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- Y Okada
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Lockhart A, Kendrick-Jones J. Nucleotide-dependent interaction of the N-terminal domain of MukB with microtubules. J Struct Biol 1998; 124:303-10. [PMID: 10049813 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1998.4056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The MukB protein from Escherichia coli has a domain structure that is reminiscent of the eukaryotic motor proteins kinesin and myosin: N-terminal globular domains, a region of coiled-coil, and a specialised C-terminal domain. Sequence alignment of the N-terminal domain of MukB with the kinesin motor domain indicated an approximately 22% sequence identity. These observations raised the possibility that MukB might be a prokaryotic motor protein and, due to the sequence homology shared with kinesin, might bind to microtubules (Mts). We found that a construct encoding the first 342 residues of MukB (Muk342) binds specifically to Mts and shares a number of properties with the motor domain of kinesin. Visualisation of the Muk342 decorated Mt complexes using negative stain electron microscopy indicated that the Muk342 smoothly decorates the outside of Mts. Biochemical data demonstrate that Muk342 decorates Mts with a binding stoichiometry of one Muk342 monomer per tubulin monomer. These findings strongly suggest that MukB has a role in force generation and that it is a prokaryotic homologue of kinesin and myosin.
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- A Lockhart
- Structural Studies Division, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, United Kingdom.
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Sablin EP, Case RB, Dai SC, Hart CL, Ruby A, Vale RD, Fletterick RJ. Direction determination in the minus-end-directed kinesin motor ncd. Nature 1998; 395:813-6. [PMID: 9796817 DOI: 10.1038/27463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Motor proteins of the kinesin superfamily transport intracellular cargo along microtubules. Although different kinesin proteins share 30-50% amino-acid identity in their motor catalytic cores, some move to the plus end of microtubules whereas others travel in the opposite direction. Crystal structures of the catalytic cores of conventional kinesin (a plus-end-directed motor involved in organelle transport) and ncd (a minus-end-directed motor involved in chromosome segregation) are nearly identical; therefore, the structural basis for their opposite directions of movement is unknown. Here we show that the ncd 'neck' made up of 13 class-specific residues next to the superfamily-conserved catalytic core, is essential for minus-end-directed motility, as mutagenesis of these neck residues reverses the direction of ncd motion. By solving the 2.5 A structure of a functional ncd dimer, we show that the ncd neck (a coiled-coil) differs from the corresponding region in the kinesin neck (an interrupted beta-strand), although both necks interact with similar elements in the catalytic cores. The distinct neck architectures also confer different symmetries to the ncd and kinesin dimers and position these motors with appropriate directional bias on the microtubule.
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- E P Sablin
- Department of Biochemistry/Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
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Hirose K, Cross RA, Amos LA. Nucleotide-dependent structural changes in dimeric NCD molecules complexed to microtubules. J Mol Biol 1998; 278:389-400. [PMID: 9571059 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Complexes consisting of motor domains of the kinesin-like protein ncd bound to reassembled brain microtubules were visualised using cryoelectron microscopy and helical image reconstruction. Different nucleotide-associated states of a dimeric construct (NDelta295-700) of ncd were analysed to reveal ADP-containing, AMP.PNP-containing and empty (rigor) conformations. In these three states, each thought to mimic a different stage in ATP turnover, the double-headed motors attach to the microtubules by one head only, with the free head tethered in relatively fixed positions. The three structures differ both in the way the attached heads interact with tubulin and in the position of the tethered heads. In the strongly binding rigor and AMP.PNP (ATP-like) states, the attached head makes close contact with both subunits of a tubulin heterodimer. In the weakly bound ADP state, the contact made by the attached head with the monomer closer to the plus end appears to be more loose. Also, in the ATP-like state, the free head tilts nearer to the plus end than in the other two states. The data argue against model mechanisms in which a conformational change in the bound head guides the free head closer to its next binding site; on the contrary, the transition from ADP-filled via rigor to the AMP.PNP (ATP-like) state of the bound head produces a small motion of the free head in the counter-productive direction. However, the observation that the tethered head points towards the minus end, in all three states, is consistent with the idea that the relative arrangement of the heads in a dimer is a major determinant of directionality.
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- K Hirose
- National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Tsukuba 305, Japan
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Hoenger A, Sack S, Thormählen M, Marx A, Müller J, Gross H, Mandelkow E. Image reconstructions of microtubules decorated with monomeric and dimeric kinesins: comparison with x-ray structure and implications for motility. J Cell Biol 1998; 141:419-30. [PMID: 9548720 PMCID: PMC2148453 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.141.2.419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We have decorated microtubules with monomeric and dimeric kinesin constructs, studied their structure by cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction, and compared the results with the x-ray crystal structure of monomeric and dimeric kinesin. A monomeric kinesin construct (rK354, containing only a short neck helix insufficient for coiled-coil formation) decorates microtubules with a stoichiometry of one kinesin head per tubulin subunit (alpha-beta-heterodimer). The orientation of the kinesin head (an anterograde motor) on the microtubule surface is similar to that of ncd (a retrograde motor). A longer kinesin construct (rK379) forms a dimer because of the longer neck helix forming a coiled-coil. Unexpectedly, this construct also decorates the microtubule with a stoichiometry of one head per tubulin subunit, and the orientation is similar to that of the monomeric construct. This means that the interaction with microtubules causes the two heads of a kinesin dimer to separate sufficiently so that they can bind to two different tubulin subunits. This result is in contrast to recent models and can be explained by assuming that the tubulin-kinesin interaction is antagonistic to the coiled-coil interaction within a kinesin dimer.
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- A Hoenger
- Institute of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- S M Block
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- T M Lohman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63122, USA
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Romberg L, Pierce DW, Vale RD. Role of the kinesin neck region in processive microtubule-based motility. J Cell Biol 1998; 140:1407-16. [PMID: 9508773 PMCID: PMC2132664 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.140.6.1407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/1997] [Revised: 01/07/1998] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Kinesin is a dimeric motor protein that can move along a microtubule for several microns without releasing (termed processive movement). The two motor domains of the dimer are thought to move in a coordinated, hand-over-hand manner. A region adjacent to kinesin's motor catalytic domain (the neck) contains a coiled coil that is sufficient for motor dimerization and has been proposed to play an essential role in processive movement. Recent models have suggested that the neck enables head-to-head communication by creating a stiff connection between the two motor domains, but also may unwind during the mechanochemical cycle to allow movement to new tubulin binding sites. To test these ideas, we mutated the neck coiled coil in a 560-amino acid (aa) dimeric kinesin construct fused to green fluorescent protein (GFP), and then assayed processivity using a fluorescence microscope that can visualize single kinesin-GFP molecules moving along a microtubule. Our results show that replacing the kinesin neck coiled coil with a 28-aa residue peptide sequence that forms a highly stable coiled coil does not greatly reduce the processivity of the motor. This result argues against models in which extensive unwinding of the coiled coil is essential for movement. Furthermore, we show that deleting the neck coiled coil decreases processivity 10-fold, but surprisingly does not abolish it. We also demonstrate that processivity is increased by threefold when the neck helix is elongated by seven residues. These results indicate that structural features of the neck coiled coil, although not essential for processivity, can tune the efficiency of single molecule motility.
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- L Romberg
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Thormählen M, Marx A, Müller SA, Song Y, Mandelkow EM, Aebi U, Mandelkow E. Interaction of monomeric and dimeric kinesin with microtubules. J Mol Biol 1998; 275:795-809. [PMID: 9480770 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The binding stoichiometry of kinesin to microtubules was determined using several biochemical and biophysical approaches (chemical crosslinking, binding assays, scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), image reconstruction, and X-ray scattering). The results show that each tubulin dimer associates with one kinesin head, irrespective of whether kinesin occurs in a monomeric or dimeric form in solution. Moreover, these heads appear to align along the protofilament axis generating a 16 nm periodicity of successive kinesin dimers. This is consistent with a "tightrope" model of movement where the first head of the dimer provides a guiding signal for the following one.
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- M Thormählen
- Max-Planck-Unit for Structural Molecular Biology, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, D-22603, Germany
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Our knowledge of microtubule structure and its relationship to microtubule function continue to grow. Cryo-electron microscopy has given us new images of the microtubule polymerization and depolymerization processes and of the interaction of these polymers with motor proteins. We now know more about the effect of nucleotide state on the structure and dynamic instability of microtubules. The atomic model of tubulin, very recently obtained by electron crystallography, is bringing new insight into the properties of this protein and its self-assembly into microtubules, and promises to inspire new experimental efforts that should lead us to an understanding of the microtubule system at the molecular level.
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- K H Downing
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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The kinesin superfamily comprises a large and structurally diverse group of microtubule-based motor proteins that produce a variety of force-generating activities within cells. This review addresses how the structures of kinesin proteins provide clues as to their biological functions and motile properties. We discuss structural features common to all kinesin motors, as well as specialized features that enable subfamilies of related motors to carry out specialized activities. We also discuss how the kinesin motor domain uses chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis to move along microtubules.
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- R D Vale
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
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Sosa H, Dias DP, Hoenger A, Whittaker M, Wilson-Kubalek E, Sablin E, Fletterick RJ, Vale RD, Milligan RA. A model for the microtubule-Ncd motor protein complex obtained by cryo-electron microscopy and image analysis. Cell 1997; 90:217-24. [PMID: 9244296 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80330-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Kinesin motors convert chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis into unidirectional movement. To understand how kinesin motors bind to and move along microtubules, we fit the atomic structure of the motor domain of Ncd (a kinesin motor involved in meiosis and mitosis) into three-dimensional density maps of Ncd-microtubule complexes calculated by cryo-electron microscopy and image analysis. The model reveals that Ncd shares an extensive interaction surface with the microtubule, and that a portion of the binding site involves loops that contain conserved residues. In the Ncd dimer, the microtubule-bound motor domain makes intimate contact with its partner head, which is dissociated from the microtubule. This head-head interaction may be important in positioning the dissociated head to take a step to the next binding site on the microtubule protofilament.
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- H Sosa
- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Kinesin and myosin are motor proteins that share a common structural core and bind to microtubules and actin filaments, respectively. While the actomyosin interface has been well studied, the location of the microtubule-binding site on kinesin has not been identified. Using alanine-scanning mutagenesis, we have found that microtubule-interacting kinesin residues are located in three loops that cluster in a patch on the motor surface. The critical residues are primarily positively charged, which is consistent with a primarily electrostatic interaction with the negatively charged tubulin molecule. The core of the microtubule-binding interface resides in a highly conserved loop and helix (L12/alpha5) that corresponds topologically to the major actin-binding domain of myosin. Thus, kinesin and myosin have developed distinct polymer-binding domains in a similar region with respect to their common catalytic cores.
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- G Woehlke
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA
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The structures of the oppositely directed microtubule motors kinesin and ncd have been solved to atomic resolution. The two structures are very similar and are also homologous to myosin. Myosins and kinesins differ kinetically but, tantalizingly, cryoelectron microscopy has recently revealed that both structures may tilt during ADP release. Such evidence suggests that the two motor families use common structural mechanisms.
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- L A Amos
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH, UK.
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Hirose K, Amos WB, Lockhart A, Cross RA, Amos LA. Three-dimensional cryoelectron microscopy of 16-protofilament microtubules: structure, polarity, and interaction with motor proteins. J Struct Biol 1997; 118:140-8. [PMID: 9126639 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We present a three-dimensional (3D) map, reconstructed from electron microscope (EM) images of naturally occurring 16-protofilament (PF) microtubules (MTs) in ice. We compare it with the tubulin in six 3D maps of MTs decorated with motor domains, three from frozen MTs decorated with kinesin or ncd in the tightly bound AMP-PNP state, and three from negatively stained MTs decorated with kinesin in different nucleotide states. The comparison confirms that kinesin and ncd bind to identical sites and interact with both monomers of a tubulin dimer. Maps of specimens in negative stain and in ice are similar except that the protein in the top half of a motor domain appears denser in negative stain. The interactions have only a small effect on tubulin structure; the outward appearance is unchanged, but there seems to be a small internal rearrangement. The relative polarity of undecorated and decorated MTs is evident from their 3D structures. This agrees with the absolute polarities indicated by the orientations of motors in decorated specimens and by polar superposition patterns calculated for undecorated MTs. An image of tubulin PFs in zinc-induced sheets has been tentatively oriented by similar criteria.
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- K Hirose
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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