Structure of a Longitudinal Actin Dimer Assembled by Tandem W Domains: Implications for Actin Filament Nucleation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 403, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-23

  Rebowski, Grzegorz ^a   Namgoong, Suk ^a   Boczkowska, Malgorzata ^a   Leavis, Paul C ^b   Navaza, Jorge ^c   Dominguez, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Actin monomer sequestration; Actin nucleation; Nucleation promoting factors; T 4; W domain

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DIMER; THYMOSIN BETA4; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; WASP HOMOLOGY 2 DOMAIN; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RABBIT; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RABBITS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 77957267062     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.040     Document Type: Article

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