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SUBMITTER: Mourao A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4255524 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mourão André A Nager Andrew R AR Nachury Maxence V MV Lorentzen Esben E
Nature structural & molecular biology 20141117 12
The BBSome is a coat-like ciliary trafficking complex composed of proteins mutated in Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS). A critical step in BBSome-mediated sorting is recruitment of the BBSome to membranes by the GTP-bound Arf-like GTPase ARL6. We have determined crystal structures of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ARL6-GDP, ARL6-GTP and the ARL6-GTP-BBS1 complex. The structures demonstrate how ARL6-GTP binds the BBS1 β-propeller at blades 1 and 7 and explain why GTP- but not GDP-bound ARL6 can recruit the ...[more]