Bound nucleotide can control the dynamic architecture of monomeric actin.

ABSTRACT: Polymerization of actin into cytoskeletal filaments is coupled to its bound adenine nucleotides. The mechanism by which nucleotide modulates actin functions has not been evident from analyses of ATP- and ADP-bound crystal structures of the actin monomer. We report that NMR chemical shift differences between the two forms are globally distributed. Furthermore, microsecond-millisecond motions are spread throughout the molecule in the ATP form, but largely confined to subdomains 1 and 2, and the nucleotide binding site in the ADP form. Through these motions, the ATP- and ADP-bound forms sample different high-energy conformations. A deafness-causing, fast-nucleating actin mutant populates the high-energy conformer of ATP-actin more than the wild-type protein, suggesting that this conformer may

SUBMITTER: Ali R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9010300 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature