ESR reveals the mobility of the neck linker in dimeric kinesin
| Autor: | Toshiaki Arata, Kazunori Sugata, Peter G. Fajer, Motoyoshi Nakamura, Shoji Ueki |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Protein Conformation Dimer Biophysics Kinesin 13 Kinesins macromolecular substances Biochemistry chemistry.chemical_compound Mice Adenosine Triphosphate ATP hydrolysis Microtubule Animals Molecular Biology Adenosine Triphosphatases Chemistry Hydrolysis Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy Cell Biology Site-directed spin labeling Processivity Protein Structure Tertiary Crystallography Kinesin Linker Dimerization |
| Zdroj: | Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 314(2) |
| ISSN: | 0006-291X |
| Popis: | Conventional kinesin is a highly processive motor that converts the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into the unidirectional motility along microtubules. The processivity is thought to depend on the coordination between ATPase cycles of two motor domains and their neck linkers. Here we have used site-directed spin labeling electron spin resonance (SDSL-ESR) to determine the conformation of the neck linker in kinesin dimer in the presence and absence of microtubules. The spectra show that the neck linkers co-exist in both docked and disordered conformations, which is consistent with the results of monomeric kinesin [Nat. Struct. Biol. 9 (2002) 844]. In all nucleotide states, however, the neck linkers are well ordered when dimeric kinesin is bound to the microtubule. This result suggests that the orientation of each neck linker that is fixed rigidly controls the kinesin motion along microtubule tracks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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