Lever-arm mechanics of processive myosins.
Lever-arm mechanics of processive myosins.
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进行性肌球蛋白的杠杆臂力学。
DOI:
10.1016/j.bpj.2011.05.026
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Goldman,YaleE
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文献类型:
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作者:
Sun,Yujie;Goldman,YaleE
Members of the myosin superfamily perform a wide variety of transport, assembly, anchoring, and signaling functions in cells (1–29). They share conserved motor domains, usually located at the N-terminus, that bind actin filaments, hydrolyze ATP, and convert the chemical energy into mechanical work. Myosin motors have highly variable tail domains that presumably are related to their localizations and functions in the cell through specific binding to cargos and membrane proteins (10–12, 15, 30–34). Processive myosin motors are usually dimers whose tail domains are linked in a coiledcoil (CC). Between the motor domain and the tail domain is the so-called myosin neck or lever-arm domain, which is generally believed to be involved in motor regulation and/or to act as a lever that rotates or tilts to amplify the angstrom-level conformational changes in the motor domain to the nanometer-sized power-stroke motions. The neck domain, or light chain domain (LCD), usually binds calmodulin or calmodulin-like light chains (35)(both termed CaM hereafter) at successive consensus motifs (IQ domains (1)) in a relatively long a-helical segment of the heavy chain. The length of the lever has often been assumed to be determined by the number of IQ motifs and CaMs bound in each myosin isoform. However, this assumption has been challenged by many types of evidence that other portions of the heavy chain exhibit mechanical stiffness and also contribute to the power stroke. If the lever arm is instead considered as the portion of a myosin motor that corresponds to the mechanical segment that tilts during the working stroke, it can be defined as a combination of three regions: 1), the converter (the rotating subdomain at the C-terminus of the motor domain); 2), the CaM-binding LCD region; and 3), any segment of the heavy chain between LCD and the CC, if that segment is stiff (36). Unconventional myosins have been categorized into more than 30 distinct classes (5, 14, 16, 37). Their structure, function, and regulation have been described and reviewed extensively (1–10, 12–17, 20–29, 33, 37–50). In the best studied of these myosins, the neck regions of the motor have properties consistent with their function as lever arms: they tilt back and forth between two main orientations during stepping (51–56), the step size and velocity of motility depend on the length of the neck (40, 47, 57–60), and in constructs attached to artificial neck regions, the direction of motion depends on the orientation of the artificial attachment (61). In this mini-review, we consider the specialized lever-arm structures of three myosins (myosins V, VI, and X) and the impact these structures have on the stepping characteristics and functions of these myosins. We focus here on the role of the neck regions as mechanical lever arms, although they are also involved in regulating motility (45, 62) and (possibly) sensing tension (42, 49, 63–65). For myosins VI and X, there are open research questions regarding the length and composition of the lever arms and the consequent implications for their paths, angular motions, and processivity.
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影响因子:
56.9
作者:
Laakso, Joseph M.;Lewis, John H.;Shuman, Henry;Ostap, E. Michael
通讯作者:
Ostap, E. Michael
影响因子:
19
作者:
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通讯作者:
Bement WM
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
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通讯作者:
Cappello, Giovanni
DOI:
10.1098/rstb.2008.2265
发表时间:
2008
期刊:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
影响因子:
--
作者:
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通讯作者:
Y. Ishii
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Yildiz, A;Park, H;Sweeney, HL
通讯作者:
Sweeney, HL