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Javadi A, Söderholm N, Olofsson A, Flärdh K, Sandblad L
Life Sci. Alliance 2 (3) e201800290 [2019-06-00; online 2019-06-26]
Despite low-sequence homology, the intermediate filament (IF)-like protein FilP from Streptomyces coelicolor displays structural and biochemical similarities to the metazoan nuclear IF lamin. FilP, like IF proteins, is composed of central coiled-coil domains interrupted by short linkers and flanked by head and tail domains. FilP polymerizes into repetitive filament bundles with paracrystalline properties. However, the cations Na+ and K+ are found to induce the formation of a FilP hexagonal meshwork with the same 60-nm repetitive unit as the filaments. Studies of polymerization kinetics, in combination with EM techniques, enabled visualization of the basic building block-a transiently soluble rod-shaped FilP molecule-and its assembly into protofilaments and filament bundles. Cryoelectron tomography provided a 3D view of the FilP bundle structure and an original assembly model of an IF-like protein of prokaryotic origin, thereby enabling a comparison with the assembly of metazoan IF.
PubMed 31243049
DOI 10.26508/lsa.201800290
Crossref 10.26508/lsa.201800290
pii: 2/3/e201800290
pmc: PMC6599971