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SUBMITTER: Reubold TF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1201622 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Reubold Thomas F TF Eschenburg Susanne S Becker Andreas A Leonard Marilyn M Schmid Sandra L SL Vallee Richard B RB Kull F Jon FJ Manstein Dietmar J DJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050902 37
Here, we present the 1.9-A crystal structure of the nucleotide-free GTPase domain of dynamin 1 from Rattus norvegicus. The structure corresponds to an extended form of the canonical GTPase fold observed in Ras proteins. Both nucleotide-binding switch motifs are well resolved, adopting conformations that closely resemble a GTP-bound state not previously observed for nucleotide-free GTPases. Two highly conserved arginines, Arg-66 and Arg-67, greatly restrict the mobility of switch I and are ideall ...[more]