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SUBMITTER: Kaan HY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3339660 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaan Hung Yi Kristal HY Hackney David D DD Kozielski Frank F
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20110801 6044
When not transporting cargo, kinesin-1 is autoinhibited by binding of a tail region to the motor domains, but the mechanism of inhibition is unclear. We report the crystal structure of a motor domain dimer in complex with its tail domain at 2.2 angstroms and compare it with a structure of the motor domain alone at 2.7 angstroms. These structures indicate that neither an induced conformational change nor steric blocking is the cause of inhibition. Instead, the tail cross-links the motor domains a ...[more]