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Structural and functional insight into ADF/cofilin from Trypanosoma brucei.


ABSTRACT: The ADF/cofilin family has been characterized as a group of actin-binding proteins critical for controlling the assembly of actin within the cells. In this study, the solution structure of the ADF/cofilin from Trypanosoma brucei (TbCof) was determined by NMR spectroscopy. TbCof adopts the conserved ADF/cofilin fold with a central ?-sheet composed of six ?-strands surrounded by five ?-helices. Isothermal titration calorimetry experiments denoted a submicromolar affinity between TbCof and G-actin, and the affinity between TbCof and ADP-G-actin was five times higher than that between TbCof and ATP-G-actin at low ionic strength. The results obtained from electron microscopy and actin filament sedimentation assays showed that TbCof depolymerized but did not co-sediment with actin filaments and its ability of F-actin depolymerization was pH independent. Similar to actin, TbCof was distributed throughout the cytoplasm. All our data indicate a structurally and functionally conserved ADF/cofilin from Trypanosoma brucei.

SUBMITTER: Dai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3541276 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structural and functional insight into ADF/cofilin from Trypanosoma brucei.

Dai Kun K   Liao Shanhui S   Zhang Jiahai J   Zhang Xuecheng X   Tu Xiaoming X  

PloS one 20130109 1


The ADF/cofilin family has been characterized as a group of actin-binding proteins critical for controlling the assembly of actin within the cells. In this study, the solution structure of the ADF/cofilin from Trypanosoma brucei (TbCof) was determined by NMR spectroscopy. TbCof adopts the conserved ADF/cofilin fold with a central β-sheet composed of six β-strands surrounded by five α-helices. Isothermal titration calorimetry experiments denoted a submicromolar affinity between TbCof and G-actin,  ...[more]

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