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SUBMITTER: Orlova A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3541950 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orlova Albina A Garner Ethan C EC Galkin Vitold E VE Heuser John J Mullins R Dyche RD Egelman Edward H EH
Nature structural & molecular biology 20070916 10
Bacterial ParM is a homolog of eukaryotic actin and is involved in moving plasmids so that they segregate properly during cell division. Using cryo-EM and three-dimensional reconstruction, we show that ParM filaments have a different structure from F-actin, with very different subunit-subunit interfaces. These interfaces result in the helical handedness of the ParM filament being opposite to that of F-actin. Like F-actin, ParM filaments have a variable twist, and we show that this involves domai ...[more]