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Direct interaction of actin filaments with F-BAR protein pacsin2.

ABSTRACT: Two mechanisms have emerged as major regulators of membrane shape: BAR domain-containing proteins, which induce invaginations and protrusions, and nuclear promoting factors, which cause generation of branched actin filaments that exert mechanical forces on membranes. While a large body of information exists on interactions of BAR proteins with membranes and regulatory proteins of the cytoskeleton, little is known about connections between these two processes. Here, we show that the F-BAR domain protein pacsin2 is able to associate with actin filaments using the same concave surface employed to bind to membranes, while some other tested N-BAR and F-BAR proteins (endophilin, CIP4 and FCHO2) do not associate with actin. This finding reveals a new level of complexity in membrane remodeling processes.

SUBMITTER: Kostan J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4253489 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Direct interaction of actin filaments with F-BAR protein pacsin2.

Kostan Julius J Salzer Ulrich U Orlova Albina A Törö Imre I Hodnik Vesna V Senju Yosuke Y Zou Juan J Schreiner Claudia C Steiner Julia J Meriläinen Jari J Nikki Marko M Virtanen Ismo I Carugo Oliviero O Rappsilber Juri J Lappalainen Pekka P Lehto Veli-Pekka VP Anderluh Gregor G Egelman Edward H EH Djinović-Carugo Kristina K

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Two mechanisms have emerged as major regulators of membrane shape: BAR domain-containing proteins, which induce invaginations and protrusions, and nuclear promoting factors, which cause generation of branched actin filaments that exert mechanical forces on membranes. While a large body of information exists on interactions of BAR proteins with membranes and regulatory proteins of the cytoskeleton, little is known about connections between these two processes. Here, we show that the F-BAR domain ...[more]

PMID: 25216944

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Project description:Experimental approaches such as fiber diffraction and cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction have defined regulatory positions of tropomyosin on actin but have not, as yet, succeeded at determining key atomic-level contacts between these proteins or fully substantiated the dynamics of their interactions at a structural level. To overcome this deficiency, we have previously employed computational approaches to deduce global dynamics of thin filament components by energy landscape determination and molecular dynamics simulations. Still, these approaches remain computationally challenging for any complex and large macromolecular assembly like the thin filament. For example, tropomyosin cable wrapping around actin of thin filaments features both head-to-tail polymeric interactions and local twisting, both of which depart from strict superhelical symmetry. This produces a complex energy surface that is difficult to model and thus to evaluate globally. Therefore, at this stage of our understanding, assessing global molecular dynamics can prove to be inherently impractical. As an alternative, we adopted a "divide and conquer" protocol to investigate actin-tropomyosin interactions at an atomistic level. Here, we first employed unbiased protein-protein docking tools to identify binding specificity of individual tropomyosin pseudorepeat segments over the actin surface. Accordingly, tropomyosin "ligand" segments were rotated and translated over potential "target" binding sites on F-actin where the corresponding interaction energetics of billions of conformational poses were ranked by the programs PIPER and ClusPro. These data were used to assess favorable interactions and then to rebuild models of seamless and continuous tropomyosin cables over the F-actin substrate, which were optimized further by flexible fitting routines and molecular dynamics. The models generated azimuthally distinct regulatory positions for tropomyosin cables along thin filaments on actin dominated by stereo-specific head-to-tail overlap linkage. The outcomes are in good agreement with current cryo-electron microscopy topology and consistent with long-thought residue-to-residue interactions between actin and tropomyosin.

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Direct interaction of actin filaments with F-BAR protein pacsin2.

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Direct interaction of actin filaments with F-BAR protein pacsin2.

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