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SUBMITTER: Campanacci V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171608 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Campanacci Valérie V Urvoas Agathe A Ammar Khodja Liza L Aumont-Nicaise Magali M Noiray Magali M Lachkar Sylvie S Curmi Patrick A PA Minard Philippe P Gigant Benoît B
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220504 19
Microtubule dynamics is regulated by various cellular proteins and perturbed by small-molecule compounds. To what extent the mechanism of the former resembles that of the latter is an open question. We report here structures of tubulin bound to the PN2-3 domain of CPAP, a protein controlling the length of the centrioles. We show that an α-helix of the PN2-3 N-terminal region binds and caps the longitudinal surface of the tubulin β subunit. Moreover, a PN2-3 N-terminal stretch lies in a β-tubulin ...[more]