Structure and assembly properties of the intermediate filament protein vimentin: the role of its head, rod and tail domains

Journal of Molecular Biology
H HerrmannU Aebi

Abstract

We have investigated the functional role of the non-helical end domains of vimentin on its assembly properties using truncated Xenopus and human recombinant proteins. Removal of the amino-terminal "head" domain yielded a molecule that did not assemble into 10 nm filaments but remained in a soluble oligomeric particle form with a sedimentation coefficient considerably smaller than that of wild-type vimentin (Vim(wt)). In contrast, removal of the carboxy-terminal "tail" domain had no obvious effect on the sedimentation characteristics. In particular, sedimentation equilibrium analysis under low ionic strength conditions yielded oligomeric particle species of Mr 135,000 to 360,000, indistinguishable from those obtained with Vim(wt). When induced to form filaments from this state by rapid dilution into filament forming buffer, Vim(wt) and Vim(deltaT) protein generated similar viscosity profiles. However, as determined by scanning transmission electron microscopy, under these conditions Vim(deltaT) formed filaments of heterogeneous diameter, corresponding to various distinct mass-per-length (MPL) values: whereas Vim(wt) yielded MPL values peaking between 40 and 45 kDa/nm, Vim(deltaT) filaments produced histograms which could be fitt...Continue Reading

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