Three-dimensional structure of functional motor proteins on microtubules

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I ArnalR H Wade

Abstract

Kinesins are a superfamily of motor proteins that use ATP hydrolysis to fuel movement along microtubules and participate in many crucial phases of the eukaryotic cell cycle. Usually these motors are heterotetramers of two heavy and two light chains, and have globular motor domains on the two heavy chains. Most kinesins move towards the microtubule 'plus end', but some, such as ncd (nonclaret disjunctional protein), move in the opposite direction. Heavy chain dimers produced by overexpression are viable motors. In order to establish whether the opposite directionality of kinesin and ncd dimers is related to notable conformational differences, we have used electron cryo-microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction methods to investigate the structure of kinesin and ncd dimers attached to microtubules in the presence of AMP-PNP (5'-adenylylimidodiphosphate), a nonhydrolyzable ATP analogue. Three-dimensional maps of the motor-microtubule complexes show the motors to have one unattached, and one attached head per tubulin dimer. The polarity of the reconstructions was determined for each individual microtubule. Attachment occurs on the crest of a protofilament at the end of the tubulin dimer that points towards the plus end of the...Continue Reading

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