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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Assembly of intermediate filaments
Beteiligte:
Shoeman, Robert L.;
Traub, Peter
Erschienen:
Wiley, 1993
Erschienen in:
BioEssays, 15 (1993) 9, Seite 605-611
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1002/bies.950150906
ISSN:
0265-9247;
1521-1878
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Beschreibung:
AbstractThe assembly of intermediate filaments is a fundamental property of the central rod domain of the individual subunit proteins. This rod domain, with its high propensity for α‐helix formation, is the common and identifying feature of this family of proteins. Assembly occurs in vitro in the absence of other proteins or exogenous sources of energy; in vivo, it appears as if other factors, as yet poorly understood, modulate the assembly of intermediate filaments. Parallel, in‐register dimers form via coiled‐coil interactions of the rod domain. Tetramers may form from staggered arrays of parallel or antiparallel arrangements of dimers. Higher‐order polymerization, which occurs spontaneously if the ionic strength of a mixture of dimers and tetramers is raised, proceeds rapidly through poorly described intermediates to the final 10 nm filament. This process is dependent on and modulated by the non‐α‐helical end domains, as well as those amino acids present at the very beginning and end of the rod domain. The interactions governing tetramer formation are most probably the same ones that are responsible for the lateral and longitudinal associations within intermediate filaments.