EBs recognize a nucleotide-dependent structural cap at growing microtubule ends

Maurer, S.P. and Fourniol, Franck J. and Bohner, G. and Moores, Carolyn A. and Surrey, T. (2012) EBs recognize a nucleotide-dependent structural cap at growing microtubule ends. Cell 149 (2), pp. 371-382. ISSN 0092-8674.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.02.049

Abstract

Growing microtubule ends serve as transient binding platforms for essential proteins that regulate microtubule dynamics and their interactions with cellular substructures. End-binding proteins (EBs) autonomously recognize an extended region at growing microtubule ends with unknown structural characteristics and then recruit other factors to the dynamic end structure. Using cryo-electron microscopy, subnanometer single-particle reconstruction, and fluorescence imaging, we present a pseudoatomic model of how the calponin homology (CH) domain of the fission yeast EB Mal3 binds to the end regions of growing microtubules. The Mal3 CH domain bridges protofilaments except at the microtubule seam. By binding close to the exchangeable GTP-binding site, the CH domain is ideally positioned to sense the microtubule's nucleotide state. The same microtubule-end region is also a stabilizing structural cap protecting the microtubule from depolymerization. This insight supports a common structural link between two important biological phenomena, microtubule dynamic instability and end tracking.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences
Research Centres and Institutes:	Structural Molecular Biology, Institute of (ISMB)
Depositing User:	Administrator
Date Deposited:	16 Apr 2012 09:33
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 16:57
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4709

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