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@ARTICLE{Braun:202943,
author = {Braun, Tatjana and Orlova, Albina and Valegård, Karin and
Lindås, Ann-Christin and Schröder, Gunnar and Egelman,
Edward H.},
title = {{A}rchaeal actin from a hyperthermophile forms a
single-stranded filament},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America},
volume = {112},
number = {30},
issn = {1091-6490},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {National Acad. of Sciences},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-05066},
pages = {9340 - 9345},
year = {2015},
abstract = {The prokaryotic origins of the actin cytoskeleton have been
firmly established, but it has become clear that the
bacterial actins form a wide variety of different filaments,
different both from each other and from eukaryotic F-actin.
We have used electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) to examine
the filaments formed by the protein crenactin (a
crenarchaeal actin) from Pyrobaculum calidifontis, an
organism that grows optimally at 90 °C. Although this
protein only has $∼20\%$ sequence identity with eukaryotic
actin, phylogenetic analyses have placed it much closer to
eukaryotic actin than any of the bacterial homologs. It has
been assumed that the crenactin filament is double-stranded,
like F-actin, in part because it would be hard to imagine
how a single-stranded filament would be stable at such high
temperatures. We show that not only is the crenactin
filament single-stranded, but that it is remarkably similar
to each of the two strands in F-actin. A large insertion in
the crenactin sequence would prevent the formation of an
F-actin-like double-stranded filament. Further, analysis of
two existing crystal structures reveals six different
subunit-subunit interfaces that are filament-like, but each
is different from the others in terms of significant
rotations. This variability in the subunit-subunit
interface, seen at atomic resolution in crystals, can
explain the large variability in the crenactin filaments
observed by cryo-EM and helps to explain the variability in
twist that has been observed for eukaryotic actin
filaments.},
cin = {ICS-6},
ddc = {000},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-6-20110106},
pnm = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000358656500063},
pubmed = {pmid:26124094},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1509069112},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/202943},
}