Crystal structure of human filamin C domain 23 and small angle scattering model for filamin C 23-24 dimer

J Mol Biol. 2007 May 11;368(4):1011-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.02.018. Epub 2007 Feb 20.

Abstract

Filamin C is a dimeric, actin-binding protein involved in organization of cortical cytoskeleton and of the sarcomere. We performed crystallographic, small-angle X-ray scattering and analytical ultracentrifugation experiments on the constructs containing carboxy-terminal domains of the protein (domains 23-24 and 19-21). The crystal structure of domain 23 of filamin C showed that the protein adopts the expected immunoglobulin (Ig)-like fold. Small-angle X-ray scattering experiments performed on filamin C tandem Ig-like domains 23 and 24 reveal a dimer that is formed by domain 24 and that domain 23 has little interactions with itself or with domain 24, while the analytical ultracentrifugation experiments showed that the filamin C domains 19-21 form elongated monomers in diluted solutions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Contractile Proteins / chemistry*
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Dimerization
  • Filamins
  • Humans
  • Microfilament Proteins / chemistry*
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Nickel / chemistry
  • Protein Folding*
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Scattering, Small Angle
  • Ultracentrifugation

Substances

  • Contractile Proteins
  • Filamins
  • Microfilament Proteins
  • Nickel

Associated data

  • PDB/2NQC