A Laing distal myopathy–associated proline substitution in the β-myosin rod perturbs myosin cross-bridging activity

M Buvoli, GCK Wilson, A Buvoli… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Proline substitutions within the coiled-coil rod region of the β-myosin gene (MYH7) are the
predominant mutations causing Laing distal myopathy (MPD1), an autosomal dominant …

Functional and structural roles of coiled coils

MD Hartmann - Fibrous Proteins: Structures and Mechanisms, 2017 - Springer
Coiled coils appear in countless structural contexts, as appendages to small proteins, as
parts of multi-domain proteins, and as building blocks of filaments. Although their structure is …

Orientational ambiguity in septin coiled coils and its structural basis

DA Leonardo, IA Cavini, FA Sala, DC Mendonça… - Journal of molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Septins are an example of subtle molecular recognition whereby different paralogues must
correctly assemble into functional filaments important for essential cellular events such as …

Skip residues modulate the structural properties of the myosin rod and guide thick filament assembly

KC Taylor, M Buvoli, EN Korkmaz… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The rod of sarcomeric myosins directs thick filament assembly and is characterized by the
insertion of four skip residues that introduce discontinuities in the coiled-coil heptad repeats …

A library of coiled-coil domains: from regular bundles to peculiar twists

K Szczepaniak, A Bukala, AM da Silva Neto… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Coiled coils are widespread protein domains involved in diverse processes
ranging from providing structural rigidity to the transduction of conformational changes. They …

Structural basis for toughness and flexibility in the C-terminal passenger domain of an Acinetobacter trimeric autotransporter adhesin

K Koiwai, MD Hartmann, D Linke, AN Lupas… - Journal of Biological …, 2016 - ASBMB
Trimeric autotransporter adhesins (TAAs) on the cell surface of Gram-negative pathogens
mediate bacterial adhesion to host cells and extracellular matrix proteins. However, AtaA, a …

Regulation of measles virus gene expression by P protein coiled-coil properties

LM Bloyet, A Schramm, C Lazert, B Raynal… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The polymerase of negative-stranded RNA viruses consists of the large protein (L) and the
phosphoprotein (P), the latter serving both as a chaperon and a cofactor for L. We mapped …

[HTML][HTML] βB2 W151R mutant is prone to degradation, aggregation and exposes the hydrophobic side chains in the fourth Greek Key motif

J Xu, H Wang, A Wang, J Xu, C Fu, Z Jia, K Yao… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies have established that congenital cataract is the major cause of blindness in children
across the globe. The β-crystallin protein family is the richest and most soluble structural …

Two variants of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) with additional protein domains: Synthesis in an Escherichia coli heterologous …

AS Karyagina, IS Boksha, TM Grunina… - Biochemistry …, 2017 - Springer
Two variants of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) with
additional N-terminal protein domains were obtained by expression in E. coli. The N …

α/β coiled coils

MD Hartmann, CT Mendler, J Bassler, I Karamichali… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Coiled coils are the best-understood protein fold, as their backbone structure can uniquely
be described by parametric equations. This level of understanding has allowed their …