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Structure of the N-terminal half of gelsolin bound to actin: roles in severing, apoptosis and FAF.
The EMBO journal - 21 Jul 2004
Burtnick Leslie D, Urosev Dunja, Irobi Edward, Narayan Kartik, Robinson Robert C
Abstract excerpt
The actin filament-severing functionality of gelsolin resides in its N-terminal three domains (G1-G3). We have determined the structure of this fragment in complex with an actin monomer. The structure reveals the dramatic domain rearrangements that activate G1-G3, which include the replacement of interdomain interactions observed in the inactive, calcium-free protein by new contacts to actin, and by a novel G2-G3...
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