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- Title
Long single alpha-helical tail domains bridge the gap between structure and function of myosin VI.
- Authors
Spink, Benjamin J; Sivaramakrishnan, Sivaraj; Lipfert, Jan; Doniach, Sebastian; Spudich, James A
- Abstract
Myosin VI has challenged the lever arm hypothesis of myosin movement because of its ability to take approximately 36-nm steps along actin with a canonical lever arm that seems to be too short to allow such large steps. Here we demonstrate that the large step of dimeric myosin VI is primarily made possible by a medial tail in each monomer that forms a rare single alpha-helix of approximately 10 nm, which is anchored to the calmodulin-bound IQ domain by a globular proximal tail. With the medial tail contributing to the approximately 36-nm step, rather than dimerizing as previously proposed, we show that the cargo binding domain is the dimerization interface. Furthermore, the cargo binding domain seems to be folded back in the presence of the catalytic head, constituting a potential regulatory mechanism that inhibits dimerization.
- Publication
Nature structural & molecular biology, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 6, p591
- ISSN
1545-9985
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nsmb.1429