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Miura M, Matsubara A, Kobayashi T, Edamatsu M, Toyoshima YY. Nucleotide-dependent behavior of single molecules of cytoplasmic dynein on microtubules in vitro. FEBS Lett 2010; 584:2351-5. [PMID: 20394748 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2010] [Revised: 03/30/2010] [Accepted: 04/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We visualized the nucleotide-dependent behavior of single molecules of mammalian native cytoplasmic dynein using fragments of dynactin p150 with or without its N-terminal microtubule binding domain. The results indicate that the binding affinity of dynein for microtubules is high in AMP-PNP, middle in ADP or no nucleotide, and low in ADP.Pi conditions. It is also demonstrated that the microtubule binding domain of dynactin p150 maintains the association of dynein with microtubules without altering the motile property of dynein in the weak binding state. In addition, we observed bidirectional movement of dynein in the presence of ATP as well as in ADP/Vi condition, suggesting that the bidirectional movement is driven by diffusion rather than active transport.
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- Michi Miura
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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McNaughton L, Tikhonenko I, Banavali NK, LeMaster DM, Koonce MP. A low affinity ground state conformation for the Dynein microtubule binding domain. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:15994-6002. [PMID: 20351100 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.083535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Dynein interacts with microtubules through a dedicated binding domain that is dynamically controlled to achieve high or low affinity, depending on the state of nucleotide bound in a distant catalytic pocket. The active sites for microtubule binding and ATP hydrolysis communicate via conformational changes transduced through a approximately 10-nm length antiparallel coiled-coil stalk, which connects the binding domain to the roughly 300-kDa motor core. Recently, an x-ray structure of the murine cytoplasmic dynein microtubule binding domain (MTBD) in a weak affinity conformation was published, containing a covalently constrained beta(+) registry for the coiled-coil stalk segment (Carter, A. P., Garbarino, J. E., Wilson-Kubalek, E. M., Shipley, W. E., Cho, C., Milligan, R. A., Vale, R. D., and Gibbons, I. R. (2008) Science 322, 1691-1695). We here present an NMR analysis of the isolated MTBD from Dictyostelium discoideum that demonstrates the coiled-coil beta(+) registry corresponds to the low energy conformation for this functional region of dynein. Addition of sequence encoding roughly half of the coiled-coil stalk proximal to the binding tip results in a decreased affinity of the MTBD for microtubules. In contrast, addition of the complete coiled-coil sequence drives the MTBD to the conformationally unstable, high affinity binding state. These results suggest a thermodynamic coupling between conformational free energy differences in the alpha and beta(+) registries of the coiled-coil stalk that acts as a switch between high and low affinity conformations of the MTBD. A balancing of opposing conformations in the stalk and MTBD enables potentially modest long-range interactions arising from ATP binding in the motor core to induce a relaxation of the MTBD into the stable low affinity state.
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- Lynn McNaughton
- Division of Translational Medicine, Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York 12201-0509, USA
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Eukaryotic cells use cytoskeletal motor proteins to transport many different intracellular cargos. Numerous kinesins and myosins have evolved to cope with the various transport needs that have arisen during eukaryotic evolution. Surprisingly, a single cytoplasmic dynein (a minus end-directed microtubule motor) carries out similarly diverse transport activities as the many different types of kinesin. How is dynein coupled to its wide range of cargos and how is it spatially and temporally regulated? The answer could lie in the several multifunctional adaptors, including dynactin, lissencephaly 1, nuclear distribution protein E (NUDE) and NUDE-like, Bicaudal D, Rod-ZW10-Zwilch and Spindly, that regulate dynein function and localization.
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Höök P, Yagi T, Ghosh-Roy A, Williams JC, Vallee RB. The dynein stalk contains an antiparallel coiled coil with region-specific stability. Biochemistry 2009; 48:2710-3. [PMID: 19222235 DOI: 10.1021/bi900223x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The dynein motor proteins interact with microtubules at the distal end of an unusual 12-15 nm stalk, which communicates with the sites for nucleotide hydrolysis and microtubule binding in a cyclical, bidirectional manner. Here, we report that the stalk shaft of rat cytoplasmic dynein is an antiparallel alpha-helical coiled coil, the stability of which is markedly altered by changes at its proximal and distal ends, consistent with a structure capable of rapid, cyclical rearrangement during the dynein cross-bridge cycle.
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- Peter Höök
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Serohijos AWR, Tsygankov D, Liu S, Elston TC, Dokholyan NV. Multiscale approaches for studying energy transduction in dynein. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2009; 11:4840-50. [PMID: 19506759 PMCID: PMC2823375 DOI: 10.1039/b902028d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Cytoplasmic dynein is an important motor that drives all minus-end directed movement along microtubules. Dynein is a complex motor whose processive motion is driven by ATP-hydrolysis. Dynein's run length has been measured to be several millimetres with typical velocities in the order of a few nanometres per second. Therefore, the average time between steps is a fraction of a second. When this time scale is compared with typical time scales for protein side chain and backbone movements (approximately 10(-9) s and approximately 10(-5) s, respectively), it becomes clear that a multi-timescale modelling approach is required to understand energy transduction in this protein. Here, we review recent efforts to use computational and mathematical modelling to understand various aspects of dynein's chemomechanical cycle. First, we describe a structural model of dynein's motor unit showing a heptameric organization of the motor subunits. Second, we describe our molecular dynamics simulations of the motor unit that are used to investigate the dynamics of the various motor domains. Third, we present a kinetic model of the coordination between the two dynein heads. Lastly, we investigate the various potential geometries of the dimer during its hydrolytic and stepping cycle.
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- Adrian W. R. Serohijos
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Program in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Kon T, Imamula K, Roberts AJ, Ohkura R, Knight PJ, Gibbons IR, Burgess SA, Sutoh K. Helix sliding in the stalk coiled coil of dynein couples ATPase and microtubule binding. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2009; 16:325-33. [PMID: 19198589 PMCID: PMC2757048 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2008] [Accepted: 01/05/2009] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Coupling between ATPase and track binding sites is essential for molecular motors to move along cytoskeletal tracks. In dynein, these sites are separated by a long coiled coil stalk that must mediate communication between them, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here we show that changes in registration between the two helices of the coiled coil can perform this function. We locked the coiled coil at three specific registrations using oxidation to disulfides of paired cysteine residues introduced into the two helices. These trapped ATPase activity either in a microtubule-independent high or low state, and microtubule binding activity either in an ATP-insensitive strong or weak state, depending on the registry of the coiled coil. Our results provide direct evidence that dynein uses sliding between the two helices of the stalk to couple ATPase and microtubule binding activities during its mechanochemical cycle.
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- Takahide Kon
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Roberts AJ, Numata N, Walker ML, Kato YS, Malkova B, Kon T, Ohkura R, Arisaka F, Knight PJ, Sutoh K, Burgess SA. AAA+ Ring and linker swing mechanism in the dynein motor. Cell 2009; 136:485-95. [PMID: 19203583 PMCID: PMC2706395 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.11.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2008] [Revised: 10/12/2008] [Accepted: 11/26/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Dynein ATPases power diverse microtubule-based motilities. Each dynein motor domain comprises a ring-like head containing six AAA+ modules and N- and C-terminal regions, together with a stalk that binds microtubules. How these subdomains are arranged and generate force remains poorly understood. Here, using electron microscopy and image processing of tagged and truncated Dictyostelium cytoplasmic dynein constructs, we show that the heart of the motor is a hexameric ring of AAA+ modules, with the stalk emerging opposite the primary ATPase site (AAA1). The C-terminal region is not an integral part of the ring but spans between AAA6 and near the stalk base. The N-terminal region includes a lever-like linker whose N terminus swings by ∼17 nm during the ATPase cycle between AAA2 and the stalk base. Together with evidence of stalk tilting, which may communicate changes in microtubule binding affinity, these findings suggest a model for dynein's structure and mechanism.
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- Anthony J Roberts
- Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology and Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Amos LA. Biochemistry. Pressing levers or pulling strings? Science 2009; 322:1647-8. [PMID: 19074338 DOI: 10.1126/science.1168178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- Linda A Amos
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
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Carter AP, Garbarino JE, Wilson-Kubalek EM, Shipley WE, Cho C, Milligan RA, Vale RD, Gibbons IR. Structure and functional role of dynein's microtubule-binding domain. Science 2009; 322:1691-5. [PMID: 19074350 DOI: 10.1126/science.1164424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Dynein motors move various cargos along microtubules within the cytoplasm and power the beating of cilia and flagella. An unusual feature of dynein is that its microtubule-binding domain (MTBD) is separated from its ring-shaped AAA+ adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) domain by a 15-nanometer coiled-coil stalk. We report the crystal structure of the mouse cytoplasmic dynein MTBD and a portion of the coiled coil, which supports a mechanism by which the ATPase domain and MTBD may communicate through a shift in the heptad registry of the coiled coil. Surprisingly, functional data suggest that the MTBD, and not the ATPase domain, is the main determinant of the direction of dynein motility.
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- Andrew P Carter
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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Roberts AJ, Burgess SA. Electron Microscopic Imaging and Analysis of Isolated Dynein Particles. Methods Cell Biol 2009; 91:41-61. [DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(08)91002-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Dynein is a microtubule motor that powers motility of cilia and flagella. There is evidence that the relative sliding of the doublet microtubules is due to a conformational change in the motor domain that moves a microtubule bound to the end of an extension known as the stalk. A predominant model for the movement involves a rotation of the head domain, with its stalk, toward the microtubule plus end. However, stalks bound to microtubules have been difficult to observe. Here, we present the clearest views so far of stalks in action, by observing sea urchin, outer arm dynein molecules bound to microtubules, with a new method, "cryo-positive stain" electron microscopy. The dynein molecules in the complex were shown to be active in in vitro motility assays. Analysis of the electron micrographs shows that the stalk angles relative to microtubules do not change significantly between the ADP.vanadate and no-nucleotide states, but the heads, together with their stalks, shift with respect to their A-tubule attachments. Our results disagree with models in which the stalk acts as a lever arm to amplify structural changes. The observed movement of the head and stalk relative to the tail indicates a new plausible mechanism, in which dynein uses its stalk as a grappling hook, catching a tubulin subunit 8 nm ahead and pulling on it by retracting a part of the tail (linker).
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Shimizu Y, Kato Y, Morii H, Edamatsu M, Toyoshima YY, Tanokura M. The dynein stalk head, the microtubule binding-domain of dynein: NMR assignment and ligand binding. JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR NMR 2008; 41:89-96. [PMID: 18491033 DOI: 10.1007/s10858-008-9242-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2007] [Revised: 04/21/2008] [Accepted: 04/23/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Dynein is a motor ATPase, and the C-terminal two-thirds of its heavy chain form a ring structure. One of protrudings from this ring structure is a stalk whose tip, the dynein stalk head (DSH), is thought to be the microtubule-binding domain. As a first step toward elucidating the functional mechanisms of DSH, we aimed at the NMR structural analysis of an isolated DSH from mouse cytoplasmic dynein. The DSH expressed in bacteria and purified was coprecipitated with microtubules, suggesting its proper folding. Chemical shifts of the DSH were obtained from NMR measurements, and backbone assignment identified 94% of the main-chain N-H signals. Secondary structural prediction programs showed that about 60% of the residues formed alpha-helices. A region with cationic residues K58 and R61 (and possibly R66 as well), and another with R86, K88, K90, and K91, were found to form alpha-helices. Both of these regions may be important in the formation of the DSH-binding site to a microtubule that has a low pI with a number of acidic residues. Two synthetic peptides containing the sequence of the alpha-helix 12 of beta-tubulin, considered to be important in binding to DSH, were investigated. Of these two peptides, the one with higher helix-formation propensity appeared to bind to DSH, since it precipitated with DSH in a nearly stoichiometric manner. This suggested that the alpha-helicity of this region would be important in its binding to DSH.
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- Youské Shimizu
- Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Japan
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Insights into the mechanism of ADP action on flagellar motility derived from studies on bull sperm. Biophys J 2008; 95:472-82. [PMID: 18375503 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.127951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) is known to have interesting effects on flagellar motility. Permeabilized and reactivated bull sperm exhibit a marked reduction in beating frequency and a greatly increased beat amplitude in the presence of 1-4 mM ADP. In this study we examined the force production of sperm reactivated with 0.1 mM ATP with and without 1 mM ADP and found that there is little or no resulting change in the stalling force produced by a bull sperm flagella in response to ADP. Because bull sperm bend to a higher curvature after ADP treatment we explored the possibility that ADP-treated sperm flagella are more flexible. We measured the stiffness of 50 muM sodium vanadate treated bull sperm in the presence of 4 mM ADP, but found no change in the passive flagellar stiffness. When we analyzed the torque that develops in ADP-treated sperm at the point of beat reversal we found that the torque developed by the flagellum is significantly increased. Our torque estimates also allow us to calculate the transverse force (t-force) acting on the flagellum at the point of beat direction reversal. We find that the t-force at the switch-point of the beat is increased significantly in the ADP treated condition, averaging 0.7 +/- 0.29 nN/microm in 0.1 mM ATP and increasing to 2.9 +/- 1.2 nN/microm in 0.1 mM ATP plus 4 mM ADP. This suggests that ADP is exerting its effect on the beat by increasing the tenacity of dynein attachment at the B-subtubule. This could be a direct result of a regulatory effect of ADP on the binding affinity of dynein for the B-subtubule of the outer doublets. This result could also help to explain a number of previous experimental observations, as discussed.
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Models commonly used to explain the mechanism of myosin motors typically include a power stroke that is attributed to a conformational change in the motor domain and amplified by a long lever arm that connects the motor domain to the cargo. Similar models have proved less enlightening in the case of microtubule motors, for which it may be more helpful to consider models involving thermally driven mechanisms.
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- L A Amos
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.
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Imamula K, Kon T, Ohkura R, Sutoh K. The coordination of cyclic microtubule association/dissociation and tail swing of cytoplasmic dynein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:16134-9. [PMID: 17911268 PMCID: PMC1999400 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702370104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The dynein motor domain is composed of a tail, head, and stalk and is thought to generate a force to microtubules by swinging the tail against the head during its ATPase cycle. For this "power stroke," dynein has to coordinate the tail swing with microtubule association/dissociation at the tip of the stalk. Although a detailed picture of the former process is emerging, the latter process remains to be elucidated. By using the single-headed recombinant motor domain of Dictyostelium cytoplasmic dynein, we address the questions of how the interaction of the motor domain with a microtubule is modulated by ATPase steps, how the two mechanical cycles (the microtubule association/dissociation and tail swing) are coordinated, and which ATPase site among the multiple sites in the motor domain regulates the coordination. Based on steady-state and pre-steady-state measurements, we demonstrate that the two mechanical cycles proceed synchronously at most of the intermediate states in the ATPase cycle: the motor domain in the poststroke state binds strongly to the microtubule with a K(d) of approximately 0.2 microM, whereas most of the motor domains in the prestroke state bind weakly to the microtubule with a K(d) of >10 microM. However, our results suggest that the timings of the microtubule affinity change and tail swing are staggered at the recovery stroke step in which the tail swings from the poststroke to the prestroke position. The ATPase site in the AAA1 module of the motor domain was found to be responsible for the coordination of these two mechanical processes.
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- Kenji Imamula
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Xie P, Dou SX, Wang PY. Model for unidirectional movement of axonemal and cytoplasmic dynein molecules. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai) 2006; 38:711-24. [PMID: 17033718 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7270.2006.00223.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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A model for the unidirectional movement of dynein is presented based on the structural observations and biochemical experimental results available. In this model, the binding affinity of dynein for microtubule (MT) is independent of its nucleotide state and the change between strong and weak MT-binding is determined naturally by the variation of relative orientation between the stalk and MT, as the stalk rotates following nucleotide-state transition. Thus the enigmatic communication from the adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding site in the globular domain to the far MT-binding site in the tip of the stalk, which is a prerequisite in conventional models, is not required. Using the present model, the previous experimental results such as the effect of ATP and adenosine diphosphate (ADP) bindings on dissociation of dynein from MT, the movement of single-headed axonemal dyneins at saturating ATP concentration, the load dependence of step-size for the movement of two-headed cytoplasmic dyneins and the dependence of stall force on ATP concentration can be well explained.
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- Ping Xie
- Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China.
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Alpha helical coiled-coils appear in many important allosteric proteins such as the dynein molecular motor and bacteria chemotaxis transmembrane receptors. As a mechanism for transmitting the information of ligand binding to a distant site across an allosteric protein, an alternative to conformational change in the mean static structure is an induced change in the pattern of the internal dynamics of the protein. We explore how ligand binding may change the intramolecular vibrational free energy of a coiled-coil, using parameterized coarse-grained models, treating the case of dynein in detail. The models predict that coupling of slide, bend and twist modes of the coiled-coil transmits an allosteric free energy of approximately 2kBT, consistent with experimental results. A further prediction is a quantitative increase in the effective stiffness of the coiled-coil without any change in inherent flexibility of the individual helices. The model provides a possible and experimentally testable mechanism for transmission of information through the alpha helical coiled-coil of dynein.
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- Rhoda J Hawkins
- School of Physics and Astronomy, and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, IRC in Polymer Science and Technology, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Yagi T, Minoura I, Fujiwara A, Saito R, Yasunaga T, Hirono M, Kamiya R. An axonemal dynein particularly important for flagellar movement at high viscosity. Implications from a new Chlamydomonas mutant deficient in the dynein heavy chain gene DHC9. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:41412-20. [PMID: 16236707 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m509072200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Ciliary and flagellar axonemes contain multiple inner arm dyneins of which the functional difference is largely unknown. In this study, a Chlamydomonas mutant, ida9, lacking inner arm dynein c was isolated and shown to carry a mutation in the DHC9 dynein heavy chain gene. The cDNA sequence of DHC9 was determined, and its information was used to show that >80% of it is lost in the mutant. Electron microscopy and image analysis showed that the ida9 axoneme lacked electron density near the base of the S2 radial spoke, indicating that dynein c localizes to this site. The mutant ida9 swam only slightly slower than the wild type in normal media. However, swimming velocity was greatly reduced when medium viscosity was modestly increased. Thus, dynein c in wild type axonemes must produce a significant force when flagella are beating in viscous media. Because motility analyses in vitro have shown that dynein c is the fastest among all the inner arm dyneins, we can regard this dynein as a fast yet powerful motor.
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- Toshiki Yagi
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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