Structural highlights
Disease
[MYO6_MOUSE] Note=Defects in Myo6 are the cause of Snell's waltzer, a condition characterized by circling, head-tossing, deafness and hyperactivity.
Function
[MYO6_MOUSE] Myosins are actin-based motor molecules with ATPase activity. Unconventional myosins serve in intracellular movements. Myosin 6 is a reverse-direction motor protein that moves towards the minus-end of actin filaments. Has slow rate of actin-activated ADP release due to weak ATP binding. Functions in a variety of intracellular processes such as vesicular membrane trafficking and cell migration. Required for the structural integrity of the Golgi apparatus via the p53-dependent pro-survival pathway. Appears to be involved in a very early step of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in polarized epithelial cells. May act as a regulator of F-actin dynamics. May play a role in transporting DAB2 from the plasma membrane to specific cellular targets. Required for structural integrity of inner ear hair cells.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Myosin VI is the only known molecular motor that moves toward the minus ends of actin filaments; thus, it plays unique roles in diverse cellular processes. The processive walking of myosin VI on actin filaments requires dimerization of the motor, but the protein can also function as a nonprocessive monomer. The molecular mechanism governing the monomer-dimer conversion is not clear. We report the high-resolution NMR structure of the cargo-free myosin VI cargo-binding domain (CBD) and show that it is a stable monomer in solution. The myosin VI CBD binds to a fragment of the clathrin-coated vesicle adaptor Dab2 with a high affinity, and the X-ray structure of the myosin VI CBD in complex with Dab2 reveals that the motor undergoes a cargo-binding-mediated dimerization. The cargo-binding-induced dimerization may represent a general paradigm for the regulation of processivity for myosin VI as well as other myosins, including myosin VII and myosin X.
Myosin VI undergoes cargo-mediated dimerization.,Yu C, Feng W, Wei Z, Miyanoiri Y, Wen W, Zhao Y, Zhang M Cell. 2009 Aug 7;138(3):537-48. PMID:19665975[1]
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References
- ↑ Yu C, Feng W, Wei Z, Miyanoiri Y, Wen W, Zhao Y, Zhang M. Myosin VI undergoes cargo-mediated dimerization. Cell. 2009 Aug 7;138(3):537-48. PMID:19665975 doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.05.030
