2ec6

Placopecten Striated Muscle Myosin II

spinqualitylabelsall models 2ec6, resolution 3.25Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2ec6 is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Placopecten magellanicus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: CA Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed Unlike processive cellular motors such as myosin V, whose structure has recently been determined in a "rigor-like" conformation, myosin II from contracting muscle filaments necessarily spends most of its time detached from actin. By using squid and sea scallop sources, however, we have now obtained similar rigor-like atomic structures for muscle myosin heads (S1). The significance of the hallmark closed actin-binding cleft in these crystal structures is supported here by actin/S1-binding studies. These structures reveal how different duty ratios, and hence cellular functions, of the myosin isoforms may be accounted for, in part, on the basis of detailed differences in interdomain contacts. Moreover, the rigor-like position of switch II turns out to be unique for myosin V. The overall arrangements of subdomains in the motor are relatively conserved in each of the known contractile states, and we explore qualitatively the energetics of these states. Rigor-like structures from muscle myosins reveal key mechanical elements in the transduction pathways of this allosteric motor.,Yang Y, Gourinath S, Kovacs M, Nyitray L, Reutzel R, Himmel DM, O'Neall-Hennessey E, Reshetnikova L, Szent-Gyorgyi AG, Brown JH, Cohen C Structure. 2007 May;15(5):553-64. PMID:17502101 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Myosin

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