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The vacuolar protein sorting machinery regulates multivesicular body biogenesis and is selectively recruited by enveloped viruses to support budding. Here we report the crystal structure of the human ESCRT-III protein CHMP3 at 2.8 A resolution. The core structure of CHMP3 folds into a flat helical arrangement that assembles into a lattice, mainly via two different dimerization modes, and unilaterally exposes a highly basic surface. The C terminus, the target for Vps4-induced ESCRT disassembly, extends from the opposite side of the membrane targeting region. Mutations within the basic and dimerization regions hinder bilayer interaction in vivo and reverse the dominant-negative effect of a truncated CHMP3 fusion protein on HIV-1 budding. Thus, the final steps in the budding process may include CHMP protein polymerization and lattice formation on membranes by employing different bilayer-recognizing surfaces, a function shared by all CHMP family members.

2GD5 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2GD5 OCA].  

[[Category: Muziol, T M.]]

[[Category: Ravelli, R B.]]

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