Myosin VI Must Dimerize and Deploy Its Unusual Lever Arm in Order to Perform Its Cellular Roles
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Myosin VI must dimerize and deploy its unusual lever arm in order to perform its cellular roles.
It is unclear whether the reverse-direction myosin (myosin VI) functions as a monomer or dimer in cells and how it generates large movements on actin. We deleted a stable, single-α-helix (SAH) domain that has been proposed to function as part of a lever arm to amplify movements without impact on in vitro movement or in vivo functions. A myosin VI construct that used this SAH domain as part of i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cell Reports
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2211-1247
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.07.041