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==Cryo-EM structure of crescentin filaments (stutter mutant, C2 symmetry and large box)==
<StructureSection load='8ajb' size='340' side='right'caption='[[8ajb]], [[Resolution|resolution]] 4.30&Aring;' scene=''>
== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[8ajb]] is a 24 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelidae Camelidae] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulobacter_vibrioides Caulobacter vibrioides]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=8AJB OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=8AJB FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">Electron Microscopy, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 4.3&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=8ajb FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=8ajb OCA], [https://pdbe.org/8ajb PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=8ajb RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/8ajb PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=8ajb ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/A0A0H3CD98_CAUVN A0A0H3CD98_CAUVN] 
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
The protein crescentin is required for the crescent shape of the freshwater bacterium Caulobacter crescentus (vibrioides). Crescentin forms a filamentous structure on the inner, concave side of the curved cells. It shares features with eukaryotic intermediate filament (IF) proteins, including the formation of static filaments based on long and parallel coiled coils, the protein's length, structural roles in cell and organelle shape determination and the presence of a coiled coil discontinuity called the "stutter." Here, we have used electron cryomicroscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the structure of the full-length protein and its filament, exploiting a crescentin-specific nanobody. The filament is formed by two strands, related by twofold symmetry, that each consist of two dimers, resulting in an octameric assembly. Crescentin subunits form longitudinal contacts head-to-head and tail-to-tail, making the entire filament non-polar. Using in vivo site-directed cysteine cross-linking, we demonstrated that contacts observed in the in vitro filament structure exist in cells. Electron cryotomography (cryo-ET) of cells expressing crescentin showed filaments on the concave side of the curved cells, close to the inner membrane, where they form a band. When comparing with current models of IF proteins and their filaments, which are also built from parallel coiled coil dimers and lack overall polarity, it emerges that IF proteins form head-to-tail longitudinal contacts in contrast to crescentin and hence several inter-dimer contacts in IFs have no equivalents in crescentin filaments. Our work supports the idea that intermediate filament-like proteins achieve their shared polymerization and mechanical properties through a variety of filament architectures.

Filament structure and subcellular organization of the bacterial intermediate filament-like protein crescentin.,Liu Y, van den Ent F, Lowe J Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Feb 13;121(7):e2309984121. doi: , 10.1073/pnas.2309984121. Epub 2024 Feb 7. PMID:38324567<ref>PMID:38324567</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Camelidae]]
[[Category: Caulobacter vibrioides]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Liu Y]]
[[Category: Lowe J]]