Actin-related protein 3. Chain: a. Synonym: actin-2,actin-like protein 3. Actin-related protein 2. Chain: b. Synonym: actin-like protein 2. Actin-related protein 2/3 complex subunit 1b. Chain: c. Synonym: arp2/3 complex 41 kda subunit,p41-arc.
C.T.Jurgenson
and
T.D.Pollard
(2015).
Crystals of the Arp2/3 complex in two new space groups with structural information about actin-related protein 2 and potential WASP binding sites.
Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun,
71,
1161-1168.
PubMed id: 26323303
DOI: 10.1107/S2053230X15013515
Crystals of the Arp2/3 complex in two new space groups with structural information about actin-related protein 2 and potential WASP binding sites.
C.T.Jurgenson,
T.D.Pollard.
ABSTRACT
Co-crystals of the bovine Arp2/3 complex with the CA motif from N-WASP in two
new space groups were analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The crystals in the
orthorhombic space group P212121 contained one complex per asymmetric unit, with
unit-cell parameters a = 105.48, b = 156.71, c = 177.84 Å, and diffracted to
3.9 Å resolution. The crystals in the tetragonal space group P41 contained
two complexes per asymmetric unit, with unit-cell parameters a = b = 149.93,
c = 265.91 Å, and diffracted to 5.0 Å resolution. The electron-density
maps of both new crystal forms had densities for small segments of subdomains 1
and 2 of Arp2. Both maps had density at the binding site on Arp3 for the
C-terminal EWE tripeptide from N-WASP and a binding site proposed for the C
motif of N-WASP in the barbed-end groove of Arp2. The map from the tetragonal
crystal form had density near the barbed end of Arp3 that may correspond to the
C helix of N-WASP. The noise levels and the low resolution of the maps made the
assignment of specific molecular structures for any of these CA peptides
impossible.