title: The actin side-binding domain of gelsolin also caps actin filaments. Implications for actin filament severing.
abstract: Gelsolin is an actin filament-severing and -capping protein which is inhibited by polyphosphoinositides (PPI). Severing requires gelsolin binding to the side of the filaments through a site in segments 2 and 3 (S2-3) to position another site in segment 1 (S1) to sever filaments. In this paper, we report that S2-3, like S1, caps actin filaments. Since neither S1 and S2-3 caps as well as gelsolin, and neither severs actin filament, S2-3 may actively contribute to severing by capping filaments cooperatively with S1. We used deletional mutagenesis to locate the S2-3 sequence required for actin filament side binding, capping, and PPI binding and found that these sites are located close to the NH2 terminus of S2 (residues 161-172). S3, a segment which has no known function up to now and does not by itself bind actin, contributes to stable capping and may contain an additional PPI-binding site.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-9040.
authors.forename: H Q
authors.initials: HQ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Wooten
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Janmey
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Yin
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018260:Gelsolin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D009355:Neomycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017384:Sequence Deletion
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D018260:Gelsolin; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D019269:Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-Diphosphate; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D009355:Neomycin