scholarly journals Single-molecule stepping and structural dynamics of myosin X

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujie Sun ◽  
Osamu Sato ◽  
Felix Ruhnow ◽  
Mark E Arsenault ◽  
Mitsuo Ikebe ◽  
...  
2010 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 145a-146a
Author(s):  
Yujie Sun ◽  
Osamu Sato ◽  
Felix Ruhnow ◽  
Mark E. Arsenault ◽  
Mitsuo Ikebe ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1247-1257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Dyla ◽  
Sara Basse Hansen ◽  
Poul Nissen ◽  
Magnus Kjaergaard

Abstract P-type ATPases transport ions across biological membranes against concentration gradients and are essential for all cells. They use the energy from ATP hydrolysis to propel large intramolecular movements, which drive vectorial transport of ions. Tight coordination of the motions of the pump is required to couple the two spatially distant processes of ion binding and ATP hydrolysis. Here, we review our current understanding of the structural dynamics of P-type ATPases, focusing primarily on Ca2+ pumps. We integrate different types of information that report on structural dynamics, primarily time-resolved fluorescence experiments including single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer and molecular dynamics simulations, and interpret them in the framework provided by the numerous crystal structures of sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase. We discuss the challenges in characterizing the dynamics of membrane pumps, and the likely impact of new technologies on the field.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Carl DeHaven

This thesis contains four topic areas: a review of single-molecule microscropy methods and splicing, conformational dynamics of stem II of the U2 snRNA, the impact of post-transcriptional modifications on U2 snRNA folding dynamics, and preliminary findings on Mango aptamer folding dynamics.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzan Ruijtenberg ◽  
Stijn Sonneveld ◽  
Tao Ju Cui ◽  
Ive Logister ◽  
Dion de Steenwinkel ◽  
...  

AbstractSmall RNAs (such as miRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs) regulate protein expression in a wide variety of biological processes and play an important role in cellular function, development and disease. Association of small RNAs with Argonaute (AGO) family proteins guide AGO to target RNAs, generally resulting in target silencing through transcriptional silencing, translational repression or mRNA degradation. Here we develop a live-cell single-molecule imaging assay to simultaneously visualize translation of individual mRNA molecules and their silencing by human AGO2-siRNA complexes. We find that siRNA target sites are commonly masked in vivo by RNA secondary structures, which inhibit AGO2-target interactions. Translating ribosomes unmask AGO2 binding sites, stimulating AGO2-target interactions and promoting mRNA degradation. Using a combination of mathematical modeling and experiments, we find that mRNA structures are highly heterogeneous and continuously refolding. We show that structural dynamics of mRNAs shape AGO2-target recognition, which may be a common feature controlling mRNA-protein interactions.


2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 56a
Author(s):  
Matthew L. Ferguson ◽  
Caroline Clerté ◽  
Emmanuel Margeat ◽  
Nathalie Declerck ◽  
Catherine A. Royer

Biosystems ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuhiro Sugawa ◽  
Yoshiyuki Arai ◽  
Atsuko Hikikoshi Iwane ◽  
Yoshiharu Ishii ◽  
Toshio Yanagida

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijoy J. Desai ◽  
Ruben L. Gonzalez

Stunning advances in the structural biology of multicomponent biomolecular complexes (MBCs) have ushered in an era of intense, structure-guided mechanistic and functional studies of these complexes. Nonetheless, existing methods to site-specifically conjugate MBCs with biochemical and biophysical labels are notoriously impracticable and/or significantly perturb MBC assembly and function. To overcome these limitations, we have developed a general, multiplexed method in which we genomically encode non-canonical amino acids (ncAAs) into multiple, structure-informed, individual sites within a target MBC; select for ncAA-containing MBC variants that assemble and function like the wildtype MBC; and site-specifically conjugate biochemical or biophysical labels to these ncAAs. As a proof-of-principle, we have used this method to generate unique single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) signals reporting on ribosome structural dynamics that have thus far remained inaccessible to smFRET studies of translation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1057-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob S. Lewis ◽  
Alessandro Costa

This review discusses recent advances in single-particle cryo-EM and single-molecule approaches used to visualise eukaryotic DNA replication reactions reconstituted in vitro. We comment on the new challenges facing structural biologists, as they turn to describing the dynamic cascade of events that lead to replication origin activation and fork progression.


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