Structural highlights
Function
[ABP1_YEAST] Regulates ARP2/3 complex-mediated actin assembly. Recruits ARP2/3 complex to sides of preexisting actin filaments, which may promote nucleation or stabilization of filament branches. Binds to actin filaments, but not actin monomers. Actin binding is required for ARP2/3 complex activation. May also have a role in linking the actin cytoskeleton to endocytosis. recruits components of the endocytotic machinery to cortical actin patches, known sites of endocytosis.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Abp1p is an actin-binding protein that plays a central role in the organization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae actin cytoskeleton. By a combination of two-hybrid and phage-display approaches, we have identified six new ligands of the Abp1-SH3 domain. None of these SH3-mediated novel interactions was detected in recent all genome high throughput protein interaction projects. Here we show that the SH3-mediated association of Abp1p with the Ser/Thr kinases Prk1p and Ark1p is essential for their localization to actin cortical patches. The Abp1-SH3 domain has a rather unusual binding specificity, because its target peptides contain the tetrapentapeptide +XXXPXXPX+PXXL with positive charges flanking the polyproline core on both sides. Here we present the structure of the Abp1-SH3 domain solved at 1.3-A resolution. The peptide-binding pockets in the SH3 domain are flanked by two acidic residues that are uncommon at those positions in the SH3 domain family. We have shown by site-directed mutagenesis that one of these negatively charged side chains may be the key determinant for the preference for non-classical ligands.
Unusual binding properties of the SH3 domain of the yeast actin-binding protein Abp1: structural and functional analysis.,Fazi B, Cope MJ, Douangamath A, Ferracuti S, Schirwitz K, Zucconi A, Drubin DG, Wilmanns M, Cesareni G, Castagnoli L J Biol Chem. 2002 Feb 15;277(7):5290-8. Epub 2001 Oct 19. PMID:11668184[2]
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References
- ↑ Goode BL, Rodal AA, Barnes G, Drubin DG. Activation of the Arp2/3 complex by the actin filament binding protein Abp1p. J Cell Biol. 2001 Apr 30;153(3):627-34. PMID:11331312
- ↑ Fazi B, Cope MJ, Douangamath A, Ferracuti S, Schirwitz K, Zucconi A, Drubin DG, Wilmanns M, Cesareni G, Castagnoli L. Unusual binding properties of the SH3 domain of the yeast actin-binding protein Abp1: structural and functional analysis. J Biol Chem. 2002 Feb 15;277(7):5290-8. Epub 2001 Oct 19. PMID:11668184 doi:10.1074/jbc.M109848200
