Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of RhoGDI in complex with the radixin FERM domain

Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2001 Jun;57(Pt 6):889-90. doi: 10.1107/s090744490100556x. Epub 2001 May 25.

Abstract

The Rho guanine nucleotide-dissociation inhibitor (RhoGDI) is a general regulator that forms a complex with the GDP-bound form of Rho-family GTPases and suppresses their activation. The FERM domains of ERM (ezrin/radixin/moesin) proteins bind to RhoGDI and dissociate Rho from RhoGDI. The formation of a complex between RhoGDI and the FERM domain is an important step in the regulatory cycle of Rho activation. In this study, crystals of RhoGDI complexed with the FERM domain of radixin were obtained. The crystals of the binary complex belong to the space group P2(1)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = 130.9 (2), b = 151.2 (2), c = 71.2 (1) A, and contain two protein complexes in the crystallographic asymmetric unit. A 2.9 A resolution data set was collected using synchrotron radiation at SPring-8.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Blood Proteins / chemistry*
  • Blood Proteins / metabolism
  • Cattle
  • Crystallization
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins / chemistry*
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins / metabolism
  • Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors / chemistry*
  • Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors / metabolism
  • Membrane Proteins / chemistry*
  • Membrane Proteins / metabolism
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • rho-Specific Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors

Substances

  • Blood Proteins
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors
  • Membrane Proteins
  • rho-Specific Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors
  • radixin