Biological Assembly 1  

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Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Homo 2-mer - A2 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors and generated by PISA (software)

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 20795.38 
• Atom Count: 1440 
• Residue Count: 172 
• Unique protein chains: 1

3SWK

Crystal structure of vimentin coil1B fragment

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb3SWK/pdb

• Classification: STRUCTURAL PROTEIN
• Organism(s): Homo sapiens
• Expression System: Escherichia coli


• Deposited: 2011-07-14 Released: 2012-08-15 
• Deposition Author(s): Chernyatina, A.A., Strelkov, S.V.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.7 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.272 
• R-Value Work: 0.232 

Literature

Atomic structure of the vimentin central alpha-helical domain and its implications for intermediate filament assembly.

Chernyatina, A.A., Nicolet, S., Aebi, U., Herrmann, H., Strelkov, S.V.

(2012) Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 109: 13620-13625

• PubMed: 22869704 
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206836109
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  3SSU, 3S4R


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Together with actin filaments and microtubules, intermediate filaments (IFs) are the basic cytoskeletal components of metazoan cells. Over 80 human diseases have been linked to mutations in various IF proteins to date. However, the filament structure is far from being resolved at the atomic level, which hampers rational understanding of IF pathologies. The elementary building block of all IF proteins is a dimer consisting of an α-helical coiled-coil (CC) "rod" domain flanked by the flexible head and tail domains. Here we present three crystal structures of overlapping human vimentin fragments that comprise the first half of its rod domain. Given the previously solved fragments, a nearly complete atomic structure of the vimentin rod has become available. It consists of three α-helical segments (coils 1A, 1B, and 2) interconnected by linkers (L1 and L12). Most of the CC structure has a left-handed twist with heptad repeats, but both coil 1B and coil 2 also exhibit untwisted, parallel stretches with hendecad repeats. In the crystal structure, linker L1 was found to be α-helical without being involved in the CC formation. The available data allow us to construct an atomic model of the antiparallel tetramer representing the second level of vimentin assembly. Although the presence of the nonhelical head domains is essential for proper tetramer stabilization, the precise alignment of the dimers forming the tetramer appears to depend on the complementarity of their surface charge distribution patterns, while the structural plasticity of linker L1 and coil 1A plays a role in the subsequent IF assembly process.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Laboratory for Biocrystallography, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Macromolecules

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Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details
Vimentin	A, B	86	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: VIM
Find proteins for P08670 (Homo sapiens) Go to Gene View: VIM Go to UniProtKB:  P08670

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION
• Resolution: 1.7 Å
• R-Value Free: 0.272 
• R-Value Work: 0.232 
• Space Group: P 1 2₁ 1

Unit Cell:

Length (Å)	Angle (°)
a = 40.150	α = 90.00
b = 54.460	β = 109.75
c = 44.090	γ = 90.00

Software Package:

Software Name	Purpose
SHELX	phasing
XSCALE	data scaling
PHENIX	refinement
XDS	data reduction
SHELXD	phasing
PDB_EXTRACT	data extraction
ADSC	data collection

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2011-07-14 
• Released Date: 2012-08-15 
• Deposition Author(s): Chernyatina, A.A., Strelkov, S.V.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2012-08-15
  Type: Initial release
• Version 1.1: 2013-07-03
  Type: Database references