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A structural basis for the pH-dependence of cofilin. F-actin interactions.

A marked pH-dependent interaction with F-actin is an important property of typical members of the actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin family of abundant actin-binding proteins. ADF/cofilins tend to bind to F-actin with a ratio of 1 : 1 at pH values around 6.5, and to G-actin at pH 8. 0. We have investigated the mechanism for the pH-sensitivity. We found no evidence for pH-dependent changes in the structure of cofilin itself, nor for the interaction of cofilin with G-actin. None of the actin-derived, cofilin-binding peptides that we had previously identified [Renoult, C., Ternent, D., Maciver, S.K., Fattoum, A., Astier, C., Benyamin, Y. & Roustan, C. (1999) J. Biol. Chem. 274, 28893-28899] bound cofilin in a pH-sensitive manner. However, we have detected a conformational change in region 75-105 in the actin subdomain 1 by the use of a peptide-directed antibody. A pH-dependent conformational change has also been detected spectroscopically in a similar peptide (84-103) on binding to cofilin. These results are consistent with a model in which pH-dependent motion of subdomain 1 relative to subdomain 2 (through region 75-105) of actin reveals a second cofilin binding site on actin (centered around region 112-125) that allows ADF/cofilin association with the actin filament. This motion requires salt in addition to low pH.[1]

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  1. A structural basis for the pH-dependence of cofilin. F-actin interactions. Blondin, L., Sapountzi, V., Maciver, S.K., Lagarrigue, E., Benyamin, Y., Roustan, C. Eur. J. Biochem. (2002) [Pubmed]
 
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