TY  - JOUR
AU  - Premchandar, Aiswarya
AU  - Kupniewska, Anna
AU  - Tarnowski, Krzysztof
AU  - Mücke, Norbert
AU  - Mauermann, Monika
AU  - Kaus-Drobek, Magdalena
AU  - Edelman, Aleksander
AU  - Herrmann, Harald
AU  - Dadlez, Michał
TI  - Analysis of distinct molecular assembly complexes of keratin K8 and K18 by hydrogen-deuterium exchange.
JO  - Journal of structural biology
VL  - 192
IS  - 3
SN  - 1047-8477
CY  - San Diego, Calif.
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - DKFZ-2017-03345
SP  - 426 - 440
PY  - 2015
AB  - Keratins are intermediate filament (IF) proteins that form complex filament systems in epithelial cells, thus serving as scaffolding elements and mechanical stress absorbers. The building blocks of keratin IFs are parallel coiled-coil dimers of two distinct sequence-related proteins distinguished as type I and type II keratins. To gain more insight into their structural dynamics, we resorted to hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry of keratins K8 and K18, which are characteristic for simple epithelial cells. Using this powerful technique not employed with IFs before, we mapped patterns of protected versus unprotected regions in keratin complexes at various assembly levels. In particular, we localized protein segments exhibiting different hydrogen exchange patterns in tetramers versus filaments. We observed a general pattern of precisely positioned regions of stability intertwining with flexible regions, mostly represented by the non-α-helical segments. Notably, some regions within the coiled-coil domains are significantly more dynamic than others, while the IF-consensus motifs at the end domains of the central α-helical 'rod' segment, which mediate the 'head-to-tail' dimer-dimer interaction in the filament elongation process, become distinctly more protected upon formation of filaments. Moreover, to gain more insight into the dynamics of the individual keratins, we investigated the properties of homomeric preparations of K8 and K18. The physiological importance of keratins without a partner is encountered in both pathological and experimental situations when one of the two species is present in robust excess or completely absent, such as in gene-targeted mice.
KW  - Keratins (NLM Chemicals)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:26434626
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.jsb.2015.10.001
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/127320
ER  -