Structural highlights
Function
[USO1_HUMAN] General vesicular transport factor required for intercisternal transport in the Golgi stack; it is required for transcytotic fusion and/or subsequent binding of the vesicles to the target membrane. May well act as a vesicular anchor by interacting with the target membrane and holding the vesicular and target membranes in proximity (By similarity).
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The golgin family gives identity and structure to the Golgi apparatus and is part of a complex protein network at the Golgi membrane. The golgin p115 is targeted by the GTPase Rab1a, contains a large globular head region and a long region of coiled-coil which forms an extended rod-like structure. p115 serves as vesicle tethering factor and plays an important role at different steps of vesicular transport. Here we present the 2.2 A-resolution X-ray structure of the globular head region of p115. The structure exhibits an armadillo fold that is decorated by elongated loops and carries a C-terminal non-canonical repeat. This terminal repeat folds into the armadillo superhelical groove and allows homodimeric association with important implications for p115 mediated multiple protein interactions and tethering.
Unusual armadillo fold in the human general vesicular transport factor p115.,Striegl H, Roske Y, Kummel D, Heinemann U PLoS ONE. 2009;4(2):e4656. Epub 2009 Feb 27. PMID:19247479[1]
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References
- ↑ Striegl H, Roske Y, Kummel D, Heinemann U. Unusual armadillo fold in the human general vesicular transport factor p115. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(2):e4656. Epub 2009 Feb 27. PMID:19247479 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004656
