Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

CryoEM structure of the super-constricted two-start dynamin 1 filament

  • Jiwei Liu,
  • Frances Joan D. Alvarez,
  • Daniel K. Clare,
  • Jeffrey K. Noel,
  • Peijun Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25741-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Dynamin mediates the fission of vesicles during endocytosis. Here, the authors report the cryoEM structure of a super-constricted two-start dynamin 1 filament- one of the two known helical forms of dynamin, with insights into the molecular mechanisms of dynamin-mediated membrane scission.