Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Crystal structures of the ATP-binding and ADP-release dwells of the V1 rotary motor

  • Kano Suzuki,
  • Kenji Mizutani,
  • Shintaro Maruyama,
  • Kazumi Shimono,
  • Fabiana L. Imai,
  • Eiro Muneyuki,
  • Yoshimi Kakinuma,
  • Yoshiko Ishizuka-Katsura,
  • Mikako Shirouzu,
  • Shigeyuki Yokoyama,
  • Ichiro Yamato,
  • Takeshi Murata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13235
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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V1-ATPases are rotary molecular motors that are powered by ATP hydrolysis. Here, the authors report two of the missing rotary states of this protein complex, and perform biochemical analysis to investigate the binding mode of the nucleotides.