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Title | Implications for tetraspanin-enriched microdomain assembly based on structures of CD9 with EWI-F. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Life Sci Alliance, Vol. 3, Issue 11, Year 2020 |
Publish date | Sep 21, 2020 |
![]() | Wout Oosterheert / Katerina T Xenaki / Viviana Neviani / Wouter Pos / Sofia Doulkeridou / Jip Manshande / Nicholas M Pearce / Loes Mj Kroon-Batenburg / Martin Lutz / Paul Mp van Bergen En Henegouwen / Piet Gros / ![]() |
PubMed Abstract | Tetraspanins are eukaryotic membrane proteins that contribute to a variety of signaling processes by organizing partner-receptor molecules in the plasma membrane. How tetraspanins bind and cluster ...Tetraspanins are eukaryotic membrane proteins that contribute to a variety of signaling processes by organizing partner-receptor molecules in the plasma membrane. How tetraspanins bind and cluster partner receptors into tetraspanin-enriched microdomains is unknown. Here, we present crystal structures of the large extracellular loop of CD9 bound to nanobodies 4C8 and 4E8 and, the cryo-EM structure of 4C8-bound CD9 in complex with its partner EWI-F. CD9-EWI-F displays a tetrameric arrangement with two central EWI-F molecules, dimerized through their ectodomains, and two CD9 molecules, one bound to each EWI-F transmembrane helix through CD9-helices h3 and h4. In the crystal structures, nanobodies 4C8 and 4E8 bind CD9 at loops C and D, which is in agreement with the 4C8 conformation in the CD9-EWI-F complex. The complex varies from nearly twofold symmetric (with the two CD9 copies nearly anti-parallel) to ca. 50° bent arrangements. This flexible arrangement of CD9-EWI-F with potential CD9 homo-dimerization at either end provides a "concatenation model" for forming short linear or circular assemblies, which may explain the occurrence of tetraspanin-enriched microdomains. |
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Methods | EM (single particle) / X-ray diffraction |
Resolution | 1.33 - 8.6 Å |
Structure data | ![]() EMDB-11053: ![]() PDB-6rlr: ![]() PDB-6z1v: ![]() PDB-6z1z: ![]() PDB-6z20: |
Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-HOH: ![]() ChemComp-PGE: ![]() ChemComp-EDO: ![]() ChemComp-ACY: ![]() ChemComp-GOL: ![]() ChemComp-CL: |
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![]() | IMMUNE SYSTEM / CD9 antigen / tetraspanin / CELL ADHESION / Antibody-antigen complex / EC2 domain / nanobody / CD9-binding / CD9 |