The UNC-45 myosin chaperone: from worms to flies to vertebrates.

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Abstract

  • UNC-45 (uncoordinated mutant number 45) is a UCS (UNC-45, CRO1, She4p) domain protein that is critical for myosin stability and function. It likely aides in folding myosin during cellular differentiation and maintenance, and protects myosin from denaturation during stress. Invertebrates have a single unc-45 gene that is expressed in both muscle and nonmuscle tissues. Vertebrates possess one gene expressed in striated muscle (unc-45b) and another that is more generally expressed (unc-45a). Structurally, UNC-45 is composed of a series of α-helices connected by loops. It has an N-terminal tetratricopeptide repeat domain that binds to Hsp90 and a central domain composed of armadillo repeats. Its C-terminal UCS domain, which is also comprised of helical armadillo repeats, interacts with myosin. In this chapter, we present biochemical, structural, and genetic analyses of UNC-45 in Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, and various vertebrates. Further, we provide insights into UNC-45 functions, its potential mechanism of action, and its roles in human disease.

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  • Chaperone, Hsp90, Muscle, Myosin, TPR domain, UCS protein, UNC-45, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Caenorhabditis elegans, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins, Crystallography, X-Ray, Drosophila Proteins, Drosophila melanogaster, Humans, Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, Mice, Models, Molecular, Molecular Chaperones, Molecular Sequence Data, Muscle Proteins, Mutation, Myosins, Protein Conformation, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Structure-Activity Relationship, Xenopus, Xenopus Proteins, Zebrafish, Zebrafish Proteins

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  • 19233668

    • Author List

  • Lee CF; Melkani GC; Bernstein SI

    • Start Page

  • 103

    • End Page

  • 144

    • Volume

  • 313