Vizcarra Christina L, Quinlan Margot E
Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, New York, NY 10027.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
J Cell Biol. 2017 May 1;216(5):1211-1213. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201702165. Epub 2017 Apr 17.
Competing models have been proposed for actin filament nucleation by the bacterial proteins VopL/F. In this issue, Burke et al. (2017. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201608104) use direct observation to demonstrate that VopL/F bind the barbed and pointed ends of actin filaments but only nucleate new filaments from the pointed end.
关于细菌蛋白VopL/F介导肌动蛋白丝成核作用,已经提出了多种相互竞争的模型。在本期杂志中,伯克等人(2017年。https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201608104)通过直接观察证明,VopL/F可结合肌动蛋白丝的尖端和尾端,但仅从尾端形成新的肌动蛋白丝。