ESCRT Filaments as Spiral Springs

Lars-Anders Carlson¹, Qing-Tao Shen¹, Mark Remec Pavlin², James H Hurley³

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¹ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Biophysics Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
³ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: jimhurley@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 26609952
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.11.007

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ESCRT Filaments as Spiral Springs

Lars-Anders Carlson et al. Dev Cell. 2015.

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. 2015 Nov 23;35(4):397-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.11.007.

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Lars-Anders Carlson¹, Qing-Tao Shen¹, Mark Remec Pavlin², James H Hurley³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
² Biophysics Graduate Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
³ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Electronic address: jimhurley@berkeley.edu.

PMID: 26609952
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.11.007

Abstract

In a recent issue of Cell, Chiaruttini et al. (2015) reveal the mechanical properties of the mysterious spiral filaments formed by the yeast ESCRT-III protein Snf7. The spirals are shown to be springs whose bending drives membrane deformation and perhaps membrane scission.

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Relaxation of Loaded ESCRT-III Spiral Springs Drives Membrane Deformation.
Chiaruttini N, Redondo-Morata L, Colom A, Humbert F, Lenz M, Scheuring S, Roux A. Chiaruttini N, et al. Cell. 2015 Nov 5;163(4):866-79. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.017. Epub 2015 Oct 29. Cell. 2015. PMID: 26522593 Free PMC article.

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