Symmetry Breaking in Homo-Oligomers: The Curious Case of Mega-Hemocyanin

Garcia Seisdedos, Hector; Steinberg, Avital; Levy, Emmanuel

doi:10.1016/j.str.2014.12.006

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Symmetry Breaking in Homo-Oligomers: The Curious Case of Mega-Hemocyanin

ContributorsGarcia Seisdedos, Hector; Steinberg, Avital; Levy, Emmanuel

Published inStructure, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 3-5

Publication date2015-01-06

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Mega-hemocyanin is a 13.5 MDa oxygen transporter found in snails. It is built from three stacked rings involving ten subunits each. The cryo-EM structure of the complex presented by Gatsogiannis and colleagues in this issue of Structure revealed an unexpected breaking of 5-fold symmetry in the central ring and a nonequivalent packing of the subunits.

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GARCIA SEISDEDOS, Hector, STEINBERG, Avital, LEVY, Emmanuel. Symmetry Breaking in Homo-Oligomers: The Curious Case of Mega-Hemocyanin. In: Structure, 2015, vol. 23, n° 1, p. 3–5. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2014.12.006

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PID : unige:177837
DOI : 10.1016/j.str.2014.12.006
PMID : 25565100

Additional URL for this publicationhttps://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0969212614004043

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