Actinin alpha

Wallraff, E., Schleicher, M., Modersitzki. M Reiger, D., Isenberg, G., Gerish, G. (1986). Selection of Dictyostelium mutants defective in cytoskeletal protein Use of an antibody that binds to the ends of alpha-actinin rods. EMBO J. 5,61-67. 

Beilin, R. M., Sernett, S. W., Becker, B., Ip, W., Huiatt, T. W., and Robson, R. M. (1999). Molecular characteristics and interactions of the intermediate filament protein synemin. Interactions with alpha-actinin may anchor synemin-containing heterofilaments./. Biol. Chem. 274, 29493-29499. 

Atkinson, R. A., Joseph, C., Kelly, G., Muskett, F. W., Frenkiel, T. A., Niedispach, D., and Pastore, A. (2001). Ca2+-independent binding of an EF-hand domain to a novel motif in the alpha-actinin-titin complex. Nat. Struct. Biol. 8, 853-857. 

Blanchard, A., Ohanian, V., and Critchley, D. (1989). The structure and function of alpha-actinin. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 10, 280-289. 

Byers, T. J., Husain-Chishti, A., Dubreuil, R. R., Branton, D., and Goldstein, L. S. (1989). Sequence similarity of the amino-terminal domain of Drosophila beta spectrin to alpha actinin and dystrophin./. Cell Biol. 109, 1633-1641. 

Davison, M. D., and Critchley, D. R. (1988). Alpha-actinins and the DMD protein contain spectrin-like repeats. Cell 52, 159-160. 

Fukami, K., Furuhashi, K., Inagaki, M., Endo, T., Hatano, S., and Takenawa, T. (1992). Requirement of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate for alpha-actinin function. Nature 359, 150-152. 

Lazarides, E., and Burridge, K. (1975). Alpha-actinin Immunoflourescent localisation of a muscle structural protein in nonmuscle cells. Cell 6, 289-298. 

Lebart, M. C., Mejean, C., Boyer, M., Roustan, C., and Benyamin, Y. (1990). Localization of a new alpha-actinin binding site in the COOH-terminal part of actin sequence. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 173, 120-126. 

Liu, J., Taylor, D. W., and Taylor, K. A. (2004). A 3-D reconstruction of smooth muscle alpha-actinin by CryoEm reveals two different conformations at the actin-binding region. / Mol. Biol. 338, 115-125. 

Luther, P. K. (2000). Three-dimensional structure of a vertebrate muscle Z-band Implications for titin and alpha-actinin binding./. Struct. Biol. 129, 1-16. 

McGough, A., Way, M., and DeRosier, D. (1994). Determination of the alpha-actinin-binding site on actin filaments by cryoelectron microscopy and image analysis. 

Mimura, N., and Asano, A. (1987). Further characterization of a conserved actin-binding 27-kDa fragment of actinogelin and alpha-actinins and mapping of their binding sites on the actin molecule by chemical cross-linking. J. Biol. Chem. 262, 4717-4723. 

Noegel, A., Witke, W., and Schleicher, M. (1987). Calcium-sensitive non-muscle alpha-actinin contains EF-hand structures and highly conserved regions. FEBS Lett. 221, 391-396. 

Otey, C. A., and Carpen, O. (2004). Alpha-actinin revisited A fresh look at an old player. Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 58, 104-111. 

Otey, C. A., Pavalko, F. M., and Burridge, K. (1990). An interaction between alpha-actinin and the beta 1 integrin subunit in vitro. J. Cell Biol. Ill, 721-729. 

Smoyer, W. E., Mundel, P., Gupta, A., and Welsh, M. J. (1997). Podocyte alpha-actinin induction precedes foot process effacement in experimental nephrotic syndrome. Am.J. Physiol. 273, F150-157. 

Viel, A. (1999). Alpha-actinin and spectrin structures An unfolding family story. FEBS Lett. 460, 391-394. 

Virel, A., and Backman, L. (2004). Molecular evolution and structure of alpha-actinin. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21, 1024-1031. 

Way, M., Pope, B., and Weeds, A. G. (1992). Evidence for functional homology in the F-actin binding domains of gelsolin and alpha-actinin Implications for the requirements of severing and capping. J. Cell Biol. 119, 835-842. 

Ylanne, J., Scheffzek, K., Young, P., and Saraste, M. (2001a). Crystal structure of the alpha-actinin rod reveals an extensive torsional twist. Structure 9, 597-604. 

Young, P., Ferguson, C., Banuelos, S., and Gautel, M. (1998). Molecular structure of the sarcomeric Z-disk Two types of titin interactions lead to an asymmetrical sorting of alpha-actinin. EMBOJ. 17, 1614-1624. 

Way, M., B. Pope, and A. Weeds. 1991. Molecular biology of actin binding proteins evidence for a common structural domain in the F-actin binding sites of gelsolin and alpha-actinin. J Cell Sci Suppl. 14 91-4. 

Sadeghi, A., Doyle, A.D., and Johnson, B.D., 2002, Regulation of the cardiac L-type Ca2+ channel by the actin-binding proteins alpha-actinin and dystrophin, Am J Physiol Cell Physiol, 282, pp C1502-1511. 

Franzot, G., Sjoblom, B., Gautel, M., and Djinovic Carugo, K. (2005). The crystal structure of the actin binding domain from alpha-actinin in its closed conformation Structural insight into phospholipid regulation of alpha-actinin. /. Mol. Biol. 348, 151-165. 

Zhou, Q., Ruiz-Lozano, P., Martone, M. E., and Chen, J. (1999). Cypher, a striated muscle-restricted PDZ and LIM domain-containing protein, binds to alpha-actinin-2 and protein kinase C./ Biol. Chem. 274, 19807-19813. 

Z-repeats interact in vitro with alpha-actinin (Sorimachi et al., 1997). Ultrastructurally, the titin Z-repeats are inside the Z-line lattice (Gregorio et al., 1998). 

Sorimachi, H., Freiburg, A., and Kolmerer, B. (1997). Tissue-specific expression and alpha-actinin binding properties of the Z-disc titin Implications for the nature of vertebrate Z-discs./. Mol. Biol. 270, 688-695. 

Young, P., and Gautel, M. (2000). The interaction of titin and alpha-actinin is controlled by a phospholipid-regulated intramolecular pseudoligand mechanism. EMBOJ. 19, 6331-6340. 

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