ATP competes with PIP2 for binding to gelsolin.

Gelsolin is a severing and capping protein that targets filamentous actin and regulates filament lengths near plasma membranes, contributing to cell movement and plasma membrane morphology. Gelsolin binds to the plasma membrane via phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) in a state that cannot...

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Main Authors: Dávid Szatmári, Bo Xue, Balakrishnan Kannan, Leslie D Burtnick, Beáta Bugyi, Miklós Nyitrai, Robert C Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6080781?pdf=render