Membrane binding of a cyanobacterial ESCRT-III protein crucially involves the helix α1-3 hairpin conserved in all superfamily members
Lukas Schlösser, Mirka Kutzner, Nadja Hellmann, Denis Kiesewetter, Julia Bieber, Ndjali Quarta, Xingwu Ge, Tom Alexander Goetze, Benedikt Junglas, Fumiki Matsumura, Mischa Bonn, Frauke Gräter, Carsten Sachse, Lu‐Ning Liu, Carla Schmidt, , Dirk Schneider
The paper shows IM30 binds membranes via a conserved helical hairpin, initiating assembly into higher-order structures that mediate membrane remodeling, revealing a conserved mechanism across ESCRT-III superfamily members.
Protein Science · Nov 21, 2025Peer-reviewedBiochemistry