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Structural basis of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion.

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Cell-cell fusion proteins are essential in development. Here we show that the C. elegans cell-cell fusion protein EFF-1 is structurally homologous to viral class II fusion proteins. The 2.6 Å crystal structure of the EFF-1 trimer displays the same 3D fold and quaternary conformation of postfusion class II viral fusion proteins, although it lacks a nonpolar "fusion loop," indicating that it does not insert into the target membrane. EFF-1 was previously shown to be required in both cells for fusion, and we show that blocking EFF-1 trimerization blocks the fusion reaction. Together, these data suggest that whereas membrane fusion driven by viral proteins entails leveraging of a nonpolar loop, EFF-1-driven fusion of cells entails trans-trimerization such that transmembrane segments anchored in the two opposing membranes are brought into contact at the tip of the EFF-1 trimer to then, analogous to SNARE-mediated vesicle fusion, zip the two membranes into one.

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hal-01132332 , version 1 (17-03-2015)

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Jimena Pérez-Vargas, Thomas Krey, Clari Valansi, Ori Avinoam, Ahmed Haouz, et al.. Structural basis of eukaryotic cell-cell fusion.. Cell, 2014, 157 (2), pp.407-19. ⟨10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.020⟩. ⟨hal-01132332⟩
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