5WHF: Vimentin

Crystal structure of vimentin coil 1B packed in a high-order filamentous form. Determined by X-ray diffraction at 2.25 Å resolution. Released 20 Jun 2018.

Method
X-ray diffraction
Resolution
2.25 Å
Organism
Homo sapiens
Chains
8
Atoms
5,467
Mol. weight
86.66 kDa
Released
20 Jun 2018

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Secondary structure: helices and β-sheets

5WHF contains 9 α-helices and 0 β-strands across 8 chains. Residue ranges use author residue numbering, as in the PDB file, from PDBe. To see them in 3D, choose the Cartoon representation with Secondary structure coloring: helices, sheets and coils get different colors.

Chains A, D and H: 1 helix, 0 β-strands

ElementResiduesLengthSheet
α-helix154-23582
Chain B: 1 helix, 0 β-strands
ElementResiduesLengthSheet
α-helix156-23479
Chain C: 1 helix, 0 β-strands
ElementResiduesLengthSheet
α-helix150-23586
Chain E: 2 helices, 0 β-strands
ElementResiduesLengthSheet
α-helix153-20351
α-helix207-23428
Chain F: 1 helix, 0 β-strands
ElementResiduesLengthSheet
α-helix153-23482
Chain G: 1 helix, 0 β-strands
ElementResiduesLengthSheet
α-helix151-23585

Molecules and chains

MoleculeChainsTypeLengthOrganismUniProt
VimentinA, B, C, D, E, F, G, Hprotein90Homo sapiensP08670 (AlphaFold model)
Sequence of entity 1 (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H), FASTA
>5WHF_1 Vimentin (chains A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H)
GPHMEMRELRRQVDQLTNDKARVEVERDNLAEDIMRLREKLQEEMLQREEAENTLQSFRQ
DVDNASLARLDLERKVESLQEEIAFLKKLH

Primary citation

A crystal structure of coil 1B of vimentin in the filamentous form provides a model of a high-order assembly of a vimentin filament. Pang, A.H., Obiero, J.M., Kulczyk, A.W. et al. FEBS J (2018) 285:2888-2899. DOI 10.1111/febs.14585 · PubMed

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