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Padrick, Shae B.
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Cheng, Hui-Chun
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Cheng, Hui-Chun
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Ismail, Ayman M.
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Ismail, Ayman M.
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Panchal, Sanjay C.
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Panchal, Sanjay C.
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Doolittle, Lynda K.
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Doolittle, Lynda K.
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Kim, Soyeon
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Kim, Soyeon
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Skehan, Brian M.
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Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Dept Mol Genet & Microbiol, Worcester, MA 01655 USAUniv Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Howard Hughes Med Inst, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
Skehan, Brian M.
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Umetani, Junko
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Umetani, Junko
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Brautigam, Chad A.
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Brautigam, Chad A.
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Leong, John M.
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Leong, John M.
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Rosen, Michael K.
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Rosen, Michael K.
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[2] Univ Texas SW Med Ctr Dallas, Dept Biochem, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
[3] Univ Massachusetts, Sch Med, Dept Mol Genet & Microbiol, Worcester, MA 01655 USA
Members of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family control actin dynamics in eukaryotic cells by stimulating the actin nucleating activity of the Arp2/3 complex. The prevailing paradigm for WASP regulation invokes allosteric relief of autoinhibition by diverse upstream activators. Here we demonstrate an additional level of regulation that is superimposed upon allostery: dimerization increases the affinity of active WASP species for Arp2/3 complex by up to 180-fold, greatly enhancing actin assembly by this system. This finding explains a large and apparently disparate set of observations under a common mechanistic framework. These include WASP activation by the bacterial effector EspFu and a large number of SH3 domain proteins, the effects on WASP of membrane localization/clustering and assembly into large complexes, and cooperativity between different family members. Allostery and dimerization act in hierarchical fashion, enabling WASP/WAVE proteins to integrate different classes of inputs to produce a wide range of cellular actin responses.