| Primary Identifier | IPR043652 | Type | Domain |
| Short Name | CreS_coiled-coil |
| description | Crescentin (CreS) is a bacterial equivalent to Intermediate Filament (IF) proteins from eukaryotes. Its cytoskeletal function is required for the vibrioid and helical shapes of Caulobacter crescentus [, ]in which it was seen that without CreS, the cells adopt a straight-rod morphology. CreS, similarly to IF proteins, can assemble itself into filaments in vitro, with no need of energy or additional cofactors. In vivo, CreS forms a helical structure that colocalises with the inner cell curvatures beneath the cytoplasmic membrane []. CreS possesses the typical tripartite IF-like domain architecture found in IF proteins, which contains a coiled-coil rod domain interrupted by linker sequences and short head (N-terminal) and tail (C-terminal) domains [].This entry represents the coiled-coil region of crescentin found in alphaproteobacteria. |
