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. 2021 Apr 1;12:2034. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22110-6

Fig. 6. Interface between inner coat subunits.

Fig. 6

a The interface between neighbouring inner coat subunits viewed from the top. A dotted line defines the boundary between two protomers. b Enlarged view of the Sec23-Sar1 interface, with the modelled Sec23 17-residue L-loop in dark cyan. This loop is disordered in the X-ray structure, but becomes ordered in the lattice, mediating interactions with Sar1. Sigma threshold for contouring was set at 0.08 for (a, b). c GUV budding reconstitutions in the presence of wild-type Sec31 and Sec23 lacking the L-loop show straight tubules, similar to wild-type reactions. d Budding creates spherical profiles when Sec31 has all of its PPP sites mutated to alanine to further weaken inner coat assembly. e Floppy tubules form when, in addition to the conditions in ‘d’, Sec31 vertex interactions are destabilised with Nhis-Sec31. Scale bar 100 nm. Micrographs in (ce) are representative of experiments repeated at least three times.