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Nearly all intermediate filament proteins exhibit a highly conserved amino acid motif (YRKLLEGEE) at the C-terminal end of their central alpha-helical rod domain which has been shown to be crucial for the formation of authentic tetrameric complexes and for the control of filament width [ 43 ] .
All open reading frames are characterized by extended alpha-helical and coiled-coil domains.
The second CASP showed some improvement in two areas: In comparative modelling, loops were being built better, and the use of hand-inspected alignments greatly increased model accuracy [ 17 ] . In the fold recognition category, alignments as well as prediction of folds improved [ 18 ] . The results in the ab initio category remained virtually unchanged except for one model of the alpha-helical protein NK-Lysin predicted to within 6.0 Å C α RMSD, capturing the correct topology [ 19 ] .
Secondary structure prediction algorithms showed that it is organized almost entirely in alpha-helical domains and contains extensive stretches of coiled-coil domains (Fig.