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Myosin, the actin motor protein, has an extended coiled-coil domain necessary for the assembly of the muscle thick filaments [ 7 ] . Kinesin and dynein, two microtubule motor proteins, also contain coiled-coil domains [ 8 9 ] .
At least one AKAP, AKAP 450 is a large coiled-coil protein attaching PKA to the centrosome [ 19 ] .
Its full sequence is presently not known but a partial open reading frame of 268 amino acids has been constructed [ 40 ] . The near-perfect 144 amino acids repeats contain two coiled-coil domains each.
MFP1 contains an extended coiled-coil domain and is located at the nuclear periphery of tobacco suspension culture cells [ 24 25 ] . The carrot protein NMCP1 is also located at the nuclear rim and has been shown to migrate to the spindle poles in dividing carrot suspension culture cells [ 26 27 ] . The cellular function of these plant proteins is not known.
The conformational change of the protein necessary for membrane fusion is driven by ionic interactions between residues of the coiled-coil domain, and Glu74, the last amino acid aligning to motif I, is involved in this process [ 1 ] . In light of their putative interaction with the nuclear envelope-associated protein MAF1, it will be interesting to investigate if FPPs are associated with membrane systems of the plant cell.