Publication Date:
2007-08-25
Description:
Proteins containing membrane attack complex/perforin (MACPF) domains play important roles in vertebrate immunity, embryonic development, and neural-cell migration. In vertebrates, the ninth component of complement and perforin form oligomeric pores that lyse bacteria and kill virus-infected cells, respectively. However, the mechanism of MACPF function is unknown. We determined the crystal structure of a bacterial MACPF protein, Plu-MACPF from Photorhabdus luminescens, to 2.0 angstrom resolution. The MACPF domain reveals structural similarity with poreforming cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs) from Gram-positive bacteria. This suggests that lytic MACPF proteins may use a CDC-like mechanism to form pores and disrupt cell membranes. Sequence similarity between bacterial and vertebrate MACPF domains suggests that the fold of the CDCs, a family of proteins important for bacterial pathogenesis, is probably used by vertebrates for defense against infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rosado, Carlos J -- Buckle, Ashley M -- Law, Ruby H P -- Butcher, Rebecca E -- Kan, Wan-Ting -- Bird, Catherina H -- Ung, Kheng -- Browne, Kylie A -- Baran, Katherine -- Bashtannyk-Puhalovich, Tanya A -- Faux, Noel G -- Wong, Wilson -- Porter, Corrine J -- Pike, Robert N -- Ellisdon, Andrew M -- Pearce, Mary C -- Bottomley, Stephen P -- Emsley, Jonas -- Smith, A Ian -- Rossjohn, Jamie -- Hartland, Elizabeth L -- Voskoboinik, Ilia -- Trapani, Joseph A -- Bird, Phillip I -- Dunstone, Michelle A -- Whisstock, James C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Sep 14;317(5844):1548-51. Epub 2007 Aug 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17717151" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Motifs
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Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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Complement Membrane Attack Complex/chemistry/metabolism
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Cytotoxins/chemistry
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Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Perforin
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Photorhabdus/*chemistry
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Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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*Protein Conformation
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*Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Vertebrates
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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