Publication Date:
1994-07-15
Description:
The tailspike protein (TSP) of Salmonella typhimurium phage P22 is a part of the apparatus by which the phage attaches to the bacterial host and hydrolyzes the O antigen. It has served as a model system for genetic and biochemical analysis of protein folding. The x-ray structure of a shortened TSP (residues 109 to 666) was determined to a 2.0 angstrom resolution. Each subunit of the homotrimer contains a large parallel beta helix. The interdigitation of the polypeptide chains at the carboxyl termini is important to protrimer formation in the folding pathway and to thermostability of the mature protein.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Steinbacher, S -- Seckler, R -- Miller, S -- Steipe, B -- Huber, R -- Reinemer, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 15;265(5170):383-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie, Abteilung Strukturforschung, Martinsried, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8023158" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Bacteriophage P22
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Computer Graphics
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Crystallization
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Glycoside Hydrolases/*chemistry/genetics
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Models, Molecular
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Point Mutation
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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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Viral Proteins/*chemistry/genetics
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*Viral Tail Proteins
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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