Publication Date:
2005-02-26
Description:
Apical membrane antigen 1 from Plasmodium is a leading malaria vaccine candidate. The protein is essential for host-cell invasion, but its molecular function is unknown. The crystal structure of the three domains comprising the ectoplasmic region of the antigen from P. vivax, solved at 1.8 angstrom resolution, shows that domains I and II belong to the PAN motif, which defines a superfamily of protein folds implicated in receptor binding. We also mapped the epitope of an invasion-inhibitory monoclonal antibody specific for the P. falciparum ortholog and modeled this to the structure. The location of the epitope and current knowledge on structure-function correlations for PAN domains together suggest a receptor-binding role during invasion in which domain II plays a critical part. These results are likely to aid vaccine and drug design.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pizarro, Juan Carlos -- Vulliez-Le Normand, Brigitte -- Chesne-Seck, Marie-Laure -- Collins, Christine R -- Withers-Martinez, Chrislaine -- Hackett, Fiona -- Blackman, Michael J -- Faber, Bart W -- Remarque, Edmond J -- Kocken, Clemens H M -- Thomas, Alan W -- Bentley, Graham A -- MC_U117532063/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Apr 15;308(5720):408-11. Epub 2005 Feb 24.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Unite d'Immunologie Structurale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15731407" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Motifs
;
Amino Acid Sequence
;
Animals
;
Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
;
Antigens, Protozoan/*chemistry/immunology
;
Binding Sites
;
Crystallization
;
Crystallography, X-Ray
;
Epitope Mapping
;
Epitopes
;
Heparin/metabolism
;
Malaria Vaccines
;
Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/immunology
;
Models, Molecular
;
Molecular Sequence Data
;
Plasmodium falciparum/chemistry/immunology
;
Plasmodium vivax/chemistry/*immunology
;
Protein Conformation
;
Protein Folding
;
Protein Structure, Secondary
;
Protein Structure, Tertiary
;
Protozoan Proteins/*chemistry/immunology
;
Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
;
Sequence Alignment
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
,
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
Permalink
