8a24

From Proteopedia

Lysophospholipase PlaA from Legionella pneumophila str. Corby - iodide soak

Structural highlights

8a24 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Legionella pneumophila str. Corby. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.36Å
Ligands:
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

A0A378KFD4_LEGPN

Publication Abstract from PubMed

Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of a life-threatening pneumonia, intracellularly replicates in a specialized compartment in lung macrophages, the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). Secreted proteins of the pathogen govern important steps in the intracellular life cycle including bacterial egress. Among these is the type II secreted PlaA which, together with PlaC and PlaD, belongs to the GDSL phospholipase family found in L. pneumophila. PlaA shows lysophospholipase A (LPLA) activity which increases after secretion and subsequent processing by the zinc metalloproteinase ProA within a disulfide loop. Activity of PlaA contributes to the destabilization of the LCV in the absence of the type IVB-secreted effector SdhA. We here present the 3D structure of PlaA which shows a typical alpha/beta-hydrolase fold and reveals that the uncleaved disulfide loop forms a lid structure covering the catalytic triad S30/D278/H282. This leads to reduction of substrate access before activation; however, the catalytic site gets more accessible when the disulfide loop is processed. After structural modeling, a similar activation process is suggested for the GDSL hydrolase PlaC, but not for PlaD. Furthermore, the size of the PlaA substrate-binding site indicated preference toward phospholipids comprising ~16 carbon fatty acid residues which was verified by lipid hydrolysis, suggesting a molecular ruler mechanism. Indeed, mutational analysis changed the substrate profile with respect to fatty acid chain length. In conclusion, our analysis revealed the structural basis for the regulated activation and substrate preference of PlaA.

Structure-function relationships underpin disulfide loop cleavage-dependent activation of Legionella pneumophila lysophospholipase A PlaA.,Hiller M, Diwo M, Wamp S, Gutsmann T, Lang C, Blankenfeldt W, Flieger A Mol Microbiol. 2024 Mar;121(3):497-512. doi: 10.1111/mmi.15201. Epub 2023 Dec 22. PMID:38130174^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

References

↑ Hiller M, Diwo M, Wamp S, Gutsmann T, Lang C, Blankenfeldt W, Flieger A. Structure-function relationships underpin disulfide loop cleavage-dependent activation of Legionella pneumophila lysophospholipase A PlaA. Mol Microbiol. 2024 Mar;121(3):497-512. PMID:38130174 doi:10.1111/mmi.15201