Structural highlights
Disease
[PROP_HUMAN] Defects in CFP are the cause of properdin deficiency (PFD) [MIM:312060]. PFD results in higher susceptibility to bacterial infections; especially to meningococcal infections. Three phenotypes have been reported: complete deficiency (type I), incomplete deficiency (type II), and dysfunction of properdin (type III).[1] [2] [3]
Function
[PROP_HUMAN] A positive regulator of the alternate pathway of complement. It binds to and stabilizes the C3- and C5-convertase enzyme complexes.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Properdin regulates the alternative pathway of the complement system of immune defence by stabilising the C3 convertase complex. It contains six thrombospondin repeat type I (TSR-1 to TSR-6) domains and an N-terminal domain. Properdin exists as either a dimer, trimer or tetramer. In order to determine the solution structure of multiple TSR domains, the molecular structures of dimeric and trimeric properdin were studied by X-ray scattering and analytical ultracentrifugation. Guinier analyses showed that the dimer and trimer have radii of gyration R(G) values of 7.5 nm and 10.3 nm, respectively, and cross-sectional radii of gyration R(XS) values of 1.3 nm and 1.5 nm, respectively. Distance distribution functions showed that the maximum lengths of the dimer and trimer were 25 nm and 30 nm, respectively. Analytical ultracentrifugation gave sedimentation coefficients of 5.1S and 5.2S for the dimer and trimer forms, respectively. Homology models for the TSR domains were constructed using the crystal structure of the TSP-2 and TSP-3 domains in human thrombospondin as templates. Properdin could be represented by seven TSR domains, not six as believed, since the crystal structure determined for TSP-2 and TSP-3 showed that the N-terminal domain (TSR-0) could be represented by a truncated TSR domain with the same six conserved Cys residues found in TSR-1 to TSR-6. Automated constrained molecular modelling revealed the solution conformations of multiple TSR domains in properdin at medium resolution. The comparison of 3125 systematically generated conformational models for the trimer with the X-ray data showed that good curve fits could be obtained by assuming that the linker between adjacent TSR domains possessed limited flexibility. Good trimer models correspond to partially collapsed triangular structures, and extended triangular shapes do not fit the data. The corresponding 3125 models for the dimer revealed a similar outcome in which a partially collapsed TSR structure gave good fits. The models account for the effect of mutations that cause properdin deficiencies, and suggest that the biologically active TSR-4, TSR-5 and TSR-6 domains are exposed for protein-protein interactions. The role of the other TSR domains in properdin may be to act as spacers to make TSR-4, TSR-5 and TSR-6 accessible for function.
The dimeric and trimeric solution structures of the multidomain complement protein properdin by X-ray scattering, analytical ultracentrifugation and constrained modelling.,Sun Z, Reid KB, Perkins SJ J Mol Biol. 2004 Nov 5;343(5):1327-43. PMID:15491616[4]
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References
- ↑ Fredrikson GN, Westberg J, Kuijper EJ, Tijssen CC, Sjoholm AG, Uhlen M, Truedsson L. Molecular characterization of properdin deficiency type III: dysfunction produced by a single point mutation in exon 9 of the structural gene causing a tyrosine to aspartic acid interchange. J Immunol. 1996 Oct 15;157(8):3666-71. PMID:8871668
- ↑ Fredrikson GN, Gullstrand B, Westberg J, Sjoholm AG, Uhlen M, Truedsson L. Expression of properdin in complete and incomplete deficiency: normal in vitro synthesis by monocytes in two cases with properdin deficiency type II due to distinct mutations. J Clin Immunol. 1998 Jul;18(4):272-82. PMID:9710744
- ↑ van den Bogaard R, Fijen CA, Schipper MG, de Galan L, Kuijper EJ, Mannens MM. Molecular characterisation of 10 Dutch properdin type I deficient families: mutation analysis and X-inactivation studies. Eur J Hum Genet. 2000 Jul;8(7):513-8. PMID:10909851 doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200496
- ↑ Sun Z, Reid KB, Perkins SJ. The dimeric and trimeric solution structures of the multidomain complement protein properdin by X-ray scattering, analytical ultracentrifugation and constrained modelling. J Mol Biol. 2004 Nov 5;343(5):1327-43. PMID:15491616 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.001
