Structural highlights
Function
[FMM1_NEIGO] This protein is the predominant Neisseria surface antigen, which allows adhesion of the bacterium to various host cells.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The crystallographic structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin, which assembles into the multifunctional pilus adhesion and virulence factor, reveals an alpha-beta roll fold with a striking 85 A alpha-helical spine and an O-linked disaccharide. Key residues stabilize interactions that allow sequence hypervariability, responsible for pilin's celebrated antigenic variation, within disulphide region beta-strands and connections. Pilin surface shape, hydrophobicity and sequence variation constrain pilus assembly to the packing of flat subunit faces against alpha 1 helices. Helical fibre assembly is postulated to form a core of coiled alpha 1 helices banded by beta-sheet, leaving carbohydrate and hypervariable sequence regions exposed to solvent.
Structure of the fibre-forming protein pilin at 2.6 A resolution.,Parge HE, Forest KT, Hickey MJ, Christensen DA, Getzoff ED, Tainer JA Nature. 1995 Nov 2;378(6552):32-8. PMID:7477282[1]
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See Also
References
- ↑ Parge HE, Forest KT, Hickey MJ, Christensen DA, Getzoff ED, Tainer JA. Structure of the fibre-forming protein pilin at 2.6 A resolution. Nature. 1995 Nov 2;378(6552):32-8. PMID:7477282 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/378032a0
