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2qk7
From Proteopedia
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| , resolution 2.40Å | |||||||
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| Gene: | hlgA, hlg2 (Staphylococcus aureus), hlgB (Staphylococcus aureus) | ||||||
| Related: | 1LKF, 2LKF, 3LKF, 1PVL, 1T5R
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||
A covalent S-F heterodimer of staphylococcal gamma-hemolysin
Overview
Staphylococcal leucotoxins, leucocidins, and gamma-hemolysins are bicomponent beta-barrel pore-forming toxins (beta-PFTs). Their production is associated with several clinical diseases. They have cytotoxic activity due to the synergistic action of a class S component and a class F component, which are secreted as water-soluble monomers and form hetero-oligomeric transmembrane pores, causing the lysis of susceptible cells. Structural information is currently available for the monomeric S and F proteins and the homoheptamer formed by the related alpha-hemolysin. These structures illustrate the start and end points in the mechanistic framework of beta-PFT assembly. Only limited structural data exist for the intermediate stages, including hetero-oligomeric complexes of leucotoxins. We investigated the protein-protein interactions responsible for maintaining the final bipartite molecular architecture and describe here the high-resolution crystal structure and low-resolution solution structure of a site-specific cross-linked heterodimer of gamma-hemolysin (HlgA T28C-HlgB N156C), which were solved by X-ray crystallography and small angle X-ray scattering, respectively. These structures reveal a molecular plasticity of beta-PFTs, which may facilitate the transition from membrane-bound monomers to heterodimers. Proteins 2008. (c) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
About this Structure
2QK7 is a Protein complex structure of sequences from Staphylococcus aureus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
A covalent S-F heterodimer of leucotoxin reveals molecular plasticity of beta-barrel pore-forming toxins., Roblin P, Guillet V, Joubert O, Keller D, Erard M, Maveyraud L, Prevost G, Mourey L, Proteins. 2008 Jan 23;71(1):485-496. PMID:18214982
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