Structural highlights
Function
ENLYS_BPT4 Endolysin with lysozyme activity that degrades host peptidoglycans and participates with the holin and spanin proteins in the sequential events which lead to the programmed host cell lysis releasing the mature viral particles. Once the holin has permeabilized the host cell membrane, the endolysin can reach the periplasm and break down the peptidoglycan layer.[1]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
There are few, if any, known instances in which a biological signal is transmitted via a large conformational change through the body of a protein. We describe here a mutant of T4 lysozyme that was engineered to permit structural change at a distance. The design uses a tandem sequence repeat that makes it possible to transmit large-scale structural changes from one end of an alpha-helix to the other over a distance of 17-25 A. The method should be of general applicability and may make it possible to introduce a mutation at one site in a protein that will induce large-scale changes in the structure at a spatially remote site.
Long-distance conformational changes in a protein engineered by modulated sequence duplication.,Sagermann M, Gay L, Matthews BW Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Aug 5;100(16):9191-5. Epub 2003 Jul 17. PMID:12869697[2]
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See Also
References
- ↑ Moussa SH, Kuznetsov V, Tran TA, Sacchettini JC, Young R. Protein determinants of phage T4 lysis inhibition. Protein Sci. 2012 Apr;21(4):571-82. doi: 10.1002/pro.2042. Epub 2012 Mar 2. PMID:22389108 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pro.2042
- ↑ Sagermann M, Gay L, Matthews BW. Long-distance conformational changes in a protein engineered by modulated sequence duplication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Aug 5;100(16):9191-5. Epub 2003 Jul 17. PMID:12869697 doi:10.1073/pnas.1633549100
