1z1y
From Proteopedia
Crystal structure of Methylated Pvs25, an ookinete protein from Plasmodium vivax
Overview
P25 and P28 proteins are essential for Plasmodium parasites to infect mosquitoes and are leading candidates for a transmission-blocking malaria vaccine. The Plasmodium vivax P25 is a triangular prism that could tile the parasite surface. The residues forming the triangle are conserved in P25 and P28 from all Plasmodium species. A cocrystal structure shows that a transmission-blocking antibody uses only its heavy chain to bind Pvs25 at a vertex of the triangle.
About this Structure
1Z1Y is a Single protein structure of sequence from Plasmodium vivax. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
The essential mosquito-stage P25 and P28 proteins from Plasmodium form tile-like triangular prisms., Saxena AK, Singh K, Su HP, Klein MM, Stowers AW, Saul AJ, Long CA, Garboczi DN, Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2006 Jan;13(1):90-1. Epub 2005 Dec 4. PMID:16327807 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 17:05:18 2008
