CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF SELF CAPPING PAPD CHAPERONE HOMODIMERSCRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF SELF CAPPING PAPD CHAPERONE HOMODIMERS

Structural highlights

1qpp is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia coli. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.6Å
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Evolutionary Conservation

 

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Publication Abstract from PubMed

PapD is an immunoglobulin-like chaperone that mediates the assembly of P pili in uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli. It binds and caps interactive surfaces on pilus subunits to prevent their premature associations in the periplasm. We elucidated the structural basis of a mechanism whereby PapD also interacts with itself, capping its own subunit binding surface. Crystal structures of dimeric forms of PapD revealed that this self-capping mechanism involves a rearrangement and ordering of the C2-D2 and F1-G1 loops upon dimerization which might ensure that a stable dimer is not formed in solution in spite of a relatively large dimer interface. An analysis of site directed mutations revealed that chaperone dimerization requires the same surface that is otherwise used to bind subunits.

Structural basis of chaperone self-capping in P pilus biogenesis.,Hung DL, Pinkner JS, Knight SD, Hultgren SJ Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Jul 6;96(14):8178-83. PMID:10393968[1]

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References

  1. Hung DL, Pinkner JS, Knight SD, Hultgren SJ. Structural basis of chaperone self-capping in P pilus biogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Jul 6;96(14):8178-83. PMID:10393968

1qpp, resolution 2.60Å

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