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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
P pili are important adhesive fibres that are assembled by the conserved, chaperone-usher pathway. During pilus assembly, the subunits are, incorporated into the growing fibre by the donor-strand exchange, mechanism, whereby the beta-strand of the chaperone, which complements the, incomplete immunoglobulin fold of each subunit, is displaced by the, amino-terminal extension of an incoming subunit in a zip-in-zip-out, exchange process that is initiated at the P5 pocket, an exposed, hydrophobic pocket in the groove of the subunit. In vivo, termination of P, pilus growth requires a specialized subunit, PapH. Here, we show that PapH, is incorporated at the base of the growing pilus, where it is unable to, undergo donor-strand exchange. This inability is not due to a stronger, PapD-PapH . | P pili are important adhesive fibres that are assembled by the conserved, chaperone-usher pathway. During pilus assembly, the subunits are, incorporated into the growing fibre by the donor-strand exchange, mechanism, whereby the beta-strand of the chaperone, which complements the, incomplete immunoglobulin fold of each subunit, is displaced by the, amino-terminal extension of an incoming subunit in a zip-in-zip-out, exchange process that is initiated at the P5 pocket, an exposed, hydrophobic pocket in the groove of the subunit. In vivo, termination of P, pilus growth requires a specialized subunit, PapH. Here, we show that PapH, is incorporated at the base of the growing pilus, where it is unable to, undergo donor-strand exchange. This inability is not due to a stronger, PapD-PapH interaction, but to a lack of a P5 initiator pocket in the PapH, structure, suggesting that PapH terminates pilus growth because it is, lacking the initiation point by which donor-strand exchange proceeds. | ||
==About this Structure== | ==About this Structure== | ||
2J2Z is a | 2J2Z is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_complex Protein complex] structure of sequences from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli] with SO4 and CO as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Structure known Active Site: AC1. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://ispc.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2J2Z OCA]. | ||
==Reference== | ==Reference== | ||
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[[Category: pilus termination]] | [[Category: pilus termination]] | ||
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