3wp8

Acinetobacter sp. Tol 5 AtaA C-terminal Ylhead fused to GCN4 adaptors (Chead)Acinetobacter sp. Tol 5 AtaA C-terminal Ylhead fused to GCN4 adaptors (Chead)

Structural highlights 3wp8 is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Acinetobacter sp. tol 5. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Related: 3wpa, 3wpo, 3wpp, 3wpr Gene: ataA (Acinetobacter sp. Tol 5) Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed Trimeric autotransporter adhesins (TAAs) on the cell surface of Gram-negative pathogens mediate bacterial adhesion to host cells and extracellular matrix proteins. However, AtaA, a TAA in the nonpathogenic Acinetobacter sp. strain Tol 5, shows nonspecific high adhesiveness to abiotic material surfaces as well as to biotic surfaces. It consists of a passenger domain secreted by the C-terminal transmembrane anchor domain (TM), and the passenger domain contains an N-terminal head, N-terminal stalk, C-terminal head (Chead), and C-terminal stalk (Cstalk). The Chead-Cstalk-TM fragment, which is conserved in many Acinetobacter TAAs, has by itself the head-stalk-anchor architecture of a complete TAA. Here, we show the crystal structure of the Chead-Cstalk fragment, AtaA_C-terminal passenger domain (CPSD), providing the first view of several conserved TAA domains. The YadA-like head (Ylhead) of the fragment is capped by a unique structure (headCap), composed of three beta-hairpins and a connector motif; it also contains a head insert motif (HIM1) before its last inner beta-strand. The headCap, Ylhead, and HIM1 integrally form a stable Chead structure. Some of the major domains of the CPSD fragment are inherently flexible and provide bending sites for the fiber between segments whose toughness is ensured by topological chain exchange and hydrophobic core formation inside the trimer. Thus, although adherence assays using in-frame deletion mutants revealed that the characteristic adhesive sites of AtaA reside in its N-terminal part, the flexibility and toughness of the CPSD part provide the resilience that enables the adhesive properties of the full-length fiber across a wide range of conditions. Structural Basis for Toughness and Flexibility in the C-terminal Passenger Domain of an Acinetobacter Trimeric Autotransporter Adhesin.,Koiwai K, Hartmann MD, Linke D, Lupas AN, Hori K J Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 19;291(8):3705-24. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M115.701698. Epub 2015 , Dec 23. PMID:26698633 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Adhesin 3D structures

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