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An intersubunit active site between supercoiled parallel beta helices in the trimeric tailspike endorhamnosidase of Shigella flexneri phage Sf6

  • Sf6 belongs to the Podoviridae family of temperate bacteriophages that infect gram-negative bacteria by insertion of their double-stranded DNA. They attach to their hosts specifically via their tailspike proteins. The 1.25 Å crystal structure of Shigella phage Sf6 tailspike protein (Sf6 TSP) reveals a conserved architecture with a central, right-handed ; helix. In the trimer of Sf6 TSP, the parallel ; helices form a left-handed, coiled;; coil with a pitch of 340 Å. The C-terminal domain consists of a ; sandwich reminiscent of viral capsid proteins. Further crystallographic and biochemical analyses show a Shigella cell wall O-antigen fragment to bind to an endorhamnosidase active site located between two ;-helix subunits each anchoring one catalytic carboxylate. The functionally and structurally related bacteriophage, P22 TSP, lacks sequence identity with Sf6 TSP and has its active sites on single subunits. Sf6 TSP may serve as an example for the evolution of different host specificities on a similar general architecture.

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Author details:Jürgen J. Müller, Stefanie BarbirzORCiDGND, Karolin Heinle, Alexander Freiberg, Robert SecklerORCiDGND, Udo Heinemann
URL:http://www.cell.com/structure/abstract/S0969-2126%2808%2900106-8
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2008.01.019
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2008
Publication year:2008
Release date:2017/03/25
Source:Structure. - 16 (2008), 5, S. 766 - 775
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
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