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Role of bacteriophage T4 baseplate in regulating assembly and infection
被引:56
作者:
Yap, Moh Lan
[1
]
Klose, Thomas
[1
]
Arisaka, Fumio
[2
]
Speir, Jeffrey A.
[3
]
Veesler, David
[3
,4
]
Fokine, Andrei
[1
]
Rossmann, Michael G.
[1
]
机构:
[1] Purdue Univ, Dept Biol Sci, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA
[2] Nihon Univ, Coll Bioresource Sci, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 2520880, Japan
[3] Scripps Res Inst, Natl Resource Automated Mol Microscopy, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[4] Univ Washington, Dept Biochem, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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关键词:
bacteriophage T4;
cryo-EM reconstruction;
baseplate assembly;
conformational changes;
near-atomic resolution;
VI SECRETION SYSTEM;
GENETIC-CONTROL;
IN-VIVO;
TAIL;
MORPHOGENESIS;
MICROSCOPY;
RESOLUTION;
DOMAIN;
D O I:
10.1073/pnas.1601654113
中图分类号:
O [数理科学和化学];
P [天文学、地球科学];
Q [生物科学];
N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号:
07 ;
0710 ;
09 ;
摘要:
Bacteriophage T4 consists of a head for protecting its genome and a sheathed tail for inserting its genome into a host. The tail terminates with a multiprotein baseplate that changes its conformation from a "high-energy" dome-shaped to a "low-energy" star-shaped structure during infection. Although these two structures represent different minima in the total energy landscape of the baseplate assembly, as the dome-shaped structure readily changes to the star-shaped structure when the virus infects a host bacterium, the dome-shaped structure must have more energy than the star-shaped structure. Here we describe the electron microscopy structure of a 3.3-MDa in vitro-assembled star-shaped baseplate with a resolution of 3.8 angstrom. This structure, together with other genetic and structural data, shows why the high-energy baseplate is formed in the presence of the central hub and how the baseplate changes to the low-energy structure, via two steps during infection. Thus, the presence of the central hub is required to initiate the assembly of metastable, high-energy structures. If the high-energy structure is formed and stabilized faster than the low-energy structure, there will be insufficient components to assemble the low-energy structure.
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页码:2654 / 2659
页数:6
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