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Title | Native architecture of a human GBP1 defense complex for cell-autonomous immunity to infection. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Science, Vol. 383, Issue 6686, Page eabm9903, Year 2024 |
Publish date | Mar 1, 2024 |
Authors | Shiwei Zhu / Clinton J Bradfield / Agnieszka Maminska / Eui-Soon Park / Bae-Hoon Kim / Pradeep Kumar / Shuai Huang / Minjeong Kim / Yongdeng Zhang / Joerg Bewersdorf / John D MacMicking / |
PubMed Abstract | All living organisms deploy cell-autonomous defenses to combat infection. In plants and animals, large supramolecular complexes often activate immune proteins for protection. In this work, we ...All living organisms deploy cell-autonomous defenses to combat infection. In plants and animals, large supramolecular complexes often activate immune proteins for protection. In this work, we resolved the native structure of a massive host-defense complex that polymerizes 30,000 guanylate-binding proteins (GBPs) over the surface of gram-negative bacteria inside human cells. Construction of this giant nanomachine took several minutes and remained stable for hours, required guanosine triphosphate hydrolysis, and recruited four GBPs plus caspase-4 and Gasdermin D as a cytokine and cell death immune signaling platform. Cryo-electron tomography suggests that GBP1 can adopt an extended conformation for bacterial membrane insertion to establish this platform, triggering lipopolysaccharide release that activated coassembled caspase-4. Our "open conformer" model provides a dynamic view into how the human GBP1 defense complex mobilizes innate immunity to infection. |
External links | Science / PubMed:38422126 |
Methods | EM (subtomogram averaging) |
Resolution | 9.7 - 17.0 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-43091: hGBP1 conformer on the bacterial outer membrane EMDB-43153: hGBP1 conformer on the bacterial outer membrane |
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