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| Title | Architecture of the Complex Formed by Large and Small Terminase Subunits from Bacteriophage P22. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | J Mol Biol, Vol. 427, Issue 20, Page 3285-3299, Year 2015 |
| Publish date | Oct 9, 2015 |
 Authors | Reginald McNulty / Ravi Kumar Lokareddy / Ankoor Roy / Yang Yang / Gabriel C Lander / Albert J R Heck / John E Johnson / Gino Cingolani /   |
| PubMed Abstract | Packaging of viral genomes inside empty procapsids is driven by a powerful ATP-hydrolyzing motor, formed in many double-stranded DNA viruses by a complex of a small terminase (S-terminase) subunit ...Packaging of viral genomes inside empty procapsids is driven by a powerful ATP-hydrolyzing motor, formed in many double-stranded DNA viruses by a complex of a small terminase (S-terminase) subunit and a large terminase (L-terminase) subunit, transiently docked at the portal vertex during genome packaging. Despite recent progress in elucidating the structure of individual terminase subunits and their domains, little is known about the architecture of an assembled terminase complex. Here, we describe a bacterial co-expression system that yields milligram quantities of the S-terminase:L-terminase complex of the Salmonella phage P22. In vivo assembled terminase complex was affinity-purified and stabilized by addition of non-hydrolyzable ATP, which binds specifically to the ATPase domain of L-terminase. Mapping studies revealed that the N-terminus of L-terminase ATPase domain (residues 1-58) contains a minimal S-terminase binding domain sufficient for stoichiometric association with residues 140-162 of S-terminase, the L-terminase binding domain. Hydrodynamic analysis by analytical ultracentrifugation sedimentation velocity and native mass spectrometry revealed that the purified terminase complex consists predominantly of one copy of the nonameric S-terminase bound to two equivalents of L-terminase (1S-terminase:2L-terminase). Direct visualization of this molecular assembly in negative-stained micrographs yielded a three-dimensional asymmetric reconstruction that resembles a "nutcracker" with two L-terminase protomers projecting from the C-termini of an S-terminase ring. This is the first direct visualization of a purified viral terminase complex analyzed in the absence of DNA and procapsid. |
 External links | J Mol Biol / PubMed:26301600 / PubMed Central |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 30.0 Å |
| Structure data |  EMDB-6429: |
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Enterobacteria phage P22 (virus)