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Title | Action of a minimal contractile bactericidal nanomachine. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Nature, Vol. 580, Issue 7805, Page 658-662, Year 2020 |
Publish date | Apr 15, 2020 |
Authors | Peng Ge / Dean Scholl / Nikolai S Prokhorov / Jaycob Avaylon / Mikhail M Shneider / Christopher Browning / Sergey A Buth / Michel Plattner / Urmi Chakraborty / Ke Ding / Petr G Leiman / Jeff F Miller / Z Hong Zhou / |
PubMed Abstract | R-type bacteriocins are minimal contractile nanomachines that hold promise as precision antibiotics. Each bactericidal complex uses a collar to bridge a hollow tube with a contractile sheath loaded ...R-type bacteriocins are minimal contractile nanomachines that hold promise as precision antibiotics. Each bactericidal complex uses a collar to bridge a hollow tube with a contractile sheath loaded in a metastable state by a baseplate scaffold. Fine-tuning of such nucleic acid-free protein machines for precision medicine calls for an atomic description of the entire complex and contraction mechanism, which is not available from baseplate structures of the (DNA-containing) T4 bacteriophage. Here we report the atomic model of the complete R2 pyocin in its pre-contraction and post-contraction states, each containing 384 subunits of 11 unique atomic models of 10 gene products. Comparison of these structures suggests the following sequence of events during pyocin contraction: tail fibres trigger lateral dissociation of baseplate triplexes; the dissociation then initiates a cascade of events leading to sheath contraction; and this contraction converts chemical energy into mechanical force to drive the iron-tipped tube across the bacterial cell surface, killing the bacterium. |
External links | Nature / PubMed:32350467 / PubMed Central |
Methods | EM (helical sym.) / EM (single particle) / X-ray diffraction |
Resolution | 2.102 - 4.0 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-20526, PDB-6pyt: EMDB-20643, PDB-6u5b: EMDB-20644, PDB-6u5f: EMDB-20646, PDB-6u5h: EMDB-20647, PDB-6u5j: EMDB-20648, PDB-6u5k: PDB-5ces: |
Chemicals | ChemComp-HOH: |
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Keywords | STRUCTURAL PROTEIN / gpJ / gp6 / ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEIN / bacteriocin / pyocin / helix / VIRAL PROTEIN / UNKNOWN FUNCTION |