National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS)
R35 GM118108
United States
Citation
Journal: Nucleic Acids Res / Year: 2019 Title: Structural organization of a Type III-A CRISPR effector subcomplex determined by X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM. Authors: Bryan W Dorsey / Lei Huang / Alfonso Mondragón / Abstract: Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their associated Cas proteins provide an immune-like response in many prokaryotes against extraneous nucleic acids. CRISPR-Cas ...Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their associated Cas proteins provide an immune-like response in many prokaryotes against extraneous nucleic acids. CRISPR-Cas systems are classified into different classes and types. Class 1 CRISPR-Cas systems form multi-protein effector complexes that includes a guide RNA (crRNA) used to identify the target for destruction. Here we present crystal structures of Staphylococcus epidermidis Type III-A CRISPR subunits Csm2 and Csm3 and a 5.2 Å resolution single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reconstruction of an in vivo assembled effector subcomplex including the crRNA. The structures help to clarify the quaternary architecture of Type III-A effector complexes, and provide details on crRNA binding, target RNA binding and cleavage, and intermolecular interactions essential for effector complex assembly. The structures allow a better understanding of the organization of Type III-A CRISPR effector complexes as well as highlighting the overall similarities and differences with other Class 1 effector complexes.
Monochromator: C(111) / Protocol: SINGLE WAVELENGTH / Monochromatic (M) / Laue (L): M / Scattering type: x-ray
Radiation wavelength
Wavelength: 0.97856 Å / Relative weight: 1
Reflection
Resolution: 2.75→77.78 Å / Num. obs: 5931 / % possible obs: 99.9 % / Redundancy: 6.6 % / CC1/2: 0.999 / Net I/σ(I): 22.7
Reflection shell
Resolution: 2.75→2.88 Å / Redundancy: 5 % / Mean I/σ(I) obs: 1.8 / Num. unique obs: 765 / CC1/2: 0.645 / % possible all: 99.8
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Processing
Software
Name
Version
Classification
REFMAC
5.8.0232
refinement
XDS
datareduction
Aimless
datascaling
SHARP
phasing
Refinement
Method to determine structure: SAD / Resolution: 2.75→25 Å / Cor.coef. Fo:Fc: 0.939 / Cor.coef. Fo:Fc free: 0.921 / Cross valid method: THROUGHOUT / ESU R: 0.609 / ESU R Free: 0.358 / Details: HYDROGENS HAVE BEEN ADDED IN THE RIDING POSITIONS
Rfactor
Num. reflection
% reflection
Selection details
Rfree
0.29418
256
4.3 %
RANDOM
Rwork
0.24471
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obs
0.24689
5635
99.71 %
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Solvent computation
Ion probe radii: 0.8 Å / Shrinkage radii: 0.8 Å / VDW probe radii: 1.2 Å