Journal: Sci Rep / Year: 2021 Title: Multiple nanocages of a cyanophage small heat shock protein with icosahedral and octahedral symmetries. Authors: Sreeparna Biswas / Priyanka Garg / Somnath Dutta / Kaza Suguna / Abstract: The structures of a cyanophage small heat shock protein (sHSP) were determined as octahedrons of 24-mers and 48-mers and as icosahedrons of 60-mers. An N-terminal deletion construct of an 18 kDa ...The structures of a cyanophage small heat shock protein (sHSP) were determined as octahedrons of 24-mers and 48-mers and as icosahedrons of 60-mers. An N-terminal deletion construct of an 18 kDa sHSP of Synechococcus sp. phage S-ShM2 crystallized as a 24-mer and its structure was determined at a resolution of 7 Å. The negative stain electron microscopy (EM) images showed that the full-length protein is a mixture of a major population of larger and a minor population of smaller cage-like particles. Their structures have been determined by electron cryomicroscopy 3D image reconstruction at a resolution of 8 Å. The larger particles are 60-mers with icosahedral symmetry and the smaller ones are 48-mers with octahedral symmetry. These structures are the first of the viral/phage origin and the 60-mer is the largest and the first icosahedral assembly to be reported for sHSPs.
Resolution: 7→48.65 Å / Cor.coef. Fo:Fc: 0.825 / Cor.coef. Fo:Fc free: 0.704 / SU ML: 21.101 / Cross valid method: THROUGHOUT / ESU R Free: 5.127 / Stereochemistry target values: MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD / Details: HYDROGENS HAVE BEEN ADDED IN THE RIDING POSITIONS
Rfactor
Num. reflection
% reflection
Selection details
Rfree
0.4335
99
5.2 %
RANDOM
Rwork
0.34566
-
-
-
obs
0.35063
1816
99.17 %
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Solvent computation
Ion probe radii: 0.8 Å / Shrinkage radii: 0.8 Å / VDW probe radii: 1.2 Å / Solvent model: MASK