5A96

Crystal structure of Lymantria dispar CPV14 polyhedra

Summary for 5A96

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb5a96/pdb
• Related: 5A8S 5A8T 5A8U 5A8V 5A98 5A99 5A9A 5A9B 5A9C 5A9P
• Descriptor: POLYHEDRIN, GUANOSINE-5'-TRIPHOSPHATE (3 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: viral protein, insect virus occlusion body, microcrystal
• Biological source: LYMANTRIA DISPAR CYPOVIRUS 14
• Total number of polymer chains: 1
• Total formula weight: 29246.62

Authors

Ji, X.,Axford, D.,Owen, R.,Evans, G.,Ginn, H.M.,Sutton, G.,Stuart, D.I. (deposition date: 2015-07-17, release date: 2015-09-02, Last modification date: 2024-10-09)

Primary citation

Ji, X.,Axford, D.,Owen, R.,Evans, G.,Ginn, H.M.,Sutton, G.,Stuart, D.I.
Polyhedra Structures and the Evolution of the Insect Viruses.
J.Struct.Biol., 192:88-, 2015

PubMed Abstract: Polyhedra represent an ancient system used by a number of insect viruses to protect virions during long periods of environmental exposure. We present high resolution crystal structures of polyhedra for seven previously uncharacterised types of cypoviruses, four using ab initio selenomethionine phasing (two of these required over 100 selenomethionine crystals each). Approximately 80% of residues are structurally equivalent between all polyhedrins (pairwise rmsd ⩽ 1.5 Å), whilst pairwise sequence identities, based on structural alignment, are as little as 12%. These structures illustrate the effect of 400 million years of evolution on a system where the crystal lattice is the functionally conserved feature in the face of massive sequence variability. The conservation of crystal contacts is maintained across most of the molecular surface, except for a dispensable virus recognition domain. By spreading the contacts over so much of the protein surface the lattice remains robust in the face of many individual changes. Overall these unusual structural constraints seem to have skewed the molecule's evolution so that surface residues are almost as conserved as the internal residues.

PubMed: 26291392
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSB.2015.08.009

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (1.914 Å)