8dfu

Cryo-EM structure of conjugation pili from Aeropyrum pernix

spinqualitylabelsall models 8dfu, resolution 3.44Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 8dfu is a 30 chain structure with sequence from Aeropyrum pernix. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: Electron Microscopy, Resolution 3.44Å Ligands: RHR Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function A0A401HBH5_AERPX Publication Abstract from PubMed Conjugation is a major mechanism of horizontal gene transfer promoting the spread of antibiotic resistance among human pathogens. It involves establishing a junction between a donor and a recipient cell via an extracellular appendage known as the mating pilus. In bacteria, the conjugation machinery is encoded by plasmids or transposons and typically mediates the transfer of cognate mobile genetic elements. Much less is known about conjugation in archaea. Here, we determine atomic structures by cryo-electron microscopy of three conjugative pili, two from hyperthermophilic archaea (Aeropyrum pernix and Pyrobaculum calidifontis) and one encoded by the Ti plasmid of the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, and show that the archaeal pili are homologous to bacterial mating pili. However, the archaeal conjugation machinery, known as Ced, has been 'domesticated', that is, the genes for the conjugation machinery are encoded on the chromosome rather than on mobile genetic elements, and mediates the transfer of cellular DNA. Archaeal DNA-import apparatus is homologous to bacterial conjugation machinery.,Beltran LC, Cvirkaite-Krupovic V, Miller J, Wang F, Kreutzberger MAB, Patkowski JB, Costa TRD, Schouten S, Levental I, Conticello VP, Egelman EH, Krupovic M Nat Commun. 2023 Feb 7;14(1):666. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36349-8. PMID:36750723 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Pilin 3D structures

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