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==Structure of the P pilus usher (PapC) translocation pore==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[2vqi]] is a 2 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2VQI OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=2VQI FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 3.2&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=C8E:(HYDROXYETHYLOXY)TRI(ETHYLOXY)OCTANE'>C8E</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=LDA:LAURYL+DIMETHYLAMINE-N-OXIDE'>LDA</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MSE:SELENOMETHIONINE'>MSE</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=2vqi FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=2vqi OCA], [https://pdbe.org/2vqi PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=2vqi RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/2vqi PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=2vqi ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Gram-negative pathogens commonly exhibit adhesive pili on their surfaces that mediate specific attachment to the host. A major class of pili is assembled via the chaperone/usher pathway. Here, the structural basis for pilus fiber assembly and secretion performed by the outer membrane assembly platform--the usher--is revealed by the crystal structure of the translocation domain of the P pilus usher PapC and single particle cryo-electron microscopy imaging of the FimD usher bound to a translocating type 1 pilus assembly intermediate. These structures provide molecular snapshots of a twinned-pore translocation machinery in action. Unexpectedly, only one pore is used for secretion, while both usher protomers are used for chaperone-subunit complex recruitment. The translocating pore itself comprises 24 beta strands and is occluded by a folded plug domain, likely gated by a conformationally constrained beta-hairpin. These structures capture the secretion of a virulence factor across the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria.

Fiber formation across the bacterial outer membrane by the chaperone/usher pathway.,Remaut H, Tang C, Henderson NS, Pinkner JS, Wang T, Hultgren SJ, Thanassi DG, Waksman G, Li H Cell. 2008 May 16;133(4):640-52. PMID:18485872<ref>PMID:18485872</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Adhesin 3D structures|Adhesin 3D structures]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Escherichia coli]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Henderson NS]]
[[Category: Hultgren SJ]]
[[Category: Li H]]
[[Category: Pinkner JS]]
[[Category: Remaut H]]
[[Category: Tang C]]
[[Category: Thanassi DG]]
[[Category: Waksman G]]
[[Category: Wang T]]