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==Structure of metacyclic VSG (mVSG) 531 from Trypanosoma brucei==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[8b3b]] is a 8 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanosoma_brucei Trypanosoma brucei]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=8B3B OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=8B3B 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]] 1.949&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=BMA:BETA-D-MANNOSE'>BMA</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MAN:ALPHA-D-MANNOSE'>MAN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=NAG:N-ACETYL-D-GLUCOSAMINE'>NAG</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=8b3b FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=8b3b OCA], [https://pdbe.org/8b3b PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=8b3b RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/8b3b PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=8b3b ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/M4SYA9_9TRYP M4SYA9_9TRYP] VSG forms a coat on the surface of the parasite. The trypanosome evades the immune response of the host by expressing a series of antigenically distinct VSGs from an estimated 1000 VSG genes.[ARBA:ARBA00002523]
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
During infection of mammalian hosts, African trypanosomes thwart immunity using antigenic variation of the dense Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) coat, accessing a large repertoire of several thousand genes and pseudogenes, and switching to antigenically distinct copies. The parasite is transferred to mammalian hosts by the tsetse fly. In the salivary glands of the fly, the pathogen adopts the metacyclic form and expresses a limited repertoire of VSG genes specific to that developmental stage. It has remained unknown whether the metacyclic VSGs possess distinct properties associated with this particular and discrete phase of the parasite life cycle. We present here three novel metacyclic form VSG N-terminal domain crystal structures (mVSG397, mVSG531, and mVSG1954) and show that they mirror closely in architecture, oligomerization, and surface diversity the known classes of bloodstream form VSGs. These data suggest that the mVSGs are unlikely to be a specialized subclass of VSG proteins, and thus could be poor candidates as the major components of prophylactic vaccines against trypanosomiasis.

Structural similarities between the metacyclic and bloodstream form variant surface glycoproteins of the African trypanosome.,Chandra M, Dakovic S, Foti K, Zeelen JP, van Straaten M, Aresta-Branco F, Tihon E, Lubbehusen N, Ruppert T, Glover L, Papavasiliou FN, Stebbins CE PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Feb 13;17(2):e0011093. doi: , 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011093. eCollection 2023 Feb. PMID:36780870<ref>PMID:36780870</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Trypanosoma brucei]]
[[Category: Chandra M]]
[[Category: Stebbins CE]]