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Listeria monocytogenes is an opportunistic, food-borne human and animal pathogen. Host cell invasion requires the action of the internalins A (InlA) and B (InlB), which are members of a family of listerial cell-surface proteins. Common to these proteins are three distinctive N-terminal domains that have been shown to direct host cell-specific invasion for InlA and InlB. Here, we present the high-resolution crystal structures of these domains present in InlB and InlH, and show that they constitute a single "internalin domain". In this internalin domain, a central LRR region is flanked contiguously by a truncated EF-hand-like cap and an immunoglobulin (Ig)-like fold. The extended beta-sheet, resulting from the distinctive fusion of the LRR and the Ig-like folds, constitutes an adaptable concave interaction surface, which we propose is responsible for the specific recognition of the host cellular binding partners during infection.

1H6U is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listeria_monocytogenes Listeria monocytogenes]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1H6U OCA].  

[[Category: Heinz, D W.]]

[[Category: Schubert, W D.]]

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