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Entry Detail
PDB ID:
6H0I
Title:
Solution structure of Melampsora larici-populina MlpP4.1
Biological Source:
Host Organism:
PDB Version:
Deposition Date:
2018-07-09
Release Date:
2018-08-22
Method Details:
Experimental Method:
Conformers Calculated:
400
Conformers Submitted:
20
Selection Criteria:
structures with the lowest energy
Macromolecular Entities
Polymer Type:polypeptide(L)
Description:Secreted protein
Chain IDs:A
Chain Length:75
Number of Molecules:1
Biological Source:Melampsora larici-populina 98AG31
Ligand Molecules
Primary Citation
Structural genomics applied to the rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina reveals two candidate effector proteins adopting cystine knot and NTF2-like protein folds.
Sci Rep 9 18084 18084 (2019)
PMID: 31792250 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53816-9

Abstact

Rust fungi are plant pathogens that secrete an arsenal of effector proteins interfering with plant functions and promoting parasitic infection. Effectors are often species-specific, evolve rapidly, and display low sequence similarities with known proteins. How rust fungal effectors function in host cells remains elusive, and biochemical and structural approaches have been scarcely used to tackle this question. In this study, we produced recombinant proteins of eleven candidate effectors of the leaf rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina in Escherichia coli. We successfully purified and solved the three-dimensional structure of two proteins, MLP124266 and MLP124017, using NMR spectroscopy. Although both MLP124266 and MLP124017 show no sequence similarity with known proteins, they exhibit structural similarities to knottins, which are disulfide-rich small proteins characterized by intricate disulfide bridges, and to nuclear transport factor 2-like proteins, which are molecular containers involved in a wide range of functions, respectively. Interestingly, such structural folds have not been reported so far in pathogen effectors, indicating that MLP124266 and MLP124017 may bear novel functions related to pathogenicity. Our findings show that sequence-unrelated effectors can adopt folds similar to known proteins, and encourage the use of biochemical and structural approaches to functionally characterize effector candidates.

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