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Streptococcal M protein: Structural studies of the hypervariable region, free and bound to human C4BP

André, Ingemar LU orcid ; Persson, J LU ; Blom, AM ; Nilsson, H ; Drakenberg, Torbjörn LU ; Lindahl, Gunnar LU and Linse, Sara LU (2006) In Biochemistry 45(14). p.4559-4568
Abstract
Streptococcus pyogenes is a Gram-positive bacterium that causes several diseases, including acute tonsillitis and toxic shock syndrome. The surface-localized M protein, which is the most extensively studied virulence factor of S. pyogenes, has an similar to 50-residue N-terminal hypervariable region (HVR) that plays a key role in the escape of the host immunity. Despite the extensive sequence variability in this region, many HVRs specifically bind human C4b-binding protein (C4BP), a plasma protein that inhibits complement activation. Although the more conserved parts of M protein are known to have dimeric coiled-coil structure, it is unclear whether the HVR also is a coiled coil. Here, we use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study the... (More)
Streptococcus pyogenes is a Gram-positive bacterium that causes several diseases, including acute tonsillitis and toxic shock syndrome. The surface-localized M protein, which is the most extensively studied virulence factor of S. pyogenes, has an similar to 50-residue N-terminal hypervariable region (HVR) that plays a key role in the escape of the host immunity. Despite the extensive sequence variability in this region, many HVRs specifically bind human C4b-binding protein (C4BP), a plasma protein that inhibits complement activation. Although the more conserved parts of M protein are known to have dimeric coiled-coil structure, it is unclear whether the HVR also is a coiled coil. Here, we use nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to study the conformational properties of HVRs from M4 and M22 proteins in isolation and in complex with the M protein binding portion of C4BP. We conclude that the HVRs of M4 and M22 are folded as coiled coils and that the folded nucleus of the M4 HVR has a length of similar to 27 residues. Moreover, we demonstrate that the C4BP binding surface of M4-N is found within a region of four heptad repeats. Using molecular modeling, we propose a model for the structure of the M4 HVR that is consistent with our experimental information from NMR spectroscopy. (Less)
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0006-2960
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10.1021/bi052455c
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English
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  author       = {{André, Ingemar and Persson, J and Blom, AM and Nilsson, H and Drakenberg, Torbjörn and Lindahl, Gunnar and Linse, Sara}},
  issn         = {{0006-2960}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{14}},
  pages        = {{4559--4568}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Biochemistry}},
  title        = {{Streptococcal M protein: Structural studies of the hypervariable region, free and bound to human C4BP}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi052455c}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/bi052455c}},
  volume       = {{45}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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