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1gpq
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STRUCTURE OF IVY COMPLEXED WITH ITS TARGET, HEWL
Part of an ancestral bactericidal system, vertebrate C-type lysozyme targets the peptidoglycan moiety of bacterial cell walls. We report the crystal structure of a protein inhibitor of C-type lysozyme, the Escherichia coli Ivy protein, alone and in complex with hen egg white lysozyme. Ivy exhibits a novel fold in which a protruding five-residue loop appears essential to its inhibitory effect. This feature guided the identification of Ivy orthologues in other Gram-negative bacteria. The structure of the evolutionary distant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Ivy orthologue was also determined in complex with hen egg white lysozyme, and its antilysozyme activity was confirmed. Ivy expression protects porous cell-wall E. coli mutants from the lytic effect of lysozyme, suggesting that it is a response against the permeabilizing effects of the innate vertebrate immune system. As such, Ivy acts as a virulence factor for a number of Gram-negative bacteria-infecting vertebrates.
Structure and evolution of the Ivy protein family, unexpected lysozyme inhibitors in Gram-negative bacteria., Abergel C, Monchois V, Byrne D, Chenivesse S, Lembo F, Lazzaroni JC, Claverie JM, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Apr 10;104(15):6394-9. Epub 2007 Apr 3. PMID:17405861
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About this Structure
1gpq is a 4 chain structure of Hen Egg-White (HEW) Lysozyme with sequence from Escherichia coli and Gallus gallus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
See Also
Reference
- Abergel C, Monchois V, Byrne D, Chenivesse S, Lembo F, Lazzaroni JC, Claverie JM. Structure and evolution of the Ivy protein family, unexpected lysozyme inhibitors in Gram-negative bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Apr 10;104(15):6394-9. Epub 2007 Apr 3. PMID:17405861
- Monchois V, Abergel C, Sturgis J, Jeudy S, Claverie JM. Escherichia coli ykfE ORFan gene encodes a potent inhibitor of C-type lysozyme. J Biol Chem. 2001 May 25;276(21):18437-41. Epub 2001 Feb 23. PMID:11278658 doi:10.1074/jbc.M010297200
- Abergel C, Monchois V, Chenivesse S, Jeudy S, Claverie JM. Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic study of b0220, an 'ORFan' protein of unknown function from Escherichia coli. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2000 Dec;56(Pt 12):1694-5. PMID:11092949

