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2qw7
From Proteopedia
| 2qw7, resolution 2.40Å () | |||||||||
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| Sites: | and | ||||||||
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| Gene: | ccmL (Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803) | ||||||||
| Related: | 2qyr, 2qzm | ||||||||
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| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBsum, RCSB | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | save as pdb, mmCIF, xml | ||||||||
Carboxysome Subunit, CcmL
The carboxysome is a bacterial microcompartment that functions as a simple organelle by sequestering enzymes involved in carbon fixation. The carboxysome shell is roughly 800 to 1400 angstroms in diameter and is assembled from several thousand protein subunits. Previous studies have revealed the three-dimensional structures of hexameric carboxysome shell proteins, which self-assemble into molecular layers that most likely constitute the facets of the polyhedral shell. Here, we report the three-dimensional structures of two proteins of previously unknown function, CcmL and OrfA (or CsoS4A), from the two known classes of carboxysomes, at resolutions of 2.4 and 2.15 angstroms. Both proteins assemble to form pentameric structures whose size and shape are compatible with formation of vertices in an icosahedral shell. Combining these pentamers with the hexamers previously elucidated gives two plausible, preliminary atomic models for the carboxysome shell.
Atomic-level models of the bacterial carboxysome shell., Tanaka S, Kerfeld CA, Sawaya MR, Cai F, Heinhorst S, Cannon GC, Yeates TO, Science. 2008 Feb 22;319(5866):1083-6. PMID:18292340
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
About this Structure
2QW7 is a 10 chains structure with sequences from Synechocystis sp. pcc 6803. The June 2009 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on Vaults by David Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2009_6. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
- Tanaka S, Kerfeld CA, Sawaya MR, Cai F, Heinhorst S, Cannon GC, Yeates TO. Atomic-level models of the bacterial carboxysome shell. Science. 2008 Feb 22;319(5866):1083-6. PMID:18292340
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