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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications2020

The phospholipase A effector PlaA from Legionella pneumophila: expression, purification and crystallization.

Xiaoyan Qu, Xiaowen Song, Nannan Zhang, Jinming Ma, Honghua Ge

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiaoyan QuSchool of Life Sciences, Anhui University, 111 Jiulong Road, Hefei, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.
Xiaowen SongSchool of Life Sciences, Anhui University, 111 Jiulong Road, Hefei, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.
Nannan ZhangSchool of Life Sciences, Anhui University, 111 Jiulong Road, Hefei, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.
Jinming MaSchool of Life Sciences, Anhui University, 111 Jiulong Road, Hefei, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.
Honghua GeSchool of Life Sciences, Anhui University, 111 Jiulong Road, Hefei, Anhui 230601, People's Republic of China.
Anhui University · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 31400641National Natural Science Foundation of China 31970103Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province KJ2018A0004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Legionella pneumophila encodes an extracellular secreted phospholipase A named PlaA that is translocated by the type II secretion system. It plays an essential role in maintaining the integrity of Legionella-containing vacuoles in L. pneumophila pathogenesis. Here, it is shown that PlaA has a main lysophospholipase activity to hydrolyze fatty-acyl groups in lysophospholipids. Although it has a very low phospholipase A activity to catalyze the hydrolysis of fatty-acyl groups in phospholipids, PlaA can bind phospholipids such as 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine with a dissociation constant of 11.1 µM. Sequence-alignment analysis combined with activity assays revealed that PlaA contains a distinct substrate-binding site among the known structures of the phospholipase A family, implying that PlaA may present a novel mechanism for substrate recognition. Native PlaA and its selenomethionine (SeMet)-substituted form were purified and crystallized by vapour diffusion in hanging drops at 296 K. Diffraction data were collected to a resolution of 2.0 Å for native PlaA protein and to a resolution of 2.7 Å for SeMet-substituted PlaA protein. The crystals of native PlaA belonged to the monoclinic space group P2

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialAmino Acid SequenceBacterial ProteinsCrystallizationHumansLegionella pneumophilaProteinsBacterial Proteinsphospholipase A2-activating proteinProteinseffector proteinsLegionella pneumophilaphospholipase A

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PMID32133999
PMCPMC7057347
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