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Short Communication |
-helical triple coiled-coil domain of avian reovirus S1133 fibre
1 Departamento de Bioquímica e Bioloxía Molecular, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2 Spanish CRG beamline BM16, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, F-38043 Grenoble, France
3 Unidade de Raios X, Laboratorio Integral de Dinámica e Estructura de Biomoléculas José R. Carracido, Edificio CACTUS, Campus Sur, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
4 Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona-CSIC, c/Josep-Samitier 1-5, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
Correspondence
Mark J. van Raaij
mark.vanraaij{at}usc.es
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C protein, is a minor component of the avian reovirus outer capsid. It is anchored via a short N-terminal sequence to the inner capsid
C pentamer, and its protruding globular C-terminal domain is responsible for primary host cell attachment. We have previously solved the structure of a receptor-binding fragment in which residues 160–191 form a triple β-spiral and 196–326 a β-barrel head domain. Here we have expressed, purified and crystallized a major
C fragment comprising residues 117–326. Its structure, which was solved by molecular replacement using the previously determined receptor-binding domain structure and refined to 1.75 Å (0.175 nm) resolution, reveals an
-helical triple coiled-coil connected to the previously solved structure by a zinc-ion-containing linker. The coiled-coil domain contains two chloride ion binding sites, as well as specific trimerization and registration sequences. The linker may act as a functionally important hinge. | MAIN TEXT |
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B/µA. The inner capsid is composed of an icosahedric
A shell covered by
A staples and with
C pentamers at its vertices (Zhang et al., 2005
B,
C and µB.
Avian reovirus fibre is formed by the protein
C. It is an elongated homotrimer, anchored into the
C pentamer via its N terminus. Its shaft domain is predicted to contain an
-helical coiled-coil (Shapouri et al., 1995
).
C is responsible for primary host-cell attachment (Shapouri et al., 1996
; Grande et al., 2000
), presumably through its C-terminal globular domain, and has 20 % sequence identity to its functionally equivalent mammalian reovirus protein,
1. The mammalian reovirus receptor has been identified as junction adhesion molecule A (JAM-A; Barton et al., 2001
). However,
C probably binds a different, as yet unknown, receptor, because mammalian reoviruses do not attach to avian cells. Previously, we have crystallized a carboxy-terminal fragment of
C containing amino acids 151–326 and shown that it retains receptor-binding properties. Its structure revealed two triple β-spiral repeats (amino acids 160–191) and an eight-stranded circular β-barrel head domain (Guardado-Calvo et al., 2005
). Here we report the crystallization and structure solution of an extended recombinant avian reovirus S1133
C fragment containing amino acids 117–326, refined against data collected to 1.75 Å (0.175 nm) resolution. Our results show the shaft domain has a mixed
-helical coiled-coil and triple β-spiral domain, separated by a flexible linker containing a divalent zinc cation.
For expression, Escherichia coli strain JM109 (DE3) transformed with the plasmid pET28-sigmaC117-326 was grown as described (van Raaij et al., 2005
). Cells harvested from 4 l of culture were resuspended in 40 ml cold resuspension buffer (10 mM Tris/HCl 8.0, 300 mM sodium chloride), frozen at –20 °C and lysed by a double pass through an Avestin C5 emulsifier (Avestin). After removing insoluble material, 3 ml Ni-nitriloacetic acid resin (Qiagen) was added. The suspension was incubated for 1 h on ice and poured into an empty column. The resin was washed with resuspension buffer; elution was performed with a step gradient of imidazole pH 7 in resuspension buffer. His-T7-tagged
C117–326 eluted at imidazole concentrations of 200–1000 mM, was dialysed overnight against TE buffer (10 mM Tris/HCl pH 8.5, 1 mM EDTA pH 8.0) and incubated with 0.2 µg ml–1 trypsin for 45 min at 37 °C. PMSF was added to 1 mM to stop the reaction and the protein was applied onto a 6 ml Uno-Q column (Bio-Rad).
C117–326 eluted at the start of a linear 0–1 M sodium chloride gradient in TE buffer. The protein was concentrated to 11.5 mg ml–1 using Centricon concentrators (Millipore).
Crystallization took place by vapour diffusion in sitting-drop plates with 0.8 ml reservoirs and drops of 5 µl protein solution mixed with 5 µl reservoir solution. Bar-shaped crystals with hexagonal cross-sections belonging to the trigonal space group P321 appeared after 1 day in solutions equilibrated against 0.6–0.75 M ammonium sulphate, 0.1 M Tris/HCl pH 8.4, 25 % glycerol and 50 mM zinc sulphate. Rectangular prism with parallelogram base-shaped crystals of the monoclinic space group C2 were harvested from a solution containing P321 crystals, which had been opened, left open for a while and had then been reclosed, thus partially drying out. Crystals were mounted in cryo-loops and kept at 100 K during data collection. Complete datasets were collected from a crystal of each crystal form, to 2.3 Å (0.23 nm) for the P321 crystal form and to 1.75 Å (0.175 nm) for the C2 crystal form; see Table 1
. Reflections were integrated and scaled with the program HKL2000 (Otwinowski & Minor, 1997
) and further processed using programs from the Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 (1994)
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Electron micrographs revealed
C115–326 to be a globular protein containing an 80 Å long stalk and 50 Å wide at the widest point of the head domain; while structure prediction with the program COILS, a window size of 28 residues and taking 0.15 as probability cut-off, suggests amino acids 53–106 and 126–154 are in a coiled-coil conformation (Costas, 2004; Lupas et al., 1991
). The crystal structure of
C117–326 fragment, with a stalk 90 Å long and 55 Å wide at the head domain, largely substantiates these data (Fig. 1
). When the overall structure is contemplated, a clear division between shaft (amino acids 117–191) and head domains (residues 196–326) is observed. The shaft domain can be further subdivided (Fig. 1b
) into an
-helical triple coiled-coil (amino acids 117–154), a linker region (residues 155–159) and two repeats of a triple β-spiral (Mitraki et al., 2002
). The head and triple β-spiral domains have been described before (Guardado-Calvo et al., 2005
).
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-helical region is an uninterrupted coiled-coil structure 53 Å (5.3 nm) long (Fig. 1b
The structure reveals a trimerization motif (Meier et al., 2002
; Kammerer et al., 2005
), composed of a network of interhelical salt bridges formed by contacts between Arg148 at position g of one chain and Glu153 at position e of the adjacent chain (Fig. 2a
). The potential of the trimerization motif to dominate the effect of the hydrophobic core residues has been already demonstrated in short coiled-coils (Burkhard et al., 2000
; Kammerer et al., 2004
). Interestingly, analysis of the sequence reveals another putative trimerization motif containing Arg36 and Glu41, suggesting the triple-helical coiled-coil extends to the N terminus further than the predicted residue 53. In addition to hydrophobic interactions occurring in the coiled-coil core and polar interactions at the surface, the structure reveals two asparagines situated at position d (Asn124 and Asn138), stabilized by central chloride ions (Fig. 2b
). The electron density features were identified as chlorides based on crystallographic evidence (refinement as chlorides leads to good agreement with the crystallographic data and temperature factors very similar to the surrounding residues), suitability of the coordination distances and similarity to other viral coiled-coils (see below). On the other side of the chloride ions are the hydrophobic side chains of Val121 and Ile135, respectively. It has been postulated that these central polar interactions favour correct registration (Oakley & Kim, 1998
); asparagines at position d also favour the trimeric state (Tripet et al., 2000
). A central chloride ion coordinated by asparagine residues appears to be a quite common feature in parallel trimeric coiled-coils of viral fusion proteins, fibres and bacterial adhesins (see for example Fass et al., 1996
; Tao et al., 1997
; Malashkevich et al., 1999
; Renard et al., 2005
; Conners et al., 2008
), and it has been used in de novo design of trimeric coiled-coils (Lumb & Kim, 1995
). As discussed before (Guardado-Calvo et al., 2005
),
C folding may begin at its monomeric C-terminal β-barrel. Interaction among three β-barrels could then lead to trimer formation. The stalk region would then zip up, starting with the short triple β-spiral, to form the intact fibre. The head and/or stalk domains could act as signals to ensure correct registration. Alternatively, trimerization could start at the registration domains in the coiled-coil domain identified here.
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-helical coiled-coil to the triple β-spiral (Fig. 2c
C contains zinc in its natural state. However, it is tempting to speculate that zinc, or perhaps another divalent metal cation, has a structural role in stabilizing the extended
C conformation in the intermediate subviral particle obtained upon reovirion partial uncoating, when outer capsid proteins
B and µB are lost (Benavente & Martinez-Costas, 2007
C is folded away in the intact reovirion (as its analogue
1 in mammalian reovirus is proposed to be; Guglielmi et al., 2006
C at the pentameric vertices of the avian reovirus core, and are likely to be unstructured in the isolated protein. It is currently not clear how
C incorporates into the virus; apart from a small stub of density emerging from the
C pentamer identified by electron microscopy, no electron density has been assigned to
C (Zhang et al., 2005
C adopting different possible conformations and/or to
C not following the icosahedral symmetry imposed in the electron microscopy reconstruction.
In summary, we have for the first time experimentally determined the structure of the
-helical coiled-coil region of a reovirus fibre and shown that the linker between the
-helical and β-structured parts of the
C protein may bind a divalent zinc cation. Our structural data suggest the coiled-coil is important for in-register trimerization of the avian reovirus fibre and suggest the presence of hinge regions around residues 110 and 158, which may be important for receptor-binding or subsequent approach of the infectious viral particle to the cell. They may also be important for the accommodation of the
C trimer in the virus particle.
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accepted 4 December 2008.
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