Pang, SS;
Bayly-Jones, C;
Radjainia, M;
Spicer, BA;
Law, RHP;
Hodel, AW;
Parsons, ES;
... Whisstock, JC; + view all
(2019)
The cryo-EM structure of the acid activatable pore-forming immune effector Macrophage-expressed gene 1.
Nature Communications
, 10
, Article 4288. 10.1038/s41467-019-12279-2.
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Abstract
Macrophage-expressed gene 1 (MPEG1/Perforin-2) is a perforin-like protein that functions within the phagolysosome to damage engulfed microbes. MPEG1 is thought to form pores in target membranes, however, its mode of action remains unknown. We use cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the 2.4 Å structure of a hexadecameric assembly of MPEG1 that displays the expected features of a soluble prepore complex. We further discover that MPEG1 prepore-like assemblies can be induced to perforate membranes through acidification, such as would occur within maturing phagolysosomes. We next solve the 3.6 Å cryo-EM structure of MPEG1 in complex with liposomes. These data reveal that a multi-vesicular body of 12 kDa (MVB12)-associated β-prism (MABP) domain binds membranes such that the pore-forming machinery of MPEG1 is oriented away from the bound membrane. This unexpected mechanism of membrane interaction suggests that MPEG1 remains bound to the phagolysosome membrane while simultaneously forming pores in engulfed bacterial targets.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The cryo-EM structure of the acid activatable pore-forming immune effector Macrophage-expressed gene 1 |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-019-12279-2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12279-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Cryoelectron microscopy, Immunology, Membrane proteins |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082512 |
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