Structure comparison of human glioma pathogenesis-related protein GliPR and the plant pathogenesis-related protein P14a indicates a functional link between the human immune system and a plant defense system
Structure comparison of human glioma pathogenesis-related protein GliPR and the plant pathogenesis-related protein P14a indicates a functional link between the human immune system and a plant defense system
The human glioma pathogenesis-related protein (GliPR) is highly expressed in the brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme and exhibits 35% amino acid sequence identity with the tomato pathogenesis-related (PR) protein P14a, which has an important role for the plant defense system. A molecular model of GliPR was computed with the distance geometry programdianaon the basis of a P14a–GliPR sequence alignment and a set of 1,200 experimental NMR conformational constraints collected with P14a. The GliPR structure is represented by a group of 20 conformers with small residualdianatarget function values, lowamber-energies after restrained energy-minimization with the programopal, and an average rms deviation relative to the mean of 1.6 Å for the backbone heavy atoms. Comparison of the GliPR model with the P14a structure lead to the identification of a common partially solvent-exposed spatial cluster of four amino acid residues, His-69, Glu-88, Glu-110, and His-127 in the GliPR numeration. This cluster is conserved in all known plant PR proteins of class 1, indicating a common putative active site for GliPR and PR-1 proteins and thus a functional link between the human immune system and a plant defense system.
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics Switzerland
- ETH Zurich Switzerland
Models, Molecular, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Protein Conformation, Molecular Sequence Data, Membrane Proteins, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Plants, Protein Structure, Secondary, Neoplasm Proteins, Mice, Animals, Humans, Computer Simulation, Amino Acid Sequence, Disulfides, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, Sequence Alignment, Phylogeny, Plant Proteins
Models, Molecular, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Protein Conformation, Molecular Sequence Data, Membrane Proteins, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Plants, Protein Structure, Secondary, Neoplasm Proteins, Mice, Animals, Humans, Computer Simulation, Amino Acid Sequence, Disulfides, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular, Sequence Alignment, Phylogeny, Plant Proteins
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