Title
Chagas disease: A homology model for the three-dimensional structure of the Trypanosoma cruzi ribosomal P0 antigenic protein
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gomez Barroso J.A.
Aguilar C.F.
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
Ribosomal P proteins form a "stalk" complex in the large subunit of the ribosomes. In Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease, the complex is formed by five P protein members: TcP0, TcP1α, TcP1β, TcP2α and TcP2β. The TcP0 protein has 34 kDa, and TcP1 and TcP2 proteins have 10 kDa. The structure of T. cruzi P0 and the stalk complex TcP0-TcP1α-TcP1β-TcP2α-TcP2β have not been solved to date. In this work, we constructed a three-dimensional molecular model for TcP0 using homology modeling as implemented in the MODELLER 9v12 software. The model was constructed using different templates: the X-ray structures of the protein P0 from Pirococcus horikoshii, a segment from the Danio renio Ca +2/K+ channel and the C-terminal peptide (C13) from T. cruzi ribosomal P2 protein; the Cryo-EM structure of Triticum aestivum P0 protein and the NMR structure of Homo sapiens P1 ribosomal protein. TcP0 has a 200-residue-long N-terminal, which is an α/β globular stable domain, and a flexible C-terminal, 120-residue-long domain. The molecular surface electrostatic potential and hydrophobic surface were calculated. The surface properties are important for the C-terminal's antigenic properties. They are also responsible for P0-specific binding to RNA26S and the binding to the P1-P2 proteins. We explored and identified protein interactions that may be involved in conformational stability. The structure proposed in this work represents a first structural report for the TcP0 protein. © 2014 European Biophysical Societies' Association.
Start page
361
End page
366
Volume
43
Issue
September 8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnología médica Ingeniería médica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84906056261
PubMed ID
Source
European Biophysics Journal
ISSN of the container
01757571
DOI of the container
10.1007/s00249-014-0967-8
Sponsor(s)
Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Universidad nacional de San luis Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica de la Universidad nacional de San luis, argentina.
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