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Structure and Function of the T4 Spackle Protein Gp61.3

The bacteriophage T4 genome contains two genes that code for proteins with lysozyme activity-e and 5. Gene e encodes the well-known T4 lysozyme (commonly called T4L) that functions to break the peptidoglycan layer late in the infection cycle, which is requ ...

2020

Structure and transformation of bacteriophage A511 baseplate and tail upon infection of Listeria cells

Sergey Nazarov, Petr Leiman, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira

Contractile injection systems (bacteriophage tails, type VI secretions system, R-type pyocins, etc.) utilize a rigid tube/contractile sheath assembly for breaching the envelope of bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Among contractile injection systems, bacteri ...

WILEY2019

Structure and Function of the Branched Receptor-Binding Complex of Bacteriophage CBA120

Sergey Nazarov, Petr Leiman, Sergii Buth, Michel Plattner, Nikolai Prokhorov

Bacteriophages recognize their host cells with the help of tail fiber and tailspike proteins that bind, cleave, or modify certain structures on the cell surface. The spectrum of ligands to which the tail fibers and tailspikes can bind is the primary determ ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Structure and Analysis of R1 and R2 Pyocin Receptor-Binding Fibers

Petr Leiman, Sergii Buth

The R-type pyocins are high-molecular weight bacteriocins produced by some strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to specifically kill other strains of the same species. Structurally, the R-type pyocins are similar to simple contractile tails, such as those of ...

2018

Genetic, structural and phenotypic properties of MS2 coliphage with resistance to ClO2 disinfection

Tamar Kohn, Anna Carratala Ripolles, Virginie Bachmann, Sergey Nazarov, Petr Leiman, Qingxia Zhong, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, Laura Piccinini

Common water disinfectants like chlorine have been reported to select for resistant viruses, yet little attention has been devoted to characterizing disinfection resistance. Here, we investigated the resistance of MS2 coliphage to inactivation by chlorine ...

Amer Chemical Soc2016

Structure of the T4 baseplate and its function in triggering sheath contraction

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg, Petr Leiman, Ricardo Cesar Guerrero Ferreira, Christopher Browning, Nikolai Prokhorov

Several systems, including contractile tail bacteriophages, the type VI secretion system and R-type pyocins, use a multiprotein tubular apparatus to attach to and penetrate host cell membranes. This macromolecular machine resembles a stretched, coiled spri ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Structure and Biophysical Properties of a Triple-Stranded Beta-Helix Comprising the Central Spike of Bacteriophage T4

Laure Menin, Petr Leiman, Sergii Buth

Gene product 5 (gp5) of bacteriophage T4 is a spike-shaped protein that functions to disrupt the membrane of the target cell during phage infection. Its C-terminal domain is a long and slender -helix that is formed by three polypeptide chains wrapped aroun ...

Mdpi Ag2015

Structure and biochemical characterization of bacteriophage phi92 endosialidase

Petr Leiman, Christopher Browning

Surface-associated capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) protect bacteria against phage infection and enhance pathogenicity by interfering with the function of the host innate immune system. The CPS of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli K92 is a unique sialic aci ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2015

Atomic structures of a bactericidal contractile nanotube in its pre- and postcontraction states

Petr Leiman, Peng Ge

R-type pyocins are representatives of contractile ejection systems, a class of biological nanomachines that includes, among others, the bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) and contractile bacteriophage tails. We report atomic models of the Pseudomona ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Structure and properties of the C-terminal beta-helical domain of VgrG protein from Escherichia coli O157

Petr Leiman

The bacterial Type 6 secretion system (T6SS) translocates protein toxins (also called effectors) from the cytosol of a T6SS-carrying cell to a target cell by a syringe-like supramolecular complex resembling a contractile tail of bacteriophages. Valine-glyc ...

Oxford University Press2014