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CELL REPORTS
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 1-8出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.03.002
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- Council for Chemical Sciences (CW) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) [700.57.010]
- Netherlands Centre for Electron Nanoscopy (NeCEN), Leiden (NWO) [175.010.2009.001]
Pore formation in membranes is important for mammalian immune defense against invading bacteria. Induced by complement activation, the membrane attack complex (MAC) forms through sequential binding and membrane insertion of C5b6, C7, C8, and C9. Using cryo-electron tomography with a Volta phase plate and subtomogram averaging, we imaged C5b-7, C5b-8, and C5b-9 complexes and determined the C5b-9 pore structure in lipid bilayers. The in situ C5b-9 pore structure at 2.3-nm resolution reveals a 10- to 11.5-nm cone-shaped pore starting with C5b678 and multiple copies of C9 that is poorly closed, yielding a seam between C9 and C6 substituting for the shorter beta strands in C6 and C7. However, large variations of composite pore complexes are apparent in subtomograms. Oligomerized initiator complexes C5b-7 and C5b-8 show stages of membrane binding, deformation, and perforation that yield similar to 3.5-nm-wide pores. These data indicate a dynamic process of pore formation that likely adapts to biological membranes under attack.
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