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NATURE MICROBIOLOGY
卷 2, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.222
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- National Institutes of Health [GM071940, AI094386]
- NIH/NCRR/NCATS UCLA CTSI grant [UL1TR000124]
- UCLA-DOE Institute [DE-FC03-02ER6342]
- NSF [DMR-1548924, 1515843, DBI-1338135]
- NIH [T32GM067555, 1S10OD018111, S10RR025600]
- American Heart Association Western States Affiliates Postdoc Fellowship [13POST17340020]
- UCLA
- Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) [MCB140140]
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1515843] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [1515843] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Archaea use flagella known as archaella-distinct both in protein composition and structure from bacterial flagella-to drive cell motility, but the structural basis of this function is unknown. Here, we report an atomic model of the archaella, based on the cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) structure of the Methanospirillum hungatei archaellum at 3.4 angstrom resolution. Each archaellum contains similar to 61,500 archaellin subunits organized into a curved helix with a diameter of 10 nm and average length of 10,000 nm. The tadpole-shaped archaellin monomer has two domains, a beta-barrel domain and a long, mildly kinked alpha-helix tail. Our structure reveals multiple post-translational modifications to the archaella, including six O-linked glycans and an unusual N-linked modification. The extensive interactions among neighbouring archaellins explain how the long but thin archaellum maintains the structural integrity required for motility-driving rotation. These extensive inter-subunit interactions and the absence of a central pore in the archaellum distinguish it from both the bacterial flagellum and type IV pili.
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