Structural and functional characterization of proteins from the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora. A review on the state of the art

Together with genome analysis and knock-out mutants, structural and functional characterization of proteins provide valuable hints on the biology of the organism under investigation. Structural characterization can be achieved by techniques such as X-ray crystallography, NMR, Cryo-EM. The information derived from the structure are a good starting point to comprehend the details of the proteins molecular function for a better understanding of their biological role. This review aims at describing the progress in the structural and functional characterization of proteins from the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora obtained by structural biology and currently deposited in the Protein Data Bank.

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Together with genome analysis and knock-out mutants, structural and functional characterization of proteins provide valuable insights for understanding the biological role of the organism under investigation. Various techniques such as X-ray crystallography, NMR, Cryo-EM can achieve structural characterization of proteins, which serves as a good starting point to comprehend the molecular function details of proteins for a better understanding of their biological role. This review focuses on the progress in the structural and functional characterization of proteins from the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora, obtained through structural biology and currently deposited in the Protein Data Bank.