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Biomimetic Materials to Characterize Bacteria-host Interactions
Published on: November 16, 2015
Structure of the decoy module of human glycoprotein 2 and uromodulin and its interaction with bacterial adhesin FimH
Alena Stsiapanava1, Chenrui Xu2,3, Shunsuke Nishio1
1Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.
Abstract:
Glycoprotein 2 (GP2) and uromodulin (UMOD) filaments protect against gastrointestinal and urinary tract infections by acting as decoys for bacterial fimbrial lectin FimH. By combining AlphaFold2 predictions with X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM, we show that these proteins contain a bipartite decoy module whose new fold presents the high-mannose glycan recognized by FimH. The structure rationalizes UMOD mutations associated with kidney diseases and visualizes a key epitope implicated in cast nephropathy.
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