Koiwa H, Kato H, Nakatsu T, Oda J, Yamada Y, Sato F
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan.
Plant Cell Physiol. 1997 Jul;38(7):783-91. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029236.
Cultured tobacco cells accumulate several pathogenesis-related proteins. A neutral PR-5 protein, PR-5d, was purified to homogeneity from such cells. PR-5d has highly hydrophobic characteristics, but hydropathy analysis of its primary structure did not show a hydrophobic domain. In a series of bioassays, purified PR-5d showed inhibitory activity against several phytopathogenic and non-phytopathogenic fungi as do other members of the PR-5 protein family. To study the antifungal mechanism based on three dimensional structure of PR-5d, purified PR-5d was crystallized. The preliminary X-ray analysis of the crystal revealed that the crystals belong to space group C2, with cell dimensions a = 80.2 A, b = 63.8 A, c = 45.7 A, and beta = 107.2 degrees, and diffract at least 1.8 A resolution.
培养的烟草细胞会积累多种病程相关蛋白。一种中性病程相关蛋白5(PR - 5),即PR - 5d,从这些细胞中被纯化至同质。PR - 5d具有高度疏水的特性,但其一级结构的亲水性分析并未显示出疏水结构域。在一系列生物测定中,纯化的PR - 5d与PR - 5蛋白家族的其他成员一样,对几种植物病原真菌和非植物病原真菌表现出抑制活性。为了基于PR - 5d的三维结构研究其抗真菌机制,纯化的PR - 5d被结晶。对该晶体的初步X射线分析表明,晶体属于空间群C2,晶胞参数为a = 80.2 Å,b = 63.8 Å,c = 45.7 Å,β = 107.2°,并且至少在1.8 Å分辨率下产生衍射。