J 2022

The structured organization of Deinococcus radiodurans' cell envelope

FARCI, Domenica, Patrycja HANIEWICZ and Dario PIANO

Basic information

Original name

The structured organization of Deinococcus radiodurans' cell envelope

Authors

FARCI, Domenica, Patrycja HANIEWICZ and Dario PIANO

Edition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, 0027-8424

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 11.100

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14740/22:00128752

Organization unit

Central European Institute of Technology

UT WoS

000907643500039

Keywords in English

cryo-electron crystallography; cryo-electron tomography; S-layer; Type IV piliation system; SDBC

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 28/2/2023 14:16, Mgr. Pavla Foltynová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Surface layers (S-layers) are highly ordered coats of proteins localized on the cell surface of many bacterial species. In these structures, one or more proteins form elementary units that self-assemble into a crystalline monolayer tiling the entire cell surface. Here, the cell envelope of the radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans was studied by cryo-electron microscopy, finding the crystalline regularity of the S-layer extended into the layers below (outer membrane, periplasm, and inner membrane). The cell envelope appears to be highly packed and resulting from a three-dimensional crystalline distribution of protein complexes organized in close continuity yet allowing a certain degree of free space. The presented results suggest how S-layers, at least in some species, are mesoscale assemblies behaving as structural and functional scaffolds essential for the entire cell envelope.

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