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    Cell surface proteins in archaeal and bacterial genomes comprising "LVIVD", "RIVW" and "LGxL" tandem sequence repeats are predicted to fold as β-propeller
    ( 2007-10-01) Adindla, Swathi ; Inampudi, Krishna Kishore ; Guruprasad, Lalitha
    Proteins that share even low sequence homologies are known to adopt similar folds. The β-propeller structural motif is one such example. Identifying sequences that adopt a β-propeller fold is useful to annotate protein structure and function. Often, tandem sequence repeats provide the necessary signal for identifying β-propellers in proteins. In our recent analysis to identify cell surface proteins in archaeal and bacterial genomes, we identified some proteins that contain novel tandem repeats "LVIVD", "RIVW" and "LGxL". In this work, based on protein fold predictions and three-dimensional comparative modeling methods, we predicted that these repeat types fold as β-propeller. Further, the evolutionary trace analysis of all proteins constituting amino acid sequence repeats in β-propellers suggest that the novel repeats have diverged from a common ancestor. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    Sequence analysis corresponding to the PPE and PE proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other genomes
    ( 2003-01-01) Adindla, Swathi ; Guruprasad, Lalitha
    Amino acid sequence analysis corresponding to the PPE proteins in H37Rv and CDC1551 strains of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes resulted in the identification of a previously uncharacterized 225 amino acid-residue common region in 22 proteins. The pairwise sequence identities were as low as 18%. Conservation of amino acid residues was observed at fifteen positions that were distributed over the whole length of the region. The secondary structure corresponding to this region is predicted to be a mixture of α-helices and β-strands. Although the function is not known, proteins with this region specific to mycobacterial species may be associated with a common function. We further observed another group of 20 PPE proteins corresponding to the conserved C-terminal region comprising 44 amino acid residues with GFxGT and PxxPxxW sequence motifs. This region is preceded by a hydrophobic region, comprising 40-100 amino acid residues, that is flanked by charged amino acid residues. Identification of conserved regions described above may be useful to detect related proteins from other genomes and assist the design of suitable experiments to test their corresponding functions. Amino acid sequence analysis corresponding to the PE proteins resulted in the identification of tandem repeats comprising 41-43 amino acid residues in the C-terminal variable regions in two PE proteins (Rv0978 and Rv0980). These correspond to the AB repeats that were first identified in some proteins of the Methanosarcina mazei genome, and were demonstrated as surface antigens. We observed the AB repeats also in several other proteins of hitherto uncharacterized function in Archaea and Bacteria genomes. Some of these proteins are also associated with another repeat called the C-repeat or the PKD-domain comprising 85 amino acid residues. The secondary structure corresponding to the AB repeat is predicted mainly as 4 β-strands. We suggest that proteins with AB repeats in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other genomes may be associated as surface antigens. The M. leprae genome, however, does not contain either the AB or C-repeats and different proteins may therefore be recruited as surface antigens in the M. leprae genome compared to the M. tuberculosis genome.
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    Three-dimensional models and structure analysis of corynemycolyltransferases in Corynebacterium glutamicum and Corynebacterium efficiens
    ( 2004-06-01) Adindla, Swathi ; Guruprasad, Kunchur ; Guruprasad, Lalitha
    The corynemycolyltransferase proteins were identified from Corynebacterium glutamicum and Corynebacterium efficiens genomes using computational tools available in the public domain. Three-dimensional models were constructed for corynemycolyltransferases based on the crystal structures of related mycolyltransferases in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using the comparative modeling methods. The corynemycolyltransferases share overall an α/β-fold characteristic of the mycolyltransferases despite low sequence identity ( < 20%) shared by some of the corynemycolyltransferases. However, a significant difference is observed in the region between amino acid residues Trp82-Trp97 and Ala222-Asn223 corresponding to mycolyltransferases. The specificity pockets defined by interactions with the trehalose substrate observed in the crystal structure complex of Ag85B mycolyltransferase (PDB code: 1F0P) suggests that trehalose may not bind some corynemycolyltransferases. This is due to critical mutations in corynemycolyltransferase binding subsites that lead to loss of equivalent side-chain interactions with trehalose and unfavorable steric interactions, particularly, in the case of cmytC gene and the protein corresponding to the gene identifier CE0356 with the equivalent Ala222-Asn223 "long insertion loop". Further, the fibronectin binding region (Phe58-Val69), in mycolyltransferases associated with mediating host-pathogen interactions in M. tuberculosis comprises amino acid residue mutations in the corresponding region in the soil bacterium - Corynebacterium corynemycolyltransferases, that suggest a different epitope and therefore possible lack of binding to fibronectin. The corynemycolyltransferase cmytA responsible for the cell shape formation and for maintaining the cell surface integrity is associated with a C-terminal domain that we have recently shown to comprise tandem amino acid sequence repeats that is likely to be associated with a regular secondary structural motif. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.