The Chlamydia pneumoniae effector SemD exploits its host’s endocytic machinery by structural and functional mimicry

Kocher F, Applegate V, Reiners J, Port A, Spona D, Hänsch S, Mirzaiebadizi A, Ahmadian M, Smits S, Hegemann J, Mölleken K, Nature Communications 15(1) (2024) DOI

SASDTU5 – SemDΔAPH bound to BR-GBD (actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL)

Uncharacterized protein
Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL
MWexperimental 60 kDa
MWexpected 55 kDa
VPorod 102 nm3
log I(s) 4.72×103 4.72×102 4.72×101 4.72×100
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL Guinier plot ln 4.72×103 Rg: 4.2 nm 0 (4.2 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL pair distance distribution function Rg: 4.3 nm 0 Dmax: 15.9 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
SemDΔAPH bound to BR-GBD (actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL) Rg histogram Rg, nm
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL EOM/RANCH model
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL EOM/RANCH model
Uncharacterized protein Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL EOM/RANCH model

Synchrotron SAXS data from solutions of SemDΔAPH bound to BR-GBD in 137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 10 mM Na2HPO4, 1.8 mM KH2PO4, 3% glycerol, pH 8.5 were collected on the EMBL P12 beam line at PETRA III (DESY; Hamburg, Germany) using a Pilatus 6M detector at a sample-detector distance of 3 m and at a wavelength of λ = 0.124 nm (I(s) vs s, where s = 4πsinθ/λ, and 2θ is the scattering angle). In-line size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) SAS was employed. The SEC parameters were as follows: A 100.00 μl sample at 8 mg/ml was injected at a 0.60 ml/min flow rate onto a GE Superdex 200 Increase 10/300 column at 20°C. 2400 successive 0.995 second frames were collected. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

Uncharacterized protein (SemDΔAPH)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Chlamydia pneumoniae
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   35.1 kDa
 
UniProt   Q9Z7M7 (67-382)
Sequence   FASTA
 
Actin nucleation-promoting factor WASL (BR-GBD)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Rattus norvegicus
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   19.5 kDa
 
UniProt   O08816 (141-273)
Sequence   FASTA