Mahony, J.; Goulet, A.; van Sinderen, D.; Cambillau, C. Partial Atomic Model of the Tailed Lactococcal Phage TP901-1 as Predicted by AlphaFold2: Revelations and Limitations. Viruses2023, 15, 2440.
Mahony, J.; Goulet, A.; van Sinderen, D.; Cambillau, C. Partial Atomic Model of the Tailed Lactococcal Phage TP901-1 as Predicted by AlphaFold2: Revelations and Limitations. Viruses 2023, 15, 2440.
Mahony, J.; Goulet, A.; van Sinderen, D.; Cambillau, C. Partial Atomic Model of the Tailed Lactococcal Phage TP901-1 as Predicted by AlphaFold2: Revelations and Limitations. Viruses2023, 15, 2440.
Mahony, J.; Goulet, A.; van Sinderen, D.; Cambillau, C. Partial Atomic Model of the Tailed Lactococcal Phage TP901-1 as Predicted by AlphaFold2: Revelations and Limitations. Viruses 2023, 15, 2440.
Abstract
Bacteria are engaged in a constant battle against preying viruses, called bacteriophages (or phag-es). These remarkable nano-machines pack and store their genomes in a capsid and inject it into the cytoplasm of their bacterial prey following specific adhesion to the host cell surface. Tailed phages possessing dsDNA genomes are the most abundant phages in the bacterial virosphere, particularly those with long, non-contractile tails. All tailed phages possess a nano-device at their tail tip that specifically recognizes and adheres to a suitable host cell surface receptor, being pro-teinaceous and/or saccharidic. Adhesion devices of tailed phages infecting Gram-positive bacte-ria are highly diverse and, for the majority, remain poorly understood. Their long, flexible and multi-domain encompassing tail limits experimental approaches to determine their complete structure. We have previously shown that the recently developed protein structure prediction program AlphaFold2 can overcome this limitation by predicting the structures of phage adhesion devices with confidence. Here, we extend this approach and employ AlphaFold2 to determine the structure of a complete phage, the lactococcal P335 phage TP901-1. Herein we report the structures of its capsid and neck, its extended tail, and the complete adhesion device, the baseplate, which was previously partially determined by X-ray crystallography.
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