Adhesion mechanism of human β2-glycoprotein I to phospholipids based on its crystal structure
Adhesion mechanism of human β2-glycoprotein I to phospholipids based on its crystal structure
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DOI:
10.1093/emboj/18.19.5166
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发表时间:
1999-10-01
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影响因子:
11.4
通讯作者:
Gros, P
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作者:
Bouma, B;de Groot, PG;Gros, P
Human beta(2)-glycoprotein I is a heavily glycosylated five-domain plasma membrane-adhesion protein, which has been implicated in blood coagulation and clearance of apoptotic bodies from the circulation. It is also the key antigen in the autoimmune disease anti-phospholipid syndrome. The crystal structure of beta(2)-glycoprotein I isolated from human plasma reveals an elongated fishhook-like arrangement of the globular short consensus repeat domains. Half of the C-terminal fifth domain deviates strongly from the standard fold, as observed in domains one to four. This aberrant half forms a specific phospholipid-binding site. A large patch of 14 positively charged residues provides electrostatic interactions with anionic phospholipid headgroups and an exposed membrane-insertion loop yields specificity for lipid layers. The observed spatial arrangement of the five domains suggests a functional partitioning of protein adhesion and membrane adhesion over the Nand C-terminal domains, respectively, separated by glycosylated bridging domains. Coordinates are in the Protein Data Bank (accession No. 1QUB).