Structure and genome ejection mechanism of Staphylococcus aureus phage P68

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Authors

HREBÍK Dominik ŠTVERÁKOVÁ Dana ŠKUBNÍK Karel FÜZIK Tibor PANTŮČEK Roman PLEVKA Pavel

Year of publication 2019
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Science advances
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Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaaw7414
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw7414
Keywords Podoviridae; RECEPTOR-BINDING PROTEIN; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; CRYO-EM; BACTERIOPHAGE P68
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Description Phages infecting Staphylococcus aureus can be used as therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. However, there is limited information about the mechanism of genome delivery of phages that infect Gram-positive bacteria. Here, we present the structures of native S. aureus phage P68, genome ejection intermediate, and empty particle. The P68 head contains 72 subunits of inner core protein, 15 of which bind to and alter the structure of adjacent major capsid proteins and thus specify attachment sites for head fibers. Unlike in the previously studied phages, the head fibers of P68 enable its virion to position itself at the cell surface for genome delivery. The unique interaction of one end of P68 DNA with one of the 12 portal protein subunits is disrupted before the genome ejection. The inner core proteins are released together with the DNA and enable the translocation of phage genome across the bacterial membrane into the cytoplasm.
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