General Information

Database accession: MF7000944

Name: Rubella virus capsid protein

PDB ID: 5khe PDBe

Experimental method: Electron Microscopy

Assembly: Homodimer

Source organism: Rubella virus

Primary publication of the structure:

Mangala Prasad V, Klose T, Rossmann MG
Assembly, maturation and three-dimensional helical structure of the teratogenic rubella virus.

(2017) PLoS Pathog. 13: e1006377

PMID: 28575072 PubMed

Abstract:

Viral infections during pregnancy are a significant cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Of these, rubella virus infection is a well-substantiated example that leads to miscarriages or severe fetal defects. However, structural information about the rubella virus has been lacking due to the pleomorphic nature of the virions. Here we report a helical structure of rubella virions using cryo-electron tomography. Sub-tomogram averaging of the surface spikes established the relative positions of the viral glycoproteins, which differed from the earlier icosahedral models of the virus. Tomographic analyses of in vitro assembled nucleocapsids and virions provide a template for viral assembly. Comparisons of immature and mature virions show large rearrangements in the glycoproteins that may be essential for forming the infectious virions. These results present the first known example of a helical membrane-enveloped virus, while also providing a structural basis for its assembly and maturation pathway.


Function and Biology Annotations from the GeneOntology database. Only terms that fit at least two of the interacting proteins are shown.

Molecular function:

metal ion binding metal ion binding GeneOntology

RNA binding RNA binding GeneOntology

Biological process:

clathrin-dependent endocytosis of virus by host cell clathrin-dependent endocytosis of virus by host cell GeneOntology

fusion of virus membrane with host endosome membrane fusion of virus membrane with host endosome membrane GeneOntology

virion attachment to host cell virion attachment to host cell GeneOntology

Cellular component:

host cell Golgi membrane host cell Golgi membrane GeneOntology

host cell mitochondrion host cell mitochondrion GeneOntology

membrane membrane GeneOntology

T=4 icosahedral viral capsid T=4 icosahedral viral capsid GeneOntology

viral envelope viral envelope GeneOntology

viral nucleocapsid viral nucleocapsid GeneOntology

virion membrane virion membrane GeneOntology

Structure Summary Structural annotations of the participating protein chains.

Entry contents: 2 distinct polypeptide molecules

Chains: A, B

Notes: All chains according to the most probable oligomerization state stored in PDBe were considered.

Number of unique protein segments: 1


Chain A

Name: Structural polyprotein

Source organism: Rubella virus

Length: 1063 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to the corresponding UniProt protein segmentMASTTPITMEDLQKALEAQSRALRAELAAGASQSRRPRPPRQRDSSTSGDDSGRDSGGPRRRRGNRGRGQRRDWSRAPPPPEERQETRSQTPAPKPSRAPPQQPQPPRMQTGRGGSAPRPELGPPTNPFQAAVARGLRPPLHDPDTEAPTEACVTSWLWSEGEGAVFYRVDLHFTNLGTPPLDEDGRWDPALMYNPCGPEPPAHVVRAYNQPAGDVRGVWGKGERTYAEQDFRVGGTRWHRLLRMPVRGLDGDSAPLPPHTTERIETRSARHPWRIRFGAPQAFLAGLLLATVAVGTARAGLQPRADMAAPPTLPQPPCAHGQHYGHHHHQLPFLGHDGHHGGTLRVGQHYRNASDVLPGHWLQGGWGCYNLSDWHQGTHVCHTKHMDFWCVEHDRPPPATPTPLTTAANSTTAATPATAPAPCHAGLNDSCGGFLSGCGPMRLRHGADTRCGRLICGLSTTAQYPPTRFGCAMRWGLPPWELVVLTARPEDGWTCRGVPAHPGARCPELVSPMGRATCSPASALWLATANALSLDHALAAFVLLVPWVLIFMVCRRACRRRGAAAALTAVVLQGYNPPAYGEEAFTYLCTAPGCATQAPVPVRLAGVRFESKIVDGGCFAPWDLEATGACICEIPTDVSCEGLGAWVPAAPCARIWNGTQRACTFWAVNAYSSGGYAQLASYFNPGGSYYKQYHPTACEVEPAFGHSDAACWGFPTDTVMSVFALASYVQHPHKTVRVKFHTETRTVWQLSVAGVSCNVTTEHPFCNTPHGQLEVQVPPDPGDLVEYIMNYTGNQQSRWGLGSPNCHGPDWASPVCQRHSPDCSRLVGATPERPRLRLVDADDPLLRTAPGPGEVWVTPVIGSQARKCGLHIRAGPYGHATVEMPEWIHAHTTSDPWHPPGPLGLKFKTVRPVALPRTLAPPRNVRVTGCYQCGTPALVEGLAPGGGNCHLTVNGEDLGAVPPGKFVTAALLNTPPPYQVSCGGESDRATARVIDPAAQSFTGVVYGTHTTAVSETRQTWAEWAAAHWWQLTLGAICALPLAGLLACCAKCLYYLRGAIAPR

UniProtKB AC: P07566 (positions: 150-247) UniProt

Coverage: 9%

Chain B

Name: Structural polyprotein

Source organism: Rubella virus

Length: 1063 residues

Sequence:Sequence according to the corresponding UniProt protein segmentMASTTPITMEDLQKALEAQSRALRAELAAGASQSRRPRPPRQRDSSTSGDDSGRDSGGPRRRRGNRGRGQRRDWSRAPPPPEERQETRSQTPAPKPSRAPPQQPQPPRMQTGRGGSAPRPELGPPTNPFQAAVARGLRPPLHDPDTEAPTEACVTSWLWSEGEGAVFYRVDLHFTNLGTPPLDEDGRWDPALMYNPCGPEPPAHVVRAYNQPAGDVRGVWGKGERTYAEQDFRVGGTRWHRLLRMPVRGLDGDSAPLPPHTTERIETRSARHPWRIRFGAPQAFLAGLLLATVAVGTARAGLQPRADMAAPPTLPQPPCAHGQHYGHHHHQLPFLGHDGHHGGTLRVGQHYRNASDVLPGHWLQGGWGCYNLSDWHQGTHVCHTKHMDFWCVEHDRPPPATPTPLTTAANSTTAATPATAPAPCHAGLNDSCGGFLSGCGPMRLRHGADTRCGRLICGLSTTAQYPPTRFGCAMRWGLPPWELVVLTARPEDGWTCRGVPAHPGARCPELVSPMGRATCSPASALWLATANALSLDHALAAFVLLVPWVLIFMVCRRACRRRGAAAALTAVVLQGYNPPAYGEEAFTYLCTAPGCATQAPVPVRLAGVRFESKIVDGGCFAPWDLEATGACICEIPTDVSCEGLGAWVPAAPCARIWNGTQRACTFWAVNAYSSGGYAQLASYFNPGGSYYKQYHPTACEVEPAFGHSDAACWGFPTDTVMSVFALASYVQHPHKTVRVKFHTETRTVWQLSVAGVSCNVTTEHPFCNTPHGQLEVQVPPDPGDLVEYIMNYTGNQQSRWGLGSPNCHGPDWASPVCQRHSPDCSRLVGATPERPRLRLVDADDPLLRTAPGPGEVWVTPVIGSQARKCGLHIRAGPYGHATVEMPEWIHAHTTSDPWHPPGPLGLKFKTVRPVALPRTLAPPRNVRVTGCYQCGTPALVEGLAPGGGNCHLTVNGEDLGAVPPGKFVTAALLNTPPPYQVSCGGESDRATARVIDPAAQSFTGVVYGTHTTAVSETRQTWAEWAAAHWWQLTLGAICALPLAGLLACCAKCLYYLRGAIAPR

UniProtKB AC: P07566 (positions: 150-247) UniProt

Coverage: 9%

Evidence Evidence demonstrating that the participating proteins are unstructured prior to the interaction and their folding is coupled to binding.

Representative domain in related structures: Rubella capsid protein

Evidence level: Indirect evidence

Evidence coverage: The full structure participates in mutual synergistic folding.

Complex Evidence:

RV capsid proteins form a tight, disulfide-linked dimer. There is beta sheet augmentation between the monomers. The resultant 10-stranded, left-handed twisted sheet forms a partially open β-barrel with the two helices lying in the center of the barrel. The β-strands A and B from one monomer are inserted into the BH loop of the other monomer, forming a tightly bound dimeric structure consistent with the previous observation that the RV capsid protein forms dimers when isolated from the virion (PMID:24282305).

Chain A:

N/A

Chain B:

N/A

Surface and contacts features:

Related Structure(s) Structures from the PDB that contain the same number of proteins, and the proteins from the two structures show a sufficient degree of pairwise similarity, i.e. they belong to the same UniRef90 cluster (the full proteins exhibit at least 90% sequence identity) and convey roughly the same region to their respective interactions (the two regions from the two proteins share a minimum of 70% overlap).

There are 3 related structures in the MFIB database:
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