Insights into herpesvirus assembly from the structure of the pUL7:pUL51 complex.

Butt BG, Owen DJ, Jeffries CM, Ivanova L, Hill CH, Houghton JW, Ahmed MF, Antrobus R, Svergun DI, Welch JJ, Crump CM, Graham SC, Elife 9 (2020) Europe PMC

SASDG57 – 1:2 heterotrimer of pUL7 and pUL51 from herpes simplex virus 1

Tegument protein UL7
Tegument protein UL51
MWexperimental 84 kDa
MWexpected 85 kDa
VPorod 160 nm3
log I(s) 4.53×103 4.53×102 4.53×101 4.53×100
Tegument protein UL7 Tegument protein UL51 small angle scattering data  s, nm-1
ln I(s)
Tegument protein UL7 Tegument protein UL51 Guinier plot ln 4.54×103 Rg: 4.0 nm 0 (4.0 nm)-2 s2
(sRg)2I(s)/I(0)
Tegument protein UL7 Tegument protein UL51 Kratky plot 1.104 0 3 sRg
p(r)
Tegument protein UL7 Tegument protein UL51 pair distance distribution function Rg: 4.3 nm 0 Dmax: 18.2 nm

Data validation


Fits and models


log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Tegument protein UL7 Tegument protein UL51 GASBOR model

log I(s)
 s, nm-1
Tegument protein UL7 Tegument protein UL51 GASBOR model

Synchrotron SAXS data from the 1:2 heterotrimer of pUL7 and pUL51 from herpes simplex virus 1 in 20 mM HEPES, 200 mM NaCl, 3% (v/v) glycerol, 1 mM DTT, pH 7.5 were collected on the EMBL P12 beam line at PETRA III (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 90.00 μl sample at 8 mg/ml was injected at a 0.50 ml/min flow rate onto a GE Superdex 200 Increase 10/300 column at 20.2°C. 35 successive 0.995 second frames were collected through the major SEC-elution peak (corresponding to the heterohexamer) and processed using CHROMIXS. The data were normalized to the intensity of the transmitted beam and radially averaged; the scattering of the solvent-blank was subtracted.

The quoted experimental molecular mass, that corresponds to a 1:2 pUL7:pUL51 heterotrimer, was determined from SEC-MALLS-RI measurements performed in parallel to the SEC-SAXS. The SEC-SAXS data, Rg correlations through the heterotrimer elution peak as well as the the SEC-MALLS-RI data are made available in the full-entry zip archive. The GASBORMX model displayed in this entry represents an 80 % volume fraction of the heterotrimer (corresponding fit, top) combined with a 20% volume fraction of a 2:4 pUL7:pUL51 heterohexamer (corresponding fit, bottom), due to incomplete SEC-separation between the two forms of the complex (also refer to SASBDB entry SASDG47).

Tegument protein UL7 (pUL7)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Human alphaherpesvirus 1 strain KOS
Olig. state   Monomer
Mon. MW   33.9 kDa
 
UniProt   A0A110B4Q7 (1-296)
Sequence   FASTA
 
Tegument protein UL51 (pUL51)
Mol. type   Protein
Organism   Human alphaherpesvirus 1
Olig. state   Dimer
Mon. MW   25.4 kDa
 
UniProt   D3YPL0 (1-244)
Sequence   FASTA