Summary

Pertactin

No Pfam abstract.

Literature references

Emsley P, Charles IG, Fairweather NF, Isaacs NW; , Nature 1996;381:90-92.: Structure of Bordetella pertussis virulence factor P.69 pertactin. PUBMED:8609998

InterPro entry IPR004899

Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative, aerobic coccobacillus that causes pertussis (whooping cough), especially in young children PUBMED:2542937. Once present in the lungs, the bacterium attaches to ciliated pulmonary epithelial cells via a collection of outer membrane proteins, all of which are virulence factors.

Pertactin, or P69 protein, is one of these virulence factors. Pertactin and filamentous haemagglutinin have been identified as Bordetella adhesins PUBMED:1527510. Both proteins contain an arg-gly-asp (RGD) motif that promotes binding to integrins, known to be important in cell mobility and development. The production of most Bordetella virulence factors (including pertactin) is controlled by a two-component signal transduction system, comprising the BvgA regulator and the BvgS sensor PUBMED:10943406. Pertactin shares a high level of similarity with other Bordetella adhesins, such as BrkA. The protein is first produced as a 93kDa precursor. Upon secretion into the extracellular environment, a 30kDa domain at the C-terminus remains in the outer membrane, while the mature 60.4kDa pertactin molecule is released PUBMED:8609998.

The crystal structure of mature pertactin has been determined to 2.5A resolution by means of X-ray diffraction. The fold is characterised by a 16-stranded parallel beta-helix, with a V-shaped cross-section. Several between-strand amino-acid repeats form internal and external ladders. The helical structure is interrupted by several protruding loops that contain motifs associated with the activity of the protein. One such sequence - [GGXXP]5 - appears directly after the RGD motif, and may mediate interaction with epithelial cells. The C-terminal region of P.69 pertactin contains a [PQP]5 motif loop, which contains the major immunoprotective epitope PUBMED:8609998.

The superfamily also includes immunoglobulin A1 protease and adhesion penetration protein HAP.

Clan

This family is a member of clan Pec_lyase (CL0268), which contains the following 9 members:

DUF1565 Fil_haemagg Glyco_hydro_28 Glyco_hydro_49 Haemagg_act Pec_lyase_C Pectate_lyase Pectinesterase Pertactin

Internal database links

SCOOP:

Autotransporter

External database links

PANDIT:	PF03212
SCOP:	1dab
SYSTERS:	Pertactin

Domain organisation

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Alignments

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Alignment:	Seed (8) Full (787) NCBI (722) Metagenomics (3)
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Pfam alignments:	Seed (8) Full (787) NCBI (722) Metagenomics (3)
Full length sequences	Full-sequences (787)

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Trees

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Curation and family details

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Curation

Seed source:

Pfam-B_2005 (release 6.5)

Previous IDs:

none

Type:

Family

Author:

Mifsud W

Number in seed:

8

Number in full:

787

Average length of the domain:

115.20 aa

Average identity of full alignment:

31 %

Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:

13.25 %

HMM information

HMM build commands:

build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED

search method: hmmsearch -Z 9421015 -E 1000 HMM pfamseq

Model details:

Parameter	Sequence	Domain
Gathering cut-off	21.3	21.3
Trusted cut-off	21.4	21.5
Noise cut-off	21.1	21.2

Model length:

121

Family (HMM) version:

7

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Species distribution

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Interactions

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Pertactin

Structures

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Family: Pertactin (PF03212)

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Pertactin

Literature references

InterPro entry IPR004899

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