Human Ifn Gamma

[Tamar Navratil]

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The atomic coordinates have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank under accession number 5A63, and the EM maps have been deposited in the Electron Microscopy Data Bank under accession code EMD-3061.

Y.S. initiated and supervised the project. G.Y., P.L., D.M., L.S., and R.Z. prepared the sample and pre-screened samples in various detergents on F20. X.B. prepared grids and collected cryo-EM data. X.B. and S.S. calculated the cryo-EM map. C.Y. built and refined the atomic model. X.B. independently built and refined the atomic model. Y.S., L.S., G.Y., and R.Z. designed and analysed the mutational and biochemical characterizations. L.S., G.Y., and R.Z. performed the biochemical assays. All authors contributed to analysis of the structure. X.B, C.Y., S.S. and Y.S. contributed to manuscript preparation.

a, Representative raw particles from an original micrograph. b, Representative reference-free 2D class averages of the γ-secretase particles. Two classes identified by a red rectangle box (lower right corner) may contain some density for the extended cytosolic loop sequences between TM6 and TM7 of PS1, which are disordered in the final maps. c, Resolution estimation of the EM structure. The overall resolution is calculated to be 3.4 on the basis of gold-standard FSC curve39. d, Colour-coded resolution variations in the γ-secretase structure as estimated by ResMap44. e, FSC curves of the final, Refmac-refined model versus the map it was refined against (in black); of a model refined in the first of the two independent maps used for the gold-standard FSC versus that same map (in red); and of a model refined in the first of the two independent maps versus the second independent map (in green). The small difference between the red and green curves indicates that the refinement of the atomic coordinates did not suffer from severe overfitting.

a, The γ-secretase structure is viewed parallel to the lipid membrane. Shown here is EM density for the entire γ-secretase complex. EM density is coloured blue for PS1, yellow for PEN-2, magenta for APH-1, and green for nicastrin. b, The density map for TM2 of PS1. Among the 20 TMs, TM2 of PS1 shows the highest degree of flexibility and only becomes visible at as rod-shaped density in a 7 low-pass filtered map. At this resolution, another rod-shaped density is visible next to TM2 and remains unaccounted for. c, EM density map and the atomic model are shown for all seven TMs of APH-1. Two to three bulky residues are indicated for each TM. d, EM density map and the atomic model are shown for seven TMs of human PS1. TM6 exhibits relatively poor EM density, probably because of its intrinsic flexibility. e, EM density map and the atomic model are shown for the three TMs of PEN-2. f, EM density map and the atomic model are shown for the only TM and select regions of nicastrin. g, EM density map and the atomic model for three representative glycans. h, EM density map and putative assignment for two lipid molecules.

a, Structure of human γ-secretase is shown in cartoon representation (top) and surface view (bottom) in four successively perpendicular views. The γ-secretase structure is viewed parallel to the lipid membrane. The colouring scheme is the same as in Fig. 1. Two lipid molecules are shown. Eleven glycosylated Asn residues and their glycans are displayed in stick. b, The γ-secretase structure is represented by electrostatic surface potential.

Individual structures of human nicastrin and DpNCT20 are shown in the left and middle panels, respectively. The overlay is shown in the right panel, with a root mean squared deviation of 2.2 . Two perpendicular views for each structure are displayed here.

Unlike previous prediction14,52, PEN-2 contains three, not two, TMs. PEN-2 contains a small hydrophobic core in the extracellular side and two in the transmembrane region. These three regions are boxed and shown in close-up views.

Structure of γ-secretase is displayed in three relevant views: left, electrostatic surface potential from the convex side of γ-secretase; middle, overall structure, with key features labelled; right, suggested putative path for substrate access to the active site of γ-secretase.

The human γ-secretase complex, comprising presenilin 1 (PS1), PEN-2, APH-1, and nicastrin, is a membrane-embedded protease that controls a number of important cellular functions through substrate cleavage. Dysfunction of the enzyme is thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. This paper reports the first atomic structure of an intact human γ-secretase complex, determined at 3.4 resolution by cryo-electron microscopy. The structure illustrates how a remarkably plastic active site is positioned inside the membrane through specific interactions of four components of γ-secretase. Alzheimer's disease-derived mutations affect residues that cluster at two hotspots, each located at the center of a distinct four-transmembrane segment bundle in PS1.

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The γδ T cell lineage in humans remains much of an enigma due to the low number of defined antigens, the non-canonical ways in which these cells respond to their environment and difficulty in tracking this population in vivo. In this review, we survey a comparative evolutionary analysis of the primate V, D and J gene segments and contrast these findings with recent progress in defining antigen recognition by different populations of γδ T cells in humans. Signatures of both purifying and diversifying selection at the Vδ and Vγ gene loci are placed into context of Vδ1+ γδ T cell recognition of CD1d presenting different lipids, and Vγ 9Vδ2 T cell modulation by pyrophosphate-based phosphoantigens through the butyrophilins BTN3A. From this comparison, it is clear that co-evolution between γδ TCRs and these ligands is likely occurring, but the diversity inherent in these recombined receptors is an important feature in ligand surveillance.

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