Spectroscopic analysis of chlamydial major outer membrane protein in support of structure elucidation

Protein Science : a Publication of the Protein Society
Robert W HeplerEberhard Durr

Abstract

Chlamydial major outer membrane protein (MOMP) is the major protein constituent of the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydia trachomatis Serovars D-K are the leading cause of genital tract infections which can lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancies. A vaccine against Chlamydia is highly desirable but currently not available. MOMP accounts for ~ 60% of the chlamydial protein mass and is considered to be one of the lead vaccine candidates against C. trachomatis. We report on the spectroscopic analysis of C. trachomatis native MOMP Serovars D, E, F, and J as well as C. muridarum MOMP by size exclusion chromatography multi angle light scattering (SEC MALS), circular dichroism (CD) and attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). MOMP was purified from the native bacterium grown in either adherent HeLa cells or in different suspension cell lines. Our results confirm that MOMP forms homo-trimers in detergent micelles. The secondary structure composition of C. trachomatis MOMP was conserved across serovars, but different from composition of C. muridarum MOMP with a 13% (CD) to 18% (ATR-FTIR) reduction in β-sheet conformation for C. trachomatis MOMP. When Serovar E MOMP was isolated...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
NMR
light scattering
infrared spectroscopy
electron microscopy
size exclusion chromatography
circular dichroism
thermal shift
transmission electron microscopy
flow filtration

Software Mentioned

CDNN
CFPSS
APSSP
Omnic
MOMP
GOR
nMOMP
ASTRA

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