TY - GEN AU - Garcia-Ferrer, Irene AU - Arêde, Pedro AU - Gómez-Blanco, Josué AU - Luque, Daniel AU - Duquerroy, Stephane AU - Castón, José R AU - Goulas, Theodoros AU - Gomis-Rüth, F Xavier PY - 2015 DO - 10.1073/pnas.1506538112 SN - 0027-8424 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/9998 AB - The survival of commensal bacteria requires them to evade host peptidases. Gram-negative bacteria from the human gut microbiome encode a relative of the human endopeptidase inhibitor, α2-macroglobulin (α2M). Escherichia coli α2M (ECAM) is a ∼ 180-kDa... LA - eng PB - National Academy of Sciences KW - X-ray crystal structure KW - Conformational rearrangement KW - Cryo-electron microscopy KW - Gut microbiome KW - Protein inhibitor KW - Amino Acid Sequence KW - Binding Sites KW - Crystallography, X-Ray KW - Endopeptidases KW - Escherichia coli KW - Escherichia coli Proteins KW - Gastrointestinal Tract KW - Humans KW - Membrane Proteins KW - Microbiota KW - Microscopy, Electron KW - Models, Molecular KW - Molecular Sequence Data KW - Molecular Weight KW - Peptide Hydrolases KW - Protease Inhibitors KW - Protein Multimerization KW - Protein Structure, Secondary KW - Protein Structure, Tertiary KW - alpha-Macroglobulins TI - Structural and functional insights into Escherichia coli α2-macroglobulin endopeptidase snap-trap inhibition TY - research article ER -