Figure 1

Domain organization of preprolysostaphin and full-length LytM. (A) Schematic representation of the domain organization of preprolysostaphin and full-length LytM. The alignment shows the high similarity of the two proteins in the region of the catalytic domain. The Zn²⁺ ligands of the mature forms in the Hx₃D and HxH motifs are highlighted in bold. Those in the Hx₃D motif are separately changed to alanines in the mutationally inactivated LytM variants. (B) Schematic representation of lysostaphin, LytM, and the LytM fragments that are used for this study. (C) Overall (top) and active site region (bottom) representations of the three-dimensional structures of preprolysostaphin (left) and full-length LytM (right). The left overall model was generated by the SWISSPROT server based on PDB entries 1QWY [12] and 1R77 [13]. The relative orientation of the catalytic and CWT domains is unknown and was chosen arbitrarily. It is not known whether the proregion repeats assume a defined structure or remain unstructured. The right overall model is an experimental structure directly based on PDB entry 1QWY [12].