Phosphocholine hydrolase Lem3 (lem3) is a 570-residue protein from Legionella pneumophila subsp. pneumophila (strain Philadelphia 1 / ATCC 33152 / DSM 7513). This is its AlphaFold structure prediction, created 1 Aug 2025. UniProt accession: Q5ZXN5.
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The mean pLDDT of this model is 84.9 (confident overall). pLDDT is AlphaFold's per-residue confidence score from 0 to 100. In MolViewer, choose the B-factor color scheme to color the model by pLDDT, because AlphaFold stores it in the B-factor column.
| pLDDT band | Meaning | Share of residues |
|---|---|---|
| Above 90 | Very high: backbone and side chains are usually accurate | 53% |
| 70 to 90 | Confident: backbone generally right | 35% |
| 50 to 70 | Low: treat with caution | 6% |
| Below 50 | Very low: often disordered regions | 6% |
What pLDDT means and how to read it
Virulence effector that plays a role in hijacking the host vesicular trafficking by recruiting the small guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) Rab1 to the cytosolic face of the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCVs). Acts as a phosphocholine hydrolase by mediating the hydrolysis of phosphocholine to Ser residues of host RAB1 (RAB1A, RAB1B or RAB1C). Dephosphocholination of target proteins restores accessibility to GTPase effector LepB. Can act on both GDP-bound and GTP-bound Rab proteins
Secreted, Host cytoplasm
Compare the prediction with experimentally determined structures of the same protein:
| PDB ID | Method | Resolution | Chains and residues |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8ALK | X-ray | 2.15 Å | A=21-486 |
| 8ANP | X-ray | 2.2 Å | A/B/C/D=21-486 |
| 8AGG | X-ray | 3.6 Å | A=1-570 |
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