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SCIENCE
Volume 325, Issue 5941, Pages 753-756Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172221
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research
- Canton de Geneve
- Swiss National Science Foundation
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Protein secretion occurs via translocation by the evolutionarily conserved Sec complex. LacZ hybrid proteins have long been used to study translocation in Escherichia coli. Some LacZ hybrids were thought to block secretion by physically jamming the Sec complex, leading to cell death. We found that jammed Sec complexes caused the degradation of essential translocator components by the protease FtsH. Increasing the amounts or the stability of the membrane protein YccA, a known inhibitor of FtsH, counteracted this destruction. Antibiotics that inhibit translation elongation also jammed the translocator and caused the degradation of translocator components, which may contribute to their effectiveness. Intriguingly, YccA is a functional homolog of the proto-oncogene product Bax Inhibitor-1, which may share a similar mechanism of action in regulating apoptosis upon prolonged secretion stress.
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