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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 114, Issue 10, Pages E1958-E1967Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1615056114
Keywords
protein transport; twin arginine signal peptide; Tat pathway; genetic suppressor
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- UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L002531/1, BB/N014545/1]
- UK Medical Research Council [G1001640, K000721, MR/L000776/1]
- Wellcome Trust through Investigator Award [107929/Z/15/Z]
- Wellcome Trust PhD studentship
- China Scholarship Council
- Wellcome Trust [107929/Z/15/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/L002531/1, BB/N014545/1, BB/L001306/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G1001640, MR/L000776/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Wellcome Trust [107929/Z/15/Z] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/L001306/1, BB/N014545/1, BB/L002531/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G1001640, MR/L000776/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The twin-arginine protein translocation (Tat) system mediates transport of folded proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane of bacteria and the thylakoid membrane of chloroplasts. The Tat system of Escherichia coli is made up of TatA, TatB, and TatC components. TatBC comprise the substrate receptor complex, and active Tat translocases are formed by the substrate-induced association of TatA oligomers with this receptor. Proteins are targeted to TatBC by signal peptides containing an essential pair of arginine residues. We isolated substitutions, locating to the transmembrane helix of TatB that restored transport activity to Tat signal peptides with inactivating twin arginine substitutions. A subset of these variants also suppressed inactivating substitutions in the signal peptide binding site on TatC. The suppressors did not function by restoring detectable signal peptide binding to the TatBC complex. Instead, site-specific cross-linking experiments indicate that the suppressor substitutions induce conformational change in the complex and movement of the TatB subunit. The TatB F13Y substitution was associated with the strongest suppressing activity, even allowing transport of a Tat substrate lacking a signal peptide. In vivo analysis using a TatA-YFP fusion showed that the TatB F13Y substitution resulted in signal peptide-independent assembly of the Tat translocase. We conclude that Tat signal peptides play roles in substrate targeting and in triggering assembly of the active translocase.
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