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CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 417-424Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1389203043379639
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The largest circular protein structures discovered define a class of transfer proteins acting in bacterial conjugation and type IV secretion. Proteins ranging from 73 to 78 residues with head-to-tail peptide bonds constitute the major subunit of conjugative pili of some type IV secretion systems. Their plasmid-encoded precursors are enzymatically processed and cyclized before being assembled into pili. These extra-cellular surface filaments mediate physical contact between donor and recipient cell or pathogen and host cell. Pili are essential prerequisites for DNA and protein transfer. A membrane-bound signal peptidase-like enzyme is responsible for the circularization reaction. Site-directed mutagenesis and mass spectrometry has been used extensively to unravel the mechanism of the enzyme-substrate interaction of the pilin maturation process.
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