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EMBO REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 970-975Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400261
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membrane protein; YidC; Sec-translocon; leader peptidase; membrane integration
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We have addressed the mechanism of insertion of both transmembrane segments (TMs) of leader peptidase, a double-spanning protein, into the Escherichia coli inner membrane. Using photo-crosslinking, the first TM (H1) was shown to insert at a Sec-translocon/YidC interface in a fixed orientation. H1 lost its contacts with the Sec-translocon and gained access to lipids near YidC soon after complete exposure outside the ribosome. Following lipid integration, it moved away from the Sec/YidC insertion site. The second TM (H2) inserted and interacted with SecY and YidC in a similar transient fashion. The data are consistent with a linear integration model in which the TMs of polytopic inner membrane proteins move one by one from a Sec/YidC insertion site into the lipid bilayer. We propose that YidC assists the lipid partitioning of single TMs.
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