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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 165, Issue 1, Pages 53-62Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200402067
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LacY; membrane insertion; protein folding; SecYEG; Oxa1/Alb3 protein family
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [R56 DK051131, DK51131, R01 DK051131] Funding Source: Medline
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YidC of Echerichia coli, a member of the conserved Alb3/Oxa1/YidC family, is postulated to be important for biogenesis of membrane proteins. Here, we use as a model the lactose permease (LacY), a membrane transport protein with a known three-dimensional structure, to determine whether YidC plays a role in polytopic membrane protein insertion and/or folding. Experiments in vivo and with an in vitro transcription/translation/insertion system demonstrate that YidC is not necessary for insertion per se, but plays an important role in folding of LacY. By using the in vitro system and two monoclonal antibodies directed against conformational epitopes, LacY is shown to bind the antibodies poorly in YidC-depleted membranes. Moreover, LacY also folds improperly in proteoliposomes prepared without YidC. However, when the proteoliposomes are supplemented with purified YidC, LacY folds correctly. The results indicate that YidC plays a primary role in folding of LacY into its final tertiary conformation via an interaction that likely occurs transiently during insertion into the lipid phase of the membrane.
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