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STRUCTURE
卷 22, 期 4, 页码 582-589出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2014.02.009
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- French National Research Agency (ANR) [09-BLAN-0291]
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship [PIEF-GA-2010-272611]
- EMBO-Pasteur fellowship [ALTF 1088-2010]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SystemsX.ch RTD CINA)
The outer membrane portal of the Klebsiella oxytoca type II secretion system, PulD, is a prototype of a family of proteins, the secretins, which are essential components of many bacterial secretion and pilus assembly machines. PulD is a homododecamer with a periplasmic vestibule and an outer chamber on either side of a membrane-spanning region that is poorly resolved by electron microscopy. Membrane insertion involves the formation of a dodecameric membrane-embedded intermediate. Here, we describe an amino acid substitution in PulD that blocks its assembly at this intermediate prepore'' stage. Electron microscopy indicated that the prepore has an apparently normal periplasmic vestibule but a poorly organized outer chamber. A peptide loop around this amino acid appears to be important for the formation/stability of the fully folded complex. A similar assembly intermediate results from creation of the same amino acid substitution in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretin XcpQ.
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