Like its mitochondrial homolog Oxa1p, the inner membrane protein YidC of Escherichia coli is involved in the integration of membrane proteins. We have analyzed individual insertion steps of the polytopic E coli membrane protein MtIA targeted as ribosome-nascent chain complexes to inner membrane vesicles. YidC can accommodate at least the first two transmembrane segments of MtIA at the protein lipid interface and retain them even though the length of the nascent chain would amply allow insertion into membrane lipids. An even longer insertion intermediate of MtIA is described that still has the first transmembrane helix bound to YidC while the third contacts SecE and YidC during integration. Our findings suggest that YidC forms a contiguous integration unit with the SecYE translocon and functions as an assembly site for polytopic membrane proteins mediating the formation of helix bundles prior to their release into the membrane lipids.
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