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Protease-deficient DegP suppresses lethal effects of a mutant OmpC protein by its capture.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2003
CastilloKeller Maria, Misra Rajeev
Abstract excerpt
The expression of assembly-defective outer membrane proteins can confer lethality if they are not degraded by envelope proteases. We report here that the expression of a mutant OmpC protein, OmpC(2Cys), which forms disulfide bonds in the periplasm due to the presence of two non-native cysteine residues, is lethal in cells lacking the major periplasmic protease, DegP. This lethality is not observed in dsbA strains...
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