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Large is fast, small is tight: determinants of speed and affinity in subunit capture by a periplasmic chaperone.
Journal of molecular biology - 6 Apr 2012
Yu Xiao Di, Fooks Laura J, Moslehi-Mohebi Elham, Tischenko Vladimir M, Askarieh Gelareh, Knight Stefan D, Macintyre Sheila, Zavialov Anton V
Abstract excerpt
The chaperone/usher pathway assembles surface virulence organelles of Gram-negative bacteria, consisting of fibers of linearly polymerized protein subunits. Fiber subunits are connected through 'donor strand complementation': each subunit completes the immunoglobulin (Ig)-like fold of the neighboring subunit by donating the seventh β-strand in trans. Whereas the folding of Ig domains is a fast first-order...
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