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Substrate specificity of MarP, a periplasmic protease required for resistance to acid and oxidative stress in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 3 May 2013
Small Jennifer L, O'Donoghue Anthony J, Boritsch Eva C, Tsodikov Oleg V, Knudsen Giselle M, Vandal Omar, Craik Charles S, Ehrt Sabine
Abstract excerpt
The transmembrane serine protease MarP is important for pH homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Previous structural studies revealed that MarP contains a chymotrypsin fold and a disulfide bond that stabilizes the protease active site in the substrate-bound conformation. Here, we determined that MarP is located in the Mtb periplasm and showed that this localization is essential for function. Using the...
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