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Steric clashes with bound OMP peptides activate the DegS stress-response protease.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Mar 2015
de Regt Anna K, Baker Tania A, Sauer Robert T
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli senses envelope stress using a signaling cascade initiated when DegS cleaves a transmembrane inhibitor of a transcriptional activator for response genes. Each subunit of the DegS trimer contains a protease domain and a PDZ domain. During stress, unassembled outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) accumulate in the periplasm and their C-terminal peptides activate DegS by binding to its PDZ domains. In the...
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