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Identification of a novel post-insertion step in the assembly of a bacterial outer membrane protein.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Oct 2018
Peterson Janine H, Hussain Sunyia, Bernstein Harris D
Abstract excerpt
Although the barrel assembly machinery (Bam) complex has been shown to facilitate the insertion of β barrel proteins into the bacterial outer membrane (OM), the stage at which β barrels fold is unknown. Here, we describe insights into β barrel assembly that emerged from an analysis of a member of the autotransporter family of OM proteins (EspP) in Escherichia coli. EspP contains an extracellular 'passenger'...
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