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A metabolite binding protein moonlights as a bile-responsive chaperone.
The EMBO journal - 15 Oct 2020
Lee Changhan, Betschinger Patrick, Wu Kevin, Żyła Dawid S, Glockshuber Rudi, Bardwell James Ca
Abstract excerpt
Bile salts are secreted into the gastrointestinal tract to aid in the absorption of lipids. In addition, bile salts show potent antimicrobial activity in part by mediating bacterial protein unfolding and aggregation. Here, using a protein folding sensor, we made the surprising discovery that the Escherichia coli periplasmic glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P)-binding protein UgpB can serve, in the absence of its...
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