1. Sorting of an integral outer membrane protein via the lipoprotein-specific Lol pathway and a dedicated lipoprotein pilotin.
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Collin S, Guilvout I, Nickerson NN, and Pugsley AP
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- Amino Acid Substitution, Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins genetics, Escherichia coli Proteins genetics, Molecular Chaperones genetics, Mutant Proteins genetics, Mutant Proteins metabolism, Mutation, Missense, Periplasmic Binding Proteins genetics, Protein Transport, Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins metabolism, Escherichia coli metabolism, Escherichia coli Proteins metabolism, Lipoproteins metabolism, Membrane Transport Proteins metabolism, Molecular Chaperones metabolism, Periplasmic Binding Proteins metabolism
- Abstract
The lipoprotein PulS is a dedicated chaperone that is required to target the secretin PulD to the outer membrane in Klebsiella or Escherichia coli, and to protect it from proteolysis. Here, we present indirect evidence that PulD protomers do not assemble into the secretin dodecamer before they reach the outer membrane, and that PulS reaches the outer membrane in a soluble heterodimer with the general lipoprotein chaperone LolA. However, we could not find any direct evidence for PulD protomer association with the PulS-LolA heterodimer. Instead, in cells producing PulD and a permanently locked PulS-LolA dimer (in which LolA carries an R43L substitution that prevents lipoprotein transfer to LolB in the outer membrane), LolAR43L was found in the inner membrane, probably still associated with PulS bound to PulD that had been incorrectly targeted because of the LolAR43L substitution. It is speculated that PulD protomers normally cross the periplasm together with PulS bound to LolA but when the latter cannot be separated (due to the mutation in lolA), the PulD protomers form dodecamers that insert into the inner membrane., (© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.)
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- 2011
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