1. Secretion by numbers: Protein traffic in prokaryotes.
- Author
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Economou A, Christie PJ, Fernandez RC, Palmer T, Plano GV, and Pugsley AP
- Subjects
- Membrane Proteins chemistry, Membrane Proteins metabolism, Models, Molecular, Molecular Chaperones chemistry, Molecular Chaperones metabolism, Protein Binding, Protein Transport, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Prokaryotic Cells metabolism
- Abstract
Almost all aspects of protein traffic in bacteria were covered at the ASM-FEMS meeting on the topic in Iraklio, Crete in May 2006. The studies presented ranged from mechanistic analysis of specific events leading proteins to their final destinations to the physiological roles of the targeted proteins. Among the highlights from the meeting that are reviewed here are the molecular dynamics of SecA protein, membrane protein insertion, type III secretion needles and chaperones, type IV secretion, the two partner and autosecretion systems, the 'secretion competent state', and the recently discovered type VI secretion system.
- Published
- 2006
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