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Sinha AK, Dutta A, Chandravanshi M, Kanaujia SP. An insight into bacterial phospholipase C classification and their translocation through Tat and Sec pathways: A data mining study. Meta Gene 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mgene.2019.100547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Denks K, Vogt A, Sachelaru I, Petriman NA, Kudva R, Koch HG. The Sec translocon mediated protein transport in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Mol Membr Biol 2014; 31:58-84. [DOI: 10.3109/09687688.2014.907455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Kudva R, Denks K, Kuhn P, Vogt A, Müller M, Koch HG. Protein translocation across the inner membrane of Gram-negative bacteria: the Sec and Tat dependent protein transport pathways. Res Microbiol 2013; 164:505-34. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2013.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2012] [Accepted: 03/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Jiang X, Ruiz T, Mintz KP. Characterization of the secretion pathway of the collagen adhesin EmaA of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans. Mol Oral Microbiol 2012; 27:382-96. [PMID: 22958387 DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-1014.2012.00652.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The extracellular matrix protein adhesin A (EmaA) surface antennae-like structures of the periodontal pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans are composed of three identical protein monomers. Recently, we have demonstrated that the protein is synthesized with an extended signal peptide of 56 amino acids necessary for membrane targeting and protein translocation. In this study, EmaA secretion was demonstrated to be reliant on a chaperone-dependent secretion pathway. Deletion of secB partially reduced but did not abolish the amount of EmaA in the membrane. This observation was attributed to an increase in the synthesis of DnaK in the ΔsecB strain. Overexpression of a DnaK substitution mutant (A174T), with diminished activity, in the ΔsecB strain further reduced the amount of EmaA in the membrane. Expression of dnaK A174T in the wild-type strain did not affect the amount of EmaA in the membrane when grown under optimal growth conditions at 37°C. However, EmaA was found to be reduced when this strain was grown at heat-shock temperature. A chromosomal deletion of amino acids 16-39 of the EmaA extended signal peptide, transformed with either the wild-type or dnaK A174T-expressing plasmid, did not affect the amount of EmaA in the membrane. In addition, the level of EmaA in a ΔsecB/emaA(-) double mutant strain expressing EmaAΔ16-39 was unchanged when grown at both temperatures. The data suggest that chaperones are required for the targeting of EmaA to the membrane and a specific region of the signal peptide is necessary for secretion under stress conditions.
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- X Jiang
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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Bacterial toxins damage the host at the site of bacterial infection or distant from the site. Bacterial toxins can be single proteins or oligomeric protein complexes that are organized with distinct AB structure-function properties. The A domain encodes a catalytic activity. ADP ribosylation of host proteins is the earliest post-translational modification determined to be performed by bacterial toxins; other modifications include glucosylation and proteolysis. Bacterial toxins also catalyze the non-covalent modification of host protein function or can modify host cell properties through direct protein-protein interactions. The B domain includes two functional domains: a receptor-binding domain, which defines the tropism of a toxin for a cell and a translocation domain that delivers the A domain across a lipid bilayer, either on the plasma membrane or the endosome. Bacterial toxins are often characterized based upon the secretion mechanism that delivers the toxin out of the bacterium, termed types I-VII. This review summarizes the major families of bacterial toxins and also describes the specific structure-function properties of the botulinum neurotoxins.
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- James S Henkel
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Milwaukee, WI 53151, USA.
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Laminet AA, Kumamoto CA, Plückthun A. Folding in vitro and transport in vivo of pre-β-lactamase are SecB independent. Mol Microbiol 2006; 5:117-122. [PMID: 28776793 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1991.tb01832.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The rate of folding of the precursor of β-lactamase is not influenced by the presence of SecB under conditions in which GroEL/ES retards the folding. Wild-type β-lactamase and several mutants in the signal or the mature protein, affecting either transport or enzyme kinetics and probably folding, were examined for total expression, total enzymatic activity, and transported β-lactamase (in vivo resistance) in secB- and secB+ strains. We conclude that there is no indication of any relevant interaction between SecB and pre-β-lactamase in vitro, nor did the secB- mutation affect the transport of wild-type β-lactamase or any of the mutants in vivo. Thus, putative Escherichia coli'folding modulators'must be of limited specificity.
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- A A Laminet
- Genzentrum der Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, D-8033 Martinsried, Germany.Departments of Physiology, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology. Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston. Massachusetts 02111. USA
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- Genzentrum der Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, D-8033 Martinsried, Germany.Departments of Physiology, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology. Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston. Massachusetts 02111. USA
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- Genzentrum der Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, D-8033 Martinsried, Germany.Departments of Physiology, and Molecular Biology and Microbiology. Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston. Massachusetts 02111. USA
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Ha SC, Lee TH, Cha SS, Kim KK. Functional identification of the SecB homologue in Methanococcus jannaschii and direct interaction of SecB with trigger factor. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 315:1039-44. [PMID: 14985117 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2004] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In this study Mj0357 protein, a hypothetical protein from Methanococcus jannaschii which shows an 18% sequence identity with SecB from E. coli, has been identified as a functional homologue of SecB in M. jannaschii through a number of biochemical and biophysical examinations. It is composed mostly of beta-strands and exists as a homotetramer in solution. Mj0357 protein exhibits in vitro chaperone-like activity, suppressing thermal aggregation of citrate synthase and binding to partially folded maltose-binding protein. Upon binding to a peptide ligand, the protein undergoes a conformational change to expose a hydrophobic patch on the protein surface. All these physicochemical properties are highly similar to those of E. coli SecB. In addition, E. coli trigger factor (TF) has been shown here for the first time to bind E. coli SecB and Mj0357 protein with low micromolar affinities, indicating that the TF could interact directly along the SecB-dependent translocation pathway. These results indicate that the translocation pathway is conserved and functionally homologous in at least one of the archaeal organisms.
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- Sung Chul Ha
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea
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Cellular membranes act as semipermeable barriers to ions and macromolecules. Specialized mechanisms of transport of proteins across membranes have been developed during evolution. There are common mechanistic themes among protein translocation systems in bacteria and in eukaryotic cells. Here we review current understanding of mechanisms of protein transport across the bacterial plasma membrane as well as across several organelle membranes of yeast and mammalian cells. We consider a variety of organelles including the endoplasmic reticulum, outer and inner membranes of mitochondria, outer, inner, and thylakoid membranes of chloroplasts, peroxisomes, and lysosomes. Several common principles are evident: (a) multiple pathways of protein translocation across membranes exist, (b) molecular chaperones are required in the cytosol, inside the organelle, and often within the organelle membrane, (c) ATP and/or GTP hydrolysis is required, (d) a proton-motive force across the membrane is often required, and (e) protein translocation occurs through gated, aqueous channels. There are exceptions to each of these common principles indicating that our knowledge of how proteins translocate across membranes is not yet complete.
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- F A Agarraberes
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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Müller M, Koch HG, Beck K, Schäfer U. Protein traffic in bacteria: multiple routes from the ribosome to and across the membrane. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2001; 66:107-57. [PMID: 11051763 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(00)66028-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Bacteria use several routes to target their exported proteins to the plasma membrane. The majority are exported through pores formed by SecY and SecE. Two different molecular machineries are used to target proteins to the SecYE translocon. Translocated proteins, synthesized as precursors with cleavable signal sequences, require cytoplasmic chaperones, such as SecB, to remain competent for posttranslational transport. In concert with SecB, SecA targets the precursors to SecY and energizes their translocation by its ATPase activity. The latter function involves a partial insertion of SecA itself into the SecYE translocon, a process that is strongly assisted by a couple of membrane proteins, SecG, SecD, SecF, YajC, and the proton gradient across the membrane. Integral membrane proteins, however, are specifically recognized by a direct interaction between their noncleaved signal anchor sequences and the bacterial signal recognition particle (SRP) consisting of Ffh and 4.5S RNA. Recognition occurs during synthesis at the ribosome and leads to a cotranslational targeting to SecYE that is mediated by FtsY and the hydrolysis of GTP. No other Sec protein is required for integration unless the membrane protein also contains long translocated domains that engage the SecA machinery. Discrimination between SecA/SecB- and SRP-dependent targeting involves the specificity of SRP for hydrophobic signal anchor sequences and the exclusion of SRP from nascent chains of translocated proteins by trigger factor, a ribosome-associated chaperone. The SecYE pore accepts only unfolded proteins. In contrast, a class of redox factor-containing proteins leaves the cell only as completely folded proteins. They are distinguished by a twin arginine motif of their signal sequences that by an unknown mechanism targets them to specific pores. A few membrane proteins insert spontaneously into the bacterial plasma membrane without the need for targeting factors and SecYE. Insertion depends only on hydrophobic interactions between their transmembrane segments and the lipid bilayer and on the transmembrane potential. Finally, outer membrane proteins of Gram-negative bacteria after having crossed the plasma membrane are released into the periplasm, where they undergo distinct folding events until they insert as trimers into the outer membrane. These folding processes require distinct molecular chaperones of the periplasm, such as Skp, SurA, and PpiD.
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- M Müller
- Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany
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Kawaguchi SI, Müller J, Linde D, Kuramitsu S, Shibata T, Inoue Y, Vassylyev DG, Yokoyama S. The crystal structure of the ttCsaA protein: an export-related chaperone from Thermus thermophilus. EMBO J 2001; 20:562-9. [PMID: 11157762 PMCID: PMC133483 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.3.562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2000] [Revised: 12/07/2000] [Accepted: 12/08/2000] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The CsaA protein was first characterized in Bacillus subtilis as a molecular chaperone with export-related activities. Here we report the 2.0 Angstrom-resolution crystal structure of the Thermus thermophilus CsaA protein, designated ttCsaA. Atomic structure and experiments in solution revealed a homodimer as the functional unit. The structure of the ttCsaA monomer is reminiscent of the well known oligonucleotide-binding fold, with the addition of extensions at the N- and C-termini that form an extensive dimer interface. The two identical, large, hydrophobic cavities on the protein surface are likely to constitute the substrate binding sites. The CsaA proteins share essential sequence similarity with the tRNA-binding protein Trbp111. Structure-based sequence analysis suggests a close structural resemblance between these proteins, which may extend to the architecture of the binding sites at the atomic level. These results raise the intriguing possibility that CsaA proteins possess a second, tRNA-binding activity in addition to their export-related function.
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- Shin-ichi Kawaguchi
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Jena University, Winzerlaer Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany,
RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-Gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, 1-7-22 Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 and Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Present address: Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Jena University, Winzerlaer Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany,
RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-Gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, 1-7-22 Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 and Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Present address: Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Jena University, Winzerlaer Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany,
RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-Gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, 1-7-22 Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 and Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Present address: Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Jena University, Winzerlaer Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany,
RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-Gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, 1-7-22 Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 and Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Present address: Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Jena University, Winzerlaer Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany,
RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-Gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, 1-7-22 Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 and Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Present address: Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, Jena University, Winzerlaer Straße 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany,
RIKEN Harima Institute at SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Mikazuki-cho, Sayo-Gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN, Suehiro-cho, 1-7-22 Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198 and Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Present address: Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 115 West University Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA Corresponding authors e-mail: or
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Dekker C, de Kruijff B, de Korte-Kool G, Kroon J, Gros P. Crystals of acetylated SecB diffract to 2.3-A resolution. J Struct Biol 1999; 128:237-42. [PMID: 10633062 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The molecular chaperone SecB is part of the protein translocation pathway in Escherichia coli. SecB was purified from an overproducing strain and crystallized, resulting in crystals diffracting to 2.3-A resolution. The analysis of electrospray ionization mass spectra of dissolved crystals of SecB indicated that we have crystallized an acetylated form of SecB. Sequence analysis suggests that the protein is fully acetylated at its N-terminus in vivo, indicating that potential deacetylation is artificially introduced by purification methods. The high degree of acetylation that we observed might account for the fact that the crystals obtained as described in this study diffract to higher resolution than those in previously reported trials.
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- C Dekker
- Department of Biochemistry of Membranes, Department of Crystal and Structural Chemistry, Institute of Biomembranes, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Padualaan 8, Utrecht, NL-3584 CH, The Netherlands
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Knoblauch NT, Rüdiger S, Schönfeld HJ, Driessen AJ, Schneider-Mergener J, Bukau B. Substrate specificity of the SecB chaperone. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:34219-25. [PMID: 10567394 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.48.34219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The bacterial chaperone SecB assists translocation of proteins across the inner membrane. The mechanism by which it differentiates between secretory and cytosolic proteins is poorly understood. To identify its binding motif, we screened 2688 peptides covering sequences of 23 proteins for SecB binding. The motif is approximately 9 residues long and is enriched in aromatic and basic residues, whereas acidic residues are disfavored. Its identification allows the prediction of binding regions within protein sequences with up to 87% accuracy. SecB-binding regions occur statistically every 20-30 residues. The occurrence and affinity of binding regions are similar in SecB-dependent and -independent secretory proteins and in cytosolic proteins, and SecB lacks specificity toward signal sequences. SecB cannot thus differentiate between secretory and non-secretory proteins via its binding specificity. This conclusion is supported by the finding that SecB binds denatured luciferase, thereby allowing subsequent refolding by the DnaK system. SecB may rather be a general chaperone whose involvement in translocation is mediated by interactions of SecB and signal sequences of SecB-bound preproteins with the translocation apparatus.
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- N T Knoblauch
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Strasse 7, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Proteins that perform their activity within the cytoplasmic membrane or outside this cell boundary must be targeted to the translocation site prior to their insertion and/or translocation. In bacteria, several targeting routes are known; the SecB- and the signal recognition particle-dependent pathways are the best characterized. Recently, evidence for the existence of a third major route, the twin-Arg pathway, was gathered. Proteins that use either one of these three different pathways possess special features that enable their specific interaction with the components of the targeting routes. Such targeting information is often contained in an N-terminal extension, the signal sequence, but can also be found within the mature domain of the targeted protein. Once the nascent chain starts to emerge from the ribosome, competition for the protein between different targeting factors begins. After recognition and binding, the targeting factor delivers the protein to the translocation sites at the cytoplasmic membrane. Only by means of a specific interaction between the targeting component and its receptor is the cargo released for further processing and translocation. This mechanism ensures the high-fidelity targeting of premembrane and membrane proteins to the translocation site.
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- P Fekkes
- Department of Microbiology and Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
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Olson P, Zhang Y, Olsen D, Owens A, Cohen P, Nguyen K, Ye JJ, Bass S, Mascarenhas D. High-level expression of eukaryotic polypeptides from bacterial chromosomes. Protein Expr Purif 1998; 14:160-6. [PMID: 9790877 DOI: 10.1006/prep.1998.0973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Attractive economics and short development timelines have often been cited as reasons for using bacteria to express eukaryotic proteins on a commercial scale. Nevertheless, routine techniques for bacterial expression of heterologous proteins are beset by a variety of technical and legal difficulties. In particular, the use of plasmids to express foreign proteins, popular promoter systems, protein fusion partners, and histidine tags and the recovery of proteins from inclusion bodies are affected by a host of issued patents. Chromosomally encoded leaderless fusions (CELF) offer a variety of technical and legal advantages over existing bacterial expression systems. In this study, we show that CELF can be used to produce a wide assortment of eukaryotic proteins at 10-liter fermentation scale.
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- P Olson
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Celtrix Pharmaceuticals, 3055 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, California, 95054, USA
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This map is an update of the edition 9 map by Berlyn et al. (M. K. B. Berlyn, K. B. Low, and K. E. Rudd, p. 1715-1902, in F. C. Neidhardt et al., ed., Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 1996). It uses coordinates established by the completed sequence, expressed as 100 minutes for the entire circular map, and adds new genes discovered and established since 1996 and eliminates those shown to correspond to other known genes. The latter are included as synonyms. An alphabetical list of genes showing map location, synonyms, the protein or RNA product of the gene, phenotypes of mutants, and reference citations is provided. In addition to genes known to correspond to gene sequences, other genes, often older, that are described by phenotype and older mapping techniques and that have not been correlated with sequences are included.
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- M K Berlyn
- Department of Biology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8104, USA.
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Randall LL, Topping TB, Suciu D, Hardy SJ. Calorimetric analyses of the interaction between SecB and its ligands. Protein Sci 1998; 7:1195-200. [PMID: 9605324 PMCID: PMC2144013 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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SecB is a chaperone in Escherichia coli dedicated to export of proteins from the cytoplasm to the periplasm and outer membrane. It functions to bind and deliver precursors of exported proteins to the translocation apparatus before they fold into their native structures, thus maintaining them in a competent state for translocation across the membrane. The natural ligands of SecB are precursor proteins containing leader sequences. There are numerous reports in the literature indicating that SecB does not specifically recognize the leader peptides. However, two published investigations have concluded that the leader peptide is the recognition element (Watanabe M, Blobel G. 1989. Cell 58:685-705; Watanabe M, Blobel G. 1995. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92:10133-10136). In this work we use titration calorimetry to show that SecB binds two physiological ligands, which contain leader sequences, with no higher affinity than the same molecules lacking their leader sequences. Indeed, for one ligand the presence of the leader sequence reduces the affinity. Therefore, it can be concluded that the leader sequence provides no positive contribution to the binding energy.
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- L L Randall
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-4660, USA
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Kim J, Kendall DA. Identification of a sequence motif that confers SecB dependence on a SecB-independent secretory protein in vivo. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:1396-401. [PMID: 9515905 PMCID: PMC107036 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.6.1396-1401.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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SecB is a cytosolic chaperone which facilitates the transport of a subset of proteins, including membrane proteins such as PhoE and LamB and some periplasmic proteins such as maltose-binding protein, in Escherichia coli. However, not all proteins require SecB for transport, and proteins such as ribose-binding protein are exported efficiently even in SecB-null strains. The characteristics which confer SecB dependence on some proteins but not others have not been defined. To determine the sequence characteristics that are responsible for the SecB requirement, we have inserted a systematic series of short, polymeric sequences into the SecB-independent protein alkaline phosphatase (PhoA). The extent to which these simple sequences convert alkaline phosphatase into a SecB-requiring protein was evaluated in vivo. Using this approach we have examined the roles of the polarity and charge of the sequence, as well as its location within the mature region, in conferring SecB dependence. We find that an insert with as few as 10 residues, of which 3 are basic, confers SecB dependence and that the mutant protein is efficiently exported in the presence of SecB. Remarkably, the basic motifs caused the protein to be translocated in a strict membrane potential-dependent fashion, indicating that the membrane potential is not a barrier to, but rather a requirement for, translocation of the motif. The alkaline phosphatase mutants most sensitive to the loss of SecB are those most sensitive to inhibition of SecA via azide treatment, consistent with the necessity for formation of a preprotein-SecB-SecA complex. Furthermore, the impact of the basic motif depends on location within the mature protein and parallels the accessibility of the location to the secretion apparatus.
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- J Kim
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269, USA
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Phoenix DA. On the targeting and membrane assembly of the Escherichia coli outer membrane porin, PhoE. FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1996; 16:77-82. [PMID: 8988389 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.1996.tb00125.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Within gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, the outer membrane porins provide a relatively non-specific uptake route which is utilised by a wide range of solutes including many antibiotics. Understanding the targeting and membrane assembly of these proteins is therefore of importance and this mini review aims to discuss this process in light of present knowledge.
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- D A Phoenix
- Department of Applied Biology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.
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Müller JP. Influence of impaired chaperone or secretion function on SecB production in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:6097-104. [PMID: 8892805 PMCID: PMC178476 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.21.6097-6104.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The efficient export of proteins through the cytoplasmic membrane of Escherichia coli requires chaperones to maintain protein precursors in a translocation-competent conformation. In addition to SecB, the major chaperone facilitating export of particular precursors, heat shock-induced chaperones DnaK-DnaJ and GroEL-GroES are also involved in this process. By use of secB'-lacZ gene fusions and immunoprecipitation experiments, SecB production was studied in E. coli strains containing conditional lethal mutations in chaperone or sec genes. While the loss of heat shock chaperones resulted in an increased production of SecB, mutations in sec genes showed only minor effects on SecB synthesis. Neither the plasmid-mediated overexpression of precursors of exoproteins nor the overexpression of secB altered the synthesis of SecB. These results suggest that under conditions where chaperones become depleted, E. coli responds by raising the expression of secB. These data confirm the supposed synergy of different chaperones involved in protein export.
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- J P Müller
- Institute for Molecular Biology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany.
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Erdmann R, Blobel G. Identification of Pex13p a peroxisomal membrane receptor for the PTS1 recognition factor. J Cell Biol 1996; 135:111-21. [PMID: 8858167 PMCID: PMC2121012 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.135.1.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We have identified an S. cerevisiae integral peroxisomal membrane protein of M of 42,705 (Pex13p) that is a component of the peroxisomal protein import apparatus. Pex13p's most striking feature is an src homology 3 (SH3) domain that interacts directly with yeast Pex5p (former Pas10p), the recognition factor for the COOH-terminal tripeptide signal sequence (PTS1), but not with Pex7p (former Pas7p), the recognition factor for the NH2-terminal nonapeptide signal (PTS2) of peroxisomal matrix proteins. Hence, Pex13p serves as peroxisomal membrane receptor for at least one of the two peroxisomal signal recognition factors. Cells deficient in Pex13p are unable to import peroxisomal matrix proteins containing PTS1 and, surprisingly, also those containing PTS2. Pex13p deficient cells retain membranes containing the peroxisomal membrane protein Pex11p (former Pmp27p), consistent with the existence of independent pathways for the integration of peroxisomal membrane proteins and for the translocation of peroxisomal matrix proteins.
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- R Erdmann
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
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Watanabe M, Blobel G. High-affinity binding of Escherichia coli SecB to the signal sequence region of a presecretory protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:10133-6. [PMID: 7479740 PMCID: PMC40750 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.22.10133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The Escherichia coli cytosolic homotetrameric protein SecB is known to be involved in protein export across the plasma membrane. A currently prevalent view holds that SecB functions exclusively as a chaperone interacting nonspecifically with unfolded proteins, not necessarily exported proteins, whereas a contrary view holds that SecB functions primarily as a specific signal-recognition factor--i.e., in binding to the signal sequence region of exported proteins. To experimentally resolve these differences we assayed for binding between chemically pure SecB and chemically pure precursor (p) form (containing a signal sequence) and mature (m) form (lacking a signal sequence) of a model secretory protein (maltose binding protein, MBP) that was C-terminally truncated. Because of the C-terminal truncation, neither p nor m was able to fold. We found that SecB bound with 100-fold higher affinity to p (Kd 0.8 nM) than it bound to m (Kd 80 nM). As the presence of the signal sequence in p is the only feature that distinguished p from m, these data strongly suggest that the high-affinity binding of SecB is to the signal sequence region and not the mature region of p. Consistent with this conclusion, we found that a wild-type signal peptide, but not an export-incompetent mutant signal peptide of another exported protein (LamB), competed for binding to p. Moreover, the high-affinity binding of SecB to p was resistant to 1 M salt, whereas the low-affinity binding of SecB to m was not. These qualitative differences suggested that SecB binding to m was primarily by electrostatic interactions, whereas SecB binding to p was primarily via hydrophobic interactions, presumably with the hydrophobic core of the signal sequence. Taken together our data strongly support the notion that SecB is primarily a specific signal-recognition factor.
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- M Watanabe
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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The secretory protein SecB found in Escherichia coli is a molecular chaperone that binds to precursor forms of a number of proteins targeted for export to the periplasmic space. SecB maintains these proteins in a translocation-competent conformation facilitating the translocation process. The material has been cloned and expressed in E. coli. Crystals have been grown from polyethylene glycol 8000 by vapor diffusion using the hanging drop technique. These crystals are monoclinic, belonging to space group C2 with unit cell dimensions a = 56.0 A, b = 111.1 A, c = 134.7 A, and beta = 104 degrees. The crystals diffract to 8 A resolution on a Rigaku imaging plate detector. Dynamic light scattering experiments suggest that SecB exhibits aggregation behavior with a number of different precipitating agents. These results may explain resistance of SecB to forming ordered crystals.
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- A Vrielink
- Molecular Biology Institute, University of California at Los Angeles 90024, USA
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Protein translocation genetics. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1874-5172(06)80006-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Export and assembly of outer membrane proteins in E. coli. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1874-5172(06)80011-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Biochemical analyses of components comprising the protein translocation machinery of Escherichia coli. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s1874-5172(06)80007-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Arkowitz RA, Bassilana M. Protein translocation in Escherichia coli. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1197:311-43. [PMID: 7819269 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4157(94)90012-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- R A Arkowitz
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- A J Driessen
- Department of Microbiology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
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Flower AM, Doebele RC, Silhavy TJ. PrlA and PrlG suppressors reduce the requirement for signal sequence recognition. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:5607-14. [PMID: 8083155 PMCID: PMC196762 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.18.5607-5614.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Selection for suppressors of defects in the signal sequence of secretory proteins has led most commonly to identification of prlA alleles and less often to identification of prlG alleles. These genes, secY/prlA and secE/prlG, encode integral membrane components of the protein translocation system of Escherichia coli. We demonstrate that an outer membrane protein, LamB, that lacks a signal sequence can be exported with reasonable efficiency in both prlA and prlG suppressor strains. Although the signal sequence is not absolutely required for export of LamB, the level of export in the absence of prl suppressor alleles is exceedingly low. Such strains are phenotypically LamB-, and functional LamB can be detected only by using sensitive infectious-center assays. Suppression of the LamB signal sequence deletion is dependent on normal components of the export pathway, indicating that suppression is not occurring through a bypass mechanism. Our results indicate that the majority of the known prlA suppressors function by an identical mechanism and, further, that the prlG suppressors work in a similar fashion. We propose that both PrlA and PrlG suppressors lack a proofreading activity that normally rejects defective precursors from the export pathway.
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- A M Flower
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544
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Identification of a soluble SecA/SecB complex by means of a subfractionated cell-free export system. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)99951-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Translocation of Proteins Across Chloroplast Membranes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2558(08)60403-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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- M Müller
- Institut für Physikalische Biochemie, Universität München, Germany
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Watanabe M, Blobel G. SecA protein is required for translocation of a model precursor protein into inverted vesicles of Escherichia coli plasma membrane. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:9011-5. [PMID: 8415645 PMCID: PMC47491 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.19.9011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We have investigated whether the SecA protein is required for in vitro translocation of a model presecretory protein into inverted vesicles (INV) of the Escherichia coli plasma membrane. Contrary to previous reports, we found that urea-extracted INV that contained only the membrane-integral form of SecA were fully translocation active. Proteoliposomes that were reconstituted from a detergent extract of INV did contain a full complement of membrane-integral SecA but < 1% of SecY. These proteoliposomes were fully translocation active. However, immunodepletion of > 90% of the SecA from the detergent extract yielded proteoliposomes that were translocation inactive. Addition of purified SecA to the SecA-depleted proteoliposomes restored translocation. The amounts of SecA required to saturate translocation activity were equivalent to those present as membrane-integral SecA in INV. These data indicate that SecA is necessary for protein translocation, and reinforce our previous conclusion that SecY is not required. Contrary to previous reports, we find that membrane-integral SecA is not irreversibly inactivated by 6 M urea and that membrane-integral SecA and SecY do not form a stoichiometric protein complex in the membrane.
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- M Watanabe
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY
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Shelness G, Lin L, Nicchitta C. Membrane topology and biogenesis of eukaryotic signal peptidase. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53520-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Schnell DJ, Blobel G. Identification of intermediates in the pathway of protein import into chloroplasts and their localization to envelope contact sites. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1993; 120:103-15. [PMID: 8416981 PMCID: PMC2119501 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.120.1.103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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We have used a hybrid precursor protein to study the pathway of protein import into chloroplasts. This hybrid (pS/protA) consists of the precursor to the small subunit of Rubisco (pS) fused to the IgG binding domains of staphylococcal protein A. The pS/protA is efficiently imported into isolated chloroplasts and is processed to its mature form (S/protA). In addition to the mature stromal form, two intermediates in the pathway of pS/protA import were identified at early time points in the import reaction. The first intermediate represents unprocessed pS/protA bound to the outer surface of the chloroplast envelope and is analogous to a previously characterized form of pS that is specifically bound to the chloroplast surface and can be subsequently translocated in the stroma (Cline, K., M. Werner-Washburne, T. H. Lubben, and K. Keegstra. 1985. J. Biol. Chem. 260:3691-3696.) The second intermediate represents a partially translocated form of the precursor that remains associated with the envelope membrane. This form is processed to mature S/protA, but remains susceptible to exogenously added protease in intact chloroplasts. We conclude that the envelope associated S/protA is spanning both the outer and inner chloroplast membranes en route to the stroma. Biochemical and immunochemical localization of the two translocation intermediates indicates that both forms are exposed at the surface of the outer membrane at sites where the outer and inner membrane are closely apposed. These contact zones appear to be organized in a reticular network on the outer envelope. We propose a model for protein import into chloroplasts that has as its central features two distinct protein conducting channels in the outer and inner envelope membranes, each gated open by a distinct subdomain of the pS signal sequence.
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- D J Schnell
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University, New York 10021
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Collier DN. SecB: a molecular chaperone of Escherichia coli protein secretion pathway. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY 1993; 44:151-93. [PMID: 8100379 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3233(08)60567-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- D N Collier
- CR&D, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Delaware 19880
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Werner P, Saier M, Müller M. Membrane insertion of the mannitol permease of Escherichia coli occurs under conditions of impaired SecA function. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)35796-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Breukink E, Kusters R, De Kruijff B. In-vitro studies on the folding characteristics of the Escherichia coli precursor protein prePhoE. Evidence that SecB prevents the precursor from aggregating by forming a functional complex. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 208:419-25. [PMID: 1325908 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17203.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We characterised the behaviour of the purified precursor protein prePhoE upon dilution from 8 M urea by CD, fluorescence spectroscopy and gel-filtration techniques. It is demonstrated that prePhoE rapidly adopts beta structure, folds and aggregates upon dilution to urea concentrations below 3 M. These processes are paralleled by a loss of translocation competence. Furthermore the interaction of prePhoE with SecB was investigated. SecB is shown to have a very high content of beta structure, therefore we propose that precursor recognition by SecB is mediated through beta-beta interaction. It is shown that SecB has little effect on the adoption of secondary structure and tertiary folding upon dilution of the precursor from urea. However, SecB prevents the precursor from aggregating by forming a functional and stable complex.
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- E Breukink
- Department of Biochemistry of Membranes, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Kim J, Lee Y, Kim C, Park C. Involvement of SecB, a chaperone, in the export of ribose-binding protein. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:5219-27. [PMID: 1644748 PMCID: PMC206355 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.16.5219-5227.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Ribose-binding protein (RBP) is an exported protein of Escherichia coli that functions in the periplasm. The export of RBP involves the secretion machinery of the cell, consisting of a cytoplasmic protein, SecA, and the integral membrane translocation complex, including SecE and SecY. SecB protein, a chaperone known to mediate the export of some periplasmic and outer membrane proteins, was previously reported not to be involved in RBP translocation even though small amounts of in vitro complexes between SecB and RBP have been detected. In our investigation, it was shown that a dependence on SecB could be demonstrated under conditions in which export was compromised. Species of RBP which carry two mutations, one in the leader that blocks export and a second in the mature protein which partially suppresses the export defect, were shown to be affected by SecB for efficient translocation. Five different changes which suppress the effect of the signal sequence mutation -17LP are all located in the N domain of the tertiary structure of RBP. All species of RBP show similar interaction with SecB. Furthermore, a leaky mutation, -14AE, generated by site-specific mutagenesis causes reduced export in the absence of SecB. These results indicate that SecB can interact with RBP during secretion, although it is not absolutely required under normal circumstances.
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- J Kim
- Department of Life Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yuseong-Ku, Daejun
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Plasma membrane vesicles and protoplasts of Escherichia coli were fused to planar lipid bilayers and studied with electrophysiological techniques. Large transmembrane aqueous channels were opened when 0.2 nM LamB signal peptide was added to the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. These aqueous pores are similar in conductance to those previously observed in mammalian endoplasmic reticulum when puromycin is used to release and thus unplug nascent translocating chains. Signal sequences have been previously shown to be necessary and sufficient for targeting proteins to cellular membranes. These results demonstrate that signal peptides are sufficient for opening the protein-conducting channels. We suggest that they are the physiological ligands that open protein-conducting channels at the initiation of protein translocation across prokaryotic plasma membrane and mammalian endoplasmic reticulum.
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- S M Simon
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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Sugai M, Wu HC. Export of the outer membrane lipoprotein is defective in secD, secE, and secF mutants of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:2511-6. [PMID: 1556071 PMCID: PMC205889 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.8.2511-2516.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The export of major outer membrane lipoprotein has been found to be affected in secD, secE, and secF mutants of Escherichia coli, which are defective in protein export in general. After a shift to the nonpermissive temperature, the kinetics of accumulation of prolipoprotein and pre-OmpA protein was indistinguishable from that of pre-OmpA protein accumulation in the secD and secF mutants but different in the secE mutant. The prolipoprotein accumulated in the secD, secE, and secF mutants at the nonpermissive temperature was not modified with glyceride. We conclude from these results and those of previous studies that the export of lipoprotein requires all common sec gene products except the SecB protein, i.e., the SecA, SecD, SecE, SecF, and SecY proteins.
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- M Sugai
- Department of Microbiology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799
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Tommassen J, Struyvé M, de Cock H. Export and assembly of bacterial outer membrane proteins. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1992; 61:81-5. [PMID: 1316098 DOI: 10.1007/bf00580611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- J Tommassen
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Tai PC, Lian J, Yu NJ, Fandl J, Xu H, Vidugiriene J. On protein translocation across bacterial cytoplasmic membranes. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1992; 61:105-9. [PMID: 1580611 DOI: 10.1007/bf00580615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- P C Tai
- Boston Biomedical Research Institute, MA 02114
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Most secretory proteins are synthesized as precursors with an amino-terminal signal peptide. Genetic identification of proteins essential for signal peptide dependent translocation to the Escherichia coli periplasm has led to the biochemical dissection of the secretion pathway. Additional mechanisms exist in Gram-negative bacteria for protein secretion to the extracellular environment.
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- J M Gennity
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway
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Shawar SM, Rodgers JR, Cook RG, Rich RR. Specialized function of the nonclassical MHC class I molecule Hmt: a specific receptor for N-formylated peptides. Immunol Res 1991; 10:365-75. [PMID: 1835490 DOI: 10.1007/bf02919723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- S M Shawar
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratory, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex
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Rockenbach SK, Dupuis MJ, Pitts TW, Marschke CK, Tomich CS. Secretion of active truncated CD4 into Escherichia coli periplasm. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 1991; 35:32-7. [PMID: 1367276 DOI: 10.1007/bf00180632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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A truncated molecule containing the first 183 amino acid residues of the HIV-1 receptor, CD4, was made by periplasmic secretion in Escherichia coli. The signal sequence from the E. coli proteins OmpA, PhoA, or OmpF was fused to the truncated CD4, under the control of either the trp or the lac promoter. The processed material secreted into the periplasm reacted with monoclonal antibodies and exhibited binding activity to the HIV-1 envelope protein gp120. Not all of the processed product was recovered in the periplasm by osmotic shock, suggesting that either the material aggregated in the periplasm or, during secretion, the molecule assumed some transient conformation that interfered with its translocation across the inner membrane. A mutation in prlA (a gene involved in secretion) increased the level of processing, suggesting that secretion of a heterologous protein in E. coli can be optimized by manipulating the host secretion apparatus.
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- S K Rockenbach
- Molecular Biology, Upjohn Company Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007
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MacIntyre S, Mutschler B, Henning U. Requirement of the SecB chaperone for export of a non-secretory polypeptide in Escherichia coli. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1991; 227:224-8. [PMID: 1829500 DOI: 10.1007/bf00259674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The SecB protein of Escherichia coli is a cytosolic component of the export machinery which can prevent some precursors from prematurely folding into export-incompatible conformations by binding to the newly synthesised polypeptide. The feature(s) of target proteins recognised by SecB, however, are unclear and have been a matter of controversy. Also, it has not been asked if binding of SecB is specific for secretory proteins. We demonstrate here that a non-secretory polypeptide, a fragment of a tail fiber protein of phage T4, fused to the signal peptide of the outer membrane protein OmpA has a very strong SecB requirement for export and that the signal peptide itself cannot, at least not alone, be responsible for this action of SecB. The data reported, together with those of the literature, suggest that SecB recognizes the polypeptide backbone of the target protein.
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- S MacIntyre
- Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie, Tübingen, FRG
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A class of prlA (secY) alleles of Escherichia coli (prlA4-1 and prlA401) which specifically block the export of staphylokinase has been identified (T. Iino and T. Sako, J. Biol. Chem. 263:19077-19082, 1988; T. Sako and T. Iino, J. Bacteriol. 170:5389-5391, 1988). To determine more precisely the region in PrlA (SecY) effective for the blockage of processing of the staphylokinase precursor, additional prlA mutants which failed to support processing of the staphylokinase precursor were isolated. Two of the five mutant alleles isolated (secY121 and secY161) complemented the temperature sensitivity of a secY24 strain and had no detectable effect on the processing of endogenous secretory proteins of E. coli. In addition, a staphylokinase mutant having glycine in place of serine at position 17 in its signal sequence relieved the detrimental effect of these mutations. All of these characteristics indicate that these two alleles resemble the prlA4-1 and prlA401 alleles. On the other hand, the remaining three mutant alleles (secY47, secY105, and secY112) had no significant PrlA activity. The mutations of secY121 and secY161 were mapped very close to those of prlA4-1 and prlA401 in the presumed transmembrane segment 7 of PrlA. These results indicate that transmembrane segment 7 of PrlA plays a crucial role in the recognition of the staphylokinase signal sequence.
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- T Sako
- Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan
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Abstract
In previous investigations, we have examined the effect of OmpA signal peptide mutations on the secretion of the two heterologous proteins TEM beta-lactamase and nuclease A. During these studies, we observed that a given signal peptide mutation could affect differentially the processing of precursor OmpA-nuclease or precursor OmpA-lactamase. This observation led us to further investigate the influence of the mature region of a precursor protein on protein export. Preexisting OmpA signal peptide mutations of known secretion phenotype when directing heterologous protein export (nuclease A or beta-lactamase) were fused to the homologous mature OmpA protein. Four signal peptide mutations that have previously been shown to prevent export of nuclease A and beta-lactamase were found to support OmpA protein export, albeit at reduced rates. This remarkable retention of export activity by severely defective precursor OmpA signal peptide mutants may be due to the ability of mature OmpA to interact with the cytoplasmic membrane. In addition, these same signal peptide mutations can affect the level of OmpA synthesis as well as its proper assembly in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. Two signal peptide mutations dramatically stimulate the rate of precursor OmpA synthesis three- to fivefold above the level observed when a wild-type signal peptide is directing export. The complete removal of the OmpA signal peptide does not result in increased OmpA synthesis. This finding suggests that the signal peptide mutations function positively to stimulate OmpA synthesis, rather than bypass a down-regulatory mechanism effected by a wild-type signal peptide. Overproduction of wild-type precursor OmpA or precursors containing signal peptide mutations which lead to relatively minor kinetic processing defects results in accumulation of an improperly assembled OmpA species (imp-OmpA). In contrast, signal peptide mutations which cause relatively severe processing defects accumulate no or only small quantities of imp-OmpA. All mutations result in equivalent levels of properly assembled OmpA. Thus, a strong correlation between imp-OmpA accumulation and cell toxicity was observed. A mutation in the mature region of OmpA which prevents the proper outer membrane assembly of OmpA was suppressed when export was directed by a severely defective signal peptide. These findings suggest that signal peptide mutations indirectly influence OmpA assembly in the outer membrane by altering both the level and rate of OmpA secretion across the cytoplasmic membrane.
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