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Medical Microbiology

1998

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The Seca Subunit Of Escherichia Coli Preprotein Translocase Is Exposed To The Periplasm, Jerry Eichler, William Wickner Nov 1998

The Seca Subunit Of Escherichia Coli Preprotein Translocase Is Exposed To The Periplasm, Jerry Eichler, William Wickner

Dartmouth Scholarship

SecA undergoes conformational changes during translocation, inserting domains into and across the membrane or enhancing the protease resistance of these domains. We now show that some SecA bound at SecYEG is accessible from the periplasm to a membrane-impermeant probe in cells with a permeabilized outer membrane but an intact plasma membrane.


Exoy, An Adenylate Cyclase Secreted By The Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Type Iii System, Timothy L. Yahr, Amy J. Vallis, Michael Hancock, Joseph T. Barbieri, Dara W. Frank Nov 1998

Exoy, An Adenylate Cyclase Secreted By The Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Type Iii System, Timothy L. Yahr, Amy J. Vallis, Michael Hancock, Joseph T. Barbieri, Dara W. Frank

Dartmouth Scholarship

The exoenzyme S regulon is a set of coordinately regulated virulence genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proteins encoded by the regulon include a type III secretion and translocation apparatus, regulators of gene expression, and effector proteins. The effector proteins include two enzymes with ADP-ribosyltransferase activity (ExoS and ExoT) and an acute cytotoxin (ExoU). In this study, we identified ExoY as a fourth effector protein of the regulon. ExoY is homologous to the extracellular adenylate cyclases of Bordetella pertussis (CyaA) and Bacillus anthracis (EF). The homology among the three adenylate cyclases is limited to two short regions, one of which possesses an …