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SUBMITTER: Gira Bhabha
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-11354 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The Journal of biological chemistry 20230425 6
The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is an asymmetric bilayer that protects the cell from external stressors, such as antibiotics. The Mla transport system is implicated in the Maintenance of OM Lipid Asymmetry by mediating retrograde phospholipid transport across the cell envelope. Mla uses a shuttle-like mechanism to move lipids between the MlaFEDB inner membrane complex and the MlaA-OmpF/C OM complex, via a periplasmic lipid-binding protein, MlaC. MlaC binds to MlaD and MlaA, but ...[more]