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Overlapping functions of components of a bacterial Sec-independent protein export pathway.


ABSTRACT: We describe the identification of two Escherichia coli genes required for the export of cofactor-containing periplasmic proteins, synthesized with signal peptides containing a twin arginine motif. Both gene products are homologous to the maize HCF106 protein required for the translocation of a subset of lumenal proteins across the thylakoid membrane. Disruption of either gene affects the export of a range of such proteins, and a complete block is observed when both genes are inactivated. The Sec protein export pathway was unaffected, indicating the involvement of the gene products in a novel export system. The accumulation of active cofactor-containing proteins in the cytoplasm of the mutant strains suggests a role for the gene products in the translocation of folded proteins. One of the two HCF106 homologues is encoded by the first gene of a four cistron operon, tatABCD, and the second by an unlinked gene, tatE. A mutation previously assigned to the hcf106 homologue encoded at the tatABCD locus, mttA, lies instead in the tatB gene.

SUBMITTER: Sargent F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1170700 | biostudies-other | 1998 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Overlapping functions of components of a bacterial Sec-independent protein export pathway.

Sargent F F   Bogsch E G EG   Stanley N R NR   Wexler M M   Robinson C C   Berks B C BC   Palmer T T  

The EMBO journal 19980701 13


We describe the identification of two Escherichia coli genes required for the export of cofactor-containing periplasmic proteins, synthesized with signal peptides containing a twin arginine motif. Both gene products are homologous to the maize HCF106 protein required for the translocation of a subset of lumenal proteins across the thylakoid membrane. Disruption of either gene affects the export of a range of such proteins, and a complete block is observed when both genes are inactivated. The Sec  ...[more]

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