Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10804665 | Biochimie | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Escherichia coli FliP is a rare bacterial polytopic membrane protein synthesized with a cleavable, highly hydrophobic signal peptide. More hydrophilic Tat-dependent or Sec-dependent signal peptide is functionally capable of substituting for the FliP signal peptide, but a signal anchor of inner membrane protein fails to do so. To assess the intrinsic characteristics of the FliP signal peptide in mediating protein translocation, we fused it to green fluorescence protein and observed that the translocation of the chimera (FliPss-GFP) was dependent of Ffh, SecA, SecY and SecD. In addition, we showed for the first time the involvement of YidC in protein translocation across the inner membrane.
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Authors
Nathalie Pradel, Alexandre Decorps, Changyun Ye, Claire-Lise Santini, Long-Fei Wu,