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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2015

New OprM structure highlighting the nature of the N-terminal anchor.

Laura Monlezun, Gilles Phan, Houssain Benabdelhak, Marie-Bernard Lascombe, Véronique Y N Enguéné, Martin Picard, Isabelle Broutin

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Laura MonlezunLaboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, CNRS UMR 8015, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes Paris, France.
Gilles PhanLaboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, CNRS UMR 8015, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes Paris, France.
Houssain BenabdelhakLaboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7371, INSERM U1146 Paris, France.
Marie-Bernard LascombeLaboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, CNRS UMR 8015, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes Paris, France.
Véronique Y N EnguénéLaboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, CNRS UMR 8015, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes Paris, France.
Martin PicardLaboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, CNRS UMR 8015, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes Paris, France.
Isabelle BroutinLaboratoire de Cristallographie et RMN Biologiques, CNRS UMR 8015, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Descartes Paris, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the different mechanisms used by bacteria to resist antibiotics, active efflux plays a major role. In Gram-negative bacteria, active efflux is carried out by tripartite efflux pumps that form a macromolecular assembly spanning both membranes of the cellular wall. At the outer membrane level, a well-conserved outer membrane factor (OMF) protein acts as an exit duct, but its sequence varies greatly among different species. The OMFs share a similar tri-dimensional structure that includes a beta-barrel pore domain that stabilizes the channel within the membrane. In addition, OMFs are often subjected to different N-terminal post-translational modifications (PTMs), such as an acylation with a lipid. The role of additional N-terminal anchors is all the more intriguing since it is not always required among the OMFs family. Understanding this optional PTM could open new research lines in the field of antibiotics resistance. In Escherichia coli, it has been shown that CusC is modified with a tri-acylated lipid, whereas TolC does not show any modification. In the case of OprM from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the N-terminal modification remains a matter of debate, therefore, we used several approaches to investigate this issue. As definitive evidence, we present a new X-ray structure at 3.8 Å resolution that was solved in a new space group, making it possible to model the N-terminal residue as a palmitoylated cysteine.

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efflux pumplipoylmembrane proteinmultidrug resistancepost-translational modificationX-ray structure

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PMID26191054
PMCPMC4486845
OpenAlexW1488419898

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