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ArticleScientific reports2017

Identification of a substrate domain that determines system specificity in mycobacterial type VII secretion systems.

Trang H Phan, Roy Ummels, Wilbert Bitter, Edith N G Houben

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. The Type VII Secretion System ofAnnual review of microbiology · 2021
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  12. Modeling Tubercular ESX-1 Secretion Using Mycobacterium marinum.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Trang H PhanSection Molecular Microbiology, Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicines &Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Roy UmmelsDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wilbert BitterSection Molecular Microbiology, Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicines &Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Edith N G HoubenSection Molecular Microbiology, Amsterdam Institute of Molecules, Medicines &Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLVrije Universiteit Amsterdam · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type VII secretion (T7S) systems are specialized machineries used by mycobacterial pathogens to transport important virulence factors across their highly hydrophobic cell envelope. There are up to five mycobacterial T7S systems, named ESX-1 to ESX-5, at least three of which specifically secrete a different subset of substrates. The T7S substrates or substrate complexes are defined by the general secretion motif YxxxD/E. However this motif does not determine system specificity. Here, we show that the substrate domain recognized by the EspG chaperone is the determinant factor for this specificity. We first show that the introduction of point mutations into the EspG

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Protein Interaction Domains and MotifsBacterial ProteinsMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsModels, MolecularMycobacteriumMycobacterium tuberculosisProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein TransportSubstrate SpecificityType VII Secretion SystemsBacterial ProteinsMicrotubule-Associated ProteinsType VII Secretion Systems

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PMID28205541
PMCPMC5311947
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