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ArticlemBio2021

Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins Are Targeted to the Bam Complex by Two Parallel Mechanisms.

Xu Wang, Janine H Peterson, Harris D Bernstein

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Article in mBio, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. A mechanism for substrate quality control in outer membrane protein assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  17. The C-terminus is essential for the stability of the mycobacterial channel protein MspA.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xu WangGenetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1309-1848
Janine H PetersonGenetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Harris D BernsteinGenetics and Biochemistry Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA harris_bernstein@nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0002-4941-3741
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Biogenesis of bacterial outer membrane proteinsZIADK052037 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI BERNSTEIN, HARRIS · 2009 to 2025
$21.6M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane proteins that are integrated into the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria typically contain a unique "β barrel" structure that serves as a membrane spanning segment. A conserved "β signal" motif is located at the C terminus of the β barrel of many outer membrane proteins (OMPs), but the function of this sequence is unclear. We found that mutations in the β signal slightly delayed the assembly of three model

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Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCarrier ProteinsEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesMutationPeptidylprolyl IsomeraseProtein FoldingBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCarrier ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesPeptidylprolyl IsomeraseSurA protein, E coliBam complexmolecular chaperonesouter membrane proteinsprotein targetingβ barrelβ signal

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PMID33947759
PMCPMC8262991
OpenAlexW3159422309

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