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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Gram-negative outer-membrane proteins with multiple β-barrel domains.

Ron Solan, Joana Pereira, Andrei N Lupas, Rachel Kolodny, Nir Ben-Tal

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Ron SolanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel.
Joana PereiraDepartment of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen 72076, Germany.
Andrei N LupasDepartment of Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen 72076, Germany; bental@tauex.tau.ac.il trachel@cs.haifa.ac.il andrei.lupas@tuebingen.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-1959-4836
Rachel KolodnyDepartment of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel bental@tauex.tau.ac.il trachel@cs.haifa.ac.il andrei.lupas@tuebingen.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-8523-1614
Nir Ben-TalDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel; bental@tauex.tau.ac.il trachel@cs.haifa.ac.il andrei.lupas@tuebingen.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-6901-832X

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Abstract

Outer-membrane beta barrels (OMBBs) are found in the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria and eukaryotic organelles. OMBBs fold as antiparallel β-sheets that close onto themselves, forming pores that traverse the membrane. Currently known structures include only one barrel, of 8 to 36 strands, per chain. The lack of multi-OMBB chains is surprising, as most OMBBs form oligomers, and some function only in this state. Using a combination of sensitive sequence comparison methods and coevolutionary analysis tools, we identify many proteins combining multiple beta barrels within a single chain; combinations that include eight-stranded barrels prevail. These multibarrels seem to be the result of independent, lineage-specific fusion and amplification events. The absence of multibarrels that are universally conserved in bacteria with an outer membrane, coupled with their frequent de novo genesis, suggests that their functions are not essential but rather beneficial in specific environments. Adjacent barrels of complementary function within the same chain may allow for functions beyond those of the individual barrels.

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Bacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsComputer SimulationGammaproteobacteriaMarkov ChainsModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProtein DomainsBacterial Outer Membrane Proteinscoevolution analysis of bacterial sequencesevolutionary analysisgram-negative bacteriaouter-membrane beta barrelssequence analysis

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PMID34330833
PMCPMC8346858

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