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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2022

Force-Generation by the Trans-Envelope Tol-Pal System.

Melissa N Webby, Daniel P Williams-Jones, Cara Press, Colin Kleanthous

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Advances in understanding Ton and Tol system motor proteins.Biochemical Society transactions · 2026
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  12. A very versatile molecular machine.Journal of bacteriology · 2024
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  16. Tunable force transduction through theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  17. The Tol-Pal system of Acinetobacter baumannii is important for cell morphology, antibiotic resistance and virulence.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Melissa N WebbyDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Daniel P Williams-JonesDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Cara PressDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Colin KleanthousDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
University of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Tol-Pal system spans the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria, transducing the potential energy of the proton motive force (PMF) into dissociation of the TolB-Pal complex at the outer membrane (OM), freeing the lipoprotein Pal to bind the cell wall. The primary physiological role of Tol-Pal is to maintain OM integrity during cell division through accumulation of Pal molecules at division septa. How the protein complex couples the PMF at the inner membrane into work at the OM is unknown. The effectiveness of this trans-envelope energy transduction system is underscored by the fact that bacteriocins and bacteriophages co-opt Tol-Pal as part of their import/infection mechanisms. Mechanistic understanding of this process has been hindered by a lack of structural data for the inner membrane TolQ-TolR stator, of its complexes with peptidoglycan (PG) and TolA, and of how these elements combined power events at the OM. Recent studies on the homologous stators of Ton and Mot provide a starting point for understanding how Tol-Pal works. Here, we combine

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cell envelopeforce transductionGram-negative bacteriaouter membraneproton motive forceTol-Pal

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PMID35308353
PMCPMC8928145
OpenAlexW4214870263

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