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ArticleNature microbiology2024

Structural insights into the mechanism of protein transport by the Type 9 Secretion System translocon.

Frédéric Lauber, Justin C Deme, Xiaolong Liu, Andreas Kjær, Helen L Miller, Felicity Alcock, Susan M Lea, Ben C Berks

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Article in Nature microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
14.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Frédéric Lauber *Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1858-2761
Justin C Deme *Center for Structural Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8811-9871
Xiaolong LiuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Andreas KjærDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Helen L MillerBiological Physics Research Group, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Felicity AlcockDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3983-6097
Susan M LeaCenter for Structural Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA. susan.lea@nih.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9287-8053
Ben C BerksDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. ben.berks@bioch.ox.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9685-4067
University of Oxford · GBOxford Research Group · GB

Funding

Structural biology of host-pathogen interactionsZIABC012043 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI LEA, SUSAN MARY · 2021 to 2025
$6.9M
Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secretion systems are protein export machines that enable bacteria to exploit their environment through the release of protein effectors. The Type 9 Secretion System (T9SS) is responsible for protein export across the outer membrane (OM) of bacteria of the phylum Bacteroidota. Here we trap the T9SS of Flavobacterium johnsoniae in the process of substrate transport by disrupting the T9SS motor complex. Cryo-EM analysis of purified substrate-bound T9SS translocons reveals an extended translocon structure in which the previously described translocon core is augmented by a periplasmic structure incorporating the proteins SprE, PorD and a homologue of the canonical periplasmic chaperone Skp. Substrate proteins bind to the extracellular loops of a carrier protein within the translocon pore. As transport intermediates accumulate on the translocon when energetic input is removed, we deduce that release of the substrate-carrier protein complex from the translocon is the energy-requiring step in T9SS transport.

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Bacterial ProteinsBacterial Secretion SystemsCarrier ProteinsProtein TransportBacterial ProteinsBacterial Secretion SystemsCarrier Proteins

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PMID38538833
PMCPMC10994853
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