A Trimeric Lipoprotein Assists in Trimeric Autotransporter Biogenesis in Enterobacteria.
Grin, I., Hartmann, M.D., Sauer, G., Hernandez Alvarez, B., Schutz, M., Madlung, J., Macek, B., Felipe-Lopez, A., Hensel, M., Lupas, A., Linke, D.(2014) J Biol Chem 289: 7388
- PubMed: 24369174 
- DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.513275
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4C47 - PubMed Abstract: 
Trimeric autotransporter adhesins (TAAs) are important virulence factors of many Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. TAAs form fibrous, adhesive structures on the bacterial cell surface. Their N-terminal extracellular domains are exported through a C-terminal membrane pore; the insertion of the pore domain into the bacterial outer membrane follows the rules of β-barrel transmembrane protein biogenesis and is dependent on the essential Bam complex ...