Communications Biology (Jun 2022)

Dynamic interplay between the periplasmic chaperone SurA and the BAM complex in outer membrane protein folding

  • Bob Schiffrin,
  • Jonathan M. Machin,
  • Theodoros K. Karamanos,
  • Anastasia Zhuravleva,
  • David J. Brockwell,
  • Sheena E. Radford,
  • Antonio N. Calabrese

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03502-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Interaction of the outer membrane protein (OMP) chaperone SurA and the OMP folding catalyst BAM results in changes in the conformational ensembles of both species, suggesting a mechanism for delivery of OMPs to BAM in Gram-negative bacteria.