Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

A TonB-dependent transporter is required for secretion of protease PopC across the bacterial outer membrane

  • Nuria Gómez-Santos,
  • Timo Glatter,
  • Ralf Koebnik,
  • Magdalena Anna Świątek-Połatyńska,
  • Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09366-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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TonB-dependent transporters (TBDTs) are outer membrane proteins that import nutrients and bacteriocins in bacteria. Here, Gómez-Santos et al. show that a TBDT is required for secretion of a protease in Myxococcus xanthus, suggesting that some TBDTs may be involved in protein secretion.