Periplasmic chaperones: outer membrane biogenesis and envelope stress

AN Combs, TJ Silhavy - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Envelope biogenesis and homeostasis in gram-negative bacteria are exceptionally intricate
processes that require a multitude of periplasmic chaperones to ensure cellular survival …

AcrB: a mean, keen, drug efflux machine

J Kobylka, MS Kuth, RT Müller… - Annals of the New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gram‐negative bacteria are intrinsically resistant against cytotoxic substances by means of
their outer membrane and a network of multidrug efflux systems, acting in synergy. Efflux …

The antibiotic darobactin mimics a β-strand to inhibit outer membrane insertase

H Kaur, RP Jakob, JK Marzinek, R Green, Y Imai… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Antibiotics that target Gram-negative bacteria in new ways are needed to resolve the
antimicrobial resistance crisis,–. Gram-negative bacteria are protected by an additional outer …

Structural basis of outer membrane protein insertion by the BAM complex

Y Gu, H Li, H Dong, Y Zeng, Z Zhang, NG Paterson… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
All Gram-negative bacteria, mitochondria and chloroplasts have outer membrane proteins
(OMPs) that perform many fundamental biological processes. The OMPs in Gram-negative …

Protein interactions in human pathogens revealed through deep learning

IR Humphreys, J Zhang, M Baek, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Identification of bacterial protein–protein interactions and predicting the structures of these
complexes could aid in the understanding of pathogenicity mechanisms and developing …

Lateral opening in the intact β-barrel assembly machinery captured by cryo-EM

MG Iadanza, AJ Higgins, B Schiffrin… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) is a∼ 203 kDa complex of five proteins (BamA–E),
which is essential for viability in E. coli. BAM promotes the folding and insertion of β-barrel …

Outer membrane protein assembly mediated by BAM-SurA complexes

KL Fenn, JE Horne, JA Crossley, N Böhringer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The outer membrane is a formidable barrier that protects Gram-negative bacteria against
environmental threats. Its integrity requires the correct folding and insertion of outer …

β-Barrel membrane protein assembly by the Bam complex

CL Hagan, TJ Silhavy, D Kahne - Annual review of biochemistry, 2011 - annualreviews.org
β-barrel membrane proteins perform important functions in the outer membranes (OMs) of
Gram-negative bacteria and of the mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotes. The protein …

Function of the Omp85 superfamily of outer membrane protein assembly factors and polypeptide transporters

MT Doyle, HD Bernstein - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The Omp85 protein superfamily is found in the outer membrane (OM) of all gram-negative
bacteria and eukaryotic organelles of bacterial origin. Members of the family catalyze both …

Mechanism and function of the outer membrane channel TolC in multidrug resistance and physiology of enterobacteria

HI Zgurskaya, G Krishnamoorthy, A Ntreh… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
TolC is an archetypal member of the outer membrane efflux protein (OEP) family. These
proteins are involved in export of small molecules and toxins across the outer membrane of …