Type VII secretion systems: structure, functions and transport models

A Rivera-Calzada, N Famelis, O Llorca… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Type VII secretion systems (T7SSs) have a key role in the secretion of effector proteins in
non-pathogenic mycobacteria and pathogenic mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium …

The Type VII Secretion System of Staphylococcus

L Bowman, T Palmer - Annual review of microbiology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The type VII protein secretion system (T7SS) of Staphylococcus aureus is encoded at the
ess locus. T7 substrate recognition and protein transport are mediated by EssC, a …

The antibacterial type VII secretion system of Bacillus subtilis: structure and interactions of the pseudokinase YukC/EssB

M Tassinari, T Doan, M Bellinzoni, M Chabalier… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Type VIIb secretion systems (T7SSb) were recently proposed to mediate different aspects of
Firmicutes physiology, including bacterial pathogenicity and competition. However, their …

The enigmatic Esx proteins: looking beyond mycobacteria

M Unnikrishnan, C Constantinidou, T Palmer… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
Bacteria export proteins across membranes using a range of transport machineries. Type VII
secretion systems (T7SSs), originally described in mycobacteria, are now known to be …

A membrane-depolarizing toxin substrate of the Staphylococcus aureus type VII secretion system mediates intraspecies competition

FR Ulhuq, MC Gomes, GM Duggan… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The type VII protein secretion system (T7SS) is conserved across Staphylococcus aureus
strains and plays important roles in virulence and interbacterial competition. To date, only …

Heterogeneity in ess transcriptional organization and variable contribution of the Ess/Type VII protein secretion system to virulence across closely related S …

H Kneuper, ZP Cao, KB Twomey… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Type VII protein secretion system, found in G ram‐positive bacteria, secretes small
proteins, containing a conserved W‐x‐G amino acid sequence motif, to the growth medium …

mtsslSuite: Probing biomolecular conformation by spin-labeling studies

G Hagelueken, D Abdullin, O Schiemann - Methods in enzymology, 2015 - Elsevier
EPR long-range distance measurements on spin-labeled macromolecules have recently
become a popular tool in structural biology. The method can be used to obtain coarse …

Flotillin scaffold activity contributes to type VII secretion system assembly in Staphylococcus aureus

B Mielich-Süss, RM Wagner, N Mietrach… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Scaffold proteins are ubiquitous chaperones that promote efficient interactions between
partners of multi-enzymatic protein complexes; although they are well studied in eukaryotes …

mtsslSuite: In silico spin labelling, trilateration and distance-constrained rigid body docking in PyMOL

G Hagelueken, D Abdullin, R Ward… - Molecular …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Nanometer distance measurements based on electron paramagnetic resonance methods in
combination with site-directed spin labelling are powerful tools for the structural analysis of …

Multiple variants of the type VII secretion system in Gram-positive bacteria

SR Garrett, AB Higginson, T Palmer - Microlife, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Type VII secretion systems (T7SS) are found in bacteria across the Bacillota and
Actinomycetota phyla and have been well described in Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus …