A unifying mechanism for protein transport through the core bacterial Sec machinery

WJ Allen, I Collinson - Open Biology, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Encapsulation and compartmentalization are fundamental to the evolution of cellular life, but
they also pose a challenge: how to partition the molecules that perform biological functions …

Graphs of hydrogen-bond networks to dissect protein conformational dynamics

AN Bondar - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Dynamic hydrogen bonds and hydrogen-bond networks are ubiquitous in proteins and
protein complexes. Functional roles that have been assigned to hydrogen-bond networks …

[HTML][HTML] EndophilinA-dependent coupling between activity-induced calcium influx and synaptic autophagy is disrupted by a Parkinson-risk mutation

AT Bademosi, M Decet, S Kuenen, C Calatayud… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Neuronal activity causes use-dependent decline in protein function. However, it is unclear
how this is coupled to local quality control mechanisms. We show in Drosophila that the …

Evolutionary adaptation of the protein folding pathway for secretability

D Smets, A Tsirigotaki, JH Smit, S Krishnamurthy… - The EMBO …, 2022 - embopress.org
Secretory preproteins of the Sec pathway are targeted post‐translationally and cross cellular
membranes through translocases. During cytoplasmic transit, mature domains remain non …

Signal Peptide-rheostat Dynamics Delay Secretory Preprotein Folding

D Smets, J Smit, Y Xu, S Karamanou… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sec secretory proteins are distinguished from cytoplasmic ones by N-terminal signal
peptides with multiple roles during post-translational translocation. They contribute to …

Comparative antioxidant and metabolomic analysis for the identification of differential response of mussel (Mytilus coruscus) to four succinate dehydrogenase …

N Wang, Z Zhang, Y Wang, L Zhang, A Sun… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor fungicides (SDHIs) are frequently detected in the marine
environment. However, studies on the toxicity of SDHIs to marine organisms, Mytilus …

Plastid Molecular Chaperone HSP90C Interacts with the SecA1 Subunit of Sec Translocase for Thylakoid Protein Transport

AM Nair, T Jiang, B Mu, R Zhao - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
The plastid stroma-localized chaperone HSP90C plays a crucial role in maintaining optimal
proteostasis within chloroplasts and participates in protein translocation processes. While …

Evolutionary adaptation of the folding pathway for secretability

D Smets, A Tsirigotaki, JH Smit, S Krishnamurthy… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Secretory preproteins of the Sec pathway bear signal peptides and are targeted post-
translationally to cross the plasma membrane or ER through translocases. After …

Bacterial Protein Transport Pathways and Analogous Conserved Pathways in Eukaryotes

P Kauffman, S Kaushik, A Kuhn, RE Dalbey - … Acquisition: Solutions to the …, 2024 - Springer
Approximately 30% of the proteins in bacteria are exported to the cell surface. The export
process is crucial for bacterial growth and survival, protein biogenesis, membrane function …

The Multifunctional Preprotein Binding Domain of SecA

E Giotas, SA Kaplani, N Eleftheriadis - ChemBioChem - Wiley Online Library
Sec‐pathway is the main protein secretion pathway in prokaryotes and is essential for their
survival. The motor protein SecA is the main coordinator of the pathway in bacteria as it is …