Structure of the TatC core of the twin-arginine protein transport system

Rollauer, S. E., Tarry, M. J., Graham, J. E., Jaaskelainen, M., Jager, F., Johnson, S., Krehenbrink, M., Liu, S. M., Lukey, M. J., Marcoux, J., McDowell, M. A., Rodriguez, F., Roversi, P., Stansfeld, P. J., Robinson, C. V., Sansom, M. S., Palmer, T., Hogbom, M., Berks, B. C., Lea, S. M. (December 2012) Structure of the TatC core of the twin-arginine protein transport system. Nature, 492 (7428). pp. 210-4. ISSN 1476-4687 (Public Dataset)

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23201679
DOI: 10.1038/nature11683

Abstract

The twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway is one of two general protein transport systems found in the prokaryotic cytoplasmic membrane and is conserved in the thylakoid membrane of plant chloroplasts. The defining, and highly unusual, property of the Tat pathway is that it transports folded proteins, a task that must be achieved without allowing appreciable ion leakage across the membrane. The integral membrane TatC protein is the central component of the Tat pathway. TatC captures substrate proteins by binding their signal peptides. TatC then recruits TatA family proteins to form the active translocation complex. Here we report the crystal structure of TatC from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus. This structure provides a molecular description of the core of the Tat translocation system and a framework for understanding the unique Tat transport mechanism.

Item Type: Paper
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > alignment > sequence alignment
organism description > bacteria
organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > transport > membrane transport
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Lukey lab
Depositing User: Adrian Gomez
Date: 13 December 2012
Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2020 14:53
Last Modified: 27 Jan 2020 14:53
PMCID: PMC3573685
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  • Protein data bank: https://www.rcsb.org/structure/4b4a
URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/38942

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