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YidCprotein,amolecularchaperoneforLacYproteinfoldingviatheSecYEGproteinmachinery.PubMedNCBI

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JBiolChem.2013Sep27288(39):2818094.doi:10.1074/jbc.M113.491613.Epub2013Aug8.

YidCprotein,amolecularchaperoneforLacYproteinfoldingviathe
SecYEGproteinmachinery.
ZhuL1,KabackHR,DalbeyRE.

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TounderstandhowYidCandSecYEGfunctiontogetherinmembraneproteintopogenesis,
insertionandfoldingofthelactosepermeaseofEscherichiacoli(LacY),a12transmembrane
helixproteinLacYthatcatalyzessymportofagalactosideandanH(+),wasstudied.Although
boththeSecYEGmachineryandsignalrecognitionparticlearerequiredforinsertionofLacYinto
themembrane,YidCisnotrequiredfortranslocationofthesixperiplasmicloopsinLacY.Rather,
YidCactsasachaperone,facilitatingLacYfolding.UponYidCdepletion,theconformationofLacY
isperturbed,asjudgedbymonoclonalantibodybindingstudiesandbyinvivocrosslinking
betweenintroducedCyspairs.DisulfidecrosslinkingalsodemonstratesthatYidCinteractswith
multipletransmembranesegmentsofLacYduringmembranebiogenesis.Moreover,YidCis
strictlyrequiredforinsertionofM13procoatproteinfusedintothemiddlecytoplasmicloopofLacY.
Incontrast,theloopsprecedingandfollowingtheinsertedprocoatdomainaredependenton
SecYEGforinsertion.Thesestudiesdemonstrateclosecooperationbetweenthetwocomplexes
inmembranebiogenesisandthatYidCfunctionsprimarilyasafoldaseforLacY.
KEYWORDS: ChaperoneChaperoninLacYMembraneBiogenesisMembraneEnzymesMembrane
InsertionMembraneProteinsProteinFoldingYidC
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