Abstract
In Gram-negative bacteria, envelope stress signals such as unfolded outer membrane proteins (OMP) activate the periplasmic protease DegS. This protease then triggers a cellular pathway to alleviate the stress. Now Sohn et al. (2007) show conclusively that inhibition of DegS is relieved allosterically by binding of the C-terminal sequences in unfolded OMPs to the PDZ domain of DegS.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 441-443 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Cell |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2 2007 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology