The role of intrinsic disorder and dynamics in the assembly and function of the type II secretion system

Publication date: Available online 19 July 2017
Source:Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics
Author(s): Shuang Gu, Vladimir E. Shevchik, Rosie Shaw, Richard W. Pickersgill, James A. Garnett
Many Gram-negative commensal and pathogenic bacteria use a type II secretion system (T2SS) to transport proteins out of the cell. These exported proteins or substrates play a major role in toxin delivery, maintaining biofilms, replication in the host and subversion of host immune responses to infection. We review the current structural and functional work on this system and argue that intrinsically disordered regions and protein dynamics are central for assembly, exo-protein recognition, and secretion competence of the T2SS. The central role of intrinsic disorder-order transitions in these processes may be a particular feature of type II secretion.



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