PMID:12766342
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Kimball, RA, Martin, L and Saier, MH Jr (2003) Reversing transmembrane electron flow: the DsbD and DsbB protein families. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 5:133-49 |
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| Abstract |
DsbD and DsbB are two proteins that in Escherichia coli catalyze transmembrane electron flow in opposite directions, thereby allowing reversible oxidoreduction of periplasmic dithiol/disulfide-containing proteins. We have identified all recognizable homologues of these two proteins in the databases and have conducted structural and phylogenetic analyses of the two families. The larger DsbD family is more diverse in sequence, topology, function and organismal distribution than the smaller DsbB family. DsbB homologues are rarely found outside of the proteobacteria, although DsbD homologues are found in many bacterial kingdoms as well as archaea and plant chloroplasts. Few organisms with a fully sequenced genome and a DsbB homologue lack a DsbD homologue, and most of these DsbD homologues fall within two clusters in the DsbD tree, exhibiting phylogenetic relationships that are the same as those observed for the DsbB proteins. These observations suggest that a subset of the DsbD homologues evolved in parallel with the DsbB family to perform a single unified function involving reversible extracytoplasmic protein dithiol-disulfide bond interchange. DsbD family proteins are shown to have arisen by an internal gene duplication event, and this observation leads to prediction of the pathway taken for the evolutionary appearance of the different protein topological types found within this family. |
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Archaea/metabolism; Bacteria/metabolism; Bacterial Proteins/classification; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Cell Membrane/metabolism; Electron Transport; Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Membrane Potentials; Membrane Proteins/classification; Membrane Proteins/genetics; Membrane Proteins/metabolism; Protein Disulfide-Isomerases/classification; Protein Disulfide-Isomerases/genetics; Protein Disulfide-Isomerases/metabolism; Proton-Motive Force |
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