PMID:1531482
| Citation |
Brundage, L, Fimmel, CJ, Mizushima, S and Wickner, W (1992) SecY, SecE, and band 1 form the membrane-embedded domain of Escherichia coli preprotein translocase. J. Biol. Chem. 267:4166-70 |
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| Abstract |
The preprotein translocase of Escherichia coli is a multisubunit enzyme with two domains, the peripheral membrane protein SecA and the membrane-embedded SecY/E protein. SecY/E has been isolated as a complex of three polypeptides, SecY, SecE, and band 1. We now present four lines of evidence that the active species of SecY/E is composed of a tightly associated complex of these three subunits: 1) antibodies to SecY efficiently precipitate SecY/E activity as well as all three polypeptides; 2) the proportions of SecY, SecE, and band 1 in the immunoprecipitates are the same as in the starting fraction; 3) the immunoprecipitable complex is not disrupted by treatment with either high salt or urea but is disrupted by brief incubation at 20 degrees C, and the kinetics of dissociation of both band 1 and SecE from SecY at 20 degrees C parallel the loss of translocation ATPase activity; 4) upon immunoprecipitation of similar units of activity of translocase from detergent solutions from either wild-type membranes or a SecY and SecE overproducer strain, the SecE and band 1 subunits are recovered in the same proportions. These data establish that the subunits of SecY/E are firmly associated and that it is the associated complex which is active for translocation. |
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| Keywords |
Adenosine Triphosphatases/chemistry; Amino Acid Sequence; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli Proteins; Membrane Proteins/chemistry; Membrane Transport Proteins; Molecular Sequence Data; Precipitin Tests |
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