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Secretion by numbers: protein traffic in prokaryotes
Author(s) -
Economou Anastasias,
Christie Peter J.,
Fernandez Rachel C.,
Palmer Tracy,
Plano Greg V.,
Pugsley Anthony P.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
molecular microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 247
eISSN - 1365-2958
pISSN - 0950-382X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05377.x
Subject(s) - biology , secretion , computational biology , secretory protein , genetics , biochemistry
Summary Almost all aspects of protein traffic in bacteria were covered at the ASM‐FEMS meeting on the topic in Iraklio, Crete in May 2006. The studies presented ranged from mechanistic analysis of specific events leading proteins to their final destinations to the physiological roles of the targeted proteins. Among the highlights from the meeting that are reviewed here are the molecular dynamics of SecA protein, membrane protein insertion, type III secretion needles and chaperones, type IV secretion, the two partner and autosecretion systems, the ‘secretion competent state’, and the recently discovered type VI secretion system.