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On the path to uncover the bacterial type II secretion system.

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Gram-negative bacteria have evolved several secretory pathways to release enzymes or toxins into the surrounding environment or into the target cells. The type II secretion system (T2SS) is conserved in Gram-negative bacteria and involves a set of 12 to 16 different proteins. Components of the T2SS are located in both the inner and outer membranes where they assemble into a supramolecular complex spanning the bacterial envelope, also called the secreton. The T2SS substrates transiently go through the periplasm before they are translocated across the outer membrane and exposed to the extracellular milieu. The T2SS is unique in its ability to promote secretion of large and sometimes multimeric proteins that are folded in the periplasm. The present review describes recently identified protein-protein interactions together with structural and functional advances in the field that have contributed to improve our understanding on how the type II secretion apparatus assembles and on the role played by individual proteins of this highly sophisticated system.

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hal-01458255 , version 1 (06-02-2017)

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Badreddine Douzi, Alain Filloux, Romé Voulhoux. On the path to uncover the bacterial type II secretion system.. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci., 2012, 367 (1592), pp.1059--72. ⟨10.1098/rstb.2011.0204⟩. ⟨hal-01458255⟩
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