Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2016 Feb 22. doi: 10.1038/nsmb.3181.
Structure of the BAM complex and its implications for biogenesis of outer-membrane proteins.
Han L1,2, Zheng J1, Wang Y1, Yang X1, Liu Y1,2, Sun C1,2, Cao B1, Zhou H1, Ni D1, Lou J3, Zhao Y1, Huang Y1.
Abstract
In Gram-negative bacteria, the assembly of β-barrel outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) requires the β-barrel-assembly machinery (BAM) complex. We determined the crystal structure of the 200-kDa BAM complex from Escherichia coli at 3.55-angstrom resolution. The structure revealed that the BAM complex assembles into a hat-like shape, in which the BamA β-barrel domain forms the hat's crown embedded in the outer membrane, and its five polypeptide transport-associated (POTRA) domains interact with the four lipoproteins BamB, BamC, BamD and BamE, thus forming the hat's brim in the periplasm. The assembly of the BAM complex creates a ring-like apparatus beneath the BamA β-barrel in the periplasm and a potential substrate-exit pore located at the outer membrane-periplasm interface. The complex structure suggests that the chaperone-bound OMP substrates may feed into the chamber of the ring-like apparatus and insert into the outer membrane via the potential substrate-exit pore in an energy-independent manner.
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