ABC Transporters in Bacterial Nanomachineries.

Int J Mol Sci

Institute of Biochemistry, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.

Published: March 2023

Members of the superfamily of ABC transporters are found in all domains of life. Most of these primary active transporters act as isolated entities and export or import their substrates in an ATP-dependent manner across biological membranes. However, some ABC transporters are also part of larger protein complexes, so-called nanomachineries that catalyze the vectorial transport of their substrates. Here, we will focus on four bacterial examples of such nanomachineries: the Mac system providing drug resistance, the Lpt system catalyzing vectorial LPS transport, the Mla system responsible for phospholipid transport, and the Lol system, which is required for lipoprotein transport to the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. For all four systems, we tried to summarize the existing data and provide a structure-function analysis highlighting the mechanistical aspect of the coupling of ATP hydrolysis to substrate translocation.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10094684PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24076227DOI Listing

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