The OmpA family of proteins: roles in bacterial pathogenesis and immunity

AW Confer, S Ayalew - Veterinary microbiology, 2013 - Elsevier
The OmpA family of outer membrane proteins is a group of genetically related, heat-
modifiable, surface-exposed, porin proteins that are in high-copy number in the outer …

Bacterial chemolithoautotrophy via manganese oxidation

H Yu, JR Leadbetter - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Manganese is one of the most abundant elements on Earth. The oxidation of manganese
has long been theorized—yet has not been demonstrated,–—to fuel the growth of …

Membrane protein structure: prediction versus reality

A Elofsson, G Heijne - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Since high-resolution structural data are still scarce, different kinds of theoretical structure
prediction algorithms are of major importance in membrane protein biochemistry. But how …

Transmembrane protein topology prediction using support vector machines

T Nugent, DT Jones - BMC bioinformatics, 2009 - Springer
Background Alpha-helical transmembrane (TM) proteins are involved in a wide range of
important biological processes such as cell signaling, transport of membrane-impermeable …

Porphyromonas gingivalis Outer Membrane Vesicles Exclusively Contain Outer Membrane and Periplasmic Proteins and Carry a Cargo Enriched with Virulence …

PD Veith, YY Chen, DG Gorasia, D Chen… - Journal of proteome …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Porphyromonas gingivalis, a keystone pathogen associated with chronic periodontitis,
produces outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) that carry a cargo of virulence factors. In this …

Dual role of humic substances as electron donor and shuttle for dissimilatory iron reduction

N Stern, J Mejia, S He, Y Yang… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
Dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria (DIRB) are known to use humic substances (HS) as
electron shuttles for dissimilatory iron reduction (DIR) by transferring electrons to HS …

A trans‐outer membrane porin‐cytochrome protein complex for extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA

Y Liu, Z Wang, J Liu, C Levar… - Environmental …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The multi‐heme, outer membrane c‐type cytochrome (c‐C yt) OmcB of G eobacter
sulfurreducens was previously proposed to mediate electron transfer across the outer …

Physiological potential and evolutionary trajectories of syntrophic sulfate-reducing bacterial partners of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

R Murali, H Yu, DR Speth, F Wu, KS Metcalfe… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Sulfate-coupled anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is performed by multicellular
consortia of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) in obligate syntrophic partnership …

Comparative genomic analysis of neutrophilic iron (II) oxidizer genomes for candidate genes in extracellular electron transfer

S He, RA Barco, D Emerson, EE Roden - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is recognized as a key biochemical process in
circumneutral pH Fe (II)-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB). In this study, we searched for candidate …

The complex that inserts lipopolysaccharide into the bacterial outer membrane forms a two-protein plug-and-barrel

E Freinkman, SS Chng… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The cell surfaces of Gram-negative bacteria are composed of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). This
glycolipid is found exclusively in the outer leaflet of the asymmetric outer membrane (OM) …