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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 50, Issue 17, Pages 3512-3516Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi1017446
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- NIH [1F32 AI077280, SR01 AI022021]
- NERCE [A1057159]
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Electrophysiological studies of wild-type and mutated forms of anthrax protective antigen (PA) suggest that the Phe clamp, a structure formed by the Phe427 residues within the lumen of the oligomeric PA pore, binds the unstructured N-terminus of the lethal factor and the edema factor during initiation of translocation. We now show by electrophysiological measurements and gel shift assays that a single Cys introduced into the Phe clamp can form a disulfide bond with a Cys placed at the N-terminus of the isolated N-terminal domain of LF. These results demonstrate direct contact of these Cys residues, supporting a model in which the interaction of the unstructured N-terminus of the translocated moieties with the Phe clamp initiates N- to C-terminal threading of these moieties through the pore.
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