Direct interaction of a chaperone-bound type III secretion substrate with the export gate

Recruitment of substrates to virulent bacterial type III secretion systems remains enigmatic. Here, a crystal structure reveals two binding sites between a secretion substrate in complex with its chaperone and the cytosolic domain of the export gate.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dominic Gilzer, Madeleine Schreiner, Hartmut H. Niemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30487-1