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Protein Transport Across the Bacterial Plasma Membrane by the Sec Pathway by Smets, Dries, Loos, Maria S., Karamanou, Spyridoula, Economou, Anastassios

“…More than a third of all bacterial polypeptides, comprising the ‘exportome’, are transported to extracytoplasmic locations. Most of the exportome is targeted…”
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Signal Peptide-rheostat Dynamics Delay Secretory Preprotein Folding by Smets, Dries, Smit, Jochem, Xu, Ying, Karamanou, Spyridoula, Economou, Anastassios

“…[Display omitted] •Higher hydrophobicity drives partial helical structure formation in signal peptides.•Partially helical structured signal peptide elevate…”
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Evolutionary adaptation of the protein folding pathway for secretability by Smets, Dries, Tsirigotaki, Alexandra, Smit, Jochem H, Krishnamurthy, Srinath, Portaliou, Athina G, Vorobieva, Anastassia, Vranken, Wim, Karamanou, Spyridoula, Economou, Anastassios

“…Secretory preproteins of the Sec pathway are targeted post‐translationally and cross cellular membranes through translocases. During cytoplasmic transit,…”
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Inner Membrane Translocases and Insertases by De Geyter, Jozefien, Smets, Dries, Karamanou, Spyridoula, Economou, Anastassios

“…The inner membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is a ~6 nm thick phospholipid bilayer. It forms a semi-permeable barrier between the cytoplasm and periplasm…”
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