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| Title | In-cell discovery and characterization of a non-canonical bacterial protein translocation-folding complex. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | Cell, Year 2026 |
| Publish date | Sep 25, 2026 |
Authors | Rasmus K Jensen / Liang Xue / Federico Marotta / Joseph C Somody / Joel Selkrig / Swantje Lenz / Juri Rappsilber / Mikhail M Savitski / Jan Kosinski / Athanasios Typas / Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva / Peer Bork / Julia Mahamid / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | Cryo-electron tomography has emerged as a powerful technology for in-cell structural biology and, in combination with breakthroughs in protein structure prediction, offers a unique opportunity for ...Cryo-electron tomography has emerged as a powerful technology for in-cell structural biology and, in combination with breakthroughs in protein structure prediction, offers a unique opportunity for illuminating functions of previously uncharacterized macromolecular complexes. Here, we used the genome-reduced bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a minimal cell model and determined in-cell maps of an unknown complex located at the cell surface. By combining proteomics, structure prediction, integrative modeling, and bioinformatics, we identified the complex to include the conserved Sec-translocon and an extracellular dome-like structure largely formed by three uncharacterized proteins (Mdps). The Mdps show structural homology to the periplasmic ATP-independent foldase PrsA, with Mdp444 retaining key catalytic residues and activity. Our study provides the first sub-nanometer-resolution maps of the complete bacterial Sec-translocation machinery, depicting its association in SecA-mediated co-translational translocation and its coordination with an extracellular protein-folding system. |
External links | Cell / PubMed:42790421 |
| Methods | EM (subtomogram averaging) |
| Resolution | 8.2 - 29.0 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-54986, PDB-9slc: EMDB-54988, PDB-9slf: ![]() EMDB-54989: Open conformation dome complex including the Sec-translocon (SecYEG-SecA-SecDF) with inward-facing SecDF from untreated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells ![]() EMDB-54990: Open conformation dome complex including the Sec-translocon (SecYEG-SecA-SecDF) with inward-facing SecDF and substrate from untreated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells ![]() EMDB-54991: Closed conformation dome complex including the Sec-translocon in the minor SecA conformation (SecYEG-SecA-SecDF) in untreated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells ![]() EMDB-54992: Open conformation dome complex including the Sec-translocon (SecYEG-SecDF) from untreated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells ![]() EMDB-54993: Open conformation dome complex including the Sec-translocon (SecYEG-SecA-SecDF) from untreated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cell ![]() EMDB-55013: Multibody refinement of pooled Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplexes from four antibiotic treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae datasets, body 3/3 ![]() EMDB-55014: Multibody refinement of pooled Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplexes from four antibiotic treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae datasets, body 2/3 ![]() EMDB-55016: Multibody refinement of pooled Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplexes from four antibiotic treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae datasets, body 1/3 ![]() EMDB-55018: Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplex in chloramphenicol treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells imaged on K3 camera ![]() EMDB-55020: Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplex in spectinomycin treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells ![]() EMDB-55021: Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplex in puseudoridimycin treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells ![]() EMDB-55022: Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplex in chloramphenicol treated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells by K2 camera ![]() EMDB-55023: Ribosome-Sec translocon-Dome supercomplex in native untreated Mycoplasma pneumoniae cells EMDB-55029, PDB-9smd: |
| Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-ZN: ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-PUT: ![]() ChemComp-K: ![]() ChemComp-HOH: |
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Keywords | TRANSLOCASE / in-cell cryo-ET / Protein Folding / cell surface / Translocation / Sec-machinery / TRANSLATION / Ribosome / Chaperone / Antibiotics |
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