InterPro domain: IPR007452

General Information

  • Identifier IPR007452
  • Description Translocation and assembly module TamB
  • Number of genes 117
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  • Associated GO terms GO:0005887   GO:0009306  

Abstract

TamB is an integral inner membrane protein that forms a complex, the translocation and assembly module or TAM [ 1 ], with the outer membrane protein, TamA. TAM is responsible for the efficient secretion of the adhesin protein Ag43 in E.coli K-12 [ 2 ].


1. Recombinant expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the C-terminal DUF490(963-1138) domain of TamB from Escherichia coli. Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun 70, 1272-5
2. Discovery of an archetypal protein transport system in bacterial outer membranes. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 19, 506-10, S1

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