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Antibiotic Dereplication Using the Antibiotic Resistance Platform
Published on: October 17, 2019
Derlins with scissors: primordial ERAD in bacteria
Julia D Knopf1, Marius K Lemberg1
1Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract:
Rhomboid intramembrane serine proteases are present in all kingdoms of life, but as we do not know their substrates in many species, it remains puzzling why rhomboids are among the most-conserved integral membrane proteins. Two new studies in The EMBO Journal by Began et al and Liu et al now link bacterial rhomboid proteases to membrane protein degradation, showing striking similarities to what is known about eukaryotic rhomboid family proteins, thus pointing toward a conserved membrane surveillance mechanism.
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