Researchers visualize first-ever real-time bacterial protein translocation via the SecYEG-SecA complex (IMAGE)

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Researchers visualize first-ever real-time bacterial protein translocation via the SecYEG-SecA complex

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These images captured using high-speed atomic force microscopy, represent the snapshots of the protein substrate getting translocated through the SecYEG-SecA complex. The left image indicates the binding/translocating of the protein substrate to the SecYEG-SecA complex. The right image indicates the extension of the translocated protein substrate from the SecYEG-SecA complex.

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Tomoya Tsukazaki

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