TY - GEN A1 - Lemaire, Olivier N. A1 - Infossi, Pascale A1 - Chaouche, Amine Ali A1 - Espinosa, Leon A1 - Leimkühler, Silke A1 - Giudici-Orticoni, Marie-Thérèse A1 - Méjean, Vincent A1 - Iobbi-Nivol, Chantal T1 - Small membranous proteins of the TorE/NapE family, crutches for cognate respiratory systems in Proteobacteria T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - In this report, we investigate small proteins involved in bacterial alternative respiratory systems that improve the enzymatic efficiency through better anchorage and multimerization of membrane components. Using the small protein TorE of the respiratory TMAO reductase system as a model, we discovered that TorE is part of a subfamily of small proteins that are present in proteobacteria in which they play a similar role for bacterial respiratory systems. We reveal by microscopy that, in Shewanella oneidensis MR1, alternative respiratory systems are evenly distributed in the membrane contrary to what has been described for Escherichia coli. Thus, the better efficiency of the respiratory systems observed in the presence of the small proteins is not due to a specific localization in the membrane, but rather to the formation of membranous complexes formed by TorE homologs with their c-type cytochrome partner protein. By an in vivo approach combining Clear Native electrophoresis and fluorescent translational fusions, we determined the 4: 4 stoichiometry of the complexes. In addition, mild solubilization of the cytochrome indicates that the presence of the small protein reinforces its anchoring to the membrane. Therefore, assembly of the complex induced by this small protein improves the efficiency of the respiratory system. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 933 KW - trimethylamine n-oxide KW - molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis KW - cytochrome bd oxidase KW - c-type cytochromes KW - escherichia-coli KW - swiss-model KW - native electrophoresis KW - mutational analysis KW - reductase KW - nitrate KW - microbiology KW - microbiology techniques Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-459208 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 933 ER -