Inner membrane protein OutB is covalently attached to peptidoglycan in the γ-proteobacterium Dickeya dadantii
Xavier Nicolai, Yucheng Liang, Florence Ruaudel, Magdalena Narajczyk, Robert Czajkowski, Filippo Rusconi, Michel Arthur, Vladimir E. Shevchik
The paper identifies OutB, an inner membrane protein in Dickeya dadantii, as covalently attached to peptidoglycan, similar to Braun lipoprotein, and shows that Ldt03 and Ldt84 enzymes mediate this attachment through amide bond formation.
Communications Biology · Jul 18, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology