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The heat-shock protein DegP is essential for the survival of Escherichia coli cells at elevated temperatures.As a protease to degrade misfolded proteins in the periplasm,DegP is proposed to have chaperone activity as well.However,the mechanisms regulating this dual-function are poorly understood.Here we show that OmpC can be directly transported froln Skp to DegP and DegP can not degrade such kinds of OmpC (Figure A).