Disulfide bond formation protein B

Disulfide bond formation protein B
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Disulfide bond formation protein B (red), complex with DsbA (blue)
Identifiers
Symbol DsbB
Pfam PF02600
InterPro IPR003752
TCDB 5.A.2
OPM family 194
OPM protein 2hi7

Disulfide bond formation protein B (DsbB) is a protein component of the pathway that leads to disulfide bond formation in periplasmic proteins of Escherichia coli and other bacteria.

The DsbB protein oxidizes the periplasmic protein DsbA which in turn oxidizes cysteines in other periplasmic proteins in order to make disulfide bonds[1]. DsbB acts as a redox potential transducer across the cytoplasmic membrane. It is a membrane protein which spans the membrane four times with both the N- and C-termini of the protein are in the cytoplasm. Each of the periplasmic domains of the protein has two essential cysteines. The two cysteines in the first periplasmic domain are in a Cys-X-Y-Cys configuration that is characteristic of the active site of other proteins involved in disulfide bond formation, including DsbA and protein disulfide isomerase[2].

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This article includes text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro IPR003752