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Check out these amazing lipid-monolayer-trapping oligomeric OMPs published by @lalouxlab.bsky.social and Lovering Labs. The BAM complex in these bugs must be wild! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A porin-like protein used by bacterial predators defines a wider lipid-trapping superfamily - Nature CommunicationsThis study reveals that an outer membrane protein from the predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus forms a pentameric assembly that traps a lipid monolayer within. This allows the discovery of two superfa...www.nature.com