Fig. 1.
The export apparatus is intimately associated with the NC. (A) Export apparatus components cofractionate with the NC. Protein complexes of purified S. Typhimurium inner membrane fractions were solubilized with n-dodecyl-β-d-maltopyranoside (DDM) and separated by 2D BN-PAGE. Indicated proteins were identified by LC-MS/MS or Western blotting. (B) The export apparatus interacts with the needle complex. DDM-solubilized inner membrane fraction proteins interacting with C-terminally FLAG-tagged InvA or SpaSN258A were immunoprecipitated, separated by BN-PAGE, and identified by LC-MS/MS.