Disulfide bond formation protein B

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 (P0A6M2) and other bacteria. In Bacillus subtilis it is known as BdbC (O32217).

Disulfide bond formation protein B (red), complex with DsbA (blue)
Identifiers
Symbol	DsbB
Pfam	PF02600
InterPro	IPR003752
TCDB	5.A.2
OPM superfamily	173
OPM protein	2hi7
Available protein structures: Pfam   structures / ECOD   PDB RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj PDBsum structure summary

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]

See also

• Disulfide bond formation protein A
• Disulfide bond formation protein C