Part of the outer membrane protein assembly complex, which is involved in assembly and insertion of beta-barrel proteins into the outer membrane. Constitutes, with BamD, the core component of the assembly machinery.
"Complete genome sequence of the N2-fixing broad host range endophyte Klebsiella pneumoniae 342 and virulence predictions verified in mice."Fouts D.E., Tyler H.L., DeBoy R.T., Daugherty S., Ren Q., Badger J.H., Durkin A.S., Huot H., Shrivastava S., Kothari S., Dodson R.J., Mohamoud Y., Khouri H., Roesch L.F.W., Krogfelt K.A., Struve C., Triplett E.W., Methe B.A.PLoS Genet. 4:E1000141-E1000141(2008)
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