Participates in the translocation of lipoproteins from the inner mbrane to the outer mbrane. Only forms a complex with a lipoprotein if the residue after the N-terminal Cys is not an aspartate (The Asp acts as a targeting signal to indicate that the lipoprotein should stay in the inner mbrane).
The pangenome structure of Escherichia coli comparative genomic analysis of E. coli commensal and pathogenic isolates.Rasko D.A., Rosovitz M.J., Myers G.S.A., Mongodin E.F., Fricke W.F., Gajer P., Crabtree J., Sebaihia M., Thomson N.R., Chaudhuri R., Henderson I.R., Sperandio V., Ravel J.J. Bacteriol. 190:6881-6893(2008)
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