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To better understand the role of autotransporters in disease, our research focused on the autotransporters of <jats:italic>Yersinia pestis<\/jats:italic>, the aetiological agent of plague. <jats:italic>Y. pestis<\/jats:italic> strain CO92 has nine functional conventional autotransporters, referred to as Yaps for <jats:italic>\n                     <jats:underline>Y<\/jats:underline>ersinia<\/jats:italic> \n                  <jats:underline>a<\/jats:underline>utotransporter <jats:underline>p<\/jats:underline>roteins. Three Yaps have been directly implicated in virulence using established mouse models of plague infection (YapE, YapJ and YapK). Whilst previous studies from our laboratory have shown that most of the CO92 Yaps are cell associated, YapE and YapG are processed and released by the omptin protease Pla. In this study, we identified the Pla cleavage sites in YapG that result in many released forms of YapG in <jats:italic>Y. pestis<\/jats:italic>, but not in the evolutionarily related gastrointestinal pathogen, <jats:italic>Yersinia pseudotuberculosis<\/jats:italic>, which lacks Pla. Furthermore, we showed that YapG does not contribute to <jats:italic>Y. pestis<\/jats:italic> virulence in established mouse models of bubonic and pneumonic infection. 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