Understanding transport by the major facilitator superfamily (MFS): structures pave the way

EM Quistgaard, C Löw, F Guettou… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
Members of the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) of transport proteins are essential for the
movement of a wide range of substrates across biomembranes. As this transport requires a …

Structural biology of the major facilitator superfamily transporters

N Yan - Annual review of biophysics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The ancient and ubiquitous major facilitator superfamily (MFS) represents the largest
secondary transporter family and plays a crucial role in a multitude of physiological …

GLUT, SGLT, and SWEET: Structural and mechanistic investigations of the glucose transporters

D Deng, N Yan - Protein Science, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Glucose is the primary fuel to life on earth. Cellular uptake of glucose is a fundamental
process for metabolism, growth, and homeostasis. Three families of secondary glucose …

Major facilitator superfamily

SS Pao, IT Paulsen, MH Saier Jr - Microbiology and molecular …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is one of the two largest families of membrane
transporters found on Earth. It is present ubiquitously in bacteria, archaea, and eukarya and …

Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of glucose transporters GLUT1–4

L Sun, X Zeng, C Yan, X Sun, X Gong, Y Rao, N Yan - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Glucose transporters are essential for metabolism of glucose in cells of diverse organisms
from microbes to humans, exemplified by the disease-related human proteins GLUT1, 2, 3 …

Structural advances for the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) transporters

N Yan - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2013 - cell.com
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is one of the largest groups of secondary active
transporters conserved from bacteria to humans. MFS proteins selectively transport a wide …

Proton-dependent multidrug efflux systems

IT Paulsen, MH Brown, RA Skurray - Microbiological reviews, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
Multidrug efflux systems display the ability to transport a variety of structurally unrelated
drugs from a cell and consequently are capable of conferring resistance to a diverse range …

A major superfamily of transmembrane facilitators that catalyse uniport, symport and antiport

MD Marger, MH Saier Jr - Trends in biochemical sciences, 1993 - Elsevier
Many transport proteins of bacteria and eukaryotes are thought to possess a common
structural motif of 12 transmembrane-spanning α-helical segments. In this report we use …

Engineering of yeast hexose transporters to transport d-xylose without inhibition by d-glucose

A Farwick, S Bruder, V Schadeweg… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
All known d-xylose transporters are competitively inhibited by d-glucose, which is one of the
major reasons hampering simultaneous fermentation of d-glucose and d-xylose, two primary …

Mechanism of inhibition of human glucose transporter GLUT1 is conserved between cytochalasin B and phenylalanine amides

K Kapoor, JS Finer-Moore… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Cancerous cells have an acutely increased demand for energy, leading to increased levels
of human glucose transporter 1 (hGLUT1). This up-regulation suggests hGLUT1 as a target …