Structures and general transport mechanisms by the major facilitator superfamily (MFS)

D Drew, RA North, K Nagarathinam… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is the largest known superfamily of secondary active
transporters. MFS transporters are responsible for transporting a broad spectrum of …

MalDA, accelerating malaria drug discovery

T Yang, S Ottilie, ES Istvan, KP Godinez-Macias… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
The Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) is a consortium of 15 leading scientific laboratories.
The aim of MalDA is to improve and accelerate the early antimalarial drug discovery process …

Cryo-EM structure of human glucose transporter GLUT4

Y Yuan, F Kong, H Xu, A Zhu, N Yan, C Yan - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
GLUT4 is the primary glucose transporter in adipose and skeletal muscle tissues. Its cellular
trafficking is regulated by insulin signaling. Failed or reduced plasma membrane localization …

Molecular basis for substrate recognition and transport of human GABA transporter GAT1

A Zhu, J Huang, F Kong, J Tan, J Lei, Y Yuan… - Nature Structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA), an important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central
nervous system, is recycled through specific GABA transporters (GATs). GAT1, which is …

Establishing mammalian GLUT kinetics and lipid composition influences in a reconstituted-liposome system

A Suades, A Qureshi, SE McComas, M Coinçon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glucose transporters (GLUTs) are essential for organism-wide glucose homeostasis in
mammals, and their dysfunction is associated with numerous diseases, such as diabetes …

Highlighting membrane protein structure and function: A celebration of the Protein Data Bank

F Li, PF Egea, AJ Vecchio, I Asial, M Gupta… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Biological membranes define the boundaries of cells and compartmentalize the chemical
and physical processes required for life. Many biological processes are carried out by …

Molecular basis for inhibiting human glucose transporters by exofacial inhibitors

N Wang, S Zhang, Y Yuan, H Xu, E Defossa… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human glucose transporters (GLUTs) are responsible for cellular uptake of hexoses.
Elevated expression of GLUTs, particularly GLUT1 and GLUT3, is required to fuel the …

Reconstructing the transport cycle in the sugar porter superfamily using coevolution-powered machine learning

D Mitrovic, SE McComas, C Alleva, M Bonaccorsi… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Sugar porters (SPs) represent the largest group of secondary-active transporters. Some
members, such as the glucose transporters (GLUTs), are well known for their role in …

Trends of antimalarial marine natural products: Progresses, challenges and opportunities

Y Hai, ZM Cai, PJ Li, MY Wei, CY Wang, YC Gu… - Natural Product …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering 1972 to 2021 Malaria remains a significant public health problem in some regions
of the world. The great efforts to control malaria have been severely compromised due to the …

Advances in malaria pharmacology and the online guide to MALARIA PHARMACOLOGY: IUPHAR review 38

JF Armstrong, B Campo, SPH Alexander… - British Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimalarial drug discovery has until recently been driven by high‐throughput phenotypic
cellular screening, allowing millions of compounds to be assayed and delivering clinical …