Heteromeric solute carriers: function, structure, pathology and pharmacology

SJ Fairweather, N Shah, S Brӧer - Protein Reviews: Volume 21, 2021 - Springer
Solute carriers form one of three major superfamilies of membrane transporters in humans,
and include uniporters, exchangers and symporters. Following several decades of …

Structural insights into the inhibition of glycine reuptake

A Shahsavar, P Stohler, G Bourenkov, I Zimmermann… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The human glycine transporter 1 (GlyT1) regulates glycine-mediated neuronal excitation
and inhibition through the sodium-and chloride-dependent reuptake of glycine,–. Inhibition …

Single‐Molecule FRET of Membrane Transport Proteins

K Bartels, T Lasitza‐Male, H Hofmann, C Löw - ChemBioChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Uncovering the structure and function of biomolecules is a fundamental goal in structural
biology. Membrane‐embedded transport proteins are ubiquitous in all kingdoms of life …

Structural insights into GABA transport inhibition using an engineered neurotransmitter transporter

D Joseph, SR Nayak, A Penmatsa - The EMBO Journal, 2022 - embopress.org
Abstract γ‐aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory neurotransmitter, and its levels in
the synaptic space are controlled by the GABA transporter isoforms (GATs). GATs are …

Multi-state model-based identification of cryptic allosteric sites on human serotonin transporter

G Tu, B Xu, D Luo, J Liu, Z Liu, G Chen… - ACS Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Serotonin transporter (SERT) plays a fundamental role in taking the synaptic cleft serotonin
back to the presynaptic neuron. The discovery of allosteric SERT modulators represents the …

X-ray structure of LeuT in an inward-facing occluded conformation reveals mechanism of substrate release

K Gotfryd, T Boesen, JS Mortensen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Neurotransmitter: sodium symporters (NSS) are conserved from bacteria to man and serve
as targets for drugs, including antidepressants and psychostimulants. Here we report the X …

Flux coupling, not specificity, shapes the transport and phylogeny of SLC6 glycine transporters

B Le Guellec, F Rousseau, M Bied… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
ATB 0,+(SLC6A14) is a member of the amino acid transporter branch of the SLC6 family
along with GlyT1 (SLC6A9) and GlyT2 (SLC6A5), two glycine-specific transporters coupled …

Quantitative comparison between sub-millisecond time resolution single-molecule FRET measurements and 10-second molecular simulations of a biosensor protein

D Girodat, AK Pati, DS Terry… - PLOS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations seek to provide atomic-level insights into
conformationally dynamic biological systems at experimentally relevant time resolutions …

General principles of secondary active transporter function

O Beckstein, F Naughton - Biophysics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Transport of ions and small molecules across the cell membrane against electrochemical
gradients is catalyzed by integral membrane proteins that use a source of free energy to …

A non‐helical region in transmembrane helix 6 of hydrophobic amino acid transporter MhsT mediates substrate recognition

D Focht, C Neumann, J Lyons… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
MhsT of Bacillus halodurans is a transporter of hydrophobic amino acids and a homologue
of the eukaryotic SLC6 family of Na+‐dependent symporters for amino acids …