On the perturbation nature of allostery: sites, mutations, and signal modulation

E Guarnera, IN Berezovsky - Current opinion in structural biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Regardless of the diversity of systems, allosteic signalling is found to be always caused by
perturbations. This recurring trait of allostery serves as a foundation for developing different …

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 …

The allosteric mechanism leading to an open-groove lipid conductive state of the TMEM16F scramblase

G Khelashvili, E Kots, X Cheng, MV Levine… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
TMEM16F is a Ca2+-activated phospholipid scramblase in the TMEM16 family of membrane
proteins. Unlike other TMEM16s exhibiting a membrane-exposed hydrophilic groove that …

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 …

Exploring the allosteric territory of protein function

WV Tee, ZW Tan, K Lee, E Guarnera… - The journal of physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
While the pervasiveness of allostery in proteins is commonly accepted, we further show the
generic nature of allosteric mechanisms by analyzing here transmembrane ion-channel …

Investigating the mechanism of sodium binding to SERT using direct simulations

D Szöllősi, T Stockner - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The serotonin transporter (SERT) terminates neurotransmission by transporting serotonin
from the synapse into the pre-synaptic nerve terminal. Altered SERT function leads to …

Computational dissection of membrane transport at a microscopic level

T Jiang, PC Wen, N Trebesch, Z Zhao, S Pant… - Trends in biochemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Membrane transporters are key gatekeeper proteins at cellular membranes that closely
control the traffic of materials. Their function relies on structural rearrangements of varying …

How structural elements evolving from bacterial to human SLC6 transporters enabled new functional properties

AM Razavi, G Khelashvili, H Weinstein - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Much of the structure-based mechanistic understandings of the function of
SLC6A neurotransmitter transporters emerged from the study of their bacterial LeuT-fold …

A structural model of the human serotonin transporter in an outward-occluded state

E Hellsberg, GF Ecker, A Stary-Weinzinger… - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The human serotonin transporter hSERT facilitates the reuptake of its endogenous substrate
serotonin from the synaptic cleft into presynaptic neurons after signaling. Reuptake …

The allosteric mechanism of substrate-specific transport in SLC6 is mediated by a volumetric sensor

MV LeVine, DS Terry, G Khelashvili… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Neurotransmitter: sodium symporters (NSSs) in the SLC6 family terminate
neurotransmission by coupling the thermodynamically favorable transport of ions to the …