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 …

Synthetic biology: bottom-up assembly of molecular systems

S Hirschi, TR Ward, WP Meier, DJ Müller… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

Combining native and 'omics' mass spectrometry to identify endogenous ligands bound to membrane proteins

J Gault, I Liko, M Landreh, D Shutin, JR Bolla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Ligands bound to protein assemblies provide critical information for function, yet are often
difficult to capture and define. Here we develop a top-down method,'nativeomics', unifying …

Emergence of mass spectrometry detergents for membrane proteomics

JS Behnke, LH Urner - Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Detergents enable the investigation of membrane proteins by mass spectrometry. Detergent
designers aim to improve underlying methodologies and are confronted with the challenge …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and electromechanical coupling of a voltage-gated Na+/H+ exchanger

H Yeo, V Mehta, A Gulati, D Drew - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Voltage-sensing domains control the activation of voltage-gated ion channels, with a few
exceptions. One such exception is the sperm-specific Na+/H+ exchanger SLC9C1, 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 …

Structure, mechanism and lipid-mediated remodeling of the mammalian Na+/H+ exchanger NHA2

R Matsuoka, R Fudim, S Jung, C Zhang… - Nature Structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Na+/H+ exchanger SLC9B2, also known as NHA2, correlates with the long-
sought-after Na+/Li+ exchanger linked to the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus and …

High-throughput stability screening for detergent-solubilized membrane proteins

V Kotov, K Bartels, K Veith, I Josts… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Protein stability in detergent or membrane-like environments is the bottleneck for structural
studies on integral membrane proteins (IMP). Irrespective of the method to study the …

Rationalizing the optimization of detergents for membrane protein purification

LH Urner, F Junge, F Fiorentino… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Membrane protein purification by means of detergents is key to isolating membrane‐bound
therapeutic targets. The role of the detergent structure in this process, however, is not well …

Structure and elevator mechanism of the mammalian sodium/proton exchanger NHE9

I Winkelmann, R Matsuoka, PF Meier, D Shutin… - The EMBO …, 2020 - embopress.org
Abstract Na+/H+ exchangers (NHEs) are ancient membrane‐bound nanomachines that
work to regulate intracellular pH, sodium levels and cell volume. NHE activities contribute to …