Publication Date:
2003-08-02
Description:
The major facilitator superfamily represents the largest group of secondary membrane transporters in the cell. Here we report the 3.3 angstrom resolution structure of a member of this superfamily, GlpT, which transports glycerol-3-phosphate into the cytoplasm and inorganic phosphate into the periplasm. The amino- and carboxyl-terminal halves of the protein exhibit a pseudo two-fold symmetry. Closed off to the periplasm, a centrally located substrate-translocation pore contains two arginines at its closed end, which comprise the substrate-binding site. Upon substrate binding, the protein adopts a more compact conformation. We propose that GlpT operates by a single-binding site, alternating-access mechanism through a rocker-switch type of movement.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Huang, Yafei -- Lemieux, M Joanne -- Song, Jinmei -- Auer, Manfred -- Wang, Da-Neng -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Aug 1;301(5633):616-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12893936" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Binding Sites
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Biological Transport
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Cell Membrane/chemistry
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Crystallization
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Escherichia coli/*chemistry/enzymology
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Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Glycerophosphates/*metabolism
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Helix-Turn-Helix Motifs
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Mass Spectrometry
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Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Periplasm/metabolism
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Phosphates/metabolism
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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