Publication Date:
2016-05-05
Description:
ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters play critical roles in maintaining sterol balance in higher eukaryotes. The ABCG5/ABCG8 heterodimer (G5G8) mediates excretion of neutral sterols in liver and intestines. Mutations disrupting G5G8 cause sitosterolaemia, a disorder characterized by sterol accumulation and premature atherosclerosis. Here we use crystallization in lipid bilayers to determine the X-ray structure of human G5G8 in a nucleotide-free state at 3.9 A resolution, generating the first atomic model of an ABC sterol transporter. The structure reveals a new transmembrane fold that is present in a large and functionally diverse superfamily of ABC transporters. The transmembrane domains are coupled to the nucleotide-binding sites by networks of interactions that differ between the active and inactive ATPases, reflecting the catalytic asymmetry of the transporter. The G5G8 structure provides a mechanistic framework for understanding sterol transport and the disruptive effects of mutations causing sitosterolaemia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, Jyh-Yeuan -- Kinch, Lisa N -- Borek, Dominika M -- Wang, Jin -- Wang, Junmei -- Urbatsch, Ina L -- Xie, Xiao-Song -- Grishin, Nikolai V -- Cohen, Jonathan C -- Otwinowski, Zbyszek -- Hobbs, Helen H -- Rosenbaum, Daniel M -- GM053163/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM094575/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM113050/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM117080/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HL72304/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- P01-HL20948/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2016 May 4;533(7604):561-4. doi: 10.1038/nature17666.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. ; Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. ; Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. ; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. ; Cecil &Ida Green Center for Molecular, Computational and Systems Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA. ; Department of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas 79430, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27144356" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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