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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 11, Issue 7, Pages 780-789Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2146
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- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 DA000389-12] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDA NIH HHS [K05 DA022413, DA 22413, P01 DA12408, P01 DA012408] Funding Source: Medline
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Cocaine is a widely abused substance with psychostimulant effects that are attributed to inhibition of the dopamine transporter (DAT). We present molecular models for DAT binding of cocaine and cocaine analogs constructed from the high-resolution structure of the bacterial transporter homolog LeuT. Our models suggest that the binding site for cocaine and cocaine analogs is deeply buried between transmembrane segments 1, 3, 6 and 8, and overlaps with the binding sites for the substrates dopamine and amphetamine, as well as for benztropine-like DAT inhibitors. We validated our models by detailed mutagenesis and by trapping the radiolabeled cocaine analog [H-3] CFT in the transporter, either by cross-linking engineered cysteines or with an engineered Zn2+-binding site that was situated extracellularly to the predicted common binding pocket. Our data demonstrate the molecular basis for the competitive inhibition of dopamine transport by cocaine.
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