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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 61, Issue 6, Pages 682-699Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-003-3336-9
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ABC transporter; ABC-ATPase; membrane transport; nucleotide-binding domain; ATP hydrolysis; mechanism; P-glycoprotein
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ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are multidomain integral membrane proteins that utilise the energy of ATP hydrolysis to translocate solutes across cellular membranes in all phyla. ABC transporters form one of the largest of all protein families and are central to many important biomedical phenomena, including resistance of cancers and pathogenic microbes to drugs. Elucidation of the structure and mechanism of ABC transporters is essential to the rational design of agents to control their function. While a wealth of high-resolution structures of ABC proteins have been produced in recent years, many fundamental questions regarding the protein's mechanism remain unanswered. In this review, we examine the recent structural data concerning ABC transporters and related proteins in the light of other experimental and theoretical data, and discuss these data in relation to current ideas concerning the transporters' molecular mechanism.
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