期刊
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 434, 期 19, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167746
关键词
membrane transport; conformational dynamics; alternating access; LeuT; protein structure
资金
- National Institutes of Health [GM 128087]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [CRC 1423, 421152132, Z04]
Transporters belonging to the LeuT-fold class mediate the import and exchange of hydrophilic and charged compounds. Despite extensive research on LeuT, there is still a lack of detailed understanding of the transport mechanisms for this class of membrane proteins.
Found in all domains of life, transporters belonging to the LeuT-fold class mediate the import and exchange of hydrophilic and charged compounds such as amino acids, metals, and sugar molecules. Nearly two decades of investigations on the eponymous bacterial transporter LeuT have yielded a library of high-resolution snapshots of its conformational cycle linked by solution-state experimental data obtained from multiple techniques. In parallel, its topology has been observed in symporters and antipor-ters characterized by a spectrum of substrate specificities and coupled to gradients of distinct ions. Here we review and compare mechanistic models of transport for LeuT, its well-studied homologs, as well as functionally distant members of the fold, emphasizing the commonalities and divergences in alternating access and the corresponding energy landscapes. Our integrated summary illustrates how fold conserva-tion, a hallmark of the LeuT fold, coincides with divergent choreographies of alternating access that nev-ertheless capitalize on recurrent structural motifs. In addition, it highlights the knowledge gap that hinders the leveraging of the current body of research into detailed mechanisms of transport for this important class of membrane proteins.(c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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