期刊
FEBS LETTERS
卷 584, 期 9, 页码 1931-1939出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.10.063
关键词
Membrane protein; Mitochondrial carrier; Mitochondrial carrier disease; Mitochondrial carrier proline and glycine; Transporter structure; Transport mechanism
资金
- Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR)
- Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEGBA), Apulia Region Neurobiotech [PS 124]
- University of Bari
- Italian Human ProteomeNet [RBRN07BMCT_009 (MIUR)]
To date, 22 mitochondrial carrier subfamilies have been functionally identified based on substrate specificity. Structural, functional and bioinformatics studies have pointed to the existence in the mitochondrial carrier superfamily of a substrate-binding site in the internal carrier cavity, of two salt-bridge networks or gates that close the cavity alternatively on the matrix or the cytosolic side of the membrane, and of conserved prolines and glycines in the transmembrane alpha-helices. The significance of these properties in the structural changes occurring during the catalytic substrate translocation cycle are discussed within the context of a transport mechanism model. Most experimentally produced and disease-causing missense mutations concern carrier regions corresponding to the substrate-binding site, the two gates and the conserved prolines and glycines. (C) 2009 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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