Structures and general transport mechanisms by the major facilitator superfamily (MFS)

D Drew, RA North, K Nagarathinam… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) is the largest known superfamily of secondary active
transporters. MFS transporters are responsible for transporting a broad spectrum of …

Advances in hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and the pursuit of challenging biological systems

EI James, TA Murphree, C Vorauer, JR Engen… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Solution-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) is
a widespread tool for structural analysis across academia and the biopharmaceutical …

Integration of mass spectrometry data for structural biology

HM Britt, T Cragnolini, K Thalassinos - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry (MS) is increasingly being used to probe the structure and dynamics of
proteins and the complexes they form with other macromolecules. There are now several …

Reconstructing the transport cycle in the sugar porter superfamily using coevolution-powered machine learning

D Mitrovic, SE McComas, C Alleva, M Bonaccorsi… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Sugar porters (SPs) represent the largest group of secondary-active transporters. Some
members, such as the glucose transporters (GLUTs), are well known for their role in …

Hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry: fundamentals, limitations, and opportunities

L Konermann, PM Scrosati - Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2024 - mcponline.org
Hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) probes dynamic motions of
proteins by monitoring the kinetics of backbone amide deuteration. Dynamic regions exhibit …

Dynamic interplay between the periplasmic chaperone SurA and the BAM complex in outer membrane protein folding

B Schiffrin, JM Machin, TK Karamanos… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Correct folding of outer membrane proteins (OMPs) into the outer membrane of Gram-
negative bacteria depends on delivery of unfolded OMPs to the β-barrel assembly …

Integrating Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange–Mass Spectrometry with Molecular Simulations Enables Quantification of the Conformational Populations of the Sugar …

R Jia, RT Bradshaw, V Calvaresi… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A yet unresolved challenge in structural biology is to quantify the conformational states of
proteins underpinning function. This challenge is particularly acute for membrane proteins …

Mobile barrier mechanisms for Na+-coupled symport in an MFS sugar transporter

P Hariharan, Y Shi, S Katsube, K Willibal, ND Burrows… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
While many 3D structures of cation-coupled transporters have been determined, the
mechanistic details governing the obligatory coupling and functional regulations still remain …

The transporter-mediated cellular uptake and efflux of pharmaceutical drugs and biotechnology products: how and why phospholipid bilayer transport is negligible in …

DB Kell - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the years, my colleagues and I have come to realise that the likelihood of
pharmaceutical drugs being able to diffuse through whatever unhindered phospholipid …

Molecular mechanism of sugar transport in plants unveiled by structures of glucose/H+ symporter STP10

L Bavnhøj, PA Paulsen, JC Flores-Canales, B Schiøtt… - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Sugars are essential sources of energy and carbon and also function as key signalling
molecules in plants. Sugar transport proteins (STP) are proton-coupled symporters …