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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The major facilitator superfamily represents the largest group of secondary membrane transporters in the cell. Here we report the 3.3 angstrom resolution structure of a member of this superfamily, GlpT, which transports glycerol-3-phosphate into the cytoplasm and inorganic phosphate into the periplasm. The amino- and carboxyl-terminal halves of the protein exhibit a pseudo two-fold symmetry. Closed off to the periplasm, a centrally located substrate-translocation pore contains two arginines at its closed end, which comprise the substrate-binding site. Upon substrate binding, the protein adopts a more compact conformation. We propose that GlpT operates by a single-binding site, alternating-access mechanism through a rocker-switch type of movement.

Structure and mechanism of the glycerol-3-phosphate transporter from Escherichia coli.,Huang Y, Lemieux MJ, Song J, Auer M, Wang DN Science. 2003 Aug 1;301(5633):616-20. PMID:12893936^[1]

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