@article{168151, keywords = {Models, Molecular, Protein Conformation, Crystallography, X-Ray, Humans, Biological Transport, Escherichia coli, Structure-Activity Relationship, Substrate Specificity, Escherichia coli Proteins, Glucose, Structural Homology, Protein, Hydrogen Bonding, Symporters, xylose, Glucose Transporter Type 1, Glucose Transport Proteins, Facilitative, Deoxyglucose}, author = {Linfeng Sun and Xin Zeng and Chuangye Yan and Xiuyun Sun and Xinqi Gong and Yu Rao and Nieng Yan}, title = {Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of glucose transporters GLUT1-4}, abstract = {
Glucose transporters are essential for metabolism of glucose in cells of diverse organisms from microbes to humans, exemplified by the disease-related human proteins GLUT1, 2, 3 and 4. Despite rigorous efforts, the structural information for GLUT1-4 or their homologues remains largely unknown. Here we report three related crystal structures of XylE, an Escherichia coli homologue of GLUT1-4, in complex with d-xylose, d-glucose and 6-bromo-6-deoxy-D-glucose, at resolutions of 2.8, 2.9 and 2.6 {\r A}, respectively. The structure consists of a typical major facilitator superfamily fold of 12 transmembrane segments and a unique intracellular four-helix domain. XylE was captured in an outward-facing, partly occluded conformation. Most of the important amino acids responsible for recognition of D-xylose or d-glucose are invariant in GLUT1-4, suggesting functional and mechanistic conservations. Structure-based modelling of GLUT1-4 allows mapping and interpretation of disease-related mutations. The structural and biochemical information reported here constitutes an important framework for mechanistic understanding of glucose transporters and sugar porters in general.
}, year = {2012}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {490}, pages = {361-6}, month = {10/2012}, issn = {1476-4687}, doi = {10.1038/nature11524}, language = {eng}, }