| Literature DB >> 17673229 |
Maarten Groeneveld1, Dirk-Jan Slotboom.
Abstract
Glutamate transporters are trimeric membrane proteins in which each protomer contains a separate translocation path. To determine whether structural rearrangements take place at the subunit interfaces during transport, intersubunit disulfide bridges were introduced in the bacterial transporter GltT. None of the intersubunit cross-links, which had been designed across the entire interface, affected the glutamate transport activity, indicating that the subunit interfaces are rigid during turnover.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17673229 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.06.067
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Mol Biol ISSN: 0022-2836 Impact factor: 5.469