| Literature DB >> 29193407 |
Xuejun C Zhang1,2, Min Liu1,2, Guangyuan Lu1,2, Jie Heng1.
Abstract
Multidrug resistance (MDR) presents a growing challenge to global public health. Drug extrusion transporters play a critical part in MDR; thus, their mechanisms of substrate recognition are being studied in great detail. In this work, we review common structural features of key transporters involved in MDR. Based on our membrane potential-driving hypothesis, we propose a general energy-coupling mechanism for secondary-active antiporters. This putative mechanism provides a common framework for understanding poly-specificity of most-if not all-MDR transporters.Keywords: energy coupling; exporters; membrane potential; multidrug resistance; titratable residue
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Year: 2017 PMID: 29193407 PMCID: PMC5818768 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3355
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Protein Sci ISSN: 0961-8368 Impact factor: 6.725