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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography2009

An emerging consensus for the structure of EmrE.

Vladimir M Korkhov, Christopher G Tate

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Single-Molecule FRET of Membrane Transport Proteins.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2021
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  5. Electrostatic lock in the transport cycle of the multidrug resistance transporter EmrE.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  10. Life at the border: adaptation of proteins to anisotropic membrane environment.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2014
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  13. Analyzing conformational changes in the transport cycle of EmrE.Current opinion in structural biology · 2012
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2 authors.

Vladimir M KorkhovMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England.
Christopher G Tate

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The archetypical member of the small multidrug-resistance family is EmrE, a multidrug transporter that extrudes toxic polyaromatic cations from the cell coupled to the inward movement of protons down a concentration gradient. The architecture of EmrE was first defined from the analysis of two-dimensional crystals by cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM), which showed that EmrE was an unusual asymmetric dimer formed from a bundle of eight alpha-helices. The most favoured interpretation of the structure was that the monomers were oriented in opposite orientations in the membrane in an antiparallel orientation. A model was subsequently built based upon the cryo-EM data and evolutionary constraints and this model was consistent with mutagenic data indicating which amino-acid residues were important for substrate binding and transport. Two X-ray structures that differed significantly from the cryo-EM structure were subsequently retracted owing to a data-analysis error. However, the revised X-ray structure with substrate bound is extremely similar to the model built from the cryo-EM structure (r.m.s.d. of 1.4 A), suggesting that the proposed antiparallel orientation of the monomers is indeed correct; this represents a new structural paradigm in membrane-protein structures. The vast majority of mutagenic and biochemical data corroborate this structure, although cross-linking studies and recent EPR data apparently support a model of EmrE that contains parallel dimers.

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AntiportersCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayEscherichia coli ProteinsProtein Structure, SecondaryAntiportersEmrE protein, E coliEscherichia coli Proteins

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PMID19171974
PMCPMC2631640

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