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ArticleScientific reports2021

Effect of palmitoylation on the dimer formation of the human dopamine transporter.

Talia Zeppelin, Kasper B Pedersen, Nils A Berglund, Xavier Periole, Birgit Schiøtt

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Transient Suppression of Dopamine Transporter Palmitoylation by Methamphetamine: Implications for Transport Regulation.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  4. The Role of Cholesterol in M2 Clustering and Viral Budding Explained.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  6. Altered Protein Palmitoylation as Disease Mechanism in Neurodegenerative Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  7. Oligomerization of Monoamine Transporters.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2024
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  8. Palmitoylation of solute carriers.Biochemical pharmacology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Talia ZeppelinDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Kasper B PedersenDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Nils A BerglundDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark.
Xavier PerioleDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark. x.periole.science@gmail.com.
Birgit SchiøttDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark. birgit@chem.au.dk.
Aarhus University · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human dopamine transporter (hDAT) is one in three members of the monoamine transporter family (MAT). hDAT is essential for regulating the dopamine concentration in the synaptic cleft through dopamine reuptake into the presynaptic neuron; thereby controlling hDAT dopamine signaling. Dysfunction of the transporter is linked to several psychiatric disorders. hDAT and the other MATs have been shown to form oligomers in the plasma membrane, but only limited data exists on which dimeric and higher order oligomeric states are accessible and energetically favorable. In this work, we present several probable dimer conformations using computational coarse-grained self-assembly simulations and assess the relative stability of the different dimer conformations using umbrella sampling replica exchange molecular dynamics. Overall, the dimer conformations primarily involve TM9 and/or TM11 and/or TM12 at the interface. Furthermore, we show that a palmitoyl group (palm) attached to hDAT on TM12 modifies the free energy of separation for interfaces involving TM12, suggesting that S-palmitoylation may change the relative abundance of dimers involving TM12 in a biological context. Finally, a comparison of the identified interfaces of hDAT and palmitoylated hDAT to the human serotonin transporter interfaces and the leucine transporter interface, suggests similar dimer conformations across these protein family.

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Biological TransportCell MembraneDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsSerotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins

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PMID33602981
PMCPMC7893171
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