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Varga J, Dobson L, Reményi I, Tusnády GE. TSTMP: target selection for structural genomics of human transmembrane proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 2016; 45:D325-D330. [PMID: 27924015 PMCID: PMC5210638 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Revised: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 10/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The TSTMP database is designed to help the target selection of human transmembrane proteins for structural genomics projects and structure modeling studies. Currently, there are only 60 known 3D structures among the polytopic human transmembrane proteins and about a further 600 could be modeled using existing structures. Although there are a great number of human transmembrane protein structures left to be determined, surprisingly only a small fraction of these proteins have 'selected' (or above) status according to the current version the TargetDB/TargetTrack database. This figure is even worse regarding those transmembrane proteins that would contribute the most to the structural coverage of the human transmembrane proteome. The database was built by sorting out proteins from the human transmembrane proteome with known structure and searching for suitable model structures for the remaining proteins by combining the results of a state-of-the-art transmembrane specific fold recognition algorithm and a sequence similarity search algorithm. Proteins were searched for homologues among the human transmembrane proteins in order to select targets whose successful structure determination would lead to the best structural coverage of the human transmembrane proteome. The pipeline constructed for creating the TSTMP database guarantees to keep the database up-to-date. The database is available at http://tstmp.enzim.ttk.mta.hu.
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Affiliation(s)
- Julia Varga
- Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rakpart 3, H1111 Hungary
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- 'Momentum' Membrane Protein Bioinformatics Research Group, Institute of Enzymology, RCNS, HAS, Budapest PO Box 7, H-1518 Hungary
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- 'Momentum' Membrane Protein Bioinformatics Research Group, Institute of Enzymology, RCNS, HAS, Budapest PO Box 7, H-1518 Hungary
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- 'Momentum' Membrane Protein Bioinformatics Research Group, Institute of Enzymology, RCNS, HAS, Budapest PO Box 7, H-1518 Hungary
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László L, Sarkadi B, Hegedűs T. Jump into a New Fold-A Homology Based Model for the ABCG2/BCRP Multidrug Transporter. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0164426. [PMID: 27741279 PMCID: PMC5065228 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Accepted: 09/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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ABCG2/BCRP is a membrane protein, involved in xenobiotic and endobiotic transport in key pharmacological barriers and drug metabolizing organs, in the protection of stem cells, and in multidrug resistance of cancer. Pharmacogenetic studies implicated the role of ABCG2 in response to widely used medicines and anticancer agents, as well as in gout. Its Q141K variant exhibits decreased functional expression thus increased drug accumulation and decreased urate secretion. Still, there has been no reliable molecular model available for this protein, as the published structures of other ABC transporters could not be properly fitted to the ABCG2 topology and experimental data. The recently published high resolution structure of a close homologue, the ABCG5-ABCG8 heterodimer, revealed a new ABC transporter fold, unique for ABCG proteins. Here we present a structural model of the ABCG2 homodimer based on this fold and detail the experimental results supporting this model. In order to describe the effect of mutations on structure and dynamics, and characterize substrate recognition and cholesterol regulation we performed molecular dynamics simulations using full length ABCG2 protein embedded in a membrane bilayer and in silico docking simulations. Our results show that in the Q141K variant the introduced positive charge diminishes the interaction between the nucleotide binding and transmembrane domains and the R482G variation alters the orientation of transmembrane helices. Moreover, the R482 position, which plays a role the substrate specificity of the transporter, is located in one of the substrate binding pockets identified by the in silico docking calculations. In summary, the ABCG2 model and in silico simulations presented here may have significant impact on understanding drug distribution and toxicity, as well as drug development against cancer chemotherapy resistance or gout.
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- Laura László
- Molecular Biophysics Research Group and Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Molecular Biophysics Research Group and Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Molecular Biophysics Research Group and Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDPs/IDRs) do not adopt a well-defined folded structure under physiological conditions. Instead, these proteins exist as heterogeneous and dynamical conformational ensembles. IDPs are widespread in eukaryotic proteomes and are involved in fundamental biological processes, mostly related to regulation and signaling. At the same time, disordered regions often pose significant challenges to the structure determination process, which generally requires highly homogeneous proteins samples. In this book chapter, we provide a brief overview of protein disorder, describe various bioinformatics resources that have been developed in recent years for their characterization, and give a general outline of their applications in various types of structural genomics projects. Traditionally, disordered segments were filtered out to optimize the yield of structure determination pipelines. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the structural characterization of proteins cannot be complete without the incorporation of intrinsically disordered regions.
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- Marco Punta
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
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Boswell-Casteel RC, Johnson JM, Duggan KD, Roe-Žurž Z, Schmitz H, Burleson C, Hays FA. FUN26 (function unknown now 26) protein from saccharomyces cerevisiae is a broad selectivity, high affinity, nucleoside and nucleobase transporter. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:24440-51. [PMID: 25035431 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.553503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs) are polytopic integral membrane proteins that transport nucleosides and, to a lesser extent, nucleobases across cell membranes. ENTs modulate efficacy for a range of human therapeutics and function in a diffusion-controlled bidirectional manner. A detailed understanding of ENT function at the molecular level has remained elusive. FUN26 (function unknown now 26) is a putative ENT homolog from S. cerevisiae that is expressed in vacuole membranes. In the present system, proteoliposome studies of purified FUN26 demonstrate robust nucleoside and nucleobase uptake into the luminal volume for a broad range of substrates. This transport activity is sensitive to nucleoside modifications in the C(2')- and C(5')-positions on the ribose sugar and is not stimulated by a membrane pH differential. [(3)H]Adenine nucleobase transport efficiency is increased ∼4-fold relative to nucleosides tested with no observed [(3)H]adenosine or [(3)H]UTP transport. FUN26 mutational studies identified residues that disrupt (G463A or G216A) or modulate (F249I or L390A) transporter function. These results demonstrate that FUN26 has a unique substrate transport profile relative to known ENT family members and that a purified ENT can be reconstituted in proteoliposomes for functional characterization in a defined system.
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and
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- the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 and
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Pieper U, Schlessinger A, Kloppmann E, Chang GA, Chou JJ, Dumont ME, Fox BG, Fromme P, Hendrickson WA, Malkowski MG, Rees DC, Stokes DL, Stowell MHB, Wiener MC, Rost B, Stroud RM, Stevens RC, Sali A. Coordinating the impact of structural genomics on the human α-helical transmembrane proteome. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2013; 20:135-8. [PMID: 23381628 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2012] [Accepted: 01/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Ursula Pieper
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Robertson JWF, Kasianowicz JJ, Banerjee S. Analytical Approaches for Studying Transporters, Channels and Porins. Chem Rev 2012; 112:6227-49. [DOI: 10.1021/cr300317z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Joseph W. F. Robertson
- Physical Measurement Laboratory,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
20899, United States
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- Physical Measurement Laboratory,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
20899, United States
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- National
Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20824, United States
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Perdih A, Roy Choudhury A, Župerl Š, Sikorska E, Zhukov I, Solmajer T, Novič M. Structural analysis of a peptide fragment of transmembrane transporter protein bilitranslocase. PLoS One 2012; 7:e38967. [PMID: 22745694 PMCID: PMC3380051 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Using a combination of genomic and post-genomic approaches is rapidly altering the number of identified human influx carriers. A transmembrane protein bilitranslocase (TCDB 2.A.65) has long attracted attention because of its function as an organic anion carrier. It has also been identified as a potential membrane transporter for cellular uptake of several drugs and due to its implication in drug uptake, it is extremely important to advance the knowledge about its structure. However, at present, only the primary structure of bilitranslocase is known. In our work, transmembrane subunits of bilitranslocase were predicted by a previously developed chemometrics model and the stability of these polypeptide chains were studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Furthermore, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micelles were used as a model of cell membrane and herein we present a high-resolution 3D structure of an 18 amino acid residues long peptide corresponding to the third transmembrane part of bilitranslocase obtained by use of multidimensional NMR spectroscopy. It has been experimentally confirmed that one of the transmembrane segments of bilitranslocase has alpha helical structure with hydrophilic amino acid residues oriented towards one side, thus capable of forming a channel in the membrane.
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- Andrej Perdih
- Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- EN-FIST Center of Excellence, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Laboratory of Chemometrics, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Kloppmann E, Punta M, Rost B. Structural genomics plucks high-hanging membrane proteins. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2012; 22:326-32. [PMID: 22622032 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2012] [Revised: 03/28/2012] [Accepted: 05/01/2012] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Recent years have seen the establishment of structural genomics centers that explicitly target integral membrane proteins. Here, we review the advances in targeting these extremely high-hanging fruits of structural biology in high-throughput mode. We observe that the experimental determination of high-resolution structures of integral membrane proteins is increasingly successful both in terms of getting structures and of covering important protein families, for example, from Pfam. Structural genomics has begun to contribute significantly toward this progress. An important component of this contribution is the set up of robotic pipelines that generate a wealth of experimental data for membrane proteins. We argue that prediction methods for the identification of membrane regions and for the comparison of membrane proteins largely suffice to meet the challenges of target selection for structural genomics of membrane proteins. In contrast, we need better methods to prioritize the most promising members in a family of closely related proteins and to annotate protein function from sequence and structure in absence of homology.
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- Edda Kloppmann
- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Technical University Munich, Germany.
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Neumann S, Hartmann H, Martin-Galiano AJ, Fuchs A, Frishman D. Camps 2.0: exploring the sequence and structure space of prokaryotic, eukaryotic, and viral membrane proteins. Proteins 2011; 80:839-57. [PMID: 22213543 DOI: 10.1002/prot.23242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2011] [Revised: 10/01/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Structural bioinformatics of membrane proteins is still in its infancy, and the picture of their fold space is only beginning to emerge. Because only a handful of three-dimensional structures are available, sequence comparison and structure prediction remain the main tools for investigating sequence-structure relationships in membrane protein families. Here we present a comprehensive analysis of the structural families corresponding to α-helical membrane proteins with at least three transmembrane helices. The new version of our CAMPS database (CAMPS 2.0) covers nearly 1300 eukaryotic, prokaryotic, and viral genomes. Using an advanced classification procedure, which is based on high-order hidden Markov models and considers both sequence similarity as well as the number of transmembrane helices and loop lengths, we identified 1353 structurally homogeneous clusters roughly corresponding to membrane protein folds. Only 53 clusters are associated with experimentally determined three-dimensional structures, and for these clusters CAMPS is in reasonable agreement with structure-based classification approaches such as SCOP and CATH. We therefore estimate that ∼1300 structures would need to be determined to provide a sufficient structural coverage of polytopic membrane proteins. CAMPS 2.0 is available at http://webclu.bio.wzw.tum.de/CAMPS2.0/.
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- Sindy Neumann
- Department of Genome Oriented Bioinformatics, Technische Universität München, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, 85354 Freising, Germany
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Structure-based discovery of prescription drugs that interact with the norepinephrine transporter, NET. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011; 108:15810-5. [PMID: 21885739 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106030108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The norepinephrine transporter (NET) transports norepinephrine from the synapse into presynaptic neurons, where norepinephrine regulates signaling pathways associated with cardiovascular effects and behavioral traits via binding to various receptors (e.g., β2-adrenergic receptor). NET is a known target for a variety of prescription drugs, including antidepressants and psychostimulants, and may mediate off-target effects of other prescription drugs. Here, we identify prescription drugs that bind NET, using virtual ligand screening followed by experimental validation of predicted ligands. We began by constructing a comparative structural model of NET based on its alignment to the atomic structure of a prokaryotic NET homolog, the leucine transporter LeuT. The modeled binding site was validated by confirming that known NET ligands can be docked favorably compared to nonbinding molecules. We then computationally screened 6,436 drugs from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG DRUG) against the NET model. Ten of the 18 high-scoring drugs tested experimentally were found to be NET inhibitors; five of these were chemically novel ligands of NET. These results may rationalize the efficacy of several sympathetic (tuaminoheptane) and antidepressant (tranylcypromine) drugs, as well as side effects of diabetes (phenformin) and Alzheimer's (talsaclidine) drugs. The observations highlight the utility of virtual screening against a comparative model, even when the target shares less than 30% sequence identity with its template structure and no known ligands in the primary binding site.
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Lee JK, Stroud RM. Unlocking the eukaryotic membrane protein structural proteome. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2010; 20:464-70. [PMID: 20739007 PMCID: PMC3530418 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2010] [Accepted: 05/09/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Most of the 231 unique membrane protein structures (as of 3/2010) are of bacterial membrane proteins (MPs) expressed in bacteria, or eukaryotic MPs from natural sources. However eukaryotic membrane proteins, especially those with more than three membrane crossings rarely succumb to any suitable expression in bacterial cells. They typically require expression in eukaryotic cells that can provide appropriate endoplasmic reticulum, chaperones, targeting and post-translational processing. In evidence, only approximately 20 eukaryotic MP structures have resulted from heterologous expression. This is required for a general approach to target particular human or pathogen membrane proteins of importance to human health. The first of these appeared in 2005. Our review addresses the special issues that pertain to the expression of eukaryotic and human membrane proteins, and recent advances in the tool kit for crystallization and structure determination.
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- John Kyongwon Lee
- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, S-412C Genentech Hall, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158-2517. 415-476-4224, FAX: 415-476-1902, ,
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- Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, S-412C Genentech Hall, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158-2517. 415-476-4224, FAX: 415-476-1902, ,
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Schlessinger A, Matsson P, Shima JE, Pieper U, Yee SW, Kelly L, Apeltsin L, Stroud RM, Ferrin TE, Giacomini KM, Sali A. Comparison of human solute carriers. Protein Sci 2010; 19:412-28. [PMID: 20052679 DOI: 10.1002/pro.320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Solute carriers are eukaryotic membrane proteins that control the uptake and efflux of solutes, including essential cellular compounds, environmental toxins, and therapeutic drugs. Solute carriers can share similar structural features despite weak sequence similarities. Identification of sequence relationships among solute carriers is needed to enhance our ability to model individual carriers and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of their substrate specificity and transport. Here, we describe a comprehensive comparison of solute carriers. We link the proteins using sensitive profile-profile alignments and two classification approaches, including similarity networks. The clusters are analyzed in view of substrate type, transport mode, organism conservation, and tissue specificity. Solute carrier families with similar substrates generally cluster together, despite exhibiting relatively weak sequence similarities. In contrast, some families cluster together with no apparent reason, revealing unexplored relationships. We demonstrate computationally and experimentally the functional overlap between representative members of these families. Finally, we identify four putative solute carriers in the human genome. The solute carriers include a biomedically important group of membrane proteins that is diverse in sequence and structure. The proposed classification of solute carriers, combined with experiment, reveals new relationships among the individual families and identifies new solute carriers. The classification scheme will inform future attempts directed at modeling the structures of the solute carriers, a prerequisite for describing the substrate specificities of the individual families.
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- Avner Schlessinger
- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, San Francisco, California.
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