Molecular Basis of Coupled Transport and Anion Conduction in Excitatory Amino Acid Transporters
NEUROCHEMICAL RESEARCH(2021)
摘要
Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. After its release from presynaptic nerve terminals, glutamate is quickly removed from the synaptic cleft by excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) 1–5, a subfamily of glutamate transporters. The five proteins utilize a complex transport stoichiometry that couples glutamate transport to the symport of three Na + ions and one H + in exchange with one K + to accumulate glutamate against up to 10 6 -fold concentration gradients. They are also anion-selective channels that open and close during transitions along the glutamate transport cycle. EAATs belong to a larger family of secondary-active transporters, the SLC1 family, which also includes purely Na + - or H + -coupled prokaryotic transporters and Na + -dependent neutral amino acid exchangers. In recent years, molecular cloning, heterologous expression, cellular electrophysiology, fluorescence spectroscopy, structural approaches, and molecular simulations have uncovered the molecular mechanisms of coupled transport, substrate selectivity, and anion conduction in EAAT glutamate transporters. Here we review recent findings on EAAT transport mechanisms, with special emphasis on the highly conserved hairpin 2 gate, which has emerged as the central processing unit in many of these functions.
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Glutamate transporter, Coupled transport, Transport stoichiometry, Induced fit, Conformational selection, Dual function protein, EAAT , anion channel, Glt(Ph), Hairpin 2, MD simulations, Fluorescence spectroscopy, Tryptophan
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