Structure of a eukaryotic SWEET transporter in a homotrimeric complex

Nature

Volumn 527, Issue 7577, 2015, Pages 259-263

  Tao, Yuyong ^a   Cheung, Lily S ^b   Li, Shuo ^a,c   Eom, Joon Seob ^b   Chen, Li Qing ^b   Xu, Yan ^a   Perry, Kay ^d   Frommer, Wolf B ^b   Feng, Liang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Argonne National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; OSSWEET2B PROTEIN; SUCROSE; SWEET PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; SWEET1 PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOENGINEERING; CARBON; DICOTYLEDON; EUKARYOTE; GLUCOSE; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PROTEIN; SKELETON;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN BOND; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PHLOEM; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RICE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRIPLE HELIX; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; ORYZA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; ORYZA SATIVA; PYTHIUM;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT PROTEINS, FACILITATIVE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ORYZA; PHLOEM; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84941101410     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature15391     Document Type: Article

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