Proton-driven alternating access in a spinster lipid transporter

The Spns lipid transporters use ion gradients to drive substrate transport, including bioactive sphingolipids. Here, Dastvan et al. investigated how binding of protons powers the conformational changes that enable broad transport by a bacterial Spns.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reza Dastvan, Ali Rasouli, Sepehr Dehghani-Ghahnaviyeh, Samantha Gies, Emad Tajkhorshid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32759-2