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SUBMITTER: Cristina Paulino
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10941 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20210801 34
Energy-coupling factor (ECF)-type transporters are small, asymmetric membrane protein complexes (∼115 kDa) that consist of a membrane-embedded, substrate-binding protein (S component) and a tripartite ATP-hydrolyzing module (ECF module). They import micronutrients into bacterial cells and have been proposed to use a highly unusual transport mechanism, in which the substrate is dragged across the membrane by a toppling motion of the S component. However, it remains unclear how the lipid bilayer c ...[more]