Quantifying secondary transport at single-molecule resolution

Gabriel A. Fitzgerald, Daniel S. Terry, Audrey L. Warren, Matthias Quick (), Jonathan A. Javitch () and Scott C. Blanchard ()
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Gabriel A. Fitzgerald: Weill Cornell Medicine
Daniel S. Terry: Weill Cornell Medicine
Audrey L. Warren: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Matthias Quick: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jonathan A. Javitch: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Scott C. Blanchard: Weill Cornell Medicine

Nature, 2019, vol. 575, issue 7783, 528-534

Abstract: Abstract Secondary active transporters, which are vital for a multitude of physiological processes, use the energy of electrochemical ion gradients to power substrate transport across cell membranes1,2. Efforts to investigate their mechanisms of action have been hampered by their slow transport rates and the inherent limitations of ensemble methods. Here we quantify the activity of individual MhsT transporters, which are representative of the neurotransmitter:sodium symporter family of secondary transporters3, by imaging the transport of individual substrate molecules across lipid bilayers at both single- and multi-turnover resolution. We show that MhsT is active only when physiologically oriented and that the rate-limiting step of the transport cycle varies with the nature of the transported substrate. These findings are consistent with an extracellular allosteric substrate-binding site that modulates the rate-limiting aspects of the transport mechanism4,5, including the rate at which the transporter returns to an outward-facing state after the transported substrate is released.

Date: 2019
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