PMID:9371415
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Weissborn, AC, Botfield, MC, Kuroda, M, Tsuchiya, T and Wilson, TH (1997) The construction of a cysteine-less melibiose carrier from E. coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1329:237-44 |
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| Abstract |
The melibiose carrier of E. coli is a cation-sugar cotransport system. This membrane protein contains four cysteine residues and the transport function is inhibited by sulfhydryl reagents. In order to investigate the importance of the cysteines, we have constructed a set of four melibiose transporters each of which has one cysteine replaced with serine or valine. The sensitivity of this set of carriers to N-ethylmaleimide was tested and Cys364 was identified as the target of the reagent. In addition, we constructed a melibiose transporter in which all 4 cysteines were replaced with either serine (Cys110, Cys310, and Cys364) or valine (Cys235) and we found that, as expected, the resulting cysteine-less transporter was resistant to the action of N-ethylmaleimide. The cysteine-less melibiose carrier had no significant decrease in ability to accumulate melibiose with cotransported sodium ions or protons. Thus, none of the 4 cysteines are necessary for the function of the melibiose carrier. |
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| Keywords |
Amino Acid Substitution; Cell Membrane/metabolism; Cell Membrane/ultrastructure; Cysteine; DNA Primers; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Ethylmaleimide/pharmacology; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; Kinetics; Melibiose/metabolism; Membrane Transport Proteins/biosynthesis; Membrane Transport Proteins/chemistry; Membrane Transport Proteins/metabolism; Models, Structural; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; Protein Structure, Secondary; Recombinant Proteins/biosynthesis; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism; Serine; Symporters; Valine |
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