title: Structure and mechanism of ABC transporters.
abstract: ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are central to many physiological processes, including the uptake of nutrients, the non-classical secretion of signaling molecules and toxins, multidrug resistance and the development of human disease. As one might expect from this spectrum of translocation events, these ubiquitous, ATP-dependent pumps or channels are capable of transporting an enormous variety of substrates, ranging from small ions to large proteins. Recently determined structures of full-length ABC transporters and isolated ABC domains have increased our understanding of the functional mechanism of these proteins.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Marie-Curie Strasse 9, Germany. lschmitt@em.uni-frankfurt.de
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tampé
mesh_terms: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D001426:Bacterial Proteins