Time to Stop Holding the Elevator: A New Piece of the Transport Protein Mechanism Puzzle.
In this issue of Structure, McCoy et al. (2016) describe the 2.55-Å X-ray structure of the outward-facing occluded conformation of the Bacillus cereus maltose transporter MalT. This structure represents the penultimate piece needed to complete the picture of the transport cycle of the glucose superfamily of membrane-spanning EIIC components.
Department of Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.
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Department of Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA. Electronic address: msaier@ucsd.edu.
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D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008320:Maltose; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation
D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D008320:Maltose