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Two-gate mechanism for phospholipid selection and transport by type IV P-type ATPases.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Jan 2013
Baldridge Ryan D, Graham Todd R
Abstract excerpt
Most P-type ATPases pump specific cations or heavy metals across a membrane to form ion gradients. However, the type IV P-type ATPases evolved the ability to transport specific phospholipid substrates rather than cations and function to establish plasma membrane asymmetry in eukaryotic cells. The mechanism for how a P-type ATPase, or any other transporter, can recognize and flip a phospholipid substrate is...
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