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Outward-facing conformers of LacY stabilized by nanobodies.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Dec 2014
Smirnova Irina, Kasho Vladimir, Jiang Xiaoxu, Pardon Els, Steyaert Jan, Kaback H Ronald
Abstract excerpt
The lactose permease of Escherichia coli (LacY), a highly dynamic polytopic membrane protein, catalyzes stoichiometric galactoside/H(+) symport by an alternating access mechanism and exhibits multiple conformations, the distribution of which is altered by sugar binding. We have developed single-domain camelid nanobodies (Nbs) against a LacY mutant in an outward (periplasmic)-open conformation to stabilize this...
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