Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Structural basis of substrate recognition and translocation by human very long-chain fatty acid transporter ABCD1

  • Zhi-Peng Chen,
  • Da Xu,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Yao-Xu Mao,
  • Yang Li,
  • Meng-Ting Cheng,
  • Cong-Zhao Zhou,
  • Wen-Tao Hou,
  • Yuxing Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30974-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Human ABC transporter ABCD1 transports very long-chain fatty acids from cytosol to peroxisome for βoxidation, dysfunction of which causes the X-ALD. Here, the authors report three structures of ABCD1: the ligand-free, C22:0-CoA- and ATP-bound forms.