Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Inhibitor binding mode and allosteric regulation of Na + -glucose symporters

  • Paola Bisignano,
  • Chiara Ghezzi,
  • Hyunil Jo,
  • Nicholas F. Polizzi,
  • Thorsten Althoff,
  • Chakrapani Kalyanaraman,
  • Rosmarie Friemann,
  • Matthew P. Jacobson,
  • Ernest M. Wright,
  • Michael Grabe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07700-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Sodium-dependent glucose transporters (SGLTs) transport sugars across the plasma membrane and play important roles in renal sugar reabsorption. Here authors develop structural models of human SGLT1/2 (hSGLT1/2) in complex with inhibitors which helps to understand inhibitor subtype selectivity.