Nature Communications (Mar 2023)
Structural basis of the substrate recognition and inhibition mechanism of Plasmodium falciparum nucleoside transporter PfENT1
- Chen Wang,
- Leiye Yu,
- Jiying Zhang,
- Yanxia Zhou,
- Bo Sun,
- Qingjie Xiao,
- Minhua Zhang,
- Huayi Liu,
- Jinhong Li,
- Jialu Li,
- Yunzi Luo,
- Jie Xu,
- Zhong Lian,
- Jingwen Lin,
- Xiang Wang,
- Peng Zhang,
- Li Guo,
- Ruobing Ren,
- Dong Deng
Affiliations
- Chen Wang
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Leiye Yu
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Metabolic Remodeling and Health, Institute of Metabolism and Integrative Biology, Fudan University
- Jiying Zhang
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Yanxia Zhou
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Bo Sun
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Qingjie Xiao
- Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Minhua Zhang
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Huayi Liu
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Jinhong Li
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Jialu Li
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Yunzi Luo
- Frontier Science Center for Synthetic Biology and Key Laboratory of Systems Bioengineering of MOE, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University
- Jie Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
- Zhong Lian
- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
- Jingwen Lin
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Xiang Wang
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Peng Zhang
- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Li Guo
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- Ruobing Ren
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Metabolic Remodeling and Health, Institute of Metabolism and Integrative Biology, Fudan University
- Dong Deng
- Department of Obstetrics, Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Disease of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second Hospital, Sichuan University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37411-1
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
PfENT1 is a promising antimalarial drug target. Here, authors report cryo-EM structures of PfENT1 that, together with biochemical work, suggests PfENT1 is an inosine transporter and describe the inhibitory mechanism of the endofacial inhibitor, GSK4.