Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

CryoEM structure of the human SLC4A4 sodium-coupled acid-base transporter NBCe1

  • Kevin W. Huynh,
  • Jiansen Jiang,
  • Natalia Abuladze,
  • Kirill Tsirulnikov,
  • Liyo Kao,
  • Xuesi Shao,
  • Debra Newman,
  • Rustam Azimov,
  • Alexander Pushkin,
  • Z. Hong Zhou,
  • Ira Kurtz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03271-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Na+-coupled acid-base membrane transport proteins regulate blood pressure, ion homeostasis and acid-base chemistry. Here the authors present the 3.9 Å resolution cryoEM structure of the sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 and characterize its ion coordination site and ion accessibility pathway with mutagenesis experiments.