Strategies of organic phosphorus recycling by soil bacteria: acquisition, metabolism, and regulation

Y Park, M Solhtalab, W Thongsomboon… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Critical to meeting cellular phosphorus (P) demand, soil bacteria deploy a number of
strategies to overcome limitation in inorganic P (Pi) in soils. As a significant contributor to P …

[HTML][HTML] The structural basis of secondary active transport mechanisms

LR Forrest, R Krämer, C Ziegler - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Secondary active transporters couple the free energy of the electrochemical potential of one
solute to the transmembrane movement of another. As a basic mechanistic explanation for …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional structures of membrane proteins from genomic sequencing

TA Hopf, LJ Colwell, R Sheridan, B Rost, C Sander… - Cell, 2012‏ - cell.com
We show that amino acid covariation in proteins, extracted from the evolutionary sequence
record, can be used to fold transmembrane proteins. We use this technique to predict …

Ins and outs of major facilitator superfamily antiporters

CJ Law, PC Maloney, DN Wang - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) represents the largest group of secondary active
membrane transporters, and its members transport a diverse range of substrates. Recent …

Molecular mechanisms and clinical impact of acquired and intrinsic fosfomycin resistance

A Castañeda-García, J Blázquez, A Rodríguez-Rojas - Antibiotics, 2013‏ - mdpi.com
Bacterial infections caused by antibiotic-resistant isolates have become a major health
problem in recent years, since they are very difficult to treat, leading to an increase in …

Functional characterization of the rice SPX‐MFS family reveals a key role of OsSPX‐MFS1 in controlling phosphate homeostasis in leaves

C Wang, W Huang, Y Ying, S Li, D Secco… - New …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Proteins possessing the SPX domain are found in several proteins involved in inorganic
phosphate (Pi) transport and signalling in yeast and plants. Although the functions of several …

Fosfomycin resistance mechanisms in Enterobacterales: an increasing threat

V Mattioni Marchetti, J Hrabak, I Bitar - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial resistance is well-known to be a global health and development threat. Due to
the decrease of effective antimicrobials, re-evaluation in clinical practice of old antibiotics, as …

Flip** lipids: why an'what's the reason for?

S Sanyal, AK Menon - ACS chemical biology, 2009‏ - ACS Publications
The biosynthesis of glycoconjugates such as N-glycoproteins and GPI-anchored proteins in
eukaryotes and cell wall peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide in bacteria requires lipid …

The Glycerol-3-Phosphate Permease GlpT Is the Only Fosfomycin Transporter in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A Castaneda-García, A Rodríguez-Rojas… - Journal of …, 2009‏ - journals.asm.org
Fosfomycin is transported into Escherichia coli via both glycerol-3-phosphate (GlpT) and a
hexose phosphate transporter (UhpT). Consequently, the inactivation of either glpT or uhpT …

Uncoupling and turnover in a Cl−/H+ exchange transporter

M Walden, A Accardi, F Wu, C Xu, C Williams… - Journal of General …, 2007‏ - rupress.org
The CLC-family protein CLC-ec1, a bacterial homologue of known structure,
stoichiometrically exchanges two Cl− for one H+ via an unknown membrane transport …