Proton-driven alternating access in a spinster lipid transporter.

Spinster (Spns) lipid transporters are critical for transporting sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) across cellular membranes. In humans, Spns2 functions as the main S1P transporter in endothelial cells, making it a potential drug target for modulating S1P signaling. Here, we employed an integrated approach in lipid membranes to identify unknown conformational states of a bacterial Spns from Hyphomonas neptunium (HnSpns) and to define its proton- and substrate-coupled conformational dynamics. Our systematic study reveals conserved residues critical for protonation steps and their regulation, and how sequential protonation of these proton switches coordinates the conformational transitions in the context of a noncanonical ligand-dependent alternating access. A conserved periplasmic salt bridge (Asp60TM2:Arg289TM7) keeps the transporter in a closed conformation, while proton-dependent conformational dynamics are significantly enhanced on the periplasmic side, providing a pathway for ligand exchange. © 2022. The Author(s).

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Reza Dastvan, Ali Rasouli, Sepehr Dehghani-Ghahnaviyeh, Samantha Gies, Emad Tajkhorshid. Proton-driven alternating access in a spinster lipid transporter. Nature communications. 2022 Sep 02;13(1):5161

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