Both reentrant loops of the sodium-coupled glutamate transporters contain molecular determinants of cation selectivity

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Nechama SilversteinBaruch I Kanner

Abstract

In the brain, glutamate transporters terminate excitatory neurotransmission by removing this neurotransmitter from the synapse via cotransport with three sodium ions into the surrounding cells. Structural studies have identified the binding sites of the three sodium ions in glutamate transporters. The residue side-chains directly interact with the sodium ions at the Na1 and Na3 sites and are fully conserved from archaeal to eukaryotic glutamate transporters. The Na2 site is formed by three main-chain oxygens on the extracellular reentrant hairpin loop HP2 and one on transmembrane helix 7. A glycine residue on HP2 is located closely to the three main-chain oxygens in all glutamate transporters, except for the astroglial transporter GLT-1, which has a serine residue at that position. Unlike for WT GLT-1, substitution of the serine residue to glycine enables sustained glutamate transport also when sodium is replaced by lithium. Here, using functional and simulation studies, we studied the role of this serine/glycine switch on cation selectivity of substrate transport. Our results indicate that the side-chain oxygen of the serine residues can form a hydrogen bond with a main-chain oxygen on transmembrane helix 7. This leads to an e...Continue Reading

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