Eight amino acid residues in transmembrane segments of yeast glucose transporter Hxt2 are required for high affinity transport

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Toshiko KasaharaM Kasahara

Abstract

Hxt2 and Hxt1 are high affinity and low affinity facilitative glucose transporter paralogs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, respectively, that differ at 75 amino acid positions in their 12 transmembrane segments (TMs). Comprehensive analysis of chimeras of these two proteins has previously revealed that TMs 1, 5, 7, and 8 of Hxt2 are required for high affinity glucose transport activity and that leucine 201 in TM5 is the most important in this regard of the 20 amino acid residues in these regions that differ between Hxt2 and Hxt1. To evaluate the importance of the remaining residues, we systematically shuffled the amino acids at these positions and screened the resulting proteins for high affinity and high capacity glucose transport activity. In addition to leucine 201 (TM5), four residues of Hxt2 (leucine 59 and leucine 61 in TM1, asparagine 331 in TM7, and phenylalanine 366 in TM8) were found to be important for such activity. Furthermore, phenylalanine 198 (TM5), alanine 363 (TM8), and either valine 316 (TM7) or alanine 368 (TM8) were found to be supportive of maximal activity. Construction of a homology model suggested that asparagine 331 interacts directly with the substrate and that the other identified residues may contribut...Continue Reading

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