Membrane topology of the C-terminal half of the neuronal, glial, and bacterial glutamate transporter family.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
D J SlotboomW N Konings

Abstract

Secondary glutamate transporters in neuronal and glial cells in the mammalian central nervous system remove the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate from the synaptic cleft and prevent the extracellular glutamate concentration to rise above neurotoxic levels. Secondary structure prediction algorithms predict 6 transmembrane helices in the first half of the transporters but fail in the C-terminal half where no clear helix-loop-helix motif is resolved in the hydropathy profile of the primary sequences. A number of previous studies have emphasized the importance of the C-terminal half of the molecules for the function. Here we determine the membrane topology of the C-terminal half of the glutamate transporters by applying the phoA gene fusion technique to the homologous bacterial glutamate transporter of Bacillus stearothermophilus. High sequence conservation and very similar hydropathy profiles in the C-terminal half warrant a similar folding as in the glutamate transporters of the mammalian central nervous system. The C-terminal half contains four putative transmembrane helices. The strong hydrophobic moment and substitution moment of the most C-terminal helix X that point to opposite faces of the helix suggest that the helix f...Continue Reading

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