Biology:Proton-dependent oligopeptide transporter

From HandWiki
POT family
Identifiers
SymbolPTR2
PfamPF00854
InterProIPR000109
PROSITEPDOC00784
TCDB2.A.17
OPM superfamily15
OPM protein2xut

Proteins of the Proton-dependent Oligopeptide Transporter (POT) Family (also called the PTR (peptide transport) family) are found in animals, plants, yeast, archaea and both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, and are part of the major facilitator superfamily. The transport of peptides into cells is a well-documented biological phenomenon which is accomplished by specific, energy-dependent transporters found in a number of organisms as diverse as bacteria and humans. The proton-dependent oligopeptide transporter (PTR) family of proteins is distinct from the ABC-type peptide transporters and was uncovered by sequence analyses of a number of recently discovered peptide transport proteins.[1] These proteins that seem to be mainly involved in the intake of small peptides with the concomitant uptake of a proton.[2]

Function

While most members of the POT family catalyze peptide transport, one is a nitrate permease and one can transport histidine, as well as peptides. Some of the peptide transporters can also transport antibiotics. They function by proton symport, but the substrate:H+ stoichiometry is variable: the high-affinity rat PepT2 carrier catalyzes uptake of 2 and 3 H+ with neutral and anionic dipeptides, respectively, while the low affinity PepT1 carrier catalyzes uptake of one H+ per neutral peptide.[3][4]

Transport Reaction

The generalized transport reaction catalyzed by the proteins of the POT family is:

substrate (out) + H (out) → substrate (in) H+ (in)

Structure and Mechanism

The proteins are of about 450-600 amino acyl residues in length with the eukaryotic proteins in general being longer than the bacterial proteins. They exhibit 12 putative or established transmembrane α-helical spanners.

Pairs of salt bridge interactions between transmembrane helices work in tandem to orchestrate alternating access transport within the PTR family.[5] Key roles for residues conserved between bacterial and eukaryotic homologues suggest a conserved mechanism of peptide recognition and transport that in some cases has been subtly modified in individual species.

Subfamilies

Human proteins containing this domain

FP12591; PEPT1; PTR4; SLC15A1; SLC15A2; SLC15A3; SLC15A4; hPEPT1-RF;

References

  1. "The PTR family: a new group of peptide transporters". Mol. Microbiol. 16 (5): 825–834. 1995. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02310.x. PMID 7476181. 
  2. "The POT family of transport proteins". Trends Biochem. Sci. 19 (10): 404. 1994. doi:10.1016/0968-0004(94)90087-6. PMID 7817396. 
  3. Bucking, Carol; Schulte, Patricia M. , Wikidata Q34245558
  4. Chen, Xing-Zhen (29 Jan 1999). "Stoichiometry and kinetics of the high-affinity H+-coupled peptide transporter PepT2.". Journal of Biological Chemistry 274 (5): 2773–2779. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.5.2773. PMID 9915809. 
  5. Doki, Shintaro; Kato, Hideaki E.; Solcan, Nicolae; Iwaki, Masayo; Koyama, Michio; Hattori, Motoyuki; Iwase, Norihiko; Tsukazaki, Tomoya et al. (2013-07-09). "Structural basis for dynamic mechanism of proton-coupled symport by the peptide transporter POT". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (28): 11343–11348. doi:10.1073/pnas.1301079110. ISSN 1091-6490. PMID 23798427. Bibcode2013PNAS..11011343D. 

As of this edit, this article uses content from "2.A.17 The Proton-dependent Oligopeptide Transporter (POT/PTR) Family", which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but not under the GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Pfam and InterPro: IPR000109