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@ARTICLE{Yorke:643130,
author = {Yorke, Briony A. and Ginn, Helen},
title = {{C}alculation of minimum energy pathways in transport
proteins},
journal = {Communications chemistry},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
issn = {2399-3669},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
reportid = {PUBDB-2026-00028},
pages = {377},
year = {2025},
note = {cc-by},
abstract = {Although static structures of protein metastable states are
well-studied, the fleeting transitions between these states
are difficult to experimentally observe or predict. We
present a computationally inexpensive algorithm,
“cold-inbetweening”, which generates trajectories
between experimentally determined end-states. Here we apply
cold-inbetweening to provide mechanistic insight into the
ubiquitous alternate access model of operation in three
membrane transporter superfamilies. Here, we study DraNramp
from Deinococcus radiodurans, MalT from Bacillus cereus, and
MATE from Pyrococcus furiosus. In MalT, the trajectory
demonstrates elevator transport through unwinding of a
supporter arm helix, maintaining adequate space to transport
maltose. In DraNramp, outward-gate closure occurs prior to
inward-gate opening, in accordance with the alternate access
hypothesis. In the MATE transporter, switching conformation
involves obligatory rewinding of the N-terminal helix to
avoid steric backbone clashes. This concurrently plugs the
cavernous ligand-binding site mid-conformational change.
Cold-inbetweening can generate hypotheses about large
functionally relevant protein conformational changes.},
cin = {FS-CFEL-1-DNMX},
ddc = {540},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-1-DNMX-20231108},
pnm = {633 - Life Sciences – Building Blocks of Life: Structure
and Function (POF4-633)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-633},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1038/s42004-025-01754-1},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/643130},
}