Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2049703 | FEBS Letters | 2010 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Mitochondrial uncoupling proteins (UCPs) are pure anion uniporters, which mediate fatty acid (FA) uniport leading to FA cycling. Protonated FAs then flip-flop back across the lipid bilayer. An existence of pure proton channel in UCPs is excluded by the equivalent flux-voltage dependencies for uniport of FAs and halide anions, which are best described by the Eyring barrier variant with a single energy well in the middle of two peaks. Experiments with FAs unable to flip and alkylsulfonates also support this view. Phylogenetically, UCPs took advantage of the common FA-uncoupling function of SLC25 family carriers and dropped their solute transport function.
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Authors
Petr Ježek, Martin Jabůrek, Keith D. Garlid,