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Title | Structural basis of anticancer drug recognition and amino acid transport by LAT1. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Page 1635, Year 2025 |
Publish date | Feb 14, 2025 |
![]() | Yongchan Lee / Chunhuan Jin / Ryuichi Ohgaki / Minhui Xu / Satoshi Ogasawara / Rangana Warshamanage / Keitaro Yamashita / Garib Murshudov / Osamu Nureki / Takeshi Murata / Yoshikatsu Kanai / ![]() ![]() ![]() |
PubMed Abstract | LAT1 (SLC7A5) transports large neutral amino acids and plays pivotal roles in cancer proliferation, immune response and drug delivery. Despite recent advances in structural understanding of LAT1, how ...LAT1 (SLC7A5) transports large neutral amino acids and plays pivotal roles in cancer proliferation, immune response and drug delivery. Despite recent advances in structural understanding of LAT1, how it discriminates substrates and inhibitors including the clinically relevant drugs remains elusive. Here we report six structures of LAT1 across three conformations with bound ligands, elucidating its substrate transport and inhibitory mechanisms. JPH203 (also known as nanvuranlat or KYT-0353), an anticancer drug in clinical trials, traps LAT1 in an outward-facing state with a U-shaped conformer, with its amino-phenylbenzoxazol moiety pushing against transmembrane helix 3 (TM3) and bending TM10. Physiological substrates like ʟ-Phe lack such effects, whereas melphalan poses steric hindrance, explaining its inhibitory activity. The "classical" system L inhibitor BCH induces an occluded state critical for transport, confirming its substrate-like behavior. These findings provide a structural basis for substrate recognition and inhibition of LAT1, guiding future drug design. |
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Methods | EM (single particle) |
Resolution | 3.58 - 4.12 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-37132, PDB-8kdd: EMDB-37134, PDB-8kdf: EMDB-37135, PDB-8kdg: EMDB-37136, PDB-8kdh: EMDB-37137, PDB-8kdi: EMDB-37138, PDB-8kdj: EMDB-37140, PDB-8kdn: EMDB-37141, PDB-8kdo: EMDB-37142, PDB-8kdp: |
Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-NAG: ![]()
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ChemComp-VU0: ![]() ChemComp-PHE: ![]()
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![]() | TRANSPORT PROTEIN / Transporter / Amino acid / Complex / Cancer / TRANSPORT PROTEIN/IMMUNE SYSTEM / Glycoprotein / TRANSPORT PROTEIN-IMMUNE SYSTEM complex |