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ATP11C, a plasma membrane phospholipid flippase, maintains the asymmetric distribution of phosphatidylserine accumulated in the inner leaflet. (rcsb.org)
Sorting of the phospholipid flippase ATP8A1 by AP-3 confers release at high frequency by recruiting synapsin to synaptic vesicles. (nature.com)
Phospholipid-flippase chaperone CDC50A is required for synapse maintenance by regulating phosphatidylserine exposure. (ucsf.edu)
The phospholipid flippase family of genes in Tetrahymena contains 20 members, FLP1-FLP20. (ciliate.org)

Flippases (rarely spelled flipases) are transmembrane lipid transporter proteins located in the membrane which belong to ABC transporter or P4-type ATPase families. (wikipedia.org)
Structural basis of the P4B ATPase lipid flippase activity. (yeastgenome.org)
The research described in this dissertation involved development of lipid flippase inhibitors and investigating their potential as antimicrobial agents against various drug resistant microbes. (bepress.com)
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Bern has succeeded in determining the structure of a lipid flippase at high resolution, which has provided insight into how this membrane protein transports lipids by flipping. (chemeurope.com)
Flippases have important roles in maintaining the asymmetry of cellular membranes, i.e. in the different lipid composition of the outer and inner sides. (chemeurope.com)
Flippases are also essential for transporting lipid-linked oligosaccharides ("LLOs"), which are transferred onto acceptor proteins during N-linked protein glycosylation. (chemeurope.com)
Similar to a credit card reader, the oligosaccharide moiety of the lipid-linked oligosaccharide is then pulled into a hydrophilic channel within the flippase. (chemeurope.com)
Structure and mutagenic analysis of the lipid II flippase MurJ from Escherichia coli . (bvsalud.org)

Flippases are described as transporters that move lipids from the exoplasmic to the cytosolic face, while floppases transport in the reverse direction. (wikipedia.org)
This is why flippases are required to transport lipids from one side of the membrane to the other, essentially flipping their orientation. (chemeurope.com)

Flippase-mediated phospholipid asymmetry promotes fast Cdc42 recycling in dynamic maintenance of cell polarity. (stowers.org)
Flippases often translocate aminophospholipids toward the cytosolic leaflet of plasma membranes to maintain their asymmetry. (biologists.com)

Transport mechanism of P4 ATPase phosphatidylcholine flippases. (yeastgenome.org)

Some flippases - often instead called scramblases - are energy-independent and bidirectional, causing reversible equilibration of phospholipid between the two sides of the membrane, whereas others are energy-dependent and unidirectional, using energy from ATP hydrolysis to pump the phospholipid in a preferred direction. (wikipedia.org)

Flippase-like domain-containing protein of 370 aas and 8 TMSs in a 5 + 3 TMS arrangement. (tcdb.org)
Three research teams from ETH Zurich and the University of Bern, led by ETH professor Kaspar Locher, have now determined the structure of one such flippase, the PglK protein from the bacterium Campylobacter jejuni This required the researchers to purify the flippase from bacterial membranes and generate three-dimensional crystals, which were then analysed using X-ray crystallography to determine the positions of all atoms. (chemeurope.com)

Yamazaki Y and Kono K (2022) Clathrin-mediated trafficking of phospholipid flippases is required for local plasma membrane/cell wall damage repair in budding yeast. (yeastgenome.org)

The structures detail key features of phospholipid translocation by ATP11C, and a common basic mechanism for flippases is emerging. (rcsb.org)
The flippase itself does not change its orientation during translocation reaction and therefore acts as a catalyst. (chemeurope.com)

This strategy takes advantage of the two-component Gal4/UAS expression system, and Flippase-mediated removal of a stop cassette within an expression vector. (elifesciences.org)
Expression of the marker/effector gene requires both removal of the stop cassette via fru P1-flippase ( flp ) expression and expression of Gal4 via dpr/DIP regulation. (elifesciences.org)
Expression vector of S. cerevisiae Flippase. (riken.jp)

Although the present work constitutes basic research, there are diseases associated with mutations in a human flippase, explains Aebi. (chemeurope.com)

Until now biologists knew neither the high-resolution structures of flippases nor the exact mechanism used to flip LLOs. (chemeurope.com)

The scientists determined three distinct structures that corresponded to different states of the flippase during the reaction. (chemeurope.com)

P4-ATPases as Phospholipid Flippases-Structure, Function, and Enigmas. (yeastgenome.org)

Some flippases - often instead called scramblases - are energy-independent and bidirectional, causing reversible equilibration of phospholipid between the two sides of the membrane, whereas others are energy-dependent and unidirectional, using energy from ATP hydrolysis to pump the phospholipid in a preferred direction. (wikipedia.org)
3. Phospholipid flippase activities and substrate specificities of human type IV P-type ATPases localized to the plasma membrane. (nih.gov)
4. The phospholipid flippase ATP8B1 is required for lysosomal fusion in macrophages. (nih.gov)
8. The phospholipid flippase ATP8B1 mediates apical localization of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator. (nih.gov)
Finally, multiple phospholipid-transporting flippases, including the T. brucei orthologue of the Leishmania miltefosine transporter, a putative β-subunit/CDC50 cofactor, and additional membrane-associated hits, affect amphotericin B efficacy, providing new insights into mechanisms of drug uptake and action. (dundee.ac.uk)

[ 69 ] did not find evidence for the presumed aminophospholipid flippase activity of Drs2p. (medscape.com)
From NCBI Gene: Enables aminophospholipid flippase activity. (nih.gov)

Structure and mutagenic analysis of the lipid II flippase MurJ from Escherichia coli . (bvsalud.org)
These antibiotics inhibit lipid II flippase and potentiate β-lactam activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in mice, potentially providing a new treatment regimen. (umn.edu)

MurJ is the flippase of lipid-linked precursors for peptidoglycan biogenesis. (harvard.edu)
Flippase MurJ carries out the translocation to the outer face of the cytoplasmic membrane along with Amit. (javatpoint.com)

The investigated flippase is specific to phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine lipids and is autoinhibited by the C-terminal tail of Drs2p. (cef-mc.de)
A crucial mechanism for cellular homeostasis and signaling in this fungus involves the transport of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine by flippase from the plasma membrane's outer leaflet to the inner leaflet. (amc-2023.org)

Flippases (rarely spelled flipases) are transmembrane lipid transporter proteins located in the membrane which belong to ABC transporter or P4-type ATPase families. (wikipedia.org)
14. The lipid flippase heterodimer ATP8B1-CDC50A is essential for surface expression of the apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (SLC10A2/ASBT) in intestinal Caco-2 cells. (nih.gov)

The scientists also observed a putative lipid translocation pathway in this flippase that involves a conserved PISL motif in transmembrane segment 4 and polar residues of transmembrane segments 2 and 5, in particular Lys1018, in the centre of the lipid bilayer. (cef-mc.de)

10. ATP8B1 and ATP11C: Two Lipid Flippases Important for Hepatocyte Function. (nih.gov)

13. A flippase-independent function of ATP8B1, the protein affected in familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 1, is required for apical protein expression and microvillus formation in polarized epithelial cells. (nih.gov)
16. Structural insights into the activation of autoinhibited human lipid flippase ATP8B1 upon substrate binding. (nih.gov)
ATP8B1 is hypothesized to be an aminophospholipid flippase, translocating phospholipids such as phosphatidylserine from outer to the inner leaflet of plasma membrane [ 6 ]. (gastrores.org)

Hg 2+ inhibited flippase, an enzyme that recovers PS into the inner leaflet of the cell membrane, and activated scramblase, an enzyme that alters lipid asymmetry in the cell membrane. (nih.gov)
Using transcriptome-wide association and colocalisation to infer the effect of gene expression on disease severity, we find evidence implicating multiple genes, including reduced expression of a membrane flippase (ATP11A), and increased mucin expression (MUC1), in critical disease. (cdc.gov)
2017/2/6)Ypk1/Ypk2 kinases maintain Rho1 at the plasma membrane by flippase-dependent lipid remodelling after membrane stresses. (gunma-u.ac.jp)

SemiSWEETs are related to the PQ-loop family that function as cargo receptors in vesicle transport, mediates movement of basic amino acids across lysosomal membranes, and is also involved in phospholipase flippase function. (preprints.org)

Our study investigates the regulatory function of the TOR-Ypk1-Fpk1 signaling pathway on flippase activity in C. neoformans . (amc-2023.org)
However, the similarity between the phagocytic killing of fpk1 Δ and the wild type suggests additional regulatory factors for the flippase pathway beyond Fpk1. (amc-2023.org)
The aim of this study is to explore the TOR-Ypk1-Fpk1 pathway, presumed to regulate the flippase complex in C. neoformans , and to elucidate the interactions between these components. (amc-2023.org)

Our results indicate that Ypk1 acts as a positive regulator for Fpk1, thus modulating flippase activity, as evidenced by the restoration of duramycin resistance through FPK1 overexpression in ypk1 Δ. (amc-2023.org)
Furthermore, pdk1 Δ showed higher duramycin sensitivity than the wild-type, but YPK1 overexpression was able to restore resistance, revealing Pdk1 as a positive regulator of Ypk1 and a modulator of flippase activity. (amc-2023.org)
[ 66 , 67 , 68 ] It may be via this inward flippase activity that Drs2p is involved in the recruitment of clathrin molecules to Golgi membranes, and thus plays an important role in clathrin-coated vesicle transport in yeast. (medscape.com)
She will investigate the structure and activity of the lipid flippase, Drs2, in a native-like environment. (au.dk)

Component of a flippase complex consisting of DNF1 and LEM3 (PubMed:33320091). (cansar.ai)

The MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cell lines were engineered with a scrambled shRNA, a NAT1 specific shRNA or a NAT1 overexpression cassette stably integrated into a single flippase recognition target (FRT) site facilitating incorporation of these different genetic elements into the same genomic location. (nih.gov)

FgDnfA is critical for normal vegetative growth while the other flippases are dispensable. (tcdb.org)

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