Figure 10.

Drug identity can trigger a switch from efflux to influx. Four rate constants may vary depending on the identity of the transported drug (koffED, koffEHD, kAAED, and kAAEHD). We varied these rate constants over a physiological range to explore whether different combinations of these parameters (to mimic transport of different drugs) can induce both symport (Tr < 1, pink) and antiport (Tr > 1, orange) of different drugs by the same transporter. (A) Using pKa values estimated for WT EmrE (pKa1 = 8.2 and pKa2 = 7), antiport dominates the parameter space regardless of drug-dependent rate constants when transport is driven by a pH gradient alone. (B) By lowering the pKa values (pKa1 = 7.0, pKa2 = 5.0) for proton binding by the transporter, different values of the drug-dependent rate constants can result in either symport or antiport, even though the transporter-specific parameters are held constant, reflecting the potential for a single transporter to perform both proton-coupled antiport and symport of different substrates.

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