Structural basis of sodium-dependent bile salt uptake into the liver - Microbiologie Fondamentale et Pathogénicité
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Structural basis of sodium-dependent bile salt uptake into the liver

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The liver takes up bile salts from blood to generate bile, enabling absorption of lipophilic nutrients and excretion of metabolites and drugs. Human Na$^+$ –taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide (NTCP) is the main bile salt uptake system in liver. NTCP is also the cellular entry receptor of human hepatitis B and D viruses 2,3 (HBV/HDV), and has emerged as an important target for antiviral drugs. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying NTCP transport and viral receptor functions remain incompletely understood. Here we present cryo-electron microscopy structures of human NTCP in complexes with nanobodies, revealing key conformations of its transport cycle. NTCP undergoes a conformational transition opening a wide transmembrane pore that serves as the transport pathway for bile salts, and exposes key determinant residues for HBV/HDV binding to the outside of the cell. A nanobody that stabilizes pore closure and inward-facing states impairs recognition of the HBV/HDV receptor-binding domain preS1, demonstrating binding selectivity of the viruses for open-to-outside over inward-facing conformations of the NTCP transport cycle. These results provide molecular insights into NTCP ‘gated-pore’ transport and HBV/HDV receptor recognition mechanisms, and are expected to help with development of liver disease therapies targeting NTCP.
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hal-04688088 , version 1 (04-09-2024)

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Kapil Goutam, Francesco Ielasi, Els Pardon, Jan Steyaert, Nicolas Reyes. Structural basis of sodium-dependent bile salt uptake into the liver. Nature, 2022, 606 (7916), pp.1015-1020. ⟨10.1038/s41586-022-04723-z⟩. ⟨hal-04688088⟩

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