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A mass spectrometry based transport assay for studying EmrE transport of unlabeled substrates.

Membrane transporters are an important class of proteins which remain challenging to study. Transport assays are crucial to developing our understanding of such proteins as they allow direct measurement of their transport activity. However, currently available methods for monitoring liposomal loading of organic substrates primarily rely on detection of radioactively or fluorescently labeled substrates. The requirement of a labeled substrate significantly restricts the systems and substrates that can be studied. Here we present a mass spectrometry based detection method for liposomal uptake assays that eliminates the need for labeled substrates. We demonstrate the efficacy of the assay with EmrE, a small multidrug resistance transporter found in E. coli that has become a model transport system for the study of secondary active transport. Furthermore, we develop a method for differentiation between bound and transported substrate, enhancing the information gained from the liposomal uptake assay. The transport assay presented here is readily applicable to other transport systems and substrates.

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