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  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,955 Views
16 Pages

4 April 2022

Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters are ancient proteins conserved among various kingdoms, from prokaryotes to eukaryotes. In plants, MATEs usually form a large family in the genome. Homologous MATE transporters have different...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,641 Views
13 Pages

In recent years, membrane transporters have attracted considerable interest regarding their involvement in the molecular dialogue occurring between microbes and their hosts. In particular, the multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,775 Views
19 Pages

Rehmannia glutinosa RgMATE35 Participates in the Root Secretion of Phenolic Acids and Modulates the Development of Plant Replant Disease

  • Yanhui Yang,
  • Bingyang Guo,
  • Yan Jin,
  • Mingjie Li,
  • Zichao Wang,
  • Jiaqi Zhao,
  • Haiqin Ma,
  • Tongyu Wu and
  • Zhongyi Zhang

28 October 2024

Phenolic allelochemicals from root exudates dominate rhizosphere formation, lead to autotoxicity in plants subjected to continuous monoculture (CM) stress and induce the emergence of replant disease. However, the regulatory mechanisms governing the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,215 Views
16 Pages

The multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) proteins are coding by a secondary transporter gene family, and have been identified to participate in the modulation of organic acid exudation for aluminum (Al) resistance. The soybean variety Glycin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,275 Views
23 Pages

Comprehensive Identification and Expression Analysis of the Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) Gene Family in Brachypodium distachyon

  • Sirui Ma,
  • Yixian Guo,
  • Tianyi Zhang,
  • Di Liu,
  • Linna Wang,
  • Ruiwen Hu,
  • Demian Zhou,
  • Ying Zhou,
  • Qinfang Chen and
  • Lujun Yu

15 September 2024

The Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) proteins serve as pivotal transporters responsible for the extrusion of metabolites, thereby playing a significant role in both plant development and the detoxification of toxins. The MATE gene family...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,206 Views
23 Pages

Dissecting the Transcriptomes of Multiple Metronidazole-Resistant and Sensitive Trichomonas vaginalis Strains Identified Distinct Genes and Pathways Associated with Drug Resistance and Cell Death

  • Po-Jung Huang,
  • Ching-Yun Huang,
  • Yu-Xuan Li,
  • Yi-Chung Liu,
  • Lichieh-Julie Chu,
  • Yuan-Ming Yeh,
  • Wei-Hung Cheng,
  • Ruei-Ming Chen,
  • Chi-Ching Lee and
  • Kuo-Yang Huang
  • + 6 authors

Trichomonas vaginalis is the causative agent of trichomoniasis, the most prevalent non-viral sexually transmitted infection worldwide. Metronidazole (MTZ) is the mainstay of anti-trichomonal chemotherapy; however, drug resistance has become an increa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
69 Citations
23,180 Views
39 Pages

Combating Antibiotic Resistance: Mechanisms, Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens, and Novel Therapeutic Approaches: An Updated Review

  • Mostafa E. Elshobary,
  • Nadia K. Badawy,
  • Yara Ashraf,
  • Asmaa A. Zatioun,
  • Hagar H. Masriya,
  • Mohamed M. Ammar,
  • Nourhan A. Mohamed,
  • Sohaila Mourad and
  • Abdelrahman M. Assy

12 March 2025

The escalating global health crisis of antibiotic resistance, driven by the rapid emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens, necessitates urgent and innovative countermeasures. This review comprehensively examines the diverse mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,448 Views
21 Pages

Novel Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors Suppress P-Glycoprotein Activity and Overcome Multidrug Resistance in Cancer Cells

  • Jelena Dinić,
  • Ana Podolski-Renić,
  • Mirna Jovanović,
  • Loana Musso,
  • Ivanka Tsakovska,
  • Ilza Pajeva,
  • Sabrina Dallavalle and
  • Milica Pešić

16 September 2019

Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90) chaperone interacts with a broad range of client proteins involved in cancerogenesis and cancer progression. However, Hsp90 inhibitors were unsuccessful as anticancer agents due to their high toxicity, lack of selectivit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,806 Views
13 Pages

The Poly-Glutamate Motif of GmMATE4 Regulates Its Isoflavone Transport Activity

  • Yee-Shan Ku,
  • Sau-Shan Cheng,
  • Ming-Yan Cheung,
  • Yongchao Niu,
  • Ailin Liu,
  • Gyuhwa Chung and
  • Hon-Ming Lam

10 February 2022

Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters in eukaryotes have been characterized to be antiporters that mediate the transport of substrates in exchange for protons. In plants, alkaloids, phytohormones, ion chelators, and flavonoids ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,272 Views
20 Pages

Genome-Wide Dissection of MATE Gene Family in Cultivated Peanuts and Unveiling Their Expression Profiles Under Aluminum Stress

  • Saba Hameed,
  • Xia Li,
  • Yunyi Zhou,
  • Jie Zhan,
  • Aiqin Wang,
  • Zhuqiang Han,
  • Dong Xiao and
  • Longfei He

Peanut faces yield constraints due to aluminum (Al) toxicity in acidic soils. The multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) family is known for extruding organic compounds and transporting plant hormones and secondary metabolites. However, the MA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,198 Views
10 Pages

Urinary Excretion of Tetrodotoxin Modeled in a Porcine Renal Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cell Line, LLC-PK1

  • Takuya Matsumoto,
  • Yui Ishizaki,
  • Keika Mochizuki,
  • Mitsuru Aoyagi,
  • Yoshiharu Mitoma,
  • Shoichiro Ishizaki and
  • Yuji Nagashima

17 July 2017

This study examined the urinary excretion of tetrodotoxin (TTX) modeled in a porcine renal proximal tubule epithelial cell line, LLC-PK1. Time course profiles of TTX excretion and reabsorption across the cell monolayers at 37 °C showed that the amoun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,833 Views
17 Pages

A Macrocyclic Peptide that Serves as a Cocrystallization Ligand and Inhibits the Function of a MATE Family Transporter

  • Christopher J. Hipolito,
  • Yoshiki Tanaka,
  • Takayuki Katoh,
  • Osamu Nureki and
  • Hiroaki Suga

30 August 2013

The random non-standard peptide integrated discovery (RaPID) system has proven to be a powerful approach to discover de novo natural product-like macrocyclic peptides that inhibit protein functions. We have recently reported three macrocyclic peptide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,903 Views
12 Pages

12 April 2020

Previous studies have suggested that multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) proteins might be involved in flavonoid transportation. However, whether MATE proteins are involved in anthocyanin accumulation in Lilium is unclear. Here, a flavonoid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,001 Views
23 Pages

Identification and Expression of the Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) Gene Family in Capsicum annuum and Solanum tuberosum

  • Qinfang Chen,
  • Linna Wang,
  • Di Liu,
  • Sirui Ma,
  • Yangshuo Dai,
  • Xue Zhang,
  • Yuxin Wang,
  • Tian Hu,
  • Ming Xiao and
  • Lujun Yu
  • + 3 authors

27 October 2020

Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) proteins are essential transporters that extrude metabolites and participate in plant development and the detoxification of toxins. Little is known about the MATE gene family in the Solanaceae, which incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,699 Views
25 Pages

A Genome-Wide Survey of MATE Transporters in Brassicaceae and Unveiling Their Expression Profiles under Abiotic Stress in Rapeseed

  • Cailin Qiao,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Yuanyuan Wan,
  • Sirou Xiang,
  • Mingwei Guan,
  • Hai Du,
  • Zhanglin Tang,
  • Kun Lu,
  • Jiana Li and
  • Cunmin Qu

20 August 2020

The multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) protein family is important in the export of toxins and other substrates, but detailed information on this family in the Brassicaceae has not yet been reported compared to Arabidopsis thaliana. In thi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
449 Citations
19,160 Views
22 Pages

Insoluble-Bound Phenolics in Food

  • Fereidoon Shahidi and
  • JuDong Yeo

11 September 2016

This contribution provides a review of the topic of insoluble-bound phenolics, especially their localization, synthesis, transfer and formation in plant cells, as well as their metabolism in the human digestive system and corresponding bioactivities....

  • Article
  • Open Access

Overexpression of BnaMATE43b Improves Resistance to Aluminum Toxicity and Identification of Its Upstream Transcription Factors in Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.)

  • Xiaojun Xiao,
  • Huiwen Zhou,
  • Paolan Yu,
  • Wei Zheng,
  • Depeng Han,
  • Lei Yang,
  • Zhexuan Jiang,
  • Yewei Cheng,
  • Yazhen Li and
  • Qinghong Zhou
  • + 7 authors
Plants2026, 15(2), 338;https://doi.org/10.3390/plants15020338 
(registering DOI)

22 January 2026

The multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) protein plays a crucial role in mediating plant responses to aluminum (Al) toxicity. The key candidate gene BnaMATE43b related to Al toxicity stress in rapeseed was identified using GWAS and transcrip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,284 Views
9 Pages

The Identification of MATE Antisense Transcripts in Soybean Using Strand-Specific RNA-Seq Datasets

  • Yee-Shan Ku,
  • Xiao Lin,
  • Kejing Fan,
  • Sau-Shan Cheng,
  • Ting-Fung Chan,
  • Gyuhwa Chung and
  • Hon-Ming Lam

26 January 2022

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) have been generally reported as negative regulators of their sense counterparts. Multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) proteins mediate the transport of various substrates. Although MATEs have been identif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,485 Views
18 Pages

An Integrated Pipeline and Overexpression of a Novel Efflux Transporter, YoeA, Significantly Increases Plipastatin Production in Bacillus subtilis

  • Mengxi Wang,
  • Jie Zheng,
  • Sen Sun,
  • Zichao Wu,
  • Yuting Shao,
  • Jiahui Xiang,
  • Chenyue Yin,
  • Rita Cindy Aye Ayire Sedjoah and
  • Zhihong Xin

6 June 2024

Plipastatin, an antimicrobial peptide produced by Bacillus subtilis, exhibits remarkable antimicrobial activity against a diverse range of pathogenic bacteria and fungi. However, the practical application of plipastatin has been significantly hampere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
831 Views
15 Pages

The G311E Mutant Gene of MATE Family Protein DTX6 Confers Diquat and Paraquat Resistance in Rice Without Yield or Nutritional Penalties

  • Gaoan Chen,
  • Jiaying Han,
  • Ziyan Sun,
  • Mingming Zhao,
  • Zihan Zhang,
  • Shuo An,
  • Muyu Shi,
  • Jinxiao Yang and
  • Xiaochun Ge

Weeds present a pervasive challenge in agricultural fields. The integration of herbicide-resistant crops with chemical weed management offers an effective solution for sustainable weed control while reducing labor inputs, particularly in large-scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,800 Views
30 Pages

In Vitro Metabolism and Transport Characteristics of Zastaprazan

  • Min Seo Lee,
  • Jihoon Lee,
  • Minyoung Pang,
  • John Kim,
  • Hyunju Cha,
  • Banyoon Cheon,
  • Min-Koo Choi,
  • Im-Sook Song and
  • Hye Suk Lee

Zastaprazan (JP-1366), a novel potassium-competitive acid blocker, is a new drug for the treatment of erosive esophagitis. JP-1366 is highly metabolized in human, mouse, and dog hepatocytes but moderately metabolized in rat and monkey hepatocytes whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,151 Views
31 Pages

Demethylation inhibitors (DMIs), including prochloraz, are popular fungicides to control citrus postharvest pathogens such as Penicillium digitatum (green mold). However, many P. digitatum strains have developed prochloraz resistance, which decreases...