Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
Anion exchange protein 3 (AE3) is a membrane transport protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC4A3gene. AE3 is functionally similar to the Band 3Cl/HCO3exchange protein but it is expressed primarily in brainneurons and in the heart. Like AE2 its activity is sensitive to pH. AE3 mutations have been linked to seizures.
SLC4A3 gene mutations have been associated with of Short QT syndrome (SQTS) and recent observations suggest that they are probably the most frequent cause of this disease
Structural features
The cryo-EM studies on the structures of human AE3 revealed that it forms a homodimer, similar to AE1 and AE2. AE3 is stabilized in an outward-facing conformation as its resting state, in contrast to AE2, which rests in an inward-facing conformation. This outward-facing conformation makes AE3 more vulnerable to the pan-inhibitor of anion transporters, DIDS (4,4-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid). In addition to the transmembrane domain (TMD) resolved by cryo-EM, the soluble N-terminal domain (NTD) of AE3 has also been solved in a chimera consisting of the AE3 NTD and AE2 TMD.
"Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
"Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Su YR, Klanke CA, Houseal TW, Linn SC, Burk SE, Varvil TS, Otterud BE, Shull GE, Leppert MF, Menon AG (Jan 1995). "Molecular cloning and physical and genetic mapping of the human anion exchanger isoform 3 (SLC2C) gene to chromosome 2q36". Genomics. 22 (3): 605–9. doi:10.1006/geno.1994.1433. PMID8001971.
Vilas GL, Johnson DE, Freund P, Casey JR (September 2009). "Characterization of an epilepsy-associated variant of the human Cl-/HCO3(-) exchanger AE3". Am. J. Physiol., Cell Physiol. 297 (3): C526–36. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00572.2008. PMID19605733. S2CID29802528.
Morgans CW, Kopito RR (1993). "Association of the brain anion exchanger, AE3, with the repeat domain of ankyrin". J. Cell Sci. 105. ( Pt 4) (4): 1137–42. doi:10.1242/jcs.105.4.1137. PMID8227202.
Dudeja PK, Hafez N, Tyagi S, et al. (1999). "Expression of the Na+/H+ and Cl-/HCO-3 exchanger isoforms in proximal and distal human airways". Am. J. Physiol. 276 (6 Pt 1): L971–8. doi:10.1152/ajplung.1999.276.6.L971. PMID10362722.
Einum DD, Zhang J, Arneson PJ, et al. (2000). "Genomic structure of human anion exchanger 3 and its potential role in hereditary neurological disease". Neurogenetics. 1 (4): 289–92. doi:10.1007/s100480050043. PMID10732805. S2CID22195848.
Soleimani M, Greeley T, Petrovic S, et al. (2001). "Pendrin: an apical Cl-/OH-/HCO3- exchanger in the kidney cortex". Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. 280 (2): F356–64. doi:10.1152/ajprenal.2001.280.2.f356. PMID11208611.
Wang Z, Petrovic S, Mann E, Soleimani M (2002). "Identification of an apical Cl(-)/HCO3(-) exchanger in the small intestine". Am. J. Physiol. Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 282 (3): G573–9. doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00338.2001. PMID11842009.