The Band 3 chloride/bicarbonate anion exchanger 1 (AE1, SLC4A1) is one of the best-studied human membrane transport proteins.
A recent 3.5 Å crystal structure of the Band 3 membrane domain provides new insights into its mechanism of action.
This review places over 40 year of research on Band 3 into a structural context and explains why mutations lead to disease.
Molecular dynamics simulations produced the first molecular model of Band 3 in a lipid bilayer.