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Gaina V, Nechifor M, Gaina C, Ursache O. Maleimides – a versatile platform for polymeric materials designed/tailored for high performance applications. POLYM-PLAST TECH MAT 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/25740881.2020.1811315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- V. Gaina
- Laboratory of Poliaddition and Photochemistry, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania
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- Laboratory of Poliaddition and Photochemistry, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania
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- Laboratory of Poliaddition and Photochemistry, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania
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- Laboratory of Poliaddition and Photochemistry, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania
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Carey Hulyer AR, Briggs DA, O'Mara ML, Kerr ID, Harmer JR, Callaghan R. Cross-linking, DEER-spectroscopy and molecular dynamics confirm the inward facing state of P-glycoprotein in a lipid membrane. J Struct Biol 2020; 211:107513. [PMID: 32339763 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2020.107513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The drug efflux pump P-glycoprotein (P-gp) displays a complex transport mechanism involving multiple drug binding sites and two centres for nucleotide hydrolysis. Elucidating the molecular mechanism of transport remains elusive and the availability of P-gp structures in distinct natural and ligand trapped conformations will accelerate our understanding. The present investigation sought to provide biochemical data to validate specific features of these structures; with particular focus on the transmembrane domain that provides the transport conduit. Hence our focus was on transmembrane helices six and twelve (TM6/TM12), which are believed to participate in drug binding, as they line the central transport conduit and provide a direct link to the catalytic centres. A series of P-gp mutants were generated with a single cysteine in both TM6 and TM12 to facilitate measurement of inter-helical distances using cross-linking and DEER strategies. Experimental results were compared to published structures per se and those refined by MD simulations. This analysis revealed that the refined inward-facing murine structure (4M1M) of P-gp provides a good representation of the proximity, topography and relative motions of TM6 and TM12 in reconstituted human P-gp.
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- Alex R Carey Hulyer
- Research School of Biology, and the Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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- Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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- The Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Research School of Biology, and the Medical School, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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Yakusheva EN, Titov DS. Structure and Function of Multidrug Resistance Protein 1. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2018; 83:907-929. [DOI: 10.1134/s0006297918080047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Jones PM, George AM. The Nucleotide-Free State of the Multidrug Resistance ABC Transporter LmrA: Sulfhydryl Cross-Linking Supports a Constant Contact, Head-to-Tail Configuration of the Nucleotide-Binding Domains. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0131505. [PMID: 26120849 PMCID: PMC4485892 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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ABC transporters are integral membrane pumps that are responsible for the import or export of a diverse range of molecules across cell membranes. ABC transporters have been implicated in many phenomena of medical importance, including cystic fibrosis and multidrug resistance in humans. The molecular architecture of ABC transporters comprises two transmembrane domains and two ATP-binding cassettes, or nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs), which are highly conserved and contain motifs that are crucial to ATP binding and hydrolysis. Despite the improved clarity of recent structural, biophysical, and biochemical data, the seemingly simple process of ATP binding and hydrolysis remains controversial, with a major unresolved issue being whether the NBD protomers separate during the catalytic cycle. Here chemical cross-linking data is presented for the bacterial ABC multidrug resistance (MDR) transporter LmrA. These indicate that in the absence of nucleotide or substrate, the NBDs come into contact to a significant extent, even at 4°C, where ATPase activity is abrogated. The data are clearly not in accord with an inward-closed conformation akin to that observed in a crystal structure of V. cholerae MsbA. Rather, they suggest a head-to-tail configuration ‘sandwich’ dimer similar to that observed in crystal structures of nucleotide-bound ABC NBDs. We argue the data are more readily reconciled with the notion that the NBDs are in proximity while undergoing intra-domain motions, than with an NBD ‘Switch’ mechanism in which the NBD monomers separate in between ATP hydrolysis cycles.
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- Peter M Jones
- School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
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van Wonderen JH, McMahon RM, O'Mara ML, McDevitt CA, Thomson AJ, Kerr ID, MacMillan F, Callaghan R. The central cavity of ABCB1 undergoes alternating access during ATP hydrolysis. FEBS J 2014; 281:2190-2201. [PMID: 24597976 PMCID: PMC4892341 DOI: 10.1111/febs.12773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Revised: 02/18/2014] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Understanding the process that underlies multidrug recognition and efflux by P-glycoprotein (ABCB1) remains a key biological challenge. Structural data have recently become available for the murine and Caenorhabditis elegans homologues of ABCB1; however all structures were obtained in the absence of nucleotide. A feature of these structures was the presence of a central cavity that is inaccessible from the extracellular face of the protein. To determine the conformational dynamics of this region several residues in transmembrane helices TM6 (331, 343 and 354) and TM12 (980) were mutated to cysteine. Based upon structural predictions, these residues are proposed to line, or reside proximal to, the central cavity. The mutant isoforms were labelled with a paramagnetic probe enabling the application of EPR spectroscopic methods. Power saturation EPR spectra were recorded in the presence of hydrophobic (O2 ) or hydrophilic (NiEDDA) quenching agents to study the local environment of each residue. ABCB1 was trapped in both its nucleotide-bound and post-hydrolytic conformations and EPR spectra were again recorded in the presence and absence of quenching agents. The EPR line shapes provide information on the movements of these residues within TM6 and TM12 during ATP hydrolysis. Rationalization of the data with molecular dynamic simulations indicates that the cavity is converted to a configuration open to the aqueous phase following nucleotide binding, thereby suggesting alternating access to the cavity on opposite sides of the membrane during translocation.
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- Jessica H. van Wonderen
- Henry Wellcome Unit for Biological EPR, School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Chemistry and Structural Biology Division, University of Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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- Henry Wellcome Unit for Biological EPR, School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH.UK
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- Henry Wellcome Unit for Biological EPR, School of Chemistry, Norwich Research Park, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
- Division of Biomedical Science & Biochemistry, Research School of Biology, College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
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Jara GE, Vera DMA, Pierini AB. Binding of modulators to mouse and human multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein. A computational study. J Mol Graph Model 2013; 46:10-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2013.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2013] [Revised: 08/08/2013] [Accepted: 09/02/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Mairinger S, Erker T, Muller M, Langer O. PET and SPECT radiotracers to assess function and expression of ABC transporters in vivo. Curr Drug Metab 2012; 12:774-92. [PMID: 21434859 DOI: 10.2174/138920011798356980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2010] [Revised: 01/26/2011] [Accepted: 01/28/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, such as P-glycoprotein (Pgp, ABCB1), breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP, ABCG2) and multidrug resistance-associated proteins (MRPs) are expressed in high concentrations at various physiological barriers (e.g. blood-brain barrier, blood-testis barrier, blood-tumor barrier), where they impede the tissue accumulation of various drugs by active efflux transport. Changes in ABC transporter expression and function are thought to be implicated in various diseases, such as cancer, epilepsy, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The availability of a non-invasive imaging method which allows for measuring ABC transporter function or expression in vivo would be of great clinical use in that it could facilitate the identification of those patients that would benefit from treatment with ABC transporter modulating drugs. To date three different kinds of imaging probes have been described to measure ABC transporters in vivo: i) radiolabelled transporter substrates ii) radiolabelled transporter inhibitors and iii) radiolabelled prodrugs which are enzymatically converted into transporter substrates in the organ of interest (e.g. brain). The design of new imaging probes to visualize efflux transporters is inter alia complicated by the overlapping substrate recognition pattern of different ABC transporter types. The present article will describe currently available ABC transporter radiotracers for positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and critically discuss strengths and limitations of individual probes and their potential clinical applications.
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- Severin Mairinger
- Health and Environment Department, Molecular Medicine, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, 2444 Seibersdorf, Austria
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Crowley E, O’Mara ML, Kerr ID, Callaghan R. Transmembrane helix 12 plays a pivotal role in coupling energy provision and drug binding in ABCB1. FEBS J 2010; 277:3974-85. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07789.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Bauer F, Kuntner C, Bankstahl JP, Wanek T, Bankstahl M, Stanek J, Mairinger S, Dörner B, Löscher W, Müller M, Erker T, Langer O. Synthesis and in vivo evaluation of [11C]tariquidar, a positron emission tomography radiotracer based on a third-generation P-glycoprotein inhibitor. Bioorg Med Chem 2010; 18:5489-97. [PMID: 20621487 PMCID: PMC3690440 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2010.06.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2010] [Revised: 06/10/2010] [Accepted: 06/16/2010] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The aim of this study was to develop a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer based on the dual P-glycoprotein (P-gp) breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) inhibitor tariquidar (1) to study the interaction of 1 with P-gp and BCRP in the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in vivo. O-Desmethyl-1 was synthesized and reacted with [(11)C]methyl triflate to afford [(11)C]-1. Small-animal PET imaging of [(11)C]-1 was performed in naïve rats, before and after administration of unlabeled 1 (15 mg/kg, n=3) or the dual P-gp/BCRP inhibitor elacridar (5mg/kg, n=2), as well as in wild-type, Mdr1a/b((-/-)), Bcrp1((-/-)) and Mdr1a/b((-/-))Bcrp1((-/-)) mice (n=3). In vitro autoradiography was performed with [(11)C]-1 using brain sections of all four mouse types, with and without co-incubation with unlabeled 1 or elacridar (1 microM). In PET experiments in rats, administration of unlabeled 1 or elacridar increased brain activity uptake by a factor of 3-4, whereas blood activity levels remained unchanged. In Mdr1a/b((-/-)), Bcrp1((-/-)) and Mdr1a/b((-/-))Bcrp1((-/-)) mice, brain-to-blood ratios of activity at 25 min after tracer injection were 3.4, 1.8 and 14.5 times higher, respectively, as compared to wild-type animals. Autoradiography showed approximately 50% less [(11)C]-1 binding in transporter knockout mice compared to wild-type mice and significant displacement by unlabeled elacridar in wild-type and Mdr1a/b((-/-)) mouse brains. Our data suggest that [(11)C]-1 interacts specifically with P-gp and BCRP in the BBB. However, further investigations are needed to assess if [(11)C]-1 behaves in vivo as a transported or a non-transported inhibitor.
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- Florian Bauer
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Molecular Medicine, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria
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- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Germany
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- Molecular Medicine, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria
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- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Germany
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- Molecular Medicine, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Molecular Medicine, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmacy, University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria
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- Molecular Medicine, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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Ford RC, Kamis AB, Kerr ID, Callaghan R. The ABC Transporters: Structural Insights into Drug Transport. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/9783527627424.ch1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Kerr ID, Jones PM, George AM. Multidrug efflux pumps: the structures of prokaryotic ATP-binding cassette transporter efflux pumps and implications for our understanding of eukaryotic P-glycoproteins and homologues. FEBS J 2009; 277:550-63. [PMID: 19961540 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07486.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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One of the Holy Grails of ATP-binding cassette transporter research is a structural understanding of drug binding and transport in a eukaryotic multidrug resistance pump. These transporters are front-line mediators of drug resistance in cancers and represent an important therapeutic target in future chemotherapy. Although there has been intensive biochemical research into the human multidrug pumps, their 3D structure at atomic resolution remains unknown. The recent determination of the structure of a mouse P-glycoprotein at subatomic resolution is complemented by structures for a number of prokaryotic homologues. These structures have provided advances into our knowledge of the ATP-binding cassette exporter structure and mechanism, and have provided the template data for a number of homology modelling studies designed to reconcile biochemical data on these clinically important proteins.
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- Ian D Kerr
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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ABC transporters: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Trends Biochem Sci 2009; 34:520-31. [PMID: 19748784 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2009.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2009] [Revised: 06/22/2009] [Accepted: 06/24/2009] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters form one of the largest and most ancient of protein families. ABC transporters couple hydrolysis of ATP to vectorial translocation of diverse substrates across cellular membranes. Many human ABC transporters are medically important in causing, for example, multidrug resistance to cytotoxic drugs. Seven complete prokaryotic structures and one eukaryotic structure have been solved for transporters from 2002 to date, and a wealth of research is being conducted on and around these structures to resolve the mechanistic conundrum of how these transporters couple ATP hydrolysis in cytosolic domains to substrate translocation through the transmembrane pore. Many questions remained unanswered about this mechanism, despite a plethora of data and a number of interesting and controversial models.
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Loo TW, Bartlett MC, Clarke DM. Identification of residues in the drug translocation pathway of the human multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein by arginine mutagenesis. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:24074-87. [PMID: 19581304 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.023267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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P-glycoprotein (P-gp, ATP-binding cassette B1) is a drug pump that extracts toxic drug substrates from the plasma membrane and catalyzes their ATP-dependent efflux. To map the residues in the drug translocation pathway, we performed arginine-scanning mutagenesis on all transmembrane (TM) segments (total = 237 residues) of a P-gp processing mutant (G251V) defective in folding (15% maturation efficiency) (glycosylation state used to monitor folding). The rationale was that arginines introduced into the drug-binding sites would mimic drug rescue and enhance maturation of wild-type or processing mutants of P-gp. It was found that 38 of the 89 mutants that matured had enhanced maturation. Enhancer mutations were found in 11 of the 12 TM segments with the largest number found in TMs 6 and 12 (seven in each), TMs that are critical for P-gp-drug substrate interactions. Modeling of the TM segments showed that the enhancer arginines were found on the hydrophilic face, whereas inhibitory arginines were located on a hydrophobic face that may be in contact with the lipid bilayer. It was found that many of the enhancer arginines caused large alterations in P-gp-drug interactions in ATPase assays. For example, mutants A302R (TM5), L339R (TM6), G872R (TM10), F942R (TM11), Q946R (TM11), V982R (TM12), and S993R (TM12) reduced the apparent affinity for verapamil by approximately 10-fold, whereas the F336R (TM6) and M986R (TM12) mutations caused at least a 10-fold increase in apparent affinity for rhodamine B. The results suggest that P-gp contains a large aqueous-filled drug translocation pathway with multiple drug-binding sites that can accommodate the bulky arginine side chains to promote folding of the protein.
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- Tip W Loo
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Loo TW, Clarke DM. Mutational analysis of ABC proteins. Arch Biochem Biophys 2008; 476:51-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2008.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2008] [Revised: 02/14/2008] [Accepted: 02/17/2008] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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McDevitt CA, Shintre CA, Grossmann JG, Pollock NL, Prince SM, Callaghan R, Ford RC. Structural insights into P-glycoprotein (ABCB1) by small angle X-ray scattering and electron crystallography. FEBS Lett 2008; 582:2950-6. [PMID: 18657537 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2008] [Accepted: 07/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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P-glycoprotein (ABCB1) is an ATP-binding cassette protein that is associated with the acquisition of multi-drug resistance in cancer and the failure of chemotherapy in humans. Structural insights into this protein are described using a combination of small angle X-ray scattering data and cryo-electron crystallography data. We have compared the structures with bacterial homologues, and discuss the development of homology models for P-glycoprotein based on the bacterial Sav1866 structure.
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- Christopher A McDevitt
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Storm J, Modok S, O’Mara ML, Tieleman DP, Kerr ID, Callaghan R. Cytosolic Region of TM6 in P-Glycoprotein: Topographical Analysis and Functional Perturbation by Site Directed Labeling. Biochemistry 2008; 47:3615-24. [DOI: 10.1021/bi7023089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Janet Storm
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada, and Centre for Biochemistry and Cell Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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De Rosa MF, Ackerley C, Wang B, Ito S, Clarke DM, Lingwood C. Inhibition of multidrug resistance by adamantylgb3, a globotriaosylceramide analog. J Biol Chem 2007; 283:4501-11. [PMID: 18003606 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m705473200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Multidrug resistance (MDR) via the ABC drug transporter (ABCB1), P-glycoprotein (P-gp/MDR1) overexpression, is a major obstacle in cancer chemotherapy. Many inhibitors reverse MDR but, like cyclosporin A (CsA), have significant toxicities. MDR1 is also a translocase that flips glucosylceramide inside the Golgi to enhance neutral glycosphingolipid (GSL) synthesis. We observed partial MDR1/globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) cell surface co-localization, and GSL removal depleted cell surface MDR1. MDR1 may therefore interact with GSLs. AdamantylGb3, a water-soluble Gb3 mimic, but not other GSL analogs, reversed MDR1-MDCK cell drug resistance. Cell surface MDR1 was up-regulated 1 h after treatment with CsA or adaGb3, but at 72 h, cell surface expression was lost. Intracellular MDR1 accumulated throughout, suggesting long term defects in plasma membrane MDR1 trafficking. AdaGb3 or CsA rapidly reduced rhodamine 123 cellular efflux. MDR1 also mediates gastrointestinal epithelial drug efflux, restricting oral bioavailability. Vinblastine apical-to-basal transport in polarized human intestinal C2BBe1 cells was significantly increased when adaGb3 was added to both sides, or to the apical side only, comparable with verapamil, a standard MDR1 inhibitor. Disulfide cross-linking of mutant MDR1s showed no binding of adaGb3 to the MDR1 verapamil/cyclosporin-binding site between surface proximal helices of transmembrane segments (TM) 6 and TM7, but rather to an adjacent site nearer the center of TM6 and the TM7 extracellular face, i.e. close to the bilayer leaflet interface. Verotoxin-mediated Gb3 endocytosis also up-regulated total MDR1 and inhibited drug efflux. Thus, a functional interplay between membrane Gb3 and MDR1 provides a more physiologically based approach to MDR1 regulation to increase the bioavailability of chemotherapeutic drugs.
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- María Fabiana De Rosa
- Division of Molecular Structure and Function, Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
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Lawson J, O'Mara ML, Kerr ID. Structure-based interpretation of the mutagenesis database for the nucleotide binding domains of P-glycoprotein. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2007; 1778:376-91. [PMID: 18035039 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2007] [Revised: 10/12/2007] [Accepted: 10/25/2007] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is the most intensively studied eukaryotic ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporter, due to its involvement in the multidrug resistance phenotype of a number of cancers. In common with most ABC transporters, P-gp is comprised of two transmembrane domains (TMDs) and two nucleotide binding domains (NBD), the latter coupling ATP hydrolysis with substrate transport (efflux in the case of P-gp). Biochemical investigations over the past twenty years have attempted to unlock mechanistic aspects of P-glycoprotein through scanning and site-directed mutagenesis of both the TMDs and the NBDs. Contemporaneously, crystallographers have elucidated the atomic structure of numerous ABC transporter NBDs, as well as the intact structure (i.e. NBDs and TMDs) of a distantly related ABC-exporter Sav1866. Significantly, the structure of P-gp remains unknown, and only low resolution electron microscopy data exists. Within the current manuscript we employ crystallographic data for homologous proteins, and a molecular model for P-gp, to perform a structural interpretation of the existing "mutagenesis database" for P-gp NBDs. Consequently, this will enable testable predictions to be made that will result in further in-roads into our understanding of this clinically important drug pump.
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- J Lawson
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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Storm J, O'Mara ML, Crowley EH, Peall J, Tieleman DP, Kerr ID, Callaghan R. Residue G346 in transmembrane segment six is involved in inter-domain communication in P-glycoprotein. Biochemistry 2007; 46:9899-910. [PMID: 17696319 DOI: 10.1021/bi700447p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Multidrug transporters such as P-glycoprotein require considerable inter-domain communication to couple energy utilization with substrate translocation. Elucidation of the regions or residues involved in these communication pathways is a key step in the eventual molecular description of multidrug transport. We used cysteine-scanning mutagenesis to probe the functional involvement of residues along the cytoplasmic half of transmembrane segment 6 (TM6) and its extension toward the nucleotide binding domain. The mutation of one residue (G346C) in this segment adversely affected drug transport in cells. Further investigation using purified protein revealed that the underlying biochemical effect was a reduction in basal ATP hydrolysis. This G346C mutation also affected the stimulation of ATPase activity in a drug dependent manner but had no effect on drug binding, ATP binding, or ADP release. Homology modeling of P-glycoprotein indicated that the G346C mutation caused a steric interaction between TM5 and TM6, thereby precluding a helical movement required to support ATP hydrolysis.
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- Janet Storm
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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O'Mara ML, Tieleman DP. P-glycoprotein models of the apo and ATP-bound states based on homology with Sav1866 and MalK. FEBS Lett 2007; 581:4217-22. [PMID: 17706648 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.07.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2007] [Revised: 06/25/2007] [Accepted: 07/25/2007] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We exploit the biochemical and sequence similarity between Staphylococcus aureus Sav1866 and P-glycoprotein to develop a homology model of P-glycoprotein representing an ATP-bound state, which captures the major features of the low-resolution EM structure and is consistent with cysteine mutagenesis studies. Using insights from the MalK crystal structures and BtuCD simulations, we model two nucleotide-free conformations. Conformational changes are characterized by pincering rigid-body rotations of the nucleotide-binding domains, inducing transmembrane domain reorganizations which correspond to the two lowest frequency normal modes of the protein. These conformations (see supplementary material) may characterize some of the major steps in the nucleotide catalytic cycle.
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- Megan L O'Mara
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Bucher K, Belli S, Wunderli-Allenspach H, Krämer SD. P-glycoprotein in proteoliposomes with low residual detergent: the effects of cholesterol. Pharm Res 2007; 24:1993-2004. [PMID: 17497080 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-007-9326-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2007] [Accepted: 04/25/2007] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE There is evidence that cholesterol affects the ATPase and transport functions of P-glycoprotein (P-gp). To study the influence of cholesterol on P-gp in a well defined lipid environment, we reconstituted P-gp in egg phosphatidylcholine (PhC) and PhC/cholesterol proteoliposomes with negligible residual amounts of detergents. MATERIALS AND METHODS P-gp proteoliposomes were prepared by continuous dialysis from micelles consisting of P-gp, lipids, sodium dodecyl sulfate and cholate. Basal and modulator-induced ATPase activities were studied in an established enzyme assay. Modulator affinities to P-gp and to the lipid bilayers were determined by equilibrium dialysis. RESULTS In the absence of cholesterol the basal ATPase activity was six fold lower than in the presence of 20 or 40% cholesterol, and no P-gp binding and ATPase induction was detected for the tested modulators verapamil and progesterone. In proteoliposomes containing 20 and 40% cholesterol, respectively, the modulators showed significant P-gp binding and ATPase activation. The concentration of the modulators for half maximal activation of the ATPase was higher with 40% than with 20% cholesterol. CONCLUSIONS Cholesterol influences P-gp in three ways: (a) it enhances its basal ATPase activity, (b) it renders P-gp sensitive towards the modulators verapamil and progesterone and (c) it affects the modulator concentration at half maximal ATPase activation.
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- Karsten Bucher
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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McDevitt CA, Callaghan R. How can we best use structural information on P-glycoprotein to design inhibitors? Pharmacol Ther 2007; 113:429-41. [PMID: 17208306 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2006.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2006] [Accepted: 10/13/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the multidrug resistance (MDR) ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp). Since then a considerable research effort has attempted to provide a greater understanding of the biological enigma of "multidrug" efflux. Moreover, the growing correlation between P-gp expression and a negative prognosis or poor outcome for chemotherapy has sparked significant interest in the generation of inhibitors. How close are we to overcoming the unwanted actions of P-gp in resistant cancer following 30 years of research? The initial inhibitors were pre-existing clinically used compounds and exploited the broad specificity of P-gp. Unfortunately, the concentrations required to inhibit P-gp meant that these compounds generated considerable toxicity. Pharmacological investigations progressed to rational design using the 1st generation compounds as a template structure. Inherent toxicity of the drugs was reduced; however, pharmacokinetic interactions with the anticancer drugs were unsustainable. Generation of the most recent of inhibitors employed combinatorial chemistry to produce a handful of potent and selective P-gp inhibitors. Some of these drugs have progressed to clinical trials with poor results or in some cases, undisclosed progress. There remains a clear need for the generation of P-gp inhibitors and this review describes the potential for a structure-based design to facilitate this undertaking. In particular, the plethora of functional data can provide important regions on the protein that could conceivably be exploited as inhibitor targets.
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- Christopher A McDevitt
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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Stratford F, Ramjeesingh M, Cheung J, Huan LJUN, Bear C. The Walker B motif of the second nucleotide-binding domain (NBD2) of CFTR plays a key role in ATPase activity by the NBD1-NBD2 heterodimer. Biochem J 2007; 401:581-6. [PMID: 16989640 PMCID: PMC1820796 DOI: 10.1042/bj20060968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator), a member of the ABC (ATP-binding cassette) superfamily of membrane proteins, possesses two NBDs (nucleotide-binding domains) in addition to two MSDs (membrane spanning domains) and the regulatory 'R' domain. The two NBDs of CFTR have been modelled as a heterodimer, stabilized by ATP binding at two sites in the NBD interface. It has been suggested that ATP hydrolysis occurs at only one of these sites as the putative catalytic base is only conserved in NBD2 of CFTR (Glu1371), but not in NBD1 where the corresponding residue is a serine, Ser573. Previously, we showed that fragments of CFTR corresponding to NBD1 and NBD2 can be purified and co-reconstituted to form a heterodimer capable of ATPase activity. In the present study, we show that the two NBD fragments form a complex in vivo, supporting the utility of this model system to evaluate the role of Glu1371 in ATP binding and hydrolysis. The present studies revealed that a mutant NBD2 (E1371Q) retains wild-type nucleotide binding affinity of NBD2. On the other hand, this substitution abolished the ATPase activity formed by the co-purified complex. Interestingly, introduction of a glutamate residue in place of the non-conserved Ser573 in NBD1 did not confer additional ATPase activity by the heterodimer, implicating a vital role for multiple residues in formation of the catalytic site. These findings provide the first biochemical evidence suggesting that the Walker B residue: Glu1371, plays a primary role in the ATPase activity conferred by the NBD1-NBD2 heterodimer.
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- Fiona L. L. Stratford
- *Programme in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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- *Programme in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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- *Programme in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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- *Programme in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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- *Programme in Molecular Structure and Function, Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
- †Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A8
- ‡Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A8
- To whom correspondence should be addressed, at Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8 (email )
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Frelet A, Klein M. Insight in eukaryotic ABC transporter function by mutation analysis. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:1064-84. [PMID: 16442101 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2005] [Revised: 01/10/2006] [Accepted: 01/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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With regard to structure-function relations of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters several intriguing questions are in the spotlight of active research: Why do functional ABC transporters possess two ATP binding and hydrolysis domains together with two ABC signatures and to what extent are the individual nucleotide-binding domains independent or interacting? Where is the substrate-binding site and how is ATP hydrolysis functionally coupled to the transport process itself? Although much progress has been made in the elucidation of the three-dimensional structures of ABC transporters in the last years by several crystallographic studies including novel models for the nucleotide hydrolysis and translocation catalysis, site-directed mutagenesis as well as the identification of natural mutations is still a major tool to evaluate effects of individual amino acids on the overall function of ABC transporters. Apart from alterations in characteristic sequence such as Walker A, Walker B and the ABC signature other parts of ABC proteins were subject to detailed mutagenesis studies including the substrate-binding site or the regulatory domain of CFTR. In this review, we will give a detailed overview of the mutation analysis reported for selected ABC transporters of the ABCB and ABCC subfamilies, namely HsCFTR/ABCC7, HsSUR/ABCC8,9, HsMRP1/ABCC1, HsMRP2/ABCC2, ScYCF1 and P-glycoprotein (Pgp)/MDR1/ABCB1 and their effects on the function of each protein.
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- Annie Frelet
- Zurich Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Plant Biology, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
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Callaghan R, Ford RC, Kerr ID. The translocation mechanism of P-glycoprotein. FEBS Lett 2005; 580:1056-63. [PMID: 16380120 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2005.11.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2005] [Revised: 11/16/2005] [Accepted: 11/16/2005] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Multidrug transporters are involved in mediating the failure of chemotherapy in treating several serious diseases. The archetypal multidrug transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp) confers resistance to a large number of chemically and functionally unrelated anti-cancer drugs by mediating efflux from cancer cells. The ability to efflux such a large number of drugs remains a biological enigma and the lack of mechanistic understanding of the translocation pathway used by P-gp prevents rational design of compounds to inhibit its function. The translocation pathway is critically dependent on ATP hydrolysis and drug interaction with P-gp is possible at one of a multitude of allosterically linked binding sites. However, aspects such as coupling stoichiometry, molecular properties of binding sites and the nature of conformational changes remain unresolved or the centre of considerable controversy. The present review attempts to utilise the available data to generate a detailed sequence of events in the translocation pathway for this dexterous protein.
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- Richard Callaghan
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Level 4, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
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