Publication Date:
2014-04-22
Description:
The capacity of numerous bacterial species to tolerate antibiotics and other toxic compounds arises in part from the activity of energy-dependent transporters. In Gram-negative bacteria, many of these transporters form multicomponent 'pumps' that span both inner and outer membranes and are driven energetically by a primary or secondary transporter component. A model system for such a pump is the acridine resistance complex of Escherichia coli. This pump assembly comprises the outer-membrane channel TolC, the secondary transporter AcrB located in the inner membrane, and the periplasmic AcrA, which bridges these two integral membrane proteins. The AcrAB-TolC efflux pump is able to transport vectorially a diverse array of compounds with little chemical similarity, thus conferring resistance to a broad spectrum of antibiotics. Homologous complexes are found in many Gram-negative species, including in animal and plant pathogens. Crystal structures are available for the individual components of the pump and have provided insights into substrate recognition, energy coupling and the transduction of conformational changes associated with the transport process. However, how the subunits are organized in the pump, their stoichiometry and the details of their interactions are not known. Here we present the pseudo-atomic structure of a complete multidrug efflux pump in complex with a modulatory protein partner from E. coli. The model defines the quaternary organization of the pump, identifies key domain interactions, and suggests a cooperative process for channel assembly and opening. These findings illuminate the basis for drug resistance in numerous pathogenic bacterial species.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361902/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361902/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Du, Dijun -- Wang, Zhao -- James, Nathan R -- Voss, Jarrod E -- Klimont, Ewa -- Ohene-Agyei, Thelma -- Venter, Henrietta -- Chiu, Wah -- Luisi, Ben F -- 076846/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 094229/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- P41 GM103832/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P41GM103832/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2014 May 22;509(7501):512-5. doi: 10.1038/nature13205. Epub 2014 Apr 20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK. ; National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1PD, UK. ; School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences, Sansom Institute for Health Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24747401" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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Carrier Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Cryoelectron Microscopy
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Drug Resistance, Bacterial
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Escherichia coli/*chemistry
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Escherichia coli Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Lipoproteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism
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Models, Molecular
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Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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