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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 289, Issue 15, Pages 10680-10690Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.547794
Keywords
Antibiotic Resistance; Drug Resistance; Membrane Proteins; Membrane Transport; Multidrug Transporters
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Advanced Research for Medical Products Mining Programme of the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), Japan
- Strategic International Cooperative Program (JST, Japan)
- Royal Society (UK)
- International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO)
- BBSRC [BB/K017713/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/K017713/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Background: Bacterial multidrug transporters AcrB and AcrD export -lactam antibiotics. Results: Charged residues in the proximal binding pocket play a crucial role in -lactam selectivity. Conclusion: Proximal pocket acts as a substrate selection filter at the site of entry into the substrate translocation pathway. Significance: Our understanding of molecular mechanisms of antibiotic recognition is essential for overcoming drug resistance. -Lactams are mainstream antibiotics that are indicated for the prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial infections. The AcrA-AcrD-TolC multidrug efflux system confers much stronger resistance on Escherichia coli to clinically relevant anionic -lactam antibiotics than the homologous AcrA-AcrB-TolC system. Using an extensive combination of chimeric analysis and site-directed mutagenesis, we searched for residues that determine the difference in -lactam specificity between AcrB and AcrD. We identified three crucial residues at the proximal (or access) substrate binding pocket. The simultaneous replacement of these residues in AcrB by those in AcrD (Q569R, I626R, and E673G) transferred the -lactam specificity of AcrD to AcrB. Our findings indicate for the first time that the difference in -lactam specificity between AcrB and AcrD relates to interactions of the antibiotic with residues in the proximal binding pocket.
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