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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 114, Issue 48, Pages 15948-15957Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp1038392
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- F R S FNRS
- Belgian Fonds pour la Recherche Scientifique Medicale [3 4583 08]
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Multidrug transporters of the ATP-binding cassette family export a wide variety of compounds across membranes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes using ATP hydrolysis as energy source Several of these membrane proteins are of clinical importance Although biochemical and structural studies have provided insights into the mechanism underlying substrate transport many key questions subsist regarding the molecular and structural nature of this mechanism In particular, the detailed conformational changes occurring during the catalytic cycle are still elusive We explored the conformational changes occurring upon ATP/Mg2+ binding using molecular dynamics simulations starting from the nucleotide-bound structure of SAV1866 embedded in an explicit lipid bilayer The removal of nucleotide revealed a major rearrangement in the outer membrane leaflet portion of the transmembrane domain (TMD) resulting in the closure of the central cavity at the extracellular side This closure is similar to that observed in the crystal nucleotide-free structures The interface of the nucleotide-binding domain dimer (NDB) is significantly more hydrated in the nucleotide-free trajectory though it is not disrupted This finding suggests that the TMD closure could occur as a first step preceding the dissociation of the dimer The transmission pathway of the signal triggered by the removal of ATP/Mg2+ mainly involves the conserved Q-loop and X-loop as well as TM6
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