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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 115, Issue 25, Pages 8288-8295Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp2015758
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23700356, 22245002, 20107008] Funding Source: KAKEN
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AcrB is a membrane protein and a multidrug efflux transporter. Although the recently solved X-ray crystal structures of AcrB provide a rough sketch of how drugs efflux, the pathway and mechanism have not been completely elucidated. In this study, a ligand-mapping method based on the 3D-RISM molecular theory of solvation, which we recently developed, is applied to AcrB in order to identify the drug efflux pathway. We use a fragment-based approach as a strategy to map chemical functionality on the internal surfaces. A few multifunctional ligand-binding sites, which recognize various types of functional groups, are detected inside the porter domain. Spatial links between the multifunctional sites indicate a probable multidrug efflux pathway. The frustrated environment of the protein cavity constructed of weak interactions between ligand and protein may be a mechanism for allowing smooth transportation through the protein. Guided diffusion appears to be the main mechanism for efflux.
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