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Nucleotide dependence of the dimerization of ATP binding cassette nucleotide binding domains

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ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2016.10.046

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ABC protein; Tryptophan fluorescence; Dimer; Motor domain; ATPase

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  1. Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas Grant [RP101073]
  2. National Institute of Health grant [RGM102928]
  3. South Plains Foundation, Lubbock

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ATP-binding cassette proteins are ubiquitously present throughout all known genomes. Their basic functional unit possesses two transmembrane domains and two nucleotide-binding domains. The nucleotide-binding domains are responsible for ATP binding and hydrolysis, and their 3-dimensional structure is conserved across ATP-binding cassette proteins. Binding of ATP produces nucleotide binding domain dimerization, a step necessary for hydrolysis. However, the possibility that nucleotide-binding domains bind and/or hydrolyze nucleotide triphosphates different from ATP has not been explored in detail. Here, we studied that possibility using M. jannaschii MJ0796, a prototypical ATP binding cassette nucleotide-binding domain. We found that nucleotide-binding domain dimerization occurs as a result of binding to the natural nucleotide triphosphates ATP, GTP, CTP and UTP, and also to the analog ATP-gamma-S. All the natural nucleotide triphosphates are hydrolyzed at similar rates, whereas ATP-gamma-S is not hydrolyzed. We also found that the non-hydrolyzable ATP analog AMP-PNP, frequently assumed to produce the nucleotide-bound conformation, failed to elicit nucleotide-binding domain dimerization. Our results raise the possibility that not all the nucleotide binding sites of nucleotide binding domains are occupied by ATP under physiological conditions, and that ATP is not always the nucleotide hydrolyzed to dissociate the nucleotide-binding domain dimers. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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