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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 64, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02025-19
Keywords
BlaC; clavulanic acid; avibactam; NMR spectroscopy; inhibition; chemical exchange; beta-lactamases; structural biology
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [723.013.010]
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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis beta-lactamase BlaC is a broad-spectrum beta-lactamase that can convert a range of beta-lactam antibiotics. Enzymes with low specificity are expected to exhibit active-site flexibility. To probe the motions in BlaC, we studied the dynamic behavior in solution using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. N-15 relaxation experiments show that BlaC is mostly rigid on the pico- to nanosecond timescale. Saturation transfer experiments indicate that also on the high-millisecond timescale BlaC is not dynamic. Using relaxation dispersion experiments, clear evidence was obtained for dynamics in the low-millisecond range, with an exchange rate of ca. 860 s(-1). The dynamic amide groups are localized in the active site. Upon formation of an adduct with the inhibitor avibactam, extensive line broadening occurs, indicating an increase in magnitude of the active-site dynamics. Furthermore, the rate of the motions increases significantly. Upon reaction with the inhibitor clavulanic acid, similar line broadening is accompanied by duplication of NMR signals, indicative of at least one additional, slower exchange process (exchange rate, k(ex), of <100 s(-1)), while for this inhibitor also loss of pico- to nanosecond timescale rigidity is observed for some amides in the alpha domain. Possible sources of the observed dynamics, such as motions in the omega loop and rearrangements of active-site residues, are discussed. The increase in dynamics upon ligand binding argues against a model of inhibitor binding through conformational selection. Rather, the induced dynamics may serve to maximize the likelihood of sampling the optimal conformation for hydrolysis of the bound ligand.
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