Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1860, Issue 5, Pages 965-972Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2018.01.022
Keywords
Multidrug transporters; PDR subfamily; Cdr1p; D-loop; Non-catalytic ATP-binding site
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- Department of Biotechnology DBT [BT/01/CEIB/10/III/02]
- DBT [BT/PR7392/MED/29/652/2012, BT/PR14879/BRB10/885/2010]
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Candida drug resistance 1 (Cdr1), a PDR subfamily ABC transporter mediates efflux of xenobiotics in Candida albicans. It is one of the prime factors contributing to multidrug resistance in the fungal pathogen. One hallmark of this transporter is its asymmetric nature, characterized by peculiar alterations in its nucleotide binding domains. As a consequence, there exists only one canonical ATP-binding site while the other is atypical. Here, we report suppressor analysis on the drug-susceptible transmembrane domain mutant V532D that identified the suppressor mutation W1038S, close to the D-loop of the non-catalytic ATP-binding site. Introduction of the W1038S mutation in the background of V532D mutant conferred resistance for most of the substrates to the latter. Such restoration is accompanied by a severe reduction of ATPase activity, of about 85%, while that of the V532D mutant is half-reduced. Conversely, alanine substitution of the highly conserved aspartate D1033A in that D-loop rendered cells selectively hyper-susceptible to miconazole without an impact on steady-state ATPase activity, suggesting altogether that ATP hydrolysis may not hold the key to restoration mechanism. Analysis of the ABCG5/ABCG8-based 3D-model of Cdrlp suggested that the W1038S substitution leads to the loss of hydrophobic interactions and H-bond with residues of the neighbor NBD1, in the non-catalytic ATP-binding site area. The compensatory effect within TMDs accounting for transport restoration in the V532D-W1038S variant may, therefore, be mainly due to an increase in NBDs mobility at the non-catalytic interface.
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