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JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 150, 期 3, 页码 417-429出版社
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.201711907
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions (AIHS)
- Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures (AITF)
- AIHS
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research [MFE-140949]
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Canada Research Chairs program
- Alberta Innovates [201400472] Funding Source: researchfish
P-glycoprotein (P-gp) exports a broad range of dissimilar compounds, including drugs, lipids, and lipid-like molecules. Because of its substrate promiscuity, P-gp is a key player in the development of cancer multidrug resistance. Although P-gp is one of the most studied ABC transporters, the mechanism by which its substrates access the cavity remains unclear. In this study, we perform coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to explore possible lipid access pathways in the inward-facing conformation of P-gp embedded in bilayers of different lipid compositions. In the inward-facing orientation, only lipids from the lower leaflet access the cavity of the transporter. We identify positively charged residues at the portals of P-gp that favor lipid entrance to the cavity, as well as lipid-binding sites at the portals and within the cavity, which is in good agreement with previous experimental studies. This work includes several examples of lipid pathways for phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine lipids that help elucidate the molecular mechanism of lipid binding in P-gp.
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