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Lipid-Dependent Alternating Access Mechanism of a Bacterial Multidrug ABC Exporter

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Immadisetty, Kalyan, Hettige, Jeevapani, Moradi, Mahmoud·2019·ACS Central Science

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By undergoing conformational changes, active membrane transporters alternate between an inward-facing (IF) and an outward-facing (OF) state to transport their substrates across cellular membrane. The conformational landscape of membrane transporters, however, could be influenced by their environment, and the dependence of the alternating access mechanism on the lipid composition has not been understood at the molecular level. We have performed an extensive set of microsecond-level all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on bacterial ATP binding cassette (ABC) exporter Sav1866 in six different phosphocholine (PC) and phosphoethanolamine (PE) lipid membrane environments. This study mainly focuses on the energetically downhill OF-to-IF conformational transition of Sav1866 upon the ATP hydrolysis. We observe that the transporter undergoes large-scale conformational changes in the PE environment, particularly in the POPE lipids, resulting in an IF-occluded conformation, a transition that does not occur when the transporter is embedded in any of the PC lipid bilayers. We propose that the PE lipids facilitate the closing of the protein on the periplasmic side due to their highly polar headgroups that mediate the interaction of the two transmembrane (TM) bundles by a network of lipid-lipid and lipid-protein hydrogen bonds. POPE lipids in particular facilitate the closure of periplasmic gate by promoting a hinge formation in TM helices and an interbundle salt bridge formation. This study explains how the alternating access mechanism and the flippase activity in ABC exporters could be lipid-dependent.

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  • The lipid environment has been experimentally shown to bias the conformational equilibria of membrane proteins.

    “which has been experimentally shown to bias the conformational equilibria of membrane proteins (Martens et al., 2018; Muller et al., 2019; Immadisetty et al., 2019).”

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Authors
Immadisetty, K., Hettige, J., & Moradi, M.
Affiliations
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
Corresponding author
Moradi, Mahmoud
Venue
ACS Central Science
Published
2019-01-07
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
43-56
ISSN
  • 2374-7943 (ISSN-L)
  • 2374-7951
OpenAlex
W2907088041
Cited by
38
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1
FWCI
2.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • ACS Central Science (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • University of Arkansas
  • Arkansas Biosciences Institute
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
Keywords
Sav1866, ABC transporters, alternating access mechanism, lipid dependence, Pope, ATP hydrolysis, salt bridges

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