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Interactions of a bacterial RND transporter with a transmembrane small protein in a lipid environment

Interactions of a bacterial RND transporter with a transmembrane small protein in a lipid environment
Interactions of a bacterial RND transporter with a transmembrane small protein in a lipid environment
The small protein AcrZ in Escherichia coliinteracts with the transmembrane portion of the multidrug efflux pump AcrB and increases resistance of the bacterium to a subset of the antibiotic substrates of that transporter. It is not clear how the physical association of the two proteins selectively changes activity of the pump for defined substrates. Here, we report cryo-EM structures of AcrB and the AcrBZ complex in lipid environments, and comparisons suggest that conformational changes occur in the drug-binding pocket as a result of AcrZ binding. Simulations indicate that cardiolipin preferentially interacts with the AcrBZ complex, due to increased contact surface, and we observe that chloramphenicol sensitivity of bacteria lacking AcrZ is exacerbated when combined with cardiolipin deficiency. Taken together, the data suggest that AcrZ and lipid cooperate to allosterically modulate AcrB activity. This mode of regulation by a small protein and lipid may occur for other membrane proteins.
allostery, antibiotic, cryoEM, drug efflux, molecular dynamics, small protein, structural model, transmembrane transport
0969-2126
625-634
Du, Dijun
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Neuberger, Arthur
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Wu Orr, Mona
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Newman, Catherine E.
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Hsu, Pin-Chia
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Ramos, Leana M.
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Storz, Gisela
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Luisi, Ben F.
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Du, Dijun
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Neuberger, Arthur
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Hsu, Pin-Chia
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Ramos, Leana M.
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Debela, Mekdes
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Khalid, Syma
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Storz, Gisela
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Du, Dijun, Neuberger, Arthur, Wu Orr, Mona, Newman, Catherine E., Hsu, Pin-Chia, Samsudin, Firdaus, Szewczak-Harris, Andrzej, Ramos, Leana M., Debela, Mekdes, Khalid, Syma, Storz, Gisela and Luisi, Ben F. (2020) Interactions of a bacterial RND transporter with a transmembrane small protein in a lipid environment. Structure, 28 (6), 625-634. (doi:10.1016/j.str2020.03.013).

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The small protein AcrZ in Escherichia coliinteracts with the transmembrane portion of the multidrug efflux pump AcrB and increases resistance of the bacterium to a subset of the antibiotic substrates of that transporter. It is not clear how the physical association of the two proteins selectively changes activity of the pump for defined substrates. Here, we report cryo-EM structures of AcrB and the AcrBZ complex in lipid environments, and comparisons suggest that conformational changes occur in the drug-binding pocket as a result of AcrZ binding. Simulations indicate that cardiolipin preferentially interacts with the AcrBZ complex, due to increased contact surface, and we observe that chloramphenicol sensitivity of bacteria lacking AcrZ is exacerbated when combined with cardiolipin deficiency. Taken together, the data suggest that AcrZ and lipid cooperate to allosterically modulate AcrB activity. This mode of regulation by a small protein and lipid may occur for other membrane proteins.

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Accepted/In Press date: 27 March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 March 2020
Published date: 2 June 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: The work was supported by an ERC advanced award ( 742210 ) and by a Wellcome Trust Investigator award to B.F.L. C.E.N. was supported by a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship and A.N. by a Herchel Smith Research Studentship. Work by L.M.R., M.W.O., and G.S. was supported by the Intramural Program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development . We acknowledge Diamond for access and support of the cryo-EM facilities at the UK National Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC), funded by the Wellcome Trust , MRC , and BBSRC . We thank colleagues at eBIC, especially Dan Clare and Alistair Siebert, for help with cryo-EM data collection. We thank Dima Chirgadze for help with data collection using the University of Cambridge cryo-EM facility. We also thank Douglas B. Weibel for kindly providing strains deficient in cardiolipin biogenesis and Jacob Olondo Kuba for help generating some AcrZ mutants. We are extremely grateful to Tristan Croll for advice and help with ISOLDE for the refinement of the models, and to Anirban Banerjee, Alex Sodt, Yvette Nstogo and Malitha Ratnaweera for helpful and insightful discussions. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors
Keywords: allostery, antibiotic, cryoEM, drug efflux, molecular dynamics, small protein, structural model, transmembrane transport

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Local EPrints ID: 441826
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441826
ISSN: 0969-2126
PURE UUID: e99117df-35ec-430a-9d02-a75de3cfd435
ORCID for Firdaus Samsudin: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2766-4459
ORCID for Syma Khalid: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3694-5044

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Date deposited: 29 Jun 2020 16:33
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:11

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Author: Dijun Du
Author: Arthur Neuberger
Author: Mona Wu Orr
Author: Catherine E. Newman
Author: Pin-Chia Hsu
Author: Firdaus Samsudin ORCID iD
Author: Andrzej Szewczak-Harris
Author: Leana M. Ramos
Author: Mekdes Debela
Author: Syma Khalid ORCID iD
Author: Gisela Storz
Author: Ben F. Luisi

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