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Konformationelle Dynamik und Regulation von Typ I ABC-transporter für Maltose aus Bakterien

Fachliche Zuordnung Stoffwechselphysiologie, Biochemie und Genetik der Mikroorganismen
Förderung Förderung von 2010 bis 2018
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 163317791
 
Erstellungsjahr 2019

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

A major goal of our project was to identify interactions of ABC importers with their cognate solute binding proteins (SBP) as well as with inhibitory proteins at the molecular level. We have demonstrated for the first time that contacts of the N- and C-terminal lobes of a liganded binding protein with the respective transporter are dependent on the structural organization of the SBP-freely diffusible or covalently bound to a transmembrane domain. Furthermore, regulatory proteins such as EIIAGlc and P-Ser46-HPr which mediate inducer exclusion in E. coli and L. casei, respectively, block the transport cycle by interaction with the nucleotide-binding subunits of inhibition-sensitive ABC importers. In case of EIIAGlc we were able to demonstrate that the protein binds to all conformational states of the maltose transporter MaFGK2 and prevents closing of the MalK dimer upon binding of ATP and liganded maltose binding protein, MalE. Our results on the heterodimeric ABC transporter TM287/288 support the notion that ATP binding is sufficient to switch the transporters to the OF state and hydrolysis is required to reset the transport cycle. Additionally, we discovered equilibrium between the IF and OF state independent of the hydrolysis reaction. We anticipate that our results provide a mechanistic framework to understand the functional role of the extracellular gate of type I ABC exporters and to explain the molecular underpinning of disease-causing mutations found in the extracellular region of medically important ABC exporters as recently investigated for MRP1 and CFTR.

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