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      Catalytic Transitions in the Human MDR1 P-Glycoprotein Drug Binding Sites

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      Biochemistry
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          Multidrug resistance proteins that belong to the ATP-binding cassette family like the human P-glycoprotein (ABCB1 or Pgp) are responsible for many failed cancer and antiviral chemotherapies because these membrane transporters remove the chemotherapeutics from the targeted cells. Understanding the details of the catalytic mechanism of Pgp is therefore critical to the development of inhibitors that might overcome these resistances. In this work, targeted molecular dynamics techniques were used to elucidate catalytically relevant structures of Pgp. Crystal structures of homologues in four different conformations were used as intermediate targets in the dynamics simulations. Transitions from conformations that were wide open to the cytoplasm to transition state conformations that were wide open to the extracellular space were studied. Twenty-six nonredundant transitional protein structures were identified from these targeted molecular dynamics simulations using evolutionary structure analyses. Coupled movement of nucleotide binding domains (NBDs) and transmembrane domains (TMDs) that form the drug binding cavities were observed. Pronounced twisting of the NBDs as they approached each other as well as the quantification of a dramatic opening of the TMDs to the extracellular space as the ATP hydrolysis transition state was reached were observed. Docking interactions of 21 known transport ligands or inhibitors were analyzed with each of the 26 transitional structures. Many of the docking results obtained here were validated by previously published biochemical determinations. As the ATP hydrolysis transition state was approached, drug docking in the extracellular half of the transmembrane domains seemed to be destabilized as transport ligand exit gates opened to the extracellular space.

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                Journal
                Biochemistry
                Biochemistry
                bi
                bichaw
                Biochemistry
                American Chemical Society
                0006-2960
                1520-4995
                30 May 2012
                26 June 2012
                : 51
                : 25
                : 5125-5141
                Affiliations
                [1]Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Drug Discovery, Design and Delivery at Dedman College, and Center for Scientific Computation, simpleSouthern Methodist University , Dallas, Texas 75275-0376, United States
                Author notes
                [* ]E-mail: jwise@ 123456smu.edu . Phone: (214) 768-3426. Fax: (214) 768-3955.
                Article
                10.1021/bi300299z
                3383123
                22647192
                33753821-98e9-4c43-a704-928b28d7027f
                Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society

                This is an open-access article distributed under the ACS AuthorChoice Terms & Conditions. Any use of this article, must conform to the terms of that license which are available at http://pubs.acs.org.

                History
                : 01 March 2012
                : 24 May 2012
                Funding
                National Institutes of Health, United States
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                Biochemistry
                Biochemistry

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