Table 1. Clinically relevant and atypical ABC proteins Kenneth J. Linton. Structure and Function of ABC Transporters. Physiology 22: 122-130, 2007
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FIGURE 1. The minimal ABC transporter has four domains. Two transmembrane domains (TMDs) bind ligand, and transport is driven by ATP binding and hydrolysis by the two nucleotide binding domains (NBDs). The TMDs from different subfamilies of ABC transporters are not necessarily homologous. The ...
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, preventing chemotherapy. Need chemosensitizers that will prevent the action ABC T. Vitamin B12 transporter are involved in transport of diverse range of molecules from vitamins to toxic substances. ABC transporters
Access to the article is free, however registration and sign-in are required. The ABC transporters are transmembrane proteins that move a wide variety of compounds into and out of cells. In her Perspective, Davidson explains what the structure of the second bacterial ABC transporter to be ...
The family of ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters or traffic ATPases is composed of several membrane-associated proteins that transport a great variety of solutes across cellular membranes. Two novel mammalian members of the family, ABC1 and ABC2, have been identified by a PCR-based ...
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One of the major problems related with anticancer chemotherapy is resistance against anticancer drugs. The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are a family of transporter proteins that are responsible for drug resistance and a low bioavailability of drugs by pumping a variety of drugs out cells at the expense of ATP hydrolysis. One ...
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The ABC1 (ABCA) subfamily of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily has a structural feature that distinguishes it from other ABC transporters. Here we report the cloning, molecular characterization and tissue distribution of ABC2/ABCA2, ...
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of about 130 residues. This extension is also found in many binding protein- dependent ABC transporters calorimetry and trypsin digestion. GlcV is a subunit of a binding protein dependent ABC-type glucose transport Domain of the Glucose ABC Transporter of Sulfolobus ...
ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters define a family of proteins with strong structural similarities conserved across evolution and devoted to the translocation of a variety of substrates across cell membranes. A few members of the family are known in mammals, but although all of them are medically relevant proteins, knowledge of ...
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters utilize the energy from ATP hydrolysis to transport substances across the membrane. In recent years, crystal structures of several ABC transporters have become available. These structures show that both importers ...
Access to the article is free, however registration and sign-in are required. Cells produce a variety of ABC transporter proteins that shuttle numerous molecules across the plasma membrane so as to maintain the integrity of the intracellular milieu. As Higgins and Linton discuss in their Perspective, the first high-resolution crystal ...
CFTR chloride channels are encoded by the gene mutated in patients with cystic fibrosis. These channels belong to the superfamily of ABC transporter ATPases. ATP-driven conformational changes, which in other ABC proteins fuel uphill substrate transport across cellular membranes, in CFTR open and close a gate to ...
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Basic architecture of ABC transporters includes two transmembrane domains (TMDs) and two nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs). Although the transport process takes place in the TMDs, which provide the substrate translocation pathway across the cell membrane and control its accessibility between the two sides of the membrane, the energy ...
Summary: Complex glycoconjugates play critical roles in the biology of microorganisms. Despite the remarkable diversity in glycan structures and the bacteria that produce them, conserved themes are evident in the biosynthesis-export pathways. One of the primary pathways involves representatives of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) ...
J. Thomas and John F. Hunt The 4.5 � map of the MsbA protein, a putative lipid A transporter from `loops' of an ABC transporter and the geometric relationship of these regions to the ATP-binding cassette to the other. ATP-binding cas- sette (or ABC) transporters represent the most common and ...
Sulfur is an essential element for microorganisms and it can be obtained from varied compounds, sulfate being the preferred source. The first step for sulfate assimilation, sulfate uptake, has been studied in several bacterial species. This article reviews the properties of different bacterial (and archaeal) transporters for sulfate, molybdate, and related oxyanions. Sulfate ...
ABC transporters (also known as traffic ATPases) form a large family of proteins responsible for the translocation of a variety of compounds across membranes of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The recently completed Escherichia coli genome sequence revealed that the largest family of paralogous E. coli proteins is composed of ABC ...
Background Oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction are central mediators of cardiac dysfunction after ischemia/reperfusion. ATP binding cassette mitochondrial erythroid (ABC-me; ABCB10; mABC2) is a mitochondrial transporter highly induced during erythroid differentiation and predominantly expressed in bone marrow, liver, and ...
Thirteen derivatives of the Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 strain in which putative drug efflux pumps were genetically inactivated were constructed and characterized. The results indicate that two linked genes encoding the ABC-type transporters SP2073 and SP2075 function together to confer intrinsic resistance to a series of ...
We describe here a subclass of mammalian ABC transporters, the ABCA subfamily. This is a unique group that, in contrast to any other human ABC transporters, lacks a structural counterpart in yeast. The structural hallmark of the ABCA subfamily is the presence of a stretch ...
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are one of the largest evolutionarily conserved families of proteins. They are characterized by the presence of nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs), which are highly conserved among organisms. In the present study, we used human and protozoan ABC sequences, and ATP-binding consensus motifs to ...
Summary: ATP-binding cassette (ABC) systems are universally distributed among living organisms and function in many different aspects of bacterial physiology. ABC transporters are best known for their role in the import of essential nutrients and the export of toxic molecules, but they can also mediate the ...
AbstractCmeABC, a multidrug efflux system in Campylobacter jejuni, plays an important role in the resistance to different antimicrobials and toxic compounds. Although this efflux system has been well characterized in C. jejuni and to a less extent in C. coli, it is unknown if CmeABC homologs are functional in other Campylobacter spp. In this study, the ...
). #12;Chapter 1 2.2. Binding protein dependent ABC- type transporters The sugar transporters characterized so, and Rad50cd, a DNA repair protein which shows ATP-binding domains similar to the domains found in ABC-transporters a binding protein-dependent ATP- binding cassette (ABC)-transporter ...
The ABC transporter MsbA is an integral membrane protein involved in the transport of lipid A and lipopolysaccharides to the outer leaflet of the inner membrane in bacteria. Here, the critical role of the natural substrate lipopolysaccharide in the crystallization and diffraction quality of MsbA crystals is reported. Initial crystals ...
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transport systems mediate the translocation of solutes across biological membranes at the expense of ATP. They share a common modular architecture comprising two pore-forming transmembrane domains and two nucleotide binding domains. In prokaryotes, ABC transporters are involved in the ...
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters mediate transport of diverse substrates across membranes. We have determined the quaternary structure and functional unit of the recently discovered ECF-type (energy coupling factor) of ABC transporters, which is widespread among ...
ABC transporters are a large and important family of membrane proteins involved in substrate transport across the membrane. The transported substrates are quite diverse, ranging from monatomic ions to large biomolecules. Consequently, some ABC transporters are involved in ...
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a serious medical problem and presents a major challenge to the treatment of disease and the development of novel therapeutics. ABC transporters that are associated with multidrug resistance (MDR-ABC transporters) translocate hydrophobic drugs and lipids from the inner to the outer ...
FIGURE 5. A simple ATP-switch mechanism powers ABC transporters. Ligand binding to a high-affinity pocket formed by the TMDs induces a conformational change in the NBDs resulting in a higher affinity for ATP. Two molecules of ATP bind to the NBDs. The energy released by the formation of the closed NBD dimer causes conformational change in the TMDs (which ...
Pseudomonas fluorescens, a gram-negative psychrotrophic bacterium, secretes a thermostable lipase into the extracellular medium. In our previous study, the lipase of P. fluorescens SIK W1 was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, but it accumulated as inactive inclusion bodies. Amino acid sequence analysis of the lipase revealed a potential C-terminal targeting sequence recognized by the ...
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) transporters convert chemical energy from ATP hydrolysis to mechanical work for substrate translocation. They function by alternating between two states, exposing the substrate-binding site to either side of the membrane. A key question that remains to be addressed is how substrates initiate the ...
-binding proteins (SBPs) of ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters has been ongoing for at least four decades. Our on the lactococcal oligopeptide binding protein A (OppA), the receptor component of the ABC-transporter oligopeptide picture how these proteins work. Three types of ABC-transporters exist: ...
Technologies for upgrading heavy residual oils for transportation fuels are becoming increasingly important. The asphaltenic Bottom Cracking (ABC) process developed by Chiyoda is one of the new upgrading technologies. ABC is the process of asphaltenes conversion by catalytic hydrotreating for petroleum heavy ends. The combination of ...
-characterized transport systems for maltose/maltodextrin and ribose, respectively, of enterobacteria. 2001 �ditions scientifiques et m�dicales Elsevier SAS ABC transporter / binding protein / maltose / ribose / crystal structureEFGK Sinorhizobium meliloti Alginate AlgSM1M2Q1(?)Q2(?) Sphingomonas sp. CUT2 ...
FIGURE 4. Domain organization of full-size ABC transporters. A: cartoon representations of the three full-size structures for ABC transporters; Sav1866 is crystallized with ADP (pdb 2HYD); BtuCD with tetravanadate (pdb 1L7V); and HI1470/1 in the absence of nucleotide (pdb 2NQ2). The TMDs are ...
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) systems constitute one of the largest superfamilies of paralogous sequences. All ABC systems share a highly conserved ATP-hydrolyzing domain or protein (the ABC; also referred to as a nucleotide-binding domain [NBD]) that is unequivocally characterized by three short sequence motifs (Fig. 1): these are ...
of SBP-dependent membrane proteins. A-B: visualizes ABC- transporters. A: ABC-importer with the SBP dependent transport proteins ABC-transporters exist in all three kingdom of life and transport a large of the membrane protein. In mGluR this signal is triggered by ligand ...
Bacterial binding protein-dependent ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters facilitate uptake of essential nutrients. The crystal structure of Escherichia coli BtuF, the protein that binds vitamin B12 and delivers it to the periplasmic surface of the ABC transporter ...
Etravirine is a novel nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) for the treatment of HIV-1 infections. ABC transporters potentially mediate clinically relevant drug-drug interactions. We assessed substrate characteristics and the inhibitory and inductive potential of etravirine on ABC transporters. ...
ABC transporters are a large family of membrane proteins involved in a variety of cellular processes, including multidrug and tumor resistance and ion channel regulation. Advances in the structural and functional understanding of ABC transporters have revealed that hydrolysis at the two ...
Bacterial ATP binding cassette (ABC) exporters fulfill a wide variety of transmembrane transport roles and are homologous to the human multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein. Recent x-ray structures of the exporters MsbA and Sav1866 have begun to describe the conformational changes that accompany the ABC ...
ABC is an interactive programming language where both ease of learning and ease of use stood high amongst its principle design aims. The language is embedded in a dedicated environment that includes a structure based editor. To fit in with the design aims...
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Human multidrug resistance ABC transporters are ubiquitous membrane proteins responsible for the efflux of multiple, endogenous or exogenous, compounds out of the cells, and therefore they are involved in multi-drug resistance phenotype (MDR). They thus deeply impact the pharmacokinetic parameters and toxicity properties of drugs. A great pressure to ...
ABC transporters play important roles in all types of organisms by participating in physiological and pathological processes. In order to modulate the function of ABC transporters, detailed knowledge regarding their structure and dynamics is necessary. Available structures ...
The human ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily consists of 48 integral membrane proteins that couple the action of ATP binding and hydrolysis to the transport of diverse substrates across cellular membranes. Defects in 18 transporters have been implicated in human disease. In hundreds of cases, ...
