Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Structures and transport dynamics of a Campylobacter jejuni multidrug efflux pump

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
Resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pumps are integral membrane proteins that catalyze the export of substrates across cell membranes. Within the hydrophobe-amphiphile efflux subfamily, these resistance-nodulation-cell division proteins largely form trimeric efflux pumps. The drug efflux process has been proposed to entail a synchronized motion between subunits of the trimer to advance the transport cycle, leading to the extrusion of drug molecules. Here we use X-ray crystallography and single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer imaging to elucidate the structures and functional dynamics of the Campylobacter jejuni CmeB multidrug efflux pump. We find that the CmeB trimer displays a very unique conformation. A direct observation of transport dynamics in individual CmeB trimers embedded in membrane vesicles indicates that each CmeB subunit undergoes conformational transitions uncoordinated and independent of each other. On the basis of our findings and analyses, we propose a model for transport mechanism where CmeB protomers function independently within the trimer.
Research Organization:
Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
NIH
OSTI ID:
1377903
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 8; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH

References (40)

Quinolone and Macrolide Resistance in Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli: Resistance Mechanisms and Trends in Human Isolates journal February 2001
Identification of Essential Charged Residues in Transmembrane Segments of the Multidrug Transporter MexB ofPseudomonas aeruginosa journal March 2001
Threonine-978 in the Transmembrane Segment of the Multidrug Efflux Pump AcrB of Escherichia coli Is Crucial for Drug Transport as a Probable Component of the Proton Relay Network journal October 2006
[20] Processing of X-ray diffraction data collected in oscillation mode book January 1997
Enhanced in vivo fitness of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter jejuni in the absence of antibiotic selection pressure journal January 2005
Crystal structures of the CusA efflux pump suggest methionine-mediated metal transport journal September 2010
Clinical features, pathogenesis, and treatment of Guillain-Barré syndrome journal October 2008
In vitro transport activity of the fully assembled MexAB-OprM efflux pump from Pseudomonas aeruginosa journal April 2015
A practical guide to single-molecule FRET journal May 2008
Structural Asymmetry of AcrB Trimer Suggests a Peristaltic Pump Mechanism journal September 2006
Phenotypic and Genotypic Evidence for L-Fucose Utilization by Campylobacter jejuni journal December 2010
Crystal Structure of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrD Inner Membrane Multidrug Efflux Pump journal June 2014
Charged Amino Acids (R83, E567, D617, E625, R669, and K678) of CusA Are Required for Metal Ion Transport in the Cus Efflux System journal September 2012
Drug Export Pathway of Multidrug Exporter AcrB Revealed by DARPin Inhibitors journal December 2006
Role of the CmeABC efflux pump in the emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter under selection pressure journal October 2006
Macrolide resistance in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli journal May 2006
Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination journal September 1998
Crystal structure of bacterial multidrug efflux transporter AcrB journal October 2002
Antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter : emergence, transmission and persistence journal March 2009
Analysis of Single-Molecule FRET Trajectories Using Hidden Markov Modeling journal September 2006
Alternating-Laser Excitation of Single Molecules journal July 2005
Porter domain opening and closing motions in the multi-drug efflux transporter AcrB journal February 2013
PHENIX : building new software for automated crystallographic structure determination journal October 2002
The Health Burden of Campylobacter Infection and the Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance: Playing Chicken journal March 2007
Single-Molecule Analysis Reveals the Kinetics and Physiological Relevance of MutL-ssDNA Binding journal November 2010
Critical Role of Multidrug Efflux Pump CmeABC in Bile Resistance and In Vivo Colonization of Campylobacter jejuni journal August 2003
Coupling of remote alternating-access transport mechanisms for protons and substrates in the multidrug efflux pump AcrB journal September 2014
Identification and molecular characterisation of CmeB, a Campylobacter jejuni multidrug efflux pump journal January 2002
Enzymatic Oxygen Scavenging for Photostability without pH Drop in Single-Molecule Experiments journal June 2012
Coot model-building tools for molecular graphics journal November 2004
Structural basis for the inhibition of bacterial multidrug exporters journal June 2013
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter species. journal August 1988
SLiCE: a novel bacterial cell extract-based DNA cloning method journal January 2012
Crystal Structure of the Multidrug Exporter MexB from Pseudomonas aeruginosa journal May 2009
CmeABC Functions as a Multidrug Efflux System in Campylobacter jejuni journal July 2002
Mitigating Unwanted Photophysical Processes for Improved Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging journal March 2009
Structural Basis of Multiple Drug-Binding Capacity of the AcrB Multidrug Efflux Pump journal May 2003
Crystal structure of the CusBA heavy-metal efflux complex of Escherichia coli journal February 2011
Crystal structures of a multidrug transporter reveal a functionally rotating mechanism journal August 2006
Unsynchronised subunit motion in single trimeric sodium-coupled aspartate transporters journal October 2013

Similar Records

Charged Amino Acids (R83, E567, D617, E625, R669, and K678) of CusA Are Required for Metal Ion Transport in the Cus Efflux System
Journal Article · Tue Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2012 · J. Mol. Biol. · OSTI ID:1048958

Crystal Structure of the Transcriptional Regulator CmeR From Campylobacter Jejuni
Journal Article · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · J. Mol. Biol 372:583,2007 · OSTI ID:953987

Structural basis for the blockade of MATE multidrug efflux pumps
Journal Article · Wed Aug 05 20:00:00 EDT 2015 · Nature Communications · OSTI ID:1214707