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Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105-2794, USA
Reprint requests to: Tina Izard, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale Street, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA; e-mail: Tina.Izard{at}stjude.org; fax: (901) 495-4981.
(RECEIVED January 28, 2001; ACCEPTED April 30, 2001)
Article and publication are at www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.430101.
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Keywords: Antibiotic; chloramphenicol; kinase; phosphorylation; resistance
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S. venezuelae evades the toxicity of its own lethal metabolite because chloramphenicol phosphotransferase (CPT) phosphorylates the primary (C-3) hydroxyl of Cm (Mosher et al. 1995) to provide tolerance (resistance). CPT may also phosphorylate the immediate precursor of Cm, the p-amino analog
-N-dichloroacetyl-p-aminophenylserinol (p-NH2-Cm; Fig. 1
), which would put the resistance (tolerance) mechanism in place before oxidation of the p-amino substituent to a nitro group generates an autoinhibitory agent. However, the CTPp-NH2-Cm crystal structure described here suggests that p-NH2-Cm binds to the CPT active site but is not a substrate for the enzyme.
The recently determined crystal structure of CPT in complex with bound substrates revealed its catalytic mechanism: Asp 37 accepts a proton from the 3-hydroxyl group of Cm concurrently with nucleophilic attack of the resulting oxyanion on the
-phosphate of ATP (Izard and Ellis 2000). A distinct alternate product binding site was found 13 Å away from the active site. To address the tolerance mechanism in S. venezuelae, the three-dimensional structures of CPT were determined in complex with p-NH2-Cm and in complex with the nonchlorinated Cm (2-N-Ac-Cm).
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-phosphate binding site of ATP. The halogenated group interacts with a sulfate anion found at the ß-phosphate-binding site of ATP. Novel hydrophobic interactions between the p-amino analog of Cm and CPT inovlve Lys 16 and Asp 92.
The poorest parts of the refined CPTp-NH2-Cm model are two regions comprising flexible loops where model building was difficult because of weak density: Temperature factors of residues 4951 located on the loop immediately following
-helix 3 (
3; Fig. 2
) and residues 5760 located on the loop before
4 refined only to values that were comparable to the protein structure if an occupancy of one half was used. As was the case for 2-N-Ac-Cm bound to the enzyme, no electron density was found in the alternate product binding site in the CPTp-NH2-Cm structure.
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Cm, and CPT2-N-Ac-Cm structures. The remainder of p-NH2-Cm is rotated almost 120° away from Cm's binding position, thereby pointing its chlorine atoms well into the ATP-binding pocket. This arrangement places the primary alcohol group of p-NH2-Cm 6 Å away from the proposed catalytic Asp 37. Thus, the structure of CPTp-NH2-Cm suggests that the immediate precursor of Cm cannot be phosphorylated by CPT. Interestingly, the p-amino precursor also cannot be acetylated by CAT.
The overall protein structure of CPT in complex with Cm analogs is very similar to that of the enzyme in the absence or presence of nucleotide, or both nucleotide and Cm (Izard and Ellis 2000). The overall root mean squares deviation (rmsd) for the C
positions of all residues (1178) of the CPTp-NH2-Cm (or CPT2-N-Ac-Cm) structure superimposed onto the substrate-free CPT crystal structure is 0.3 Å (0.46 Å). The 178 C
atoms of CPTp-NH2-Cm superimpose onto the CPT2-N-Ac-Cm structure with an overall rmsd of 0.5 Å. Discrepancies of >3.5 Å in C
positions occur for residues 135137, which are located on loop
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7 of the lid domain. Arg 136 moves during catalysis and promotes bond cleavage by stabilizing the developing negative charge on the equatorial oxygen atom of the
-phosphate in the transition state. The conformation of Arg 136 in the CPTp-NH2-Cm structure resembles that in the substrate-free CPT structure and significantly differs from that in the enzyme bound to Cm, nucleotide, or both Cm and nucleotide. Previous crystallographic analyses determined that Arg 136 is almost within hydrogen-bonding distance of the reactive hydroxyl of Cm and the
-phosphate of the nucleotide. The novel binding mode of p-NH2-Cm places the reactive hydroxyl in a position where it cannot form a hydrogen bond with Arg 136. The findings of the present study are consistent with a movement of Arg 136 occurring once either substrate (Cm or ATP) binds and support the previously suggested domain closure on substrate binding as also seen in other kinases.
Superposition of the previously determined structures of substrate-free enzyme, CPTATP, CPTCm, and CPTATP
SCm onto the CPTp-NH2-Cm or CPT2-N-Ac-Cm structures described here also highlights a movement of up to 2 Å for the backbone of residues 5052 located at the alternate product binding site. In particular, the side chain of Glu 51 displays a variety of conformations amongst the six structures. The largest shift occurs for superposition of residues 5052 of CPTp-NH2-Cm onto any of the other CPT structures. However, it is difficult to determine which interaction(s) and residue(s) are critical for the binding of the product resembling CmSO42- (as bound to the enzyme in the CPTCm and CPTATP
SCm crystal structures) but not for the binding of p-NH2-Cm and 2-N-Ac-Cm at the alternate product binding site. The lack of binding Cm or its derivatives at the alternate product binding site supports the suggested biological role of the alternate product binding site, whereby CPT acts as a carrier and facilitates the export of inactivated, phosphorylated antibiotic (but not the p-amino analog or nonhalogenated forms of Cm) to an efflux pump. Therefore, the efflux protein may export Cm-3`-phosphate, but not the antibiotic's derivatives. The protective phosphate group is easily removed by an extracellular phosphatase, thus releasing of Cm to foreign organisms in the producer's vicinity.
These findings raise new questions regarding the co-evolution of the biosynthetic pathway of the antibiotic and the protective mechanisms of its producer. In addtion, strong evidence indicates that there are multiple mechanisms for resistance to Cm, just as there are multiple mechanisms for resistance to tetracycline, daunorubicin, erythromycin, and various other antibiotics in the producing organisms.
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rotating anode on an RAXIS-4 imaging plate. All data were processed with DENZO and SCALEPACK (Otwinowski & Minor 1997). Data statistics are given in Table 1
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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant no. EY08918, and in part by Fight for Sight, Inc., and Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 USC section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
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