Mutations in subunit c of the vacuolar ATPase confer resistance to bafilomycin and identify a conserved antibiotic binding site

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Bafilomycin A1, a potent inhibitor of vacuolar H+-ATPases (V-ATPase), inhibited growth of Neurospora crassa in medium adjusted to alkaline pH. Ninety-eight mutant strains were selected for growth on medium (pH 7.2) containing 0.3 or 1.0 μM bafilomycin. Three criteria suggested that 11 mutant strains were altered in the V-ATPase: 1) these strains accumulated high amounts of arginine when grown at pH 5.8 in the presence of bafilomycin, 2) the mutation mapped to the locus of vma-3, which encodes the proteolipid subunit c of the V-ATPase, and 3) V-ATPase activity in purified vacuolar membranes was resistant to bafilomycin. Sequencing of the genomic DNA encoding vma-3 identified the following mutations: T32I (two strains), F136L (two strains), Y143H (two strains), and Y143N (five strains). Characterization of V-ATPase activity in the four kinds of mutant strains showed that the enzyme was resistant to bafilomycin in vitro, with half-maximal inhibition obtained at 80-400 nM compared with 6.3 nM for the wild-type enzyme. Surprisingly, the mutant enzymes showed only weak resistance to concanamycin. Interestingly, the positions of two mutations corresponded to positions of oligomycin-resistant mutations in the c subunit of F1F0-ATP synthases (F-ATPases), suggesting that bafilomycin and oligomycin utilize a similar binding site and mechanism of inhibition in the related F- and V-ATPases.

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Bowman, B. J., & Bowman, E. J. (2002). Mutations in subunit c of the vacuolar ATPase confer resistance to bafilomycin and identify a conserved antibiotic binding site. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(6), 3965–3972. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M109756200

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