Disulfide cross-linking reveals a site of stable interaction between C-terminal regulatory domains of the two MalK subunits in the maltose transport complex

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Understanding the structure and function of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters is very important because defects in ABC transporters lie at the root of several serious diseases including cystic fibrosis. MalK, the ATP-binding cassette of the maltose transporter of Escherichia coli, is distinct from most other ATP-binding cassettes in that it contains an additional C-terminal regulatory domain. The published structure of a MalK dimer is elongated with C-terminal domains at opposite poles (Diederichs, K., Diez, J., Greller, G., Muller, C., Breed, J., Schnell, C., Vonrhein, C., Boos, W., and Welte, W. (2000) EMBO J. 19, 5951-5961). Some uncertainty exists as to whether the orientation of MalK in the dimer structure is correct. Superpositioning of the N-terminal domains of MalK onto the ATP-binding domains of an alternate ABC dimer, in which ATP is bound along the dimer interface between Walker A and LSGGQ motifs, places both N- and C-terminal domains of MalK along the dimer interface. Consistent with this model, a cysteine substitution at position 313 in the C-terminal domain of an otherwise cysteine-free MalK triggered disulfide bond formation between two MalK subunits in an intact maltose transporter. Disulfide bond formation did not inhibit the function of the transporter, suggesting that the C-terminal domains of MalK remain in close proximity throughout the transport cycle. Enzyme IIA glc still inhibited the ATPase activity of the disulfide-linked transporter indicating that the mechanism of inducer exclusion was unaffected. These data support a model for ATP hydrolysis in which the C-terminal domains of MalK remain in contact whereas the N-terminal domains of MalK open and close to allow nucleotide binding and dissociation.

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Samanta, S., Ayvaz, T., Reyes, M., Shuman, H. A., Chen, J., & Davidson, A. L. (2003). Disulfide cross-linking reveals a site of stable interaction between C-terminal regulatory domains of the two MalK subunits in the maltose transport complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(37), 35265–35271. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M301171200

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