Flavonoids: a class of modulators with bifunctional interactions at vicinal ATP- and steroid-binding sites on mouse P-glycoprotein.
A hexahistidine-tagged C-terminal nucleotide-binding domain (H6-NBD2) from mouse P-glycoprotein was designed, overexpressed, and purified as a highly soluble recombinant protein. Intrinsic fluorescence of its single tryptophan residue allowed monitoring of high-affinity binding of 2'(3')-N-methylanthraniloyl-ATP (MANT-ATP), a fluorescent ATP derivative that induces a marked quenching correlated to fluorescence resonance-energy transfer. H6-NBD2 also bound all flavonoids known to modulate the multidrug resistance phenotype of P-glycoprotein-positive cancer cells, with similar affinities and relative efficiencies. Flavones (like quercetin or apigenin) bound more strongly than flavanones (naringenin), isoflavones (genistein), or glycosylated derivatives (rutin). Kaempferide, a 4'-methoxy 3,5,7-trihydroxy flavone, was even more reactive and induced a complete quenching of H6-NBD2 intrinsic fluorescence. Kaempferide binding was partly prevented by preincubation with ATP, or partly displaced upon ATP addition. Interestingly, kaempferide was also able to partly prevent the binding of the antiprogestin RU 486 to a hydrophobic region similar to that recently found, close to the ATP site, in the N-terminal cytosolic domain. Conversely, RU 486 partly prevented kaempferide binding, the effect being additive to the partial prevention by ATP. Furthermore, MANT-ATP binding, which occurred at the ATP site and extended to the vicinal steroid-interacting hydrophobic region, was completely prevented or displaced by kaempferide. All results indicate that flavonoids constitute a new class of modulators with bifunctional interactions at vicinal ATP-binding site and steroid-interacting region within a cytosolic domain of P-glycoprotein.
Laboratoire de Biochimie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Unité Propre de Recherche 412 du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 69367 Lyon, France.
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D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D005419:Flavonoids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D051379:Mice; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013256:Steroids / Q000378:metabolism; D062367:ortho-Aminobenzoates / Q000378:metabolism
D020168:ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1; D003432:Cross-Linking Reagents; D017931:DNA Primers; D005419:Flavonoids; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D013256:Steroids; D062367:ortho-Aminobenzoates; C045473:3'-O-(N-methylanthraniloyl) ATP; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate