Molecular basis of mitomycin C resistance in streptomyces: structure and function of the MRD protein.
Mitomycin C (MC) is a potent anticancer agent. Streptomyces lavendulae, which produces MC, protects itself from the lethal effects of the drug by expressing several resistance proteins. One of them (MRD) binds MC and functions as a drug exporter. We report the crystal structure of MRD and its complex with an MC metabolite, 1,2-cis-1-hydroxy-2,7-diaminomitosene, at 1.5 A resolution. The drug is sandwiched by pi-stacking interactions of His-38 and Trp-108. MRD is a dimer. The betaalphabetabetabeta fold of the MRD molecule is reminiscent of methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase, bleomycin resistance proteins, glyoxalase I, and extradiol dioxygenases. The location of the binding site is identical to the ones in evolutionarily related enzymes, suggesting that the protein may have been recruited from a different metabolic pathway.
Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Health Sciences System, Charlottesville 22908, USA.
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Martin
Zbigniew
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Dauter
Yancho
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Devedjiev
Peter
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Sheffield
Filip
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Jelen
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David H
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Sherman
Jacek
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Otlewski
Zygmunt S
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Derewenda
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Derewenda
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001665:Binding Sites; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D016685:Mitomycin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D008937:Mitomycins / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000187:drug effects
D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D002352:Carrier Proteins; C104641:MRD protein, Streptomyces lavendulae; D026901:Membrane Transport Proteins; D008937:Mitomycins; D016685:Mitomycin; C049686:1-hydroxy-2,7-diaminomitosene