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Query: EC:3.6.3.44 (P-glycoprotein)
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P-glycoprotein is an energy-dependent drug efflux pump with broad specificity for hydrophobic antitumor agents such as vinblastine, doxorubicin, and taxol. We have previously shown that [3H]azidopine and [125I] iodoaryl azidoprazosin, which are photoaffinity probes for the alpha 1-subunit of the L-type calcium channel and alpha 1-adrenergic receptor, respectively, specifically interact with P-glycoprotein, partially reverse multidrug resistance, and bind to a 6-kDa common domain in the 140-kDa P-glycoprotein molecule (Greenberger, L., Yang, C.-P. H., Gindin, E., and Horwitz, S. B. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 4394-4401). An immunological approach was used to identify the position of photoaffinity drug-binding domains in P-glycoprotein. Analysis was done with a series of site-specific rabbit polyclonal antibodies to peptides that mimic domains in the mouse mdr1b gene product. The antibodies were made against amino acid residues 269-284, 356-373, 665-682, 740-750, 907-924, and 1203-1222. Upon trypsin digestion, cleavage products of 95 and 55 kDa were obtained, which after further digestion migrated at 60 and 40 kDa, respectively. The 40-kDa fragment was recognized by the antibodies to residues 1203-1222 and 919-1276, while the 55-kDa fragment was recognized by these antibodies plus antibodies to residues 740-750 and 907-924. In contrast, the 95- and 60-kDa trypsin fragments were recognized only by the antibody to residues 269-284. The 55- and 40-kDa fragments, as well as the 95- and 60-kDa fragments, were major photolabeled species after digestion of P-glycoprotein. The previously identified 6-kDa photo-labeled P-glycoprotein fragment was within the 40-kDa trypsin fragment. These data suggest that there are two photoaffinity drug-binding domains in P-glycoprotein encoded by mouse mdr1b. The C-terminal site most likely resides within or in close proximity to putative transmembrane domains 11-12.
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PMID:Domain mapping of the photoaffinity drug-binding sites in P-glycoprotein encoded by mouse mdr1b. 168 13

The predicted cytoplasmic orientation and two-domain structure of the multidrug efflux pump P-glycoprotein were demonstrated with sequence-specific antibodies. We synthesized peptides corresponding to amino acid residues, Glu393-Lys408 (anti-P) and Leu1206-Thr1226 (anti-C) in P-glycoprotein from human mdr1 cDNA and used these peptides to produce polyclonal antibodies. From the primary structure of P-glycoprotein, and anti-C antibody is expected to recognize another position, Leu561-Thr581, in the duplicate structure of P-glycoprotein, but anti-P recognizes only one site. These antibodies bind to multidrug-resistant cells (KB-C2) with permeabilized plasma membrane but do not bind to nonpermeabilized KB-C2 cells or parental KB cells, supporting the predicted cytoplasmic orientation of these sequences. With immunoblotting of the membrane fractions from KB-C2 cells, a major 140-kDa polypeptide of the P-glycoprotein was detected with both anti-P and anti-C. Two minor polypeptides with molecular mass of 95 and 55 kDa were also detected. When membrane vesicles were digested mildly with trypsin, the amount of these two polypeptides increased. Anti-P detected only the 95-kDa polypeptide, and anti-C detected both 95- and 55-kDa polypeptides. Achromobacter lyticus protease I (lysyl endopeptidase) and Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease also produced two polypeptides with similar molecular weights. Absorption into lectin-agarose beads and labeling with [3H]glucosamine indicated that the 95-kDa polypeptide was glycosylated but that the 55-kDa polypeptide was not. These two polypeptides as well as P-glycoprotein were photoaffinity-labeled with a calcium channel blocker, [3H]azidopine, but most of the label was found in the 55-kDa polypeptide. The yield of labeled fragments from membrane vesicles photolabeled after digestion with trypsin was similar to that from membrane vesicles digested with trypsin after photolabeling. These data indicate 1) that the 95-kDa polypeptide is the fragment corresponding to the amino-terminal half of P-glycoprotein containing sugar chains; 2) that the 55-kDa polypeptide is the carboxyl-terminal half which was mainly labeled with [3H]azidopine; and 3) that P-glycoprotein has a relatively rigid structure with a small number of protease-sensitive sites and its global structure is not destroyed by tryptic cleavage.
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PMID:Cytoplasmic orientation and two-domain structure of the multidrug transporter, P-glycoprotein, demonstrated with sequence-specific antibodies. 247 41

Six independently derived multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster cell lines selected with vincristine, daunorubicin, actinomycin D, or colchicine were probed by in situ hybridization techniques with the cloned cDNA, p5L-18, to chromosomally localize known or presumed amplified P-glycoprotein genes. One or two clusters of amplified genes were demonstrable in all of the highly resistant sublines and were localized to homogeneously staining regions and/or abnormally banding regions, gene amplification-associated cytogenetic abnormalities, on eight different chromosomes. Analysis of trypsin-Giemsa banded karyotypes revealed additional, multiple chromosomal rearrangements that were apparently nonspecific. Mapping studies localized the native P-glycoprotein gene(s) to the region q23 to 31 (most probably band 26) on the long arm of chromosome 1 of normal Chinese hamster bone marrow fibroblasts and normal chromosome 1 homologues in resistant cells. Southern blot analysis of restriction endonuclease fragments indicated the amplification of one or both of (at least) two wild-type nonallelic genes in four of the lines and the presence in one line (DC-3F/DMM XX) of a unique 5.0-kilobase BamHI fragment resulting from a recombinational event during amplification. Comparison with the cytogenetic data indicated no correlation between restriction patterns generated by EcoRI, HindIII, PstI, or BamHI and chromosomal location of amplified genes. However, the only sublines in which the homogeneously staining region or abnormally banding region is positioned at 1q26 (at or near the site of the native gene) exhibit either alterations in gene structure (DC-3F/DM XX) or in regulation of gene expression (DC-3F/AD X), suggesting a process more complex than simply amplification of the gene in loco.
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PMID:Chromosomal organization of amplified genes in multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster cells. 336 1

The technique of vanadate trapping of nucleotide was used to study catalytic sites of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) in plasma membranes from multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cells. Vanadate trapping of Mg- or Co-8-azido-nucleotide (1 mol/mol of Pgp) caused complete inhibition of Pgp ATPase activity, with reactivation rates at 37 degrees C of 1.4 x 10(-3) s-1 (t1/2 = 8 min) or 3.3 x 10(-4) s-1 (t1/2 = 35 min), respectively. UV irradiation of the inhibited Pgp yielded permanent inactivation of ATPase activity and specific photolabeling of Pgp. Mild trypsin digestion showed that the two nucleotide sites were labeled in equal proportion. The results show that both nucleotide sites in Pgp are capable of nucleotide hydrolysis, that vanadate trapping of nucleotide at either site completely prevents hydrolysis at both sites, and that vanadate trapping of nucleotide in the N- or C-terminal nucleotide sites occurs non-selectively. A minimal scheme is presented to explain inhibition by vanadate trapping of nucleotide and to describe the normal catalytic pathway. The inhibited Pgp-Mg-nucleotide.vanadate complex is probably an analog of the catalytic transition state, implying that when one nucleotide site assumes the catalytic transition state conformation the other site cannot do so and suggesting that the two sites may alternate in catalysis.
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PMID:Both P-glycoprotein nucleotide-binding sites are catalytically active. 759 42

P-glycoprotein (PGP), an active efflux pump of antitumor agents in multidrug-resistant tumor cells, exists in brain capillary endothelium and could be functionally involved in the blood-brain barrier. To study the regulatory mechanism of PGP expression in brain capillary endothelium, various mouse tissue matrices were tested for their abilities to enhance the expression of PGP in mouse brain capillary endothelial cells (MBEC), which express relatively small amounts of PGP. Of the four tissue matrices we examined, PGP expression in MBEC cultured on the brain matrix increased 2.0-fold. The PGP-inducing activity was similarly detected in bovine brain matrix, and the activity was enriched in the fraction of pl 9.0 by isoelectric focusing. The fraction, named PIC-fraction (PGP-inducing component), increased the PGP expression in MBEC 3.5-fold. By Northern blot analysis, a 3.3-fold enhancement of mdr gene expression was observed in MBEC cultured on the PIC-fraction. The PGP-inducing activity of the PIC-fraction was reduced by the treatment with trypsin but not with collagenase, suggesting that a proteinaceous factor distinct from type I collagen might be responsible for the PGP-inducing activity of PIC-fraction. Although the PIC-fraction increased the PGP expression in other mouse brain capillary endothelial cells, the PIC-fraction did not increase PGP expression in mouse aortic endothelial cells and KB carcinoma cell lines expressing various amounts of PGP. These observations suggest that PGP expression in brain capillary endothelium is specifically regulated by a tissue-specific factor in the brain matrix.
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PMID:Enhanced expression by the brain matrix of P-glycoprotein in brain capillary endothelial cells. 784 16

Phosphorylation of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) by protein kinase C occurs on apparently the same sites in vitro and in intact cells (in situ) and is implicated in modulation of Pgp function. The region of the molecule which contains the in vitro phosphorylation sites and two specific sites within this region are now determined by peptide sequencing. Membrane vesicles from multidrug-resistant human KB-V1 cells were incubated with purified protein kinase C and [gamma-32P]ATP, and Pgp (containing 1 mol of phosphate/mol of protein) was purified to apparent homogeneity. Phosphorylation occurred exclusively on serine residues. Phosphopeptides were generated by digestion with Lys-C endoproteinase or trypsin, partially purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and further purified with strategies developed for individual phosphopeptides. Sequence analysis by Edman degradation and comparison with the deduced amino acid sequence of human (mdr 1) Pgp identified serines 661 and 671, and one or more of serines 667, 675, and 683, as sites of phosphorylation. These sites are clustered in the linker region located between the two homologous halves of Pgp. Our results identify a previously undefined, phosphorylatable domain of Pgp, smaller in size but analogous in location to the R-domain of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. These data provide a basis for a better understanding of the role of phosphorylation in the mechanism of action and regulation of this important multidrug pump protein.
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PMID:Identification of specific sites in human P-glycoprotein phosphorylated by protein kinase C. 809 61

The Plasmodium falciparum P-glycoprotein homologue 1 (PGH1) is structurally similar to several members of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of membrane transporters. We have examined whether the nucleotide binding domains predicted from the deduced amino sequence are functional by photoaffinity labeling of purified parasite digestive vacuoles with the analogue 8-azido-alpha-[32P]ATP (8-N3-ATP). This reagent labels a 160-kDa protein in vacuoles from both a chloroquine sensitive and a chloroquine-resistant parasite isolate. The 160-kDa protein could be immunoprecipitated with affinity-purified antibodies against the P. falciparum P-glycoprotein homologue (PGH1). Inhibition of photoaffinity labeling of PGH1 could be achieved with ATP, ADP, GTP and GDP but not with AMP or GMP. In order to map the 8-N3-ATP binding sites on PGH1, photoaffinity-labeled PGH1 was digested with trypsin and immunoprecipitated with site-specific antibodies. Taken together, these results indicate that 8-N3-ATP specifically labels PGH1 and that one binding site resides within the amino terminal half of the molecule. This supports the contention that PGH1 is involved in a nucleotide-regulated transport function across the membrane of the digestive vacuole.
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PMID:Nucleotide binding properties of a P-glycoprotein homologue from Plasmodium falciparum. 809 60

P-glycoprotein can mediate multidrug resistance in tumor cells and is hypothesized to be an energy-dependent drug efflux pump. The protein is composed of two cassettes; each cassette contains six transmembrane domains followed by a nucleotide binding fold. The [125I]iodoaryl azidoprazosin photoaffinity drug binding sites in P-glycoprotein have been mapped by immunological analysis. After complete digestion of P-glycoprotein with trypsin, two major photolabeled fragments have been mapped. The 5- and 4-kDa fragments are located within, or immediately C-terminal to, the last transmembrane domain of each cassette: transmembranes 6 and 12 of P-glycoprotein, respectively. The 4-kDa fragment maximally extends up to, but not including, the Walker A motif of the second nucleotide binding fold, whereas the 5-kDa fragment maximally extends a few residues beyond the Walker A motif of the first nucleotide binding fold. A minor photolabeling domain is also found between transmembrane domain 4 and up to, but not including, transmembrane domain 6. These data suggest that a portion of the drug binding site in P-glycoprotein is in close proximity to ATP binding regions. Furthermore, symmetrical regions in each cassette of P-glycoprotein are likely to participate in drug efflux.
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PMID:Major photoaffinity drug labeling sites for iodoaryl azidoprazosin in P-glycoprotein are within, or immediately C-terminal to, transmembrane domains 6 and 12. 809 11

P-glycoprotein (Pgp)1 is a polytopic membrane protein and functions as an energy-dependent drug efflux pump. It is responsible for multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer cell lines. Recently, the topological structure of Pgp has been investigated. However, the results are in dispute. A major question concerning the Pgp topology is the membrane orientation of the loop linking TM4 and TM5 (loop 4) and the loop linking TM8 and TM9 (loop 8). In this study, we generated polyclonal antibodies specific to these two loops. In combination with a panel of other well-characterized site-specific polyclonal- and monoclonal antibodies of Pgp, we tested the membrane orientation of these two loops of Pgp in multidrug-resistant cells using immunocytochemistry and proteolysis/membrane protection assay. Our results showed that (1) both loops 4 and 8 are located extracellularly whereas other domains, such as the ATP-binding sites, are in the cytoplasm and (2) proteolysis of Pgp is not a random event and the trypsin-sensitive sites are cleaved in orders. Since the Pgp was not genetically manipulated in this study, in contrast to previous studies, we believe that naturally expressed Pgp molecules have an unconventional topology. We speculate that this alternate topology of Pgp may represent a different functional state of the protein. Further detailed analysis of Pgp topology will help to understand the fundamental mechanism of drug transport by Pgp.
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PMID:Topological folding and proteolysis profile of P-glycoprotein in membranes of multidrug-resistant cells: implications for the drug-transport mechanism. 870 44

The interaction of KB-V1, a multidrug resistant (MDR) variant of the KB-3-1 human oral carcinoma, with human complement was investigated. KB-V1 cells were found to be more sensitive than KB-3-1 cells to complement-mediated lysis. Detailed analysis of the capacity of KB cells to activate human complement demonstrated that both C3b deposition and formation of the membrane attack complex (MAC) are higher on KB-V1 than on KB-3-1 cells. Furthermore, the MAC formed on KB-V1 cells, but not on KB-3-1 cells, was found to be resistant to trypsin treatment, i.e. more stably inserted into the plasma membrane. Immunofluorescence analysis by flow cytometry showed that KB-V1 cells express less decay-accelerating factor (DAF, CD55) than KB-3-1 cells. Two other complement regulatory proteins, membrane cofactor protein (MCP, CD46) and CD59 are expressed to a similar extent on both KB-V1 and KB-3-1 cells. Treatment of KB-V1 cells with neutralizing anti-P-glycoprotein (P-gp) monoclonal antibodies reduced their sensitivity to complement. In addition, KB-V1 revertants which cease to express P-gp become more resistant to complement. These results indicate that multiple factors, such as reduced expression of DAF, enhanced deposition of C3b and increased binding and stability of the MAC may contribute to the increased complement sensitivity of KB-V1 cells. It is suggested that P-gp is responsible for the complement-sensitive phenotype of KB-V1 cells.
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PMID:Enhanced sensitivity of P-glycoprotein-positive multidrug resistant tumor cells to complement-mediated lysis. 934 60


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