Biophysical characterization and mutational analysis of the antibiotic resistance protein NimA from Deinococcus radiodurans |
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Authors: | Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros,Bjø rn Olav Brandsdal,Seá n M. McSweeney |
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Affiliation: | 1. The Norwegian Structural Biology Centre (NorStruct), Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway;2. The Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway;3. Macromolecular Crystallography Group, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), BP 220, 6, Rue Jules Horowitz, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex 09, France |
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Abstract: | Metronidazole (MTZ) is an antibiotic commonly used to treat anaerobic bacterial infections in humans and animals. Antibiotic resistance toward this class of 5-nitroimidazole (5-Ni) drug derivatives has been related to the Nim genes thought to encode a reductase. Here we report the biophysical characteristics of the NimA protein from Deinococcus radiodurans (DrNimA) binding to MTZ and three other 5-Ni drugs. The interaction energies of the protein and antibiotic are studied by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and with free energy and linear interaction energy (LIE) calculations, where the latter method revealed that the antibiotic binding is mainly of hydrophobic character. ITC measurements further found that one DrNimA dimer has two antibiotic binding sites which were not affected by mutation of the reactive His71. The observed association constants (Ka) were in the range of 5.1–49 ? 104 M− 1 and the enthalpy release upon binding to DrNimA for the four drugs studied was relatively low (∼ − 1 kJ/mol) but still measurable. The drug binding is mainly entropy driven and along with the hydrophobic drug binding site found by crystallography, this possibly explains the low observed enthalpy values. The effect of the His71 mutation and the presence of MTZ were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Native DrNimA is a yellow colored protein where the interaction from His71 to the cofactor is thought to be responsible for the coloring. Mutations of His71 to Ala, Ser, Leu or Asp all gave transparent, colorless protein solutions, and the two mutant crystal structures of DrNimA-H71A and DrNimA-H71S presented revealed no cofactor binding. |
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Keywords: | MD, molecular dynamics WT, wild type MS, mass spectroscopy (MS) LIE, linear interaction energy calculations DrNimA, NimA from Deinococcus radiodurans MTZ, metronidazole TNZ, tinidazole ONZ, ornidazole DMZ, dimetridazole ITC, isothermal titration calorimetry DSC, differential scanning calorimetry |
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