Structural insight into the self-sacrifice mechanism of enediyne resistance.

Shanteri Singh, Martin H. Hager, Changsheng Zhang, Byron R. Griffith, Min S. Lee, Klaas Hallenga, John L. Markley, Jon S. Thorson

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

28 Scopus citations

Abstract

The recent discovery of the first "self-sacrifice" mechanism for bacterial resistance to the enediyne antitumor antibiotics, where enediyne-induced proteolysis of the resistance protein CalC inactivates both the highly reactive metabolite and the resistance protein, revealed yet another ingenious bacterial mechanism for controlling reactive metabolites. As reported herein, the first 3D structures of CalC and CalC in complex with calicheamicin (CLM) divulge CalC to be a member of the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR)-related transfer (START) domain superfamily. In contrast to previous studies of proteins known to bind DNA-damaging natural products ( e.g ., bleomycins, mitomycins, and nine-membered chromoprotein enediynes), this is the first demonstrated involvement of a START domain fold. Consistent with the CalC self-sacrifice mechanism, CLM in complex with CalC is positioned for direct hydrogen abstraction from Gly113 to initiate the oxidative proteolysis-based resistance mechanism. These structural studies also illuminate, for the first time, a small DNA-binding region within CalC that may serve to localize CalC to the enediyne target (DNA). Given the role of START domains in nuclear/cytosolic transport and translocation, this structural study also may implicate START domains as post-endocytotic intracellular chaperones for enediyne-based therapeutics such as MyloTarg.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)451-460
Number of pages10
JournalACS Chemical Biology
Volume1
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 22 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Medicine

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Structural insight into the self-sacrifice mechanism of enediyne resistance.'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this