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Structure and function of H +/K + pump mutants reveal Na +/K + pump mechanisms. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5270. [PMID: 36085139 PMCID: PMC9463140 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32793-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Ion-transport mechanisms evolve by changing ion-selectivity, such as switching from Na+ to H+ selectivity in secondary-active transporters or P-type-ATPases. Here we study primary-active transport via P-type ATPases using functional and structural analyses to demonstrate that four simultaneous residue substitutions transform the non-gastric H+/K+ pump, a strict H+-dependent electroneutral P-type ATPase, into a bona fide Na+-dependent electrogenic Na+/K+ pump. Conversion of a H+-dependent primary-active transporter into a Na+-dependent one provides a prototype for similar studies of ion-transport proteins. Moreover, we solve the structures of the wild-type non-gastric H+/K+ pump, a suitable drug target to treat cystic fibrosis, and of its Na+/K+ pump-mimicking mutant in two major conformations, providing insight on how Na+ binding drives a concerted mechanism leading to Na+/K+ pump phosphorylation.
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Dobler S, Wagschal V, Pietsch N, Dahdouli N, Meinzer F, Romey-Glüsing R, Schütte K. New ways to acquire resistance: imperfect convergence in insect adaptations to a potent plant toxin. Proc Biol Sci 2019; 286:20190883. [PMID: 31387508 PMCID: PMC6710594 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Evolution of insensitivity to the toxic effects of cardiac glycosides has become a model in the study of convergent evolution, as five taxonomic orders of insects use the same few similar amino acid substitutions in the otherwise highly conserved Na,K-ATPase α. We show here that insensitivity in pyrgomorphid grasshoppers evolved along a slightly divergent path. As in other lineages, duplication of the Na,K-ATPase α gene paved the way for subfunctionalization: one copy maintains the ancestral, sensitive state, while the other copy is resistant. Nonetheless, in contrast with all other investigated insects, the grasshoppers' resistant copy shows length variation by two amino acids in the first extracellular loop, the main part of the cardiac glycoside-binding pocket. RT-qPCR analyses confirmed that this copy is predominantly expressed in tissues exposed to the toxins, while the ancestral copy predominates in the nervous tissue. Functional tests with genetically engineered Drosophila Na,K-ATPases bearing the first extracellular loop of the pyrgomorphid genes showed the derived form to be highly resistant, while the ancestral state is sensitive. Thus, we report convergence in gene duplication and in the gene targets for toxin insensitivity; however, the means to the phenotypic end have been novel in pyrgomorphid grasshoppers.
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- Susanne Dobler
- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Animal Ecology and Conservation, Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Ogawara H. Comparison of Strategies to Overcome Drug Resistance: Learning from Various Kingdoms. Molecules 2018; 23:E1476. [PMID: 29912169 PMCID: PMC6100412 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23061476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 06/13/2018] [Accepted: 06/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Drug resistance, especially antibiotic resistance, is a growing threat to human health. To overcome this problem, it is significant to know precisely the mechanisms of drug resistance and/or self-resistance in various kingdoms, from bacteria through plants to animals, once more. This review compares the molecular mechanisms of the resistance against phycotoxins, toxins from marine and terrestrial animals, plants and fungi, and antibiotics. The results reveal that each kingdom possesses the characteristic features. The main mechanisms in each kingdom are transporters/efflux pumps in phycotoxins, mutation and modification of targets and sequestration in marine and terrestrial animal toxins, ABC transporters and sequestration in plant toxins, transporters in fungal toxins, and various or mixed mechanisms in antibiotics. Antibiotic producers in particular make tremendous efforts for avoiding suicide, and are more flexible and adaptable to the changes of environments. With these features in mind, potential alternative strategies to overcome these resistance problems are discussed. This paper will provide clues for solving the issues of drug resistance.
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- Hiroshi Ogawara
- HO Bio Institute, Yushima-2, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0034, Japan.
- Department of Biochemistry, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Noshio-2, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan.
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Dalla S, Baum M, Dobler S. Substitutions in the cardenolide binding site and interaction of subunits affect kinetics besides cardenolide sensitivity of insect Na,K-ATPase. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 89:43-50. [PMID: 28866054 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2017.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2017] [Revised: 08/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/29/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Substitutions within the cardenolide target site of several insects' Na,K-ATPase α-subunits may confer resistance against toxic cardenolides. However, to which extent these substitutions alter the Na,K-ATPase's kinetic properties and how they interact with different β-subunits is not clear. The cardenolide-adapted milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus possesses three paralogs of the α-subunit (A, B, and C) that differ in number and identity of resistance-conferring substitutions. We introduced these substitutions into the α-subunit of Drosophila melanogaster and combined them with the β-subunits Nrv2.2 and Nrv3. The substitutions Q111T-N122H-F786N-T797A (A-copy mimic) and Q111T-N122H-F786N (B-copy mimic) mediated high insensitivity to ouabain, yet they drastically lowered ATPase activity. Remarkably, the identity of the β-subunit was decisive and all α-subunits were less active when combined with Nrv3 than when combined with Nrv2.2. Both the substitutions and the co-expressed β-subunit strongly affected the enyzme's affinity for Na+ and K+. Na+ affinity was considerably higher for all enzymes expressed with nrv3 while expression with nrv2.2 mostly increased K+ affinity. Our results provide the first evidence that resistance against cardenolides comes at the cost of significantly altered kinetic properties of the Na,K-ATPase. The β-subunit can strongly modulate these properties but cannot fully compensate for the effect of the substitutions.
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- Safaa Dalla
- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Pl. 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Pl. 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Zoology, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Pl. 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
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Dalla S, Dobler S. Gene duplications circumvent trade-offs in enzyme function: Insect adaptation to toxic host plants. Evolution 2016; 70:2767-2777. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.13077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2016] [Revised: 09/26/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Safaa Dalla
- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Biocenter Grindel; University of Hamburg; 20146 Hamburg Germany
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- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Biocenter Grindel; University of Hamburg; 20146 Hamburg Germany
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Weigand KM, Laursen M, Swarts HGP, Engwerda AHJ, Prüfert C, Sandrock J, Nissen P, Fedosova NU, Russel FGM, Koenderink JB. Na(+),K(+)-ATPase isoform selectivity for digitalis-like compounds is determined by two amino acids in the first extracellular loop. Chem Res Toxicol 2014; 27:2082-92. [PMID: 25361285 DOI: 10.1021/tx500290k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Digitalis-like compounds (DLCs) comprise a diverse group of molecules characterized by a cis-trans-cis ring-fused steroid core linked to a lactone. They have been used in the treatment of different medical problems including heart failure, where their inotropic effect on heart muscle is attributed to potent Na(+),K(+)-ATPase inhibition. Their application as drugs, however, has declined in recent past years due to their small safety margin. Since human Na(+),K(+)-ATPase is represented by four different isoforms expressed in a tissue-specific manner, one of the possibilities to improve the therapeutic index of DLCs is to exploit and amend their isoform selectivity. Here, we aimed to reveal the determinants of selectivity of the ubiquitously expressed α1 isoform and the more restricted α2 isoform toward several well-known DLCs and their hydrogenated forms. Using baculovirus to express various mutants of the α2 isoform, we were able to link residues Met(119) and Ser(124) to differences in affinity between the α1 and α2 isoforms to ouabain, dihydro-ouabain, digoxin, and dihydro-digoxin. We speculate that the interactions between these amino acids and DLCs affect the initial binding of these DLCs. Also, we observed isoform selectivity for DLCs containing no sugar groups.
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- Karl M Weigand
- Departments of †Pharmacology and Toxicology and ‡Biochemistry, Radboud University Medical Center , P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Amphibian myiasis. Blowfly larvae (Lucilia bufonivora, Diptera: Calliphoridae) coping with the poisonous skin secretion of the common toad (Bufo bufo). CHEMOECOLOGY 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s00049-014-0157-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Dalla S, Swarts HGP, Koenderink JB, Dobler S. Amino acid substitutions of Na,K-ATPase conferring decreased sensitivity to cardenolides in insects compared to mammals. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 43:1109-1115. [PMID: 24121093 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2013] [Revised: 09/23/2013] [Accepted: 09/27/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Mutagenesis analyses and a recent crystal structure of the mammalian Na,K-ATPase have identified amino acids which are responsible for high affinity binding of cardenolides (such as ouabain) which at higher doses block the enzyme in the phosphorylated state. Genetic analysis of the Na,K-ATPase of insects adapted to cardenolides in their food plants revealed that some species possess substitutions which confer strongly increased resistance to ouabain in the mammalian enzyme such as the substitution T797A or combined substitutions at positions 111 and 122. To test for the effect of these mutations against the background of insect Na,K-ATPase, we here expressed the ouabain sensitive Na,K-ATPase α-subunit of Drosophila melanogaster together with the β-subunit Nrv3 in baculovirus-infected Sf9 cells and introduced the substitutions N122H, T797A, Q111T-N122H, Q111V-N122H, all of which have been observed in cardenolide-adapted insects. While all constructs showed similar expression levels, ouabain affinity of mutated Na,K-ATPases was reduced compared to the wild-type fly enzyme. Ouabain sensitivity of the ATPase activity in inhibition assays was significantly decreased by all mutations, yet whereas the IC₅₀ for the single mutations of N122H (61.0 μM) or T797A (63.3 μM) was increased roughly 250-fold relative to the wild-type (0.24 μM), the double mutations of Q111V-N122H (IC₅₀ 550 μM) and Q111T-N122H (IC₅₀ 583 μM) proved to be still more effective yielding a 2.250-fold increased resistance to ouabain. The double mutations identified in cardenolide-adapted insects are more effective in reducing ouabain sensitivity of the enzyme than those found naturally in the rat Na,K-ATPase (Q111R-N122D) or in mutagenesis screens of the mammalian enzyme. Obviously, the intense selection pressure on cardenolide exposed insects has resulted in very efficient substitutions that decrease cardenolide sensitivity extremely.
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- Safaa Dalla
- Molecular Evolutionary Biology, Biocenter Grindel, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Pl. 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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Petschenka G, Fandrich S, Sander N, Wagschal V, Boppré M, Dobler S. STEPWISE EVOLUTION OF RESISTANCE TO TOXIC CARDENOLIDES VIA GENETIC SUBSTITUTIONS IN THE NA+/K+-ATPASE OF MILKWEED BUTTERFLIES (LEPIDOPTERA: DANAINI). Evolution 2013; 67:2753-61. [DOI: 10.1111/evo.12152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Georg Petschenka
- Biozentrum Grindel; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146; Hamburg; Germany
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- Biozentrum Grindel; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146; Hamburg; Germany
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- Biozentrum Grindel; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146; Hamburg; Germany
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- Biozentrum Grindel; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146; Hamburg; Germany
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- Forstzoologisches Institut; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität; 79085; Freiburg; Germany
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- Biozentrum Grindel; Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3; 20146; Hamburg; Germany
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Cornelius F, Kanai R, Toyoshima C. A structural view on the functional importance of the sugar moiety and steroid hydroxyls of cardiotonic steroids in binding to Na,K-ATPase. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:6602-16. [PMID: 23341448 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.442137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Na,K-ATPase is specifically inhibited by cardiotonic steroids (CTSs) like digoxin and is of significant therapeutic value in the treatment of congestive heart failure and arrhythmia. Recently, new interest has arisen in developing Na,K-ATPase inhibitors as anticancer agents. In the present study, we compare the potency and rate of inhibition as well as the reactivation of enzyme activity following inhibition by various cardiac glycosides and their aglycones at different pH values using shark Na,K-ATPase stabilized in the E2MgPi or in the E2BeFx conformations. The effects of the number and nature of various sugar residues as well as changes in the positions of hydroxyl groups on the β-side of the steroid core of cardiotonic steroids were investigated by comparing various cardiac glycoside compounds like ouabain, digoxin, digitoxin, and gitoxin with their aglycones. The results confirm our previous hypothesis that CTS binds primarily to the E2-P ground state through an extracellular access channel and that binding of extracellular Na(+) ions to K(+) binding sites relieved the CTS inhibition. This reactivation depended on the presence or absence of the sugar moiety on the CTS, and a single sugar is enough to impede reactivation. Finally, increasing the number of hydroxyl groups of the steroid was sterically unfavorable and was found to decrease the inhibitory potency and to confer high pH sensitivity, depending on their position on the steroid β-face. The results are discussed with reference to the recent crystal structures of Na,K-ATPase in the unbound and ouabain-bound states.
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- Flemming Cornelius
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Ole Worms Allé 6, Building 1180, 8000 Aarhus C 8000, Denmark.
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Community-wide convergent evolution in insect adaptation to toxic cardenolides by substitutions in the Na,K-ATPase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:13040-5. [PMID: 22826239 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202111109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The extent of convergent molecular evolution is largely unknown, yet is critical to understanding the genetics of adaptation. Target site insensitivity to cardenolides is a prime candidate for studying molecular convergence because herbivores in six orders of insects have specialized on these plant poisons, which gain their toxicity by blocking an essential transmembrane carrier, the sodium pump (Na,K-ATPase). We investigated gene sequences of the Na,K-ATPase α-subunit in 18 insects feeding on cardenolide-containing plants (spanning 15 genera and four orders) to screen for amino acid substitutions that might lower sensitivity to cardenolides. The replacement N122H that was previously shown to confer resistance in the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) and Chrysochus leaf beetles was found in four additional species, Oncopeltus fasciatus and Lygaeus kalmii (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae), Labidomera clivicollis (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), and Liriomyza asclepiadis (Diptera, Agromyzidae). Thus, across 300 Myr of insect divergence, specialization on cardenolide-containing plants resulted in molecular convergence for an adaptation likely involved in coevolution. Our screen revealed a number of other substitutions connected to cardenolide binding in mammals. We confirmed that some of the particular substitutions provide resistance to cardenolides by introducing five distinct constructs of the Drosophila melanogaster gene into susceptible eucaryotic cells under an ouabain selection regime. These functional assays demonstrate that combined substitutions of Q(111) and N(122) are synergistic, with greater than twofold higher resistance than either substitution alone and >12-fold resistance over the wild type. Thus, even across deep phylogenetic branches, evolutionary degrees of freedom seem to be limited by physiological constraints, such that the same molecular substitutions confer adaptation.
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Dobler S, Petschenka G, Pankoke H. Coping with toxic plant compounds--the insect's perspective on iridoid glycosides and cardenolides. PHYTOCHEMISTRY 2011; 72:1593-1604. [PMID: 21620425 DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2011.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2010] [Revised: 03/30/2011] [Accepted: 04/20/2011] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Specializing on host plants with toxic secondary compounds enforces specific adaptation in insect herbivores. In this review, we focus on two compound classes, iridoid glycosides and cardenolides, which can be found in the food plants of a large number of insect species that display various degrees of adaptation to them. These secondary compounds have very different modes of action: Iridoid glycosides are usually activated in the gut of the herbivores by β-glucosidases that may either stem from the food plant or be present in the gut as standard digestive enzymes. Upon cleaving, the unstable aglycone is released that unspecifically acts by crosslinking proteins and inhibiting enzymes. Cardenolides, on the other hand, are highly specific inhibitors of an essential ion carrier, the sodium pump. In insects exposed to both kinds of toxins, carriers either enabling the safe storage of the compounds away from the activating enzymes or excluding the toxins from sensitive tissues, play an important role that deserves further analysis. To avoid toxicity of iridoid glycosides, repression of activating enzymes emerges as a possible alternative strategy. Cardenolides, on the other hand, may lose their toxicity if their target site is modified and this strategy has evolved multiple times independently in cardenolide-adapted insects.
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- Susanne Dobler
- Biocenter Grindel, Hamburg University, Martin-Luther-King Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
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Cornelius F, Mahmmoud YA. Interaction between Cardiotonic Steroids and Na,K-ATPase. Effects of pH and Ouabain-Induced Changes in Enzyme Conformation. Biochemistry 2009; 48:10056-65. [DOI: 10.1021/bi901212r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Flemming Cornelius
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Aarhus, Ole Worms Allé 1185, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Aarhus, Ole Worms Allé 1185, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Cardiac glycosides are a diverse family of naturally derived compounds that bind to and inhibit Na+/K+-ATPase. Members of this family have been in clinical use for many years for the treatment of heart failure and atrial arrhythmia, and the mechanism of their positive inotropic effect is well characterized. Exciting recent findings have suggested additional signalling modes of action of Na+/K+-ATPase, implicating cardiac glycosides in the regulation of several important cellular processes and highlighting potential new therapeutic roles for these compounds in various diseases. Perhaps most notably, the increased susceptibility of cancer cells to these compounds supports their potential use as cancer therapies, and the first generation of glycoside-based anticancer drugs are currently in clinical trials.
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Capendeguy O, Iwaszkiewicz J, Michielin O, Horisberger JD. The Fourth Extracellular Loop of the α Subunit of Na,K-ATPase. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:27850-27858. [DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m802194200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Faller LD. Mechanistic studies of sodium pump. Arch Biochem Biophys 2008; 476:12-21. [PMID: 18558080 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2008.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2008] [Revised: 05/22/2008] [Accepted: 05/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Sodium pump was the first ion pump discovered. A member of the family of active transporters that catalyze adenosine 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis by forming a phosphorylated enzyme intermediate, sodium pump couples the energy released to unequal countertransport of sodium and potassium ions. The ion gradient generated by the pump is important for a variety of secondary physiological processes ranging from metabolite transport to electrical excitation of nerve and muscle. Selected experiments relating structure to function are reviewed.
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- Larry D Faller
- University of California at Los Angeles and Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Health Care System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA.
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De Pont JJHHM, Swarts HGP, Karawajczyk A, Schaftenaar G, Willems PHGM, Koenderink JB. The non-gastric H,K-ATPase as a tool to study the ouabain-binding site in Na,K-ATPase. Pflugers Arch 2008; 457:623-34. [DOI: 10.1007/s00424-008-0467-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2008] [Accepted: 01/23/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Mijatovic T, Van Quaquebeke E, Delest B, Debeir O, Darro F, Kiss R. Cardiotonic steroids on the road to anti-cancer therapy. Biochim Biophys Acta Rev Cancer 2007; 1776:32-57. [PMID: 17706876 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2007.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2007] [Revised: 06/19/2007] [Accepted: 06/21/2007] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The sodium pump, Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase, could be an important target for the development of anti-cancer drugs as it serves as a versatile signal transducer, it is a key player in cell adhesion and its aberrant expression and activity are implicated in the development and progression of different cancers. Cardiotonic steroids, known ligands of the sodium pump have been widely used for the treatment of heart failure. However, early epidemiological evaluations and subsequent demonstration of anti-cancer activity in vitro and in vivo have indicated the possibility of developing this class of compound as chemotherapeutic agents in oncology. Their development to date as anti-cancer agents has however been impaired by a narrow therapeutic margin resulting from their potential to induce cardiovascular side-effects. The review will thus discuss (i) sodium pump structure, function, expression in diverse cancers and its chemical targeting and that of its sub-units, (ii) reported in vitro and in vivo anti-cancer activity of cardiotonic steroids, (iii) managing the toxicity of these compounds and the limitations of existing preclinical models to adequately predict the cardiotoxic potential of new molecules in man and (iv) the potential of chemical modification to reduce the cardiovascular side-effects and improve the anti-cancer activity of new molecules.
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Munson K, Law RJ, Sachs G. Analysis of the gastric H,K ATPase for ion pathways and inhibitor binding sites. Biochemistry 2007; 46:5398-417. [PMID: 17425287 PMCID: PMC2837483 DOI: 10.1021/bi062305h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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New models of the gastric H,K ATPase in the E1K and E2P states are presented as the first structures of a K+ counter-transport P2-type ATPase exhibiting ion entry and exit paths. Homology modeling was first used to generate a starting conformation from the srCa ATPase E2P form (PDB code 1wpg) that contains bound MgADP. Energy minimization of the model showed a conserved adenosine site but nonconserved polyphosphate contacts compared to the srCa ATPase. Molecular dynamics was then employed to expand the luminal entry sufficiently to allow access of the rigid K+ competitive naphthyridine inhibitor, Byk99, to its binding site within the membrane domain. The new E2P model had increased separation between transmembrane segments M3 through M8, and addition of water in this space showed not only an inhibitor entry path to the luminal vestibule but also a channel leading to the ion binding site. Addition of K+ to the hydrated channel with molecular dynamics modeling of ion movement identified a pathway for K+ from the lumen to the ion binding site to give E2K. A K+ exit path to the cytoplasm operating during the normal catalytic cycle is also proposed on the basis of an E1K homology model derived from the E12Ca2+ form of the srCa ATPase (PDB code 1su4). Autodock analyses of the new E2P model now correctly discriminate between high- and low-affinity K+ competitive inhibitors. Finally, the expanded luminal vestibule of the E2P model explains high-affinity ouabain binding in a mutant of the H,K ATPase [Qiu et al. (2005) J. Biol. Chem. 280, 32349-32355].
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- Keith Munson
- Laboratory of Membrane Biology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and VA GLAHS, Los Angeles, California 90073, USA.
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Radkov R, Kharoubi-Hess S, Schaer D, Modyanov NN, Geering K, Horisberger JD. Role of homologous ASP334 and GLU319 in human non-gastric H,K- and Na,K-ATPases in cardiac glycoside binding. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 356:142-6. [PMID: 17349614 PMCID: PMC1987332 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.02.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2007] [Accepted: 02/20/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Cardiac steroids inhibit Na,K-ATPase and the related non-gastric H,K-ATPase, while they do not interact with gastric H,K-ATPase. Introducing an arginine, the residue present in the gastric H,K-ATPase, in the second extracellular loop at the corresponding position 334 in the human non-gastric H,K-ATPase (D334R mutation) rendered it completely resistant to 2mM ouabain. The corresponding mutation (E319R) in alpha1 Na,K-ATPase produced a approximately 2-fold increase of the ouabain IC(50) in the ouabain-resistant rat alpha1 Na,K-ATPase and a large decrease of the ouabain affinity of human alpha1 Na,K-ATPase, on the other hand this mutation had no effect on the affinity for the aglycone ouabagenin. These results provide a strong support for the orientation of ouabain in its biding site with its sugar moiety interacting directly with the second extracellular loop.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rossen Radkov
- Department of Physiology, Pharmacology, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Toledo College of Medicine, Toledo, OH 43614, USA
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