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- Elinder, Fredrik, et al.
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Role of individual surface charges of voltage-gated K channels
- 1999
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 77:3, s. 1358-1362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fixed charges on the extracellular surface of voltage-gated ion channels influence the gating. In previous studies of cloned voltage-gated K channels, we found evidence that the functional surface charges are located on the peptide loop between the fifth transmembrane segment and the pore region (the S5-P loop). In the present study, we determine the role of individual charges of the S5-P loop by correlating primary structure with experimentally calculated surface potentials of the previously investigated channels. The results suggest that contributions to the surface potential at the voltage sensor of the different residues varies in an oscillating pattern, with the first residue of the N-terminal end of the S5-P loop, an absolutely conserved glutamate, contributing most. An analysis yields estimates of the distance between the residues and the voltage sensor, the first N-terminal residue being located at a distance of 5-6 Angstrom. To explain the results, a structural hypothesis, comprising an a-helical N-terminal end of the S5-P loop, is presented.
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- Akanda, Nesar, et al.
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Biophysical properties of the apoptosis-inducing plasma membrane voltage-dependent anion channel
- 2006
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 90:12, s. 4405-4417
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ion channels in the plasma membrane play critical roles in apoptosis. In a recent study we found that a voltage-dependent anion channel in the plasma membrane (VDACpl) of neuronal hippocampal cell line (HT22) cells was activated during apoptosis and that channel block prevented apoptosis. Whether or not VDACpl is identical to the mitochondrial VDACmt has been debated. Here, we biophysically characterize the apoptosis-inducing VDACpl and compare it with other reports of VDACpls and VDACmt. Excised membrane patches of apoptotic HT22 cells were studied with the patch-clamp technique. VDACpl has a large main-conductance state (400 pS) and occasionally subconductance states of µ28 pS and 220 pS. The small subconductance state is associated with long-lived inactivated states, and the large subconductance state is associated with excision of the membrane patch and subsequent activation of the channel. The open-probability curve is bell shaped with its peak around 0mV and is blocked by 30µM Gd3+. The gating can be described by a symmetrical seven-state model with one open state and six closed or inactivated states. These channel properties are similar to those of VDACmt and other VDACpls and are discussed in relation to apoptosis.
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- Broomand, Amir, et al.
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Electrostatic domino effect in the Shaker K channel turret
- 2007
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 93:7, s. 2307-2314
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Voltage-gated K channels are regulated by extracellular divalent cations such as Mg2+ and Sr2+, either by screening of fixed negative surface charges, by binding directly or close to the voltage sensor, or by binding to the pore. Different K channels display different sensitivity to divalent cations. For instance, 20 mM MgCl2 shifts the conductance versus voltage curve, G(V), of the Kv1-type Shaker channel with 14 mV, while the G(V) of Kv2.1 is shifted only with 7 mV. This shift difference is paralleled with different working ranges. Kv1-type channels open at −20 mV and Kv2.1 channel open at +5 mV. The aim of this study was to identify critical residues for this Mg2+-induced G(V) shift by introducing Kv2.1 channel residues in the Shaker K channel. The K channels were expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes and studied with the two-electrode voltage-clamp technique. We found that three neutral-to-positive amino-acid residue exchanges in the extracellular loops connecting transmembrane segments S5 and S6 transferred the Mg2+-shifting properties. The contributions of the three residues were additive, and thus independent of each other, with the contributions in the order 425 > 419 > 451. Charging 425 and 419 not only affect the Mg2+-induced G(V) shift with 5–6 mV, but also shifts the G(V) with 17 mV. Thus, a few strategically placed surface charges clearly modulate the channel’s working range. Residue 425, located at some distance away from the voltage sensor, was shown to electrostatically affect residue K427, which in turn affects the voltage sensor S4—thus, an electrostatic domino effect.
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- Börjesson, Sara, et al.
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Electrostatic Tuning of Cellular Excitability
- 2010
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 98:3, s. 396-403
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Voltage-gated ion channels regulate the electric activity of excitable tissues, such as the heart and brain. Therefore, treatment for conditions of disturbed excitability is often based on drugs that target ion channels. In this study of a voltage-gated K channel, we propose what we believe to be a novel pharmacological mechanism for how to regulate channel activity. Charged lipophilic substances can tune channel opening, and consequently excitability, by an electrostatic interaction with the channels voltage sensors. The direction of the effect depends on the charge of the substance. This was shown by three compounds sharing an arachiclonyl backbone but bearing different charge: arachidonic acid, methyl arachidonate, and arachidonyl amine. Computer simulations of membrane excitability showed that small changes in the voltage dependence of Na and K channels have prominent impact on excitability and the tendency for repetitive firing. For instance, a shift in the voltage dependence of a K channel with -5 or +5 mV corresponds to a threefold increase or decrease in K channel density, respectively. We suggest that electrostatic tuning of ion channel activity constitutes a novel and powerful pharmacological approach with which to affect cellular excitability.
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- Börjesson, Sara, 1982-, et al.
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Lipoelectric modification of ion channel voltage gating by polyunsaturated fatty acids
- 2008
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 95:5, s. 2242-2253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have beneficial effects on epileptic seizures and cardiac arrhythmia. We report that ω-3 and ω-6 all-cis-PUFAs affected the voltage dependence of the Shaker K channel by shifting the conductance versus voltage and the gating charge versus voltage curves in negative direction along the voltage axis. Uncharged methyl esters of the PUFAs did not affect the voltage dependence, whereas changes of pH and charge mutations on the channel surface affected the size of the shifts. This suggests an electrostatic effect on the channel's voltage sensors. Monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids, as well as trans-PUFAs did not affect the voltage dependence. This suggests that fatty acid tails with two or more cis double bonds are required to place the negative carboxylate charge of the PUFA in a position to affect the channel's voltage dependence. We propose that charged lipophilic compounds could play a role in regulating neuronal excitability by electrostatically affecting the channel's voltage sensor. We believe this provides a new approach for pharmacological treatment that is voltage sensor pharmacology. © 2008 by the Biophysical Society.
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- Elinder, Fredrik, et al.
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Extracellular Linkers Completely Transplant the Voltage Dependence from Kv1.2 Ion Channels to Kv2.1
- 2016
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : CELL PRESS. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 111:8, s. 1679-1691
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transmembrane voltage needed to open different voltage-gated K (Kv) channels differs by up to 50 mV from each other. In this study we test the hypothesis that the channels voltage dependences to a large extent are set by charged amino-acid residues of the extracellular linkers of the Kv channels, which electrostatically affect the charged amino-acid residues of the voltage sensor S4. Extracellular cations shift the conductance-versus-voltage curve, G(V), by interfering with these extracellular charges. We have explored these issues by analyzing the effects of the divalent strontium ion (Sr2+) on the voltage dependence of the G(V) curves of wild-type and chimeric Kv channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes, using the voltage-clamp technique. Out of seven Kv channels, Kv1.2 was found to be most sensitive to Sr2+ (50 mM shifted G(V) by +21.7 mV), and Kv2.1 to be the least sensitive (+7.8 mV). Experiments on 25 chimeras, constructed from Kv1.2 and Kv2.1, showed that the large Sr2+-induced G(V) shift of Kv1.2 can be transferred to Kv2.1 by exchanging the extracellular linker between S3 and S4 (L3/4) in combination with either the extracellular linker between S5 and the pore (L5/P) or that between the pore and S6 (LP/6). The effects of the linker substitutions were nonadditive, suggesting specific structural interactions. The free energy of these interactions was similar to 20 kJ/mol, suggesting involvement of hydrophobic interactions and/or hydrogen bonds. Using principles from double-layer theory we derived an approximate linear equation (relating the voltage shifts to altered ionic strength), which proved to well match experimental data, suggesting that Sr2+ acts on these channels mainly by screening surface charges. Taken together, these results highlight the extracellular surface potential at the voltage sensor as an important determinant of the channels voltage dependence, making the extracellular linkers essential targets for evolutionary selection.
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- Klement, G., et al.
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A tyrosine substitution in the cavity wall of a K channel induces an inverted inactivation
- 2008
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 94:8, s. 3014-3022
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ion permeation and gating kinetics of voltage-gated K channels critically depend on the amino-acid composition of the cavity wall. Residue 470 in the Shaker K channel is an isoleucine, making the cavity volume in a closed channel insufficiently large for a hydrated K+ ion. In the cardiac human ether-a-go-go-related gene channel, which exhibits slow activation and fast inactivation, the corresponding residue is tyrosine. To explore the role of a tyrosine at this position in the Shaker channel, we studied I470Y. The activation became slower, and the inactivation faster and more complex. At +60 mV the channel inactivated with two distinct rates (t1 = 20 ms, t2 = 400 ms). Experiments with tetraethylammonium and high K + concentrations suggest that the slower component was of the P/C-type. In addition, an inactivation component with inverted voltage dependence was introduced. A step to -40 mV inactivates the channel with a time constant of 500 ms. Negative voltage steps do not cause the channel to recover from this inactivated state (t » 10 min), whereas positive voltage steps quickly do (t = 2 ms at +60 mV). The experimental findings can be explained by a simple branched kinetic model with two inactivation pathways from the open state. © 2008 by the Biophysical Society.
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