Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel

Positively charged amino acids respond to membrane potential changes to drive voltage sensor movement in voltage-gated ion channels, but determining the displacements of voltage sensor gating charges has proven difficult. We optically tracked the movement of the two most extracellular charged residu...

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Autores principales: Michael F Priest, Elizabeth EL Lee, Francisco Bezanilla
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:653d41c01d7942449409f97e536ef6d32021-12-01T13:54:34ZTracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel10.7554/eLife.581482050-084Xe58148https://doaj.org/article/653d41c01d7942449409f97e536ef6d32021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://elifesciences.org/articles/58148https://doaj.org/toc/2050-084XPositively charged amino acids respond to membrane potential changes to drive voltage sensor movement in voltage-gated ion channels, but determining the displacements of voltage sensor gating charges has proven difficult. We optically tracked the movement of the two most extracellular charged residues (R1 and R2) in the Shaker potassium channel voltage sensor using a fluorescent positively charged bimane derivative (qBBr) that is strongly quenched by tryptophan. By individually mutating residues to tryptophan within the putative pathway of gating charges, we observed that the charge motion during activation is a rotation and a tilted translation that differs between R1 and R2. Tryptophan-induced quenching of qBBr also indicates that a crucial residue of the hydrophobic plug is linked to the Cole–Moore shift through its interaction with R1. Finally, we show that this approach extends to additional voltage-sensing membrane proteins using the Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensitive phosphatase (CiVSP).Michael F PriestElizabeth EL LeeFrancisco BezanillaeLife Sciences Publications Ltdarticlevoltage sensorshakerfluorescence quenchingbimanesensor pathMedicineRScienceQBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENeLife, Vol 10 (2021)
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topic voltage sensor
shaker
fluorescence quenching
bimane
sensor path
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spellingShingle voltage sensor
shaker
fluorescence quenching
bimane
sensor path
Medicine
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Science
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Biology (General)
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Michael F Priest
Elizabeth EL Lee
Francisco Bezanilla
Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
description Positively charged amino acids respond to membrane potential changes to drive voltage sensor movement in voltage-gated ion channels, but determining the displacements of voltage sensor gating charges has proven difficult. We optically tracked the movement of the two most extracellular charged residues (R1 and R2) in the Shaker potassium channel voltage sensor using a fluorescent positively charged bimane derivative (qBBr) that is strongly quenched by tryptophan. By individually mutating residues to tryptophan within the putative pathway of gating charges, we observed that the charge motion during activation is a rotation and a tilted translation that differs between R1 and R2. Tryptophan-induced quenching of qBBr also indicates that a crucial residue of the hydrophobic plug is linked to the Cole–Moore shift through its interaction with R1. Finally, we show that this approach extends to additional voltage-sensing membrane proteins using the Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensitive phosphatase (CiVSP).
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author Michael F Priest
Elizabeth EL Lee
Francisco Bezanilla
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Elizabeth EL Lee
Francisco Bezanilla
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title Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
title_short Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
title_full Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
title_fullStr Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
title_full_unstemmed Tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
title_sort tracking the movement of discrete gating charges in a voltage-gated potassium channel
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