Ishida_2015_J.Gen.Physiol_145_345

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Title : Voltage-dependent gating and gating charge measurements in the Kv1.2 potassium channel - Ishida_2015_J.Gen.Physiol_145_345
Author(s) : Ishida IG , Rangel-Yescas GE , Carrasco-Zanini J , Islas LD
Ref : Journal of General Physiology , 145 :345 , 2015
Abstract :

Much has been learned about the voltage sensors of ion channels since the x-ray structure of the mammalian voltage-gated potassium channel Kv1.2 was published in 2005. High resolution structural data of a Kv channel enabled the structural interpretation of numerous electrophysiological findings collected in various ion channels, most notably Shaker, and permitted the development of meticulous computational simulations of the activation mechanism. The fundamental premise for the structural interpretation of functional measurements from Shaker is that this channel and Kv1.2 have the same characteristics, such that correlation of data from both channels would be a trivial task. We tested these assumptions by measuring Kv1.2 voltage-dependent gating and charge per channel. We found that the Kv1.2 gating charge is near 10 elementary charges (eo), approximately 25% less than the well-established 13-14 eo in Shaker. Next, we neutralized positive residues in the Kv1.2 S4 transmembrane segment to investigate the cause of the reduction of the gating charge and found that, whereas replacing R1 with glutamine decreased voltage sensitivity to approximately 50% of the wild-type channel value, mutation of the subsequent arginines had a much smaller effect. These data are in marked contrast to the effects of charge neutralization in Shaker, where removal of the first four basic residues reduces the gating charge by roughly the same amount. In light of these differences, we propose that the voltage-sensing domains (VSDs) of Kv1.2 and Shaker might undergo the same physical movement, but the septum that separates the aqueous crevices in the VSD of Kv1.2 might be thicker than Shaker's, accounting for the smaller Kv1.2 gating charge.

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Ishida IG, Rangel-Yescas GE, Carrasco-Zanini J, Islas LD (2015)
Voltage-dependent gating and gating charge measurements in the Kv1.2 potassium channel
Journal of General Physiology 145 :345

Ishida IG, Rangel-Yescas GE, Carrasco-Zanini J, Islas LD (2015)
Journal of General Physiology 145 :345