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JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 117, Issue 2, Pages 165-180Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1085/jgp.117.2.165
Keywords
KcsA; cytoplasmic domains; EPR spectroscopy; three-dimensional fold
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM54690, R01 GM057846, GM57846] Funding Source: Medline
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The molecular architecture of the NH2 and COOH termini of the prokaryotic potassium channel KesA has been determined using site-directed spin-labeling methods and paramagnetic resonance EPR spectroscopy: Cysteine mutants were generated (residues 5-24 and 121-160) and spin labeled, and the X-band CW EPR spectra were obtained from liposome-reconstituted channels at room temperature. Data on probe mobility (Delta Ho-1), accessibility parameters (PiO(2) and Pi NiEdda), and inter-subunit spin-spin interaction (Omega) were used as structural constraints to build a three-dimensional folding model of these cytoplasmic domains from a set of simulated annealing and restrained molecular dynamics runs. 32 backbone structures were generated and averaged using fourfold symmetry, and a final mean structure was obtained from the eight lowest energy runs. Based on the present data, together with information from the KcsA crystal structure, a model for the three-dimensional fold of full-length KcsA was constructed. In this model, the NH2 terminus of KcsA forms an alpha -helix anchored at the membrane-water interface, while the COOH terminus forms a right-handed four-helix bundle that extend some 40-50 Angstrom towards the cytoplasm. Functional analysis of COOH-terminal deletion constructs suggest that, while the COOH terminus does not play a substantial role In determining ion permeation properties, it exerts a modulatory role in the pH-dependent gating mechanism.
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