Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 465, Issue 1, Pages 18-22Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(99)01715-9
Keywords
grayanotoxin; binding site; Na+ channel; batrachotoxin; domain 4 segment 6
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Grayanotoxin I (GTX I) is a diterpenoid extracted from the family of Ericaceae that binds to Na+ channels and causes persistent activation. We investigated the interaction of GTX I with the amino acid residues 11575, F1579 and Y1586 in transmembrane segment D4S6 of mu 1. In F1579A, GTX shifted the threshold potential about 50 mV in the hyperpolarizing direction and modified Na+ channels twice as efficiently as that in wild-type. In contrast, these GTX-effects were eliminated completely in the I1575A mutant and were reduced substantially in mutant Y1586A, Lysine substitution for F1579 significantly reduced and for Y1586 completely eradicated the GTX-effect, Our data suggest that the GTX receptor site shares overlapping but non-identical molecular determinants with BTX in D4S6 and has common molecular determinants in D1S6. (C) 2000 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
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