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Opening of glutamate receptor channel to subconductance levels

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NATURE
卷 605, 期 7908, 页码 172-+

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04637-w

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  1. NIH Common Fund Transformative High Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy programme [U24 GM129541]
  2. Simons Foundation [SF349247, S2C2]
  3. NIH [R01 CA206573, R01 NS083660, R01 NS107253, R01 AR078814]
  4. NSF [1818086]
  5. Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
  6. Direct For Biological Sciences [1818086] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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This study reveals the number of agonist binding domains required for ion channel opening and the impact of agonist binding on channel conductance in AMPA subtype ionotropic glutamate receptors. By combining structural analysis with experimental results, molecular dynamics simulations, and machine learning analysis, we found that at least two agonist binding domains are necessary for channel opening, and binding of agonist to all four domains does not guarantee maximal channel conductance.
Ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) are tetrameric ligand-gated ion channels that open their pores in response to binding of the agonist glutamate(1-3). An ionic current through a single iGluR channel shows up to four discrete conductance levels (O1-O4)(4-6). Higher conductance levels have been associated with an increased number of agonist molecules bound to four individual ligand-binding domains (LBDs)(6-10). Here we determine structures of a synaptic complex of AMPA-subtype iGluR and the auxiliary subunit gamma 2 in non-desensitizing conditions with various occupancy of the LBDs by glutamate. We show that glutamate binds to LBDs of subunits B and D only after it is already bound to at least the same number of LBDs that belong to subunits A and C. Our structures combined with single-channel recordings, molecular dynamics simulations and machine-learning analysis suggest that channel opening requires agonist binding to at least two LBDs. Conversely, agonist binding to all four LBDs does not guarantee maximal channel conductance and favours subconductance states O1 and O2, with O3 and O4 being rare and not captured structurally. The lack of subunit independence and low efficiency coupling of glutamate binding to channel opening underlie the gating of synaptic complexes to submaximal conductance levels, which provide a potential for upregulation of synaptic activity.

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