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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 43, 期 17, 页码 4978-4982出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi049876z
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM47400] Funding Source: Medline
The hydrophobic cell membrane interior presents a large energy barrier for ions to permeate. Potassium channels reduce this barrier by creating a water-filled cavity at the middle of their ion conduction pore to allow ion hydration and by directing the C-terminal end charge of four a-helices toward the water-filled cavity. Here we have studied the interaction of monovalent cations with the cavity of the KcsA K+ channel using X-ray crystallography. In these studies, Tl+ was used as an analogue for K+ and the total ion-stabilization energy for Tl+ in the cavity was estimated by measuring its binding affinity. Binding affinity for the Na+ ion was also measured, revealing a weak selectivity (similar to7-fold) favoring Tl+ over Na+. The structures of the cavity containing Na+, K+ Tl+, Rb+, and Cs+ are compared. These results are consistent with a fairly large (more negative than -100 mV) electrostatic potential inside the cavity, and they also imply the presence of a weak nonelectrostatic component to a cation's interaction with the cavity.
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