6U6E

Calcium-bound MthK open-inactivated state 2

6U6E の概要

• エントリーDOI: 10.2210/pdb6u6e/pdb
• EMDBエントリー: 20650 20652 20653 20662 20663 20664 20665
• 分子名称: Calcium-gated potassium channel MthK (1 entity in total)
• 機能のキーワード: mthk, transport protein
• 由来する生物種: Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus
• タンパク質・核酸の鎖数: 8
• 化学式量合計: 298849.28

構造登録者

Fan, C.,Nimigean, C.M. (登録日: 2019-08-29, 公開日: 2020-03-25, 最終更新日: 2024-03-20)

主引用文献

Fan, C.,Sukomon, N.,Flood, E.,Rheinberger, J.,Allen, T.W.,Nimigean, C.M.
Ball-and-chain inactivation in a calcium-gated potassium channel.
Nature, 580:288-293, 2020

PubMed Abstract: Inactivation is the process by which ion channels terminate ion flux through their pores while the opening stimulus is still present. In neurons, inactivation of both sodium and potassium channels is crucial for the generation of action potentials and regulation of firing frequency. A cytoplasmic domain of either the channel or an accessory subunit is thought to plug the open pore to inactivate the channel via a 'ball-and-chain' mechanism. Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to identify the molecular gating mechanism in calcium-activated potassium channels by obtaining structures of the MthK channel from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum-a purely calcium-gated and inactivating channel-in a lipid environment. In the absence of Ca, we obtained a single structure in a closed state, which was shown by atomistic simulations to be highly flexible in lipid bilayers at ambient temperature, with large rocking motions of the gating ring and bending of pore-lining helices. In Ca-bound conditions, we obtained several structures, including multiple open-inactivated conformations, further indication of a highly dynamic protein. These different channel conformations are distinguished by rocking of the gating rings with respect to the transmembrane region, indicating symmetry breakage across the channel. Furthermore, in all conformations displaying open channel pores, the N terminus of one subunit of the channel tetramer sticks into the pore and plugs it, with free energy simulations showing that this is a strong interaction. Deletion of this N terminus leads to functionally non-inactivating channels and structures of open states without a pore plug, indicating that this previously unresolved N-terminal peptide is responsible for a ball-and-chain inactivation mechanism.

PubMed: 32269335
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2116-0

実験手法

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (6.3 Å)