The role of loop 5 in acetylcholine receptor channel gating

被引:57
作者
Chakrapani, S
Bailey, TD
Auerbach, A [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY Buffalo, Ctr Single Mol Biophys, Buffalo, NY 14214 USA
[2] SUNY Buffalo, Dept Physiol & Biophys, Buffalo, NY 14214 USA
关键词
nicotinic; single channel; kinetics; synapse; free energy;
D O I
10.1085/jgp.200308885
中图分类号
Q4 [生理学];
学科分类号
071003 ;
摘要
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor channel (AChR) gating is an organized sequence of molecular motions that couples a change in the affinity for ligands at the two transmitter binding sites with a change in the ionic conductance of the pore. Loop 5 (L5) is a nine-residue segment (mouse a-subunit 92-100) that links the beta(4) and beta(5) strands of the extracellular domain and that (in the a-subunit) contains binding segment A. Based oil the structure of the acetylcholine binding protein, we speculate that in AChRs L5 projects from the transinitter binding site toward the membrane along a subunit interface. We used single-channel kinetics to quantify the effects of mutations to alphaD97 and other L5 residues with respect to agonist binding (to both open and closed AChRs), channel gating (for both unliganded and fully-liganded AChRs), and desensitization. Most alphaD97 mutations increase gating (tip to 168-fold) but have little or no effect on ligand binding or desensitization. Rate-equilibrium free energy, relationship analysis indicates that alphaD97 moves early in the gating reaction, in synchrony with the movement of the transmitter binding site (Phi = 0.93, which implies an open-like character at the transition state). alphaD97 mutations in the two alpha-subunits have unequal energetic consequences for gating, but their contributions are independent. We conclude that the key, underlying functional consequence of alphaD97 perturbations is to increase the unliganded gating equilibrium constant. L5 emerges as an important and early link in the AChR gating reaction which, in the absence of agonist, serves to increase the relative stability of the closed conformation of the protein.
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