Activation Mechanism of Elic by Propylamine
Activation Mechanism of Elic by Propylamine
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丙胺激活 Elic 的机制
DOI:
10.1016/j.bpj.2013.11.3036
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Marabelli A
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作者:
Marabelli A
The pentameric ligand-gated channel ELIC has provided us with high resolution structures of its closed state. This prokaryotic channel opens to a high single-channel conductance in response to a variety of amine compounds. Here we report our tests of kinetic models for the activation of recombinant ELIC channels. Outside-out single channel currents elicited by the full agonist propylamine (0.5-50 mM) were analysed by maximum likelihood direct global fitting of kinetic schemes (HJCFIT program; Colquhoun et al J Physiol 547, 699, 2003). The adequacy of a scheme was judged by comparing the predictions of the best fit obtained for each, with the experimental open/shut time distributions and with the time course of macroscopic propylamine-activated currents (fast theta-tube applications, 50-600 ms, 1-50 mM).Other Cys-loop channels, such as glycine receptors, activate via a pre-opening intermediate ('flip'model, Burzomato et al., J Neurosci 24, 10924, 2004) and, when fully liganded, open with high efficacy to a single open state. In contrast with that, ELIC open time distributions at saturating propylamine showed more than one component. Thus, more than one open state must be accessible to the fully liganded channel. Theprimedmodel (Mukhtasimova et al., Nature 459, 451, 2009) accounts for that by allowing the channel to open from more than one fully liganded intermediate. The best fit of this type of model showed that ELIC maximum open probability (99%) is reached when three molecules of agonist are bound. The overall efficacy of the fully liganded branch was about 130 (cf 20 for α1β glycine channels; Burzomato et al., 2004).