STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MECHANOSENSITIVE ION CHANNELS

机械敏感离子通道的结构和功能项目资助项目汇集了一系列来自化学、生物学、物理和生物技术的技术，以开发迄今为止最详细的离子通道蛋白质结构/功能分析。在Rees报道的TB-MSCL通道的高分辨率晶体结构的基础上，结构生物学、有机化学的工具确定通道如何对刺激做出反应，并将该刺激转换为可观察的信号。提出的计划的四个关键组成部分是：结构、功能、合成和重新设计，以及每个父MSCL通道和选定的变体，最终目标是确定通道的开放状态的结构。高分辨率电生理学技术将把结构和功能联系起来，单分子光谱学将提供前所未有的离子行为视角。第一次，包括自然和非自然修改的完全多样性。对MSCL行为的高通量分析将极大地帮助分析准备好的结构变体，计算机建模将为实验观察提供详细的见解。由于离子通道是分子神经生物学的核心，因此从格兰特项目中获得的信息将产生深远的影响。与离子通道蛋白故障相关的神经疾病清单很长，而且还在不断增加，这里获得的信息将对了解此类疾病状态和开发有效的治疗策略非常有价值。

The Program Project Grant Structure and Function of Mechanosensitive Ion Channels brings together an array of technologies drawn from chemistry, biology, physics, and biotechnology to develop the most detailed structure/function analysis of an ion channel protein to date. Building on the foundation of the high resolution crystal structure of the Tb-MscL channel reported by Rees, the tools of structural biology, organic chemistry, determine how a channel responds to a stimulus and translates that stimulus into an observable signal. The four key components of the proposed program are: structure, function, synthesis, and redesign, and each of the parent MscL channel and on selected variants with the ultimate goal being a structure determination of the open state of the channel. High resolution electrophysiology techniques will correlate structure and function, and single molecule spectroscopy will provide unprecedented views of ion behavior. For the first time, total diversity involving both natural and unnatural modifications. A high throughput assay for MscL behavior will greatly aid the analysis of the structural variants prepared, and computer modeling will provide detailed insights into experimental observations. Since ion channels lie at the core of molecular neurobiology, the information obtained from this Project Grant will have far-reaching consequences. The list of neurological disorders associated with a malfunction in an ion channel protein is long and growing, and the information obtained here will be invaluable in understanding such disease states and in developing effective treatment strategies.