COMPUTER MODELING OF THE ANTIAMOEBIN ION CHANNEL

抗阿米巴离子通道的计算机建模

• 批准号: 8363639
• 负责人: ANDREW POHORILLE
• 金额: $ 1.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8363639
• 关键词: Agreement; Cations; Computer Simulation; Equation; Event; Free Energy; Funding; Grant; Imagery; Informatics; Ion Channel; Ions; Measures; Motion; National Center for Research Resources; Principal Investigator; Research; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Source; United States National Institutes of Health; antiamoebin; base; biocomputing; cost; molecular dynamics; monomer; statistics

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out in order to ascertain which of the potential multimeric forms of the transmembrane peptaibol channel, antiamoebin, is consistant with its measured conductance. Estimates of the conductance obtained through counting ions that cross the channel and by solving the Nernst-Planck equation yield consistent results, indicating that the motion of ions inside the channel can be satisfactorily described as diffusive. The calculated conductance of octameric channels is markedly higher than the conductance measured in single channel recordings, whereas the tetramer appears to be non-conducting. The conductance of the hexamer was estimated to be 115+/-34 pS and 74+/-20 pS, at 150 mV and 75 mV, respectively, in satisfactory agreement with the value of 90 pS measured at 75 mV. On this basis we propose that the antiamoebin channel consists of six monomers. Its pore is large enough to accommodate K+ and Cl- ions with their first solvation shells intact. The free energy barrier encountered by K+ is only 2.2 kcal/mol whereas Cl- encounters a substantially higher barrier of nearly 5 kcal/mol. This difference makes the channel selective for cations. Ion crossing events are shown to be uncorrelated and follow Poisson statistics.

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