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Membrane stretch accelerates activation and slow inactivation in shaker channels with s3-s4 linker deletions

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authors

  • Tabarean, Iustin
  • Morris, C. E.

publication date

  • June 2002

journal

  • Biophysical Journal  Journal

abstract

  • At low P(open)(V) Shaker exhibits pronounced stretch-activation. Possible explanations for Shaker's sensitivity to tension include 1) Shaker channels are sufficiently distensible that stretch produces novel channel states and 2) Shaker channels expand in the plane of the membrane during voltage gating. For channels expressed in oocytes, we compared effects of patch stretch on Shaker and mutants that retain their voltage-gating ability but activate sluggishly because all or most of the S3-S4 linker has been deleted. Deletants had 10, 5, or 0 amino acid (aa) linkers, whereas wild-type is 31 aa. In deletants, though activation is exceptionally slow, slow inactivation is exceptionally quick; the resulting kinetic match was a bonus that allowed effects of stretch to be followed simultaneously in both processes. With the intact linker, an approximately 3 orders of magnitude mismatch in the two processes makes this impracticable. Standard stretch stimuli increased the rates and extent of activation by about the same degree in wild type and deletants, with effects especially pronounced near the foot of G(V). In deletants (where slow inactivation is strongly coupled to activation) stretch also accelerated slow inactivation. Maximum conductances were unaffected by stretch in all variants. In ramp clamp dose experiments, near-lytic patch stretch acted, for all variants, like a approximately 10 mV hyperpolarizing shift. These results suggested that, whether basal rates were high (wild type) or low (deletants), stretch acted by facilitating voltage-dependent activation. Channel activity was therefore simulated with/without "tension," tension being simulated via rate changes at voltage-dependent closed-closed transitions that might involve in-plane expansion (explanation 2). Simulated Delta P(open) arising from approximately 2 kT of "mechanical gating energy" mimicked experimental effects seen with comfortably sub-lytic stretch.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Biophysical Phenomena
  • Biophysics
  • Cell Membrane
  • Drosophila Proteins
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Female
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Kinetics
  • Membrane Potentials
  • Models, Biological
  • Oocytes
  • Patch-Clamp Techniques
  • Potassium Channel Blockers
  • Potassium Channels
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Sequence Deletion
  • Shaker Superfamily of Potassium Channels
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Stress, Mechanical
  • Xenopus
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC1302086

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0006-3495

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75639-7

PubMed ID

  • 12023221
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 2982

end page

  • 2994

volume

  • 82

issue

  • 6

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