Portability of paddle motif function and pharmacology in voltage sensors

AbdulRasheed A. Alabi, Maria Isabel Bahamonde, Hoi Jong Jung, Jae Il Kim and Kenton J. Swartz ()
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AbdulRasheed A. Alabi: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Maria Isabel Bahamonde: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Hoi Jong Jung: Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea
Jae Il Kim: Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea
Kenton J. Swartz: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Section, Porter Neuroscience Research Center, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA

Nature, 2007, vol. 450, issue 7168, 370-375

Abstract: Abstract Voltage-sensing domains enable membrane proteins to sense and react to changes in membrane voltage. Although identifiable S1–S4 voltage-sensing domains are found in an array of conventional ion channels and in other membrane proteins that lack pore domains, the extent to which their voltage-sensing mechanisms are conserved is unknown. Here we show that the voltage-sensor paddle, a motif composed of S3b and S4 helices, can drive channel opening with membrane depolarization when transplanted from an archaebacterial voltage-activated potassium channel (KvAP) or voltage-sensing domain proteins (Hv1 and Ci-VSP) into eukaryotic voltage-activated potassium channels. Tarantula toxins that partition into membranes can interact with these paddle motifs at the protein–lipid interface and similarly perturb voltage-sensor activation in both ion channels and proteins with a voltage-sensing domain. Our results show that paddle motifs are modular, that their functions are conserved in voltage sensors, and that they move in the relatively unconstrained environment of the lipid membrane. The widespread targeting of voltage-sensor paddles by toxins demonstrates that this modular structural motif is an important pharmacological target.

Date: 2007
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