Molecular Basis of Tetramerization and pH-Gating in the KcsA Potassium Channel Cytoplasmic Domain

Guy Kamnesky; Orel Hirschhorn; Hadassa Shaked; Jingfei Chen; Lishan Yao; Jordan H. Chill

Molecular Basis of Tetramerization and pH-Gating in the KcsA Potassium Channel Cytoplasmic Domain

Guy Kamnesky, Orel Hirschhorn, Hadassa Shaked, Jingfei Chen, Lishan Yao, Jordan H. Chill

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Abstract

The intracellular C-terminal domain (CTD) of KcsA, a bacterial homotetrameric potassium channel, is a 40-residue long segment which natively adopts a helical bundle conformation with four-fold symmetry. A hallmark of KcsA behavior is a pH-induced conformational change which leads to opening of the channel at acidic pH. While crystal structures of full-length KcsA failed to observe a pH-effect upon the CTD, other biophysical methods have presented evidence to the contrary. We approached the question of CTD structure and its pH-dependence by studying the behavior of soluble peptides corresponding to residues 128-160 of the CTD (CTD34).

Original language	American English
State	Published - 2015
Event	59th Biophysical Society meeting - Baltimore, United States Duration: 7 Feb 2015 → 11 Feb 2015

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Conference	59th Biophysical Society meeting
Country/Territory	United States
City	Baltimore
Period	7/02/15 → 11/02/15

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