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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
1998 Jul 21;9515:8585-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.95.15.8585.
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Gating modifier toxins reveal a conserved structural motif in voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ channels.
Li-Smerin Y
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Swartz KJ
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Protein toxins from venomous animals exhibit remarkably specific and selective interactions with a wide variety of ion channels. Hanatoxin and grammotoxin are two related protein toxins found in the venom of the Chilean Rose Tarantula, Phrixotrichus spatulata. Hanatoxin inhibits voltage-gated K+ channels and grammotoxin inhibits voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. Both toxins inhibit their respective channels by interfering with normal operation of the voltage-dependent gating mechanism. The sequence homology of hanatoxin and grammotoxin, as well as their similar mechanism of action, raises the possibility that they interact with the same region of voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ channels. Here, we show that each toxin can interact with both voltage-gated Ca2+ and K+ channels and modify channel gating. Moreover, mutagenesis of voltage-gated K+ channels suggests that hanatoxin and grammotoxin recognize the same structural motif. We propose that these toxins recognize a voltage-sensing domain or module present in voltage-gated ion channels and that this domain has a highly conserved three-dimensional structure.
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