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J Gen Physiol
2006 Dec 01;1286:721-9. doi: 10.1085/jgp.200609657.
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Secondary structure of a KCNE cytoplasmic domain.
Rocheleau JM
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Gage SD
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Kobertz WR
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Type I transmembrane KCNE peptides contain a conserved C-terminal cytoplasmic domain that abuts the transmembrane segment. In KCNE1, this region is required for modulation of KCNQ1 K(+) channels to afford the slowly activating cardiac I(Ks) current. We utilized alanine/leucine scanning to determine whether this region possesses any secondary structure and to identify the KCNE1 residues that face the KCNQ1 channel complex. Helical periodicity analysis of the mutation-induced perturbations in voltage activation and deactivation kinetics of KCNQ1-KCNE1 complexes defined that the KCNE1 C terminus is alpha-helical when split in half at a conserved proline residue. This helical rendering assigns all known long QT mutations in the KCNE1 C-terminal domain as protein facing. The identification of a secondary structure within the KCNE1 C-terminal domain provides a structural scaffold to map protein-protein interactions with the pore-forming KCNQ1 subunit as well as the cytoplasmic regulatory proteins anchored to KCNQ1-KCNE complexes.
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Figure 1. KCNE1 alanine mutants show diverse gating properties. (A) Two-electrode voltage clamp recordings of WT, H73A, and E83A mutant channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Currents were recorded in KD98 solution. Dashed line indicates zero current. Scale bars represent 1 μA and 0.5 s. Inset, protocol of 4-s depolarizations from â80 to 60 mV at 10-mV increments used to elicit currents shown. (B) Voltage activation curves for WT and representative mutant channel complexes calculated from tail current analysis. Solid curves represent Boltzmann fits to the data. Data was averaged from 5â10 oocytes each ± SEM.
Figure 2. Periodicity of gating perturbations in the KCNE1 C-terminal domain. Center, helical wheel diagram of the 19 C-terminal E1 residues examined. Red circles indicate residues with ÎÎGiso > 1 kcal/mol, blue circles indicate ÎÎGiso ⤠1 kcal/mol. Power spectrum analysis indicates a peak angle of 125° and α-PI of 1.77 for the entire C-terminal segment. When residues above and below P77 are plotted on separate helical wheels (left and right), high impact residues (red) and low impact residues (blue) segregate to separate faces of each helical diagram. Each high impact face is denoted by a red line. S68A is a high impact residue on the low impact face (filled blue with red outline). D76A is a nonfunctional mutant at the plasma membrane, as determined by cell surface luminometry (red fill).
Figure 3. Negatively charged side chains produce smaller perturbations than alanine at position S68. (A) TEVC recordings of S68A and S68D channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Currents were recorded in KD98 solution. Dashed line indicates zero current. Scale bars represent 1 μA and 0.5 s. Inset, protocol of 4-s depolarizations from â80 to 60 mV at 10-mV increments used to elicit currents shown. (B) Voltage activation curves for S68A, S68D, and S68E mutant channels calculated from tail current analysis. Solid curves represent Boltzmann fits to the data. Dotted line indicates Boltzmann fit of WT activation curve. Data was averaged from 8â10 oocytes each ± SEM.
Figure 4. Branched amino acids cause larger perturbations at position S74. (A) TEVC recordings of S74L, S74M, and S74I channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Currents were recorded in KD98 solution. Dashed line indicates zero current. Scale bars represent 1 μA and 0.5 s. Inset, protocol of 4-s depolarizations from â80 to 60 mV at 10-mV increments used to elicit currents shown. (B) Voltage activation curves for S74 mutant channels calculated from tail current analysis. Solid curves represent Boltzmann fits to the data. Dotted line indicates Boltzmann fit of WT activation curve. Data was averaged from 6â10 oocytes each ± SEM.
Figure 5. The transmembrane-abutting C-terminal domain is comprised of two helical regions. (A) Whole oocyte luminometry was used to quantify the surface expression of HA-tagged E1 peptides (E1, D76N, D76A) and uninjected controls (UN). Luminescence is reported in relative light units (RLU). Error bars represent SEM from 10â20 oocytes. (B) Periodicity analysis of the top (K69âD76) and bottom (P77âA86) segments of the E1 C-terminal domain. P(Ï) is plotted as a function of angular frequency (Ï) to generate a power spectrum of the ÎÎGiso values for each segment. A value of 1 kcal/mol was assigned for the nonfunctional D76A mutant. The primary peak occurs at 114° for the top segment and 112° for the bottom. (C) A cartoon of the cytoplasmic E1 C-terminal domain split into two helical regions by a kink or turn. (D) Changes in deactivation rates mirror isochronal ÎÎG measurements for the E1 C-terminal domain mutants. Double bar graph comparing ÎÎGiso and deactivation rates (Ïd) for the E1 C-terminal alanine and leucine mutants. Solid bars indicate ÎÎGiso, open bars \documentclass[10pt]{article}
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