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Gating Intermediates Reveal Inhibitory Role Of The Voltage Sensor In A Cyclic Nucleotide-Modulated Ion Channel, Xiaolong Gao, Philipp A M Schmidpeter, Vladimir Berka, Ryan J Durham, Chen Fan, Vasanthi Jayaraman, Crina M Nimigean
Gating Intermediates Reveal Inhibitory Role Of The Voltage Sensor In A Cyclic Nucleotide-Modulated Ion Channel, Xiaolong Gao, Philipp A M Schmidpeter, Vladimir Berka, Ryan J Durham, Chen Fan, Vasanthi Jayaraman, Crina M Nimigean
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Understanding how ion channels gate is important for elucidating their physiological roles and targeting them in pathophysiological states. Here, we used SthK, a cyclic nucleotide-modulated channel from Spirochaeta thermophila, to define a ligand-gating trajectory that includes multiple on-pathway intermediates. cAMP is a poor partial agonist for SthK and depolarization increases SthK activity. Tuning the energy landscape by gain-of-function mutations in the voltage sensor domain (VSD) allowed us to capture multiple intermediates along the ligand-activation pathway, highlighting the allosteric linkage between VSD, cyclic nucleotide-binding (CNBD) and pore domains. Small, lateral displacements of the VSD S4 segment were necessary to open the …