Subunit interactions in the activation of cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels.
AUTOR(ES)
Varnum, M D
RESUMO
Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) ion channels of retinal photoreceptors and olfactory neurons are multimeric proteins of unknown stoichiometry. To investigate the subunit interactions that occur during CNG channel activation, we have used tandem cDNA constructs of the rod CNG channel to generate heteromultimeric channels composed of wild-type and mutant subunits. We introduced point mutations that affect channel activation: 1) D604M, which alters the relative ability of agonists to promote the allosteric conformational change(s) associated with channel opening, and 2) T560A, which primarily affects the initial binding affinity for cGMP, and to a lesser extent, the allosteric transition. At saturating concentrations of agonist, heteromultimeric channels were intermediate between wild-type and mutant homomultimers in agonist efficacy and apparent affinity for cGMP, cIMP, and cAMP, consistent with a model for the allosteric transition involving a concerted conformational change in all of the channel subunits. Results were also consistent with a model involving independent transitions in two or three, but not one or four, of the channel subunits. The behavior of the heterodimers implies that the channel stoichiometry is some multiple of 2 and is consistent with a tetrameric quaternary structure for the functional channel complex. Steady-state dose-response relations for homomultimeric and heteromultimeric channels were well fit by a Monod, Wyman, and Changeux model with a concerted allosteric opening transition stabilized by binding of agonist.
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