Аннотация:Voltage-gated potassium channel Kv10.2 belongs to the ether-ago-
go family. It has been proved that its mutants are involved in
development of neurological diseases and some types of tumor.
Directed drug design needs knowledge of details of the threedimensional
channel structure. The members of the Kv10-12 subfamilies
are characterized by extremely long N- and C-terminal
intracellular tails, which possess a number of structural domains.
The N-terminal PAS domain in Kv10 plays an important role in
activation, and is thought to alter the rate of deactivation, possibly
by binding at or near the S4-S5 linker at the inner mouth of
the pore. Here we present an improved 3D structure of the truncated
human Kv10.2 channel, obtained by single particle EM.
This channel lacks its cytoplasmic PAS domain but it still forms
tetrameric particles. Earlier we showed that the full length
Kv10.2 channel is build according to the ‘hanging gondola’ type,
and its cytoplasmic and transmembrane parts are connected by
linkers. The cytoplasmic part includes the interconnecting PAS
and cNBD domains. Deletion of the PAS domain leads to the
conformational change in the cytoplasmic part of the channel.
For interpretation of the 3D structures we used homology modeling
and molecular dynamics simulation. There are several templates
available to the moment including eag domain-CNBHD
complex of the mouse EAG1 channel, full-length Shaker potassium
channel Kv1.2, C-linker/CNBHD of zELK channels and
others. But there are still no templates for many fragments that
led to necessity of partial de novo modeling. Analysis of molecular
trajectory allowed estimating dynamical characteristics of
channel, supposing interdomain interactions. Results of the
conducted investigation have a great interest at both the academic
and the industrial levels.
This study was supported by Ministry of Education and
Science of the Russian Federation grant No. 14.616.21.0044 from
09.10.2015, project ID RFMEFI61615X0044.