Tuning the ion selectivity of two-pore channels

Organellar two-pore channels (TPCs) contain two copies of a Shaker-like six-transmembrane (6-TM) domain in each subunit and are ubiquitously expressed in plants and animals. Interestingly, plant and animal TPCs share high sequence similarity in the filter region, yet exhibit drastically different ion selectivity. Plant TPC1 functions as a nonselective cation channel on the vacuole membrane, whereas mammalian TPC channels have been shown to be endo/lysosomal Na^sup +^-selective or Ca^sup 2+^-release channels. In this study, we performed systematic characterization of the ion selectivity of TPC1 from Arabidopsis thaliana (AtTPC1) and compared its selectivity with the selectivity of human TPC2 (HsTPC2). We demonstrate that AtTPC1 is selective for Ca^sup 2+^ over Na^sup +^, but nonselective among monovalent cations (Li^sup +^, Na^sup +^, and K^sup +^). Our results also confirm that HsTPC2 is a Na+-selective channel activated by phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate. Guided by our recent structure of AtTPC1, we converted AtTPC1 to a Na^sup +^-selective channel by mimicking the selectivity filter of HsTPC2 and identified key residues in the TPC filters that differentiate the selectivity between AtTPC1 and HsTPC2. Furthermore, the structure of the Na^sup +^-selective AtTPC1 mutant elucidates the structural basis for Na^sup +^ selectivity in mammalian TPCs..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:114

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 114(2017), 5, Seite 1009-1014

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guo, Jiangtao [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Weizhong [Sonstige Person]
Jiang, Youxing [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Animals
Flowers & plants
Ions
Membranes
Mutation

doi:

10.1073/pnas.1616191114

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1991590350