Charge selectivity of the designed uncharged peptide ion channel Ac-(LSSLLSL)3-CONH2

Biophysical Journal
P K Kienker, J D Lear

Abstract

Charge selectivity in ion channel proteins is not fully understood. We have studied charge selectivity in a simple model system without charged groups, in which an amphiphilic helical peptide, Ac-(Leu-Ser-Ser-Leu-Leu-Ser-Leu)3-CONH2, forms ion channels across an uncharged phospholipid membrane. We find these channels to conduct both K+ and Cl-, with a permeability ratio (based on reversal potentials) that depends on the direction of the KCl concentration gradient across the membrane. The channel shows high selectivity for K+ when [KCl] is lowered on the side of the membrane that is held at a positive potential (the putative C-terminal side), but only modest K+ selectivity when [KCl] is lowered on the opposite side (the putative N-terminal side). Neither a simple Nernst-Planck electrodiffusion model including screening of the helix dipole potential, nor a multi-ion, state transition model allowing simultaneous cation and anion occupancy of the channel can satisfactorily fit the current-voltage curves over the full range of experimental conditions. However, the C-side/N-side dilution asymmetry in reversal potentials can be simulated with either type of model.

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