Three amino acids in the C-linker are major determinants of gating in cyclic nucleotide-gated channels

The EMBO Journal
X ZongM Biel

Abstract

The activation of cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels is a complex process comprising the initial ligand binding and a consecutive allosteric transition from a closed to an open configuration. The cone and olfactory CNG channels differ considerably in cyclic nucleotide affinity and efficacy. In each channel, the cyclic nucleotide-binding site is connected to the last transmembrane segment of the channel by a linker peptide (C-linker) of approximately 90 amino acids. Here we report that replacement of three amino acids in the cone C-linker by the corresponding amino acids of the olfactory channel (I439V, D481A and D494S) profoundly enhanced the cAMP efficacy and increased the affinities for cAMP and cGMP. Unlike the wild-type cone channel, the mutated channel exhibited similar single-channel kinetics for both cGMP and cAMP, explaining the increase in cAMP efficacy. We thus conclude that the identified amino acids are major determinants of channel gating.

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