title: Noncontact dipole effects on channel permeation. I. Experiments with (5F-indole)Trp13 gramicidin A channels.
abstract: Gramicidin A (gA), with four Trp residues per monomer, has an increased conductance compared to its Phe replacement analogs. When the dipole moment of the Trp13 side chain is increased by fluorination at indole position 5 (FgA), the conductance is expected to increase further. gA and FgA conductances to Na+, K+, and H+ were measured in planar diphytanoylphosphatidylcholine (DPhPC) or glycerylmonoolein (GMO) bilayers. In DPhPC bilayers, Na+ and K+ conductances increased upon fluorination, whereas in GMO they decreased. The low ratio in the monoglyceride bilayer was not reversed in GMO-ether bilayers, solvent-inflated or -deflated bilayers, or variable fatty acid chain monoglyceride bilayers. In both GMO and DPhPC bilayers, fluorination decreased conductance to H+ but increased conductance in the mixed solution, 1 M KCl at pH 2.0, where K+ dominates conduction. Eadie-Hofstee plot slopes suggest similar destabilization of K+ binding in both lipids. Channel lifetimes were not affected by fluorination in either lipid. These observations indicate that fluorination does not change the rotameric conformation of the side chain. The expected difference in the rate-limiting step for transport through channels in the two bilayers qualitatively explains all of the above trends.
authors.affiliation: Zoology Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84062, USA. david_busath@byu.edu
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Busath
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Thulin
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hendershot
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maughan
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: N C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Bingham
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Baird
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hendershot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cotten
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Cross
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D005461:Fluorine / Q000737:chemistry; D005989:Glycerides / Q000737:chemistry; D006096:Gramicidin / Q000737:chemistry*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007211:Indoles / Q000737:chemistry; D007473:Ion Channels / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry; D008564:Membrane Potentials; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009861:Onium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D010539:Permeability; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014364:Tryptophan / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D005989:Glycerides; D007211:Indoles; D007473:Ion Channels; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D009861:Onium Compounds; D006096:Gramicidin; D005461:Fluorine; C027727:hydronium ion; D014364:Tryptophan; C005953:monoolein