title: Regions in the carboxy terminus of alpha-bENaC involved in gating and functional effects of actin.
abstract: Gating differences occur between the alpha-subunits of the bovine and rat clones of an amiloride-sensitive epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC). Deletion of the carboxy terminus of bovine alpha-ENaC (alpha-bENaC) at R567 converted the gating properties to that of rat alpha-ENaC (alpha-rENaC). The equivalent truncation in alpha-rENaC was without effect on the gating of the rat homologue. The addition of actin to ENaC channels composed of either alpha-rENaC or alpha-bENaC alone produced a twofold reduction in conductance and an increase in open probability. Neither alpha-rENaC (R613X) nor alpha-bENaC (R567X) was responsive to actin. Using a chimera consisting of alpha-rENaC1-615 and alpha-bENaC570-650, we examined several different carboxy-terminal truncation mutants plus and minus actin. When incorporated into planar bilayers, the gating pattern of this construct was identical to wild-type (wt) alpha-bENaC. Premature stop mutations proximal to E685X produced channels with gating patterns like alpha-rENaC. Actin had no effect on the E631X truncation, whereas more distal truncations all interacted with actin, as did wt alpha-bENaC. Key findings were confirmed using channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes and studied by cell-attached patch-clamp recording. Our results suggest that the site of actin regulation at the carboxy terminus of the chimera is located between residues 631 and 644.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Copeland
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Berdiev
authors.forename: H L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lockhart
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Benos
mesh_terms: D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002417:Cattle; D053503:Epithelial Sodium Channels; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009865:Oocytes; D018408:Patch-Clamp Techniques; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D051381:Rats; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D015222:Sodium Channels / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D014982:Xenopus laevis
chemical_list: D000199:Actins; D053503:Epithelial Sodium Channels; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D015222:Sodium Channels