title: Prolonged nonhydrolytic interaction of nucleotide with CFTR's NH2-terminal nucleotide binding domain and its role in channel gating.
abstract: CFTR, the protein defective in cystic fibrosis, functions as a Cl- channel regulated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). CFTR is also an ATPase, comprising two nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs) thought to bind and hydrolyze ATP. In hydrolyzable nucleoside triphosphates, PKA-phosphorylated CFTR channels open into bursts, lasting on the order of a second, from closed (interburst) intervals of a second or more. To investigate nucleotide interactions underlying channel gating, we examined photolabeling by [alpha32P]8-N3ATP or [gamma32P]8-N3ATP of intact CFTR channels expressed in HEK293T cells or Xenopus oocytes. We also exploited split CFTR channels to distinguish photolabeling at NBD1 from that at NBD2. To examine simple binding of nucleotide in the absence of hydrolysis and gating reactions, we photolabeled after incubation at 0 degrees C with no washing. Nucleotide interactions under gating conditions were probed by photolabeling after incubation at 30 degrees C, with extensive washing, also at 30 degrees C. Phosphorylation of CFTR by PKA only slightly influenced photolabeling after either protocol. Strikingly, at 30 degrees C nucleotide remained tightly bound at NBD1 for many minutes, in the form of nonhydrolyzed nucleoside triphosphate. As nucleotide-dependent gating of CFTR channels occurred on the time scale of seconds under comparable conditions, this suggests that the nucleotide interactions, including hydrolysis, that time CFTR channel opening and closing occur predominantly at NBD2. Vanadate also appeared to act at NBD2, presumably interrupting its hydrolytic cycle, and markedly delayed termination of channel open bursts. Vanadate somewhat increased the magnitude, but did not alter the rate, of the slow loss of nucleotide tightly bound at NBD1. Kinetic analysis of channel gating in Mg8-N3ATP or MgATP reveals that the rate-limiting step for CFTR channel opening at saturating [nucleotide] follows nucleotide binding to both NBDs. We propose that ATP remains tightly bound or occluded at CFTR's NBD1 for long periods, that binding of ATP at NBD2 leads to channel opening wherupon its hydrolysis prompts channel closing, and that phosphorylation acts like an automobile clutch that engages the NBD events to drive gating of the transmembrane ion pore.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cardiac/Membrane Physiology, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave., New York, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Basso
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vergani
authors.forename: Angus C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Nairn
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Gadsby
mesh_terms: D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism*; D000409:Alanine / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D001386:Azides / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D018118:Chloride Channels / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D019005:Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D007700:Kinetics; D008239:Lysine / Q000235:genetics; D009154:Mutation; D009865:Oocytes; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000378:metabolism; D010766:Phosphorylation; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000378:metabolism; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D014638:Vanadates / Q000494:pharmacology; D014982:Xenopus laevis
chemical_list: D001386:Azides; C505032:CFTR protein, human; D018118:Chloride Channels; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D019005:Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator; D014638:Vanadates; C017040:8-azidoadenosine 5'-triphosphate; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; C021622:8-azidoadenosine diphosphate; D008239:Lysine; D000409:Alanine