title: The guanylate kinase domain of the beta-subunit of voltage-gated calcium channels suffices to modulate gating.
abstract: Inactivation of voltage-gated calcium channels is crucial for the spatiotemporal coordination of calcium signals and prevention of toxic calcium buildup. Only one member of the highly conserved family of calcium channel beta-subunits--Ca(V)beta--inhibits inactivation. This unique property has been attributed to short variable regions of the protein; however, here we report that this inhibition actually is conferred by a conserved guanylate kinase (GK) domain and, moreover, that this domain alone recapitulates Ca(V)beta-mediated modulation of channel activation. We expressed and refolded the GK domain of Ca(V)beta(2a), the unique variant that inhibits inactivation, and of Ca(V)beta(1b), an isoform that facilitates it. The refolded domains of both Ca(V)beta variants were found to inhibit inactivation of Ca(V)2.3 channels expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. These findings suggest that the GK domain endows calcium channels with a brake restraining voltage-dependent inactivation, and thus facilitation of inactivation by full-length Ca(V)beta requires additional structural determinants to antagonize the GK effect. We found that Ca(V)beta can switch the inactivation phenotype conferred to Ca(V)2.3 from slow to fast after posttranslational modifications during channel biogenesis. Our findings provide a framework within which to understand the modulation of inactivation and a new functional map of Ca(V)beta in which the GK domain regulates channel gating and the other conserved domain (Src homology 3) may couple calcium channels to other signaling pathways.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Neurophysiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Gutierrez
authors.forename: Erick
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Miranda-Laferte
authors.forename: Doreen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nothmann
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Neely
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hidalgo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015220:Calcium Channels / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005260:Female; D051528:Guanylate Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009865:Oocytes; D010641:Phenotype; D011485:Protein Binding; D017510:Protein Folding; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D021122:Protein Subunits / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D013997:Time Factors; D014982:Xenopus laevis
chemical_list: D015220:Calcium Channels; D021122:Protein Subunits; D051528:Guanylate Kinases
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