title: The gating mechanism of the human aquaporin 5 revealed by molecular dynamics simulations.
abstract: Aquaporins are protein channels located across the cell membrane with the role of conducting water or other small sugar alcohol molecules (aquaglyceroporins). The high-resolution X-ray structure of the human aquaporin 5 (HsAQP5) shows that HsAQP5, as all the other known aquaporins, exhibits tetrameric structure. By means of molecular dynamics simulations we analyzed the role of spontaneous fluctuations on the structural behavior of the human AQP5. We found that different conformations within the tetramer lead to a distribution of monomeric channel structures, which can be characterized as open or closed. The switch between the two states of a channel is a tap-like mechanism at the cytoplasmic end which regulates the water passage through the pore. The channel is closed by a translation of the His67 residue inside the pore. Moreover, water permeation rate calculations revealed that the selectivity filter, located at the other end of the channel, regulates the flow rate of water molecules when the channel is open, by locally modifying the orientation of His173. Furthermore, the calculated permeation rates of a fully open channel are in good agreement with the reported experimental value.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy. Lorant.Janosi@dsf.unica.it
authors.forename: Lorant
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Janosi
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ceccarelli
mesh_terms: D051402:Aquaporin 5 / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D001692:Biological Transport; D006801:Humans; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D054730:Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary
chemical_list: D051402:Aquaporin 5
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