title: A gating charge interaction required for late slow inactivation of the bacterial sodium channel NavAb.
abstract: Voltage-gated sodium channels undergo slow inactivation during repetitive depolarizations, which controls the frequency and duration of bursts of action potentials and prevents excitotoxic cell death. Although homotetrameric bacterial sodium channels lack the intracellular linker-connecting homologous domains III and IV that causes fast inactivation of eukaryotic sodium channels, they retain the molecular mechanism for slow inactivation. Here, we examine the functional properties and slow inactivation of the bacterial sodium channel NavAb expressed in insect cells under conditions used for structural studies. NavAb activates at very negative membrane potentials (V1/2 of approximately -98 mV), and it has both an early phase of slow inactivation that arises during single depolarizations and reverses rapidly, and a late use-dependent phase of slow inactivation that reverses very slowly. Mutation of Asn49 to Lys in the S2 segment in the extracellular negative cluster of the voltage sensor shifts the activation curve ∼75 mV to more positive potentials and abolishes the late phase of slow inactivation. The gating charge R3 interacts with Asn49 in the crystal structure of NavAb, and mutation of this residue to Cys causes a similar positive shift in the voltage dependence of activation and block of the late phase of slow inactivation as mutation N49K. Prolonged depolarizations that induce slow inactivation also cause hysteresis of gating charge movement, which results in a requirement for very negative membrane potentials to return gating charges to their resting state. Unexpectedly, the mutation N49K does not alter hysteresis of gating charge movement, even though it prevents the late phase of slow inactivation. Our results reveal an important molecular interaction between R3 in S4 and Asn49 in S2 that is crucial for voltage-dependent activation and for late slow inactivation of NavAb, and they introduce a NavAb mutant that enables detailed functional studies in parallel with structural analysis.
authors: Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
authors: Tamer M
authors: TM
authors: Gamal El-Din
authors: Gilbert Q
authors: GQ
authors: Martinez
authors: Jian
authors: J
authors: Payandeh
authors: Todd
authors: T
authors: Scheuer
authors: William A
authors: WA
authors: Catterall
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D020640:Arcobacter / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002460:Cell Line; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D009036:Moths; D009154:Mutation; D055672:Static Electricity; D061566:Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D061566:Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels
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