Probing the channel-bound shaker B inactivating peptide by stereoisomeric substitution at a strategic tyrosine residue

Biochemistry. 2003 Jul 29;42(29):8879-84. doi: 10.1021/bi0343121.

Abstract

A synthetic peptide patterned after the sequence of the inactivating ball domain of the Shaker B K(+) channel, the ShB peptide, fully restores fast inactivation in the deletion Shaker BDelta6-46 K(+) channel, which lacks the constitutive ball domains. On the contrary, a similar peptide in which tyrosine 8 is substituted by the secondary structure-disrupting d-tyrosine stereoisomer does not. This suggests that the stereoisomeric substitution prevents the peptide from adopting a structured conformation when bound to the channel during inactivation. Moreover, characteristic in vitro features of the wild-type ShB peptide such as the marked propensity to adopt an intramolecular beta-hairpin structure when challenged by anionic phospholipid vesicles, a model target mimicking features of the inactivation site in the channel protein, or to insert into their hydrophobic bilayers, are lost in the d-tyrosine-containing peptide, whose behavior is practically identical to that of noninactivating peptide mutants. In the absence of high resolution crystallographic data on the inactivated channel/peptide complex, these latter findings suggest that the structured conformation required for the peptide to promote channel inactivation, as referred to above, is likely to be beta-hairpin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • CHO Cells
  • Calorimetry, Differential Scanning
  • Cricetinae
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Lipid Bilayers
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Protein Conformation
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Stereoisomerism
  • Temperature
  • Tyrosine / chemistry*

Substances

  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Lipid Bilayers
  • Peptides
  • Shaker B inactivating peptide
  • Tyrosine