多不饱和脂肪酸与Shaker电压门控钾通道相互作用的分子基础
The Molecular Basis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Interactions with the Shaker Voltage-Gated Potassium Channel.
作者信息
Yazdi Samira, Stein Matthias, Elinder Fredrik, Andersson Magnus, Lindahl Erik
机构信息
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Molecular Simulations and Design Group, Magdeburg, Germany.
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
出版信息
PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Jan 11;12(1):e1004704. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004704. eCollection 2016 Jan.
Voltage-gated potassium (KV) channels are membrane proteins that respond to changes in membrane potential by enabling K+ ion flux across the membrane. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) induce channel opening by modulating the voltage-sensitivity, which can provide effective treatment against refractory epilepsy by means of a ketogenic diet. While PUFAs have been reported to influence the gating mechanism by electrostatic interactions to the voltage-sensor domain (VSD), the exact PUFA-protein interactions are still elusive. In this study, we report on the interactions between the Shaker KV channel in open and closed states and a PUFA-enriched lipid bilayer using microsecond molecular dynamics simulations. We determined a putative PUFA binding site in the open state of the channel located at the protein-lipid interface in the vicinity of the extracellular halves of the S3 and S4 helices of the VSD. In particular, the lipophilic PUFA tail covered a wide range of non-specific hydrophobic interactions in the hydrophobic central core of the protein-lipid interface, while the carboxylic head group displayed more specific interactions to polar/charged residues at the extracellular regions of the S3 and S4 helices, encompassing the S3-S4 linker. Moreover, by studying the interactions between saturated fatty acids (SFA) and the Shaker KV channel, our study confirmed an increased conformational flexibility in the polyunsaturated carbon tails compared to saturated carbon chains, which may explain the specificity of PUFA action on channel proteins.
电压门控钾(KV)通道是一种膜蛋白,通过使K+离子跨膜流动来响应膜电位的变化。多不饱和脂肪酸(PUFA)通过调节电压敏感性诱导通道开放,这可以通过生酮饮食为难治性癫痫提供有效的治疗方法。虽然已有报道称PUFA通过与电压传感器结构域(VSD)的静电相互作用影响门控机制,但PUFA与蛋白质的确切相互作用仍不清楚。在本研究中,我们使用微秒级分子动力学模拟报告了开放和关闭状态下的Shaker KV通道与富含PUFA的脂质双层之间的相互作用。我们在通道的开放状态下确定了一个假定的PUFA结合位点,位于VSD的S3和S4螺旋细胞外部分附近的蛋白质-脂质界面处。特别是,亲脂性的PUFA尾部在蛋白质-脂质界面的疏水核心中覆盖了广泛的非特异性疏水相互作用,而羧基头部基团与S3和S4螺旋细胞外区域(包括S3-S4连接子)的极性/带电残基表现出更特异性的相互作用。此外,通过研究饱和脂肪酸(SFA)与Shaker KV通道之间的相互作用,我们的研究证实,与饱和碳链相比,多不饱和碳链的构象灵活性增加,这可能解释了PUFA对通道蛋白作用的特异性。