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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1295/1999//389/ $5.00
Journal of General Physiology, Volume 113, Number 3, 1999

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Mutations in the S4 Region Isolate the Final Voltage-dependent Cooperative Step in Potassium Channel Activation

Jennifer L. Ledwell*,{ddagger} and Richard W. Aldrich*,{ddagger}

From the * Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and the {ddagger} Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Charged residues in the S4 transmembrane segment play a key role in determining the sensitivity of voltage-gated ion channels to changes in voltage across the cell membrane. However, cooperative interactions between subunits also affect the voltage dependence of channel opening, and these interactions can be altered by making substitutions at uncharged residues in the S4 region. We have studied the activation of two mutant Shaker channels that have different S4 amino acid sequences, ILT (V369I, I372L, and S376T) and Shaw S4 (the S4 of Drosophila Shaw substituted into Shaker), and yet have very similar ionic current properties. Both mutations affect cooperativity, making a cooperative transition in the activation pathway rate limiting and shifting it to very positive voltages, but analysis of gating and ionic current recordings reveals that the ILT and Shaw S4 mutant channels have different activation pathways. Analysis of gating currents suggests that the dominant effect of the ILT mutation is to make the final cooperative transition to the open state of the channel rate limiting in an activation pathway that otherwise resembles that of Shaker. The charge movement associated with the final gating transition in ILT activation can be measured as an isolated component of charge movement in the voltage range of channel opening and accounts for 13% (~1.8 e0) of the total charge moved in the ILT activation pathway. The remainder of the ILT gating charge (87%) moves at negative voltages, where channels do not open, and confirms the presence of Shaker-like conformational changes between closed states in the activation pathway. In contrast to ILT, the activation pathway of Shaw S4 seems to involve a single cooperative charge-moving step between a closed and an open state. We cannot detect any voltage-dependent transitions between closed states for Shaw S4. Restoring basic residues that are missing in Shaw S4 (R1, R2, and K7) rescues charge movement between closed states in the activation pathway, but does not alter the voltage dependence of the rate-limiting transition in activation.

Key Words: gating • ion channel • patch clamp • Shaker

Address correspondence to Richard W. Aldrich, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Room B171 Beckman Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5345. Fax: 650-725-4463; E-mail: raldrich{at}leland.stanford.edu

Abbreviations: GV, conductance–voltage; QV, charge–voltage


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