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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-18
pubmed:abstractText
Sperm motility is a tightly regulated process. One of the crucial factors determining the swimming of the sea-urchin sperm is an elevation of intracellular pH (pH(i)). The possibility that its hyperpolarisation-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channel (SpHCN) is modulated directly by pH is addressed here. Site-directed mutagenesis showed that histidine 518 from the linker connecting the S6 helix with the cyclic nucleotide binding domain is responsible for the pH modulation of current kinetics and voltage dependence of activation. The effect of mutating histidine 518 to serine (H518S) on the time constant of activation was maximal at pH 6.4: 180+/-20 ms in the wild-type (wt) but only 56+/-10 ms in the H518S mutant channel. Furthermore, histidine 518 accounted for 31% of the shift in the voltage of half activation ( V(1/2)) in wt following a pH change from 6.4 to 8.4. The mutation H518S also shifted V(1/2) by 19 mV at pH 7.4 (-50.2+/-0.2 and -69+/-2 mV for H518S and wt, respectively). This indicates that histidine 518 couples voltage sensing to gating. The wt and H518S channels had a different affinity for cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) (IC(50) 1.0+/-0.02 and 2.5+/-0.06 microM, respectively). Changes in pH(i) also modulated channel selectivity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0031-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
448
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
76-84
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Cation Channels, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Female, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Histidine, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Ion Channel Gating, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Ion Channels, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Male, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Mutagenesis, Insertional, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Oocytes, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Point Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Potassium Channels, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Sea Urchins, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Sperm Motility, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Spermatozoa, pubmed-meshheading:14767770-Xenopus laevis
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Histidine 518 in the S6-CNBD linker controls pH dependence and gating of HCN channel from sea-urchin sperm.
pubmed:affiliation
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't