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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-5-10
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Delta-conotoxin EVIA, from Conus ermineus, is a 32-residue polypeptide cross-linked by three disulfide bonds forming a four-loop framework. delta-Conotoxin EVIA is the first conotoxin known to inhibit sodium channel inactivation in neuronal membranes from amphibians and mammals (subtypes rNa(v)1.2a, rNa(v)1.3, and rNa(v)1.6), without affecting rat skeletal muscle (subtype rNa(v)1.4) and human cardiac muscle (subtype hNa(v)1.5) sodium channel (Barbier, J., Lamthanh, H., Le Gall, F., Favreau, P., Benoit, E., Chen, H., Gilles, N., Ilan, N., Heinemann, S. F., Gordon, D., Ménez, A., and Molgó, J. (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 4680-4685). Its structure was solved by NMR and is characterized by a 1:1 cis/trans isomerism of the Leu(12)-Pro(13) peptide bond in slow exchange on the NMR time scale. The structure of both cis and trans isomers could be calculated separately. The isomerism occurs within a specific long disordered loop 2, including residues 11-19. These contribute to an important hydrophobic patch on the surface of the toxin. The rest of the structure matches the "inhibitor cystine-knot motif" of conotoxins from the "O superfamily" with a high structural order. To probe a possible functional role of the Leu(12)-Pro(13) cis/trans isomerism, a Pro(13) --> Ala delta-conotoxin EVIA was synthesized and shown to exist only as a trans isomer. P13A delta-conotoxin EVIA was estimated only two times less active than the wild-type EVIA in binding competition to rat brain synaptosomes and when injected intracerebroventricularly into mice.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
14
pubmed:volume
279
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21356-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
NMR solution structures of delta-conotoxin EVIA from Conus ermineus that selectively acts on vertebrate neuronal Na+ channels.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de RMN Biomoléculaire Associé au CNRS-UMR 5180, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon I, Bâtiment 308, Ecole Supérieure de Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't