Location of a Common Inhibitor Binding Site in the Cytoplasmic Vestibule of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Chloride Channel Pore

Chloride transport by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl– channel is inhibited by a broad range of organic anions that enter the channel pore from its cytoplasmic end, physically occluding the Cl– permeation pathway. These open channel blocker molecules are presumed to bind within a relatively wide pore inner vestibule that shows little discrimination between different large anions. The present study uses patch clamp recording to identify a pore-lining lysine residue, Lys-95, that acts to attract large blocker molecules into this inner vestibule. Mutations that remove the fixed positive charge associated with this amino acid residue dramatically weaken the blocking effects of five structurally unrelated open channel blockers (glibenclamide, 4,4′-dinitrostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid, lonidamine, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid, and taurolithocholate-3-sulfate) when applied to the cytoplasmic face of the membrane. Mutagenesis of Lys-95 also induced amino acid side chain charge-dependent rectification of the macroscopic current-voltage relationship, consistent with the fixed positive charge on this residue normally acting to attract Cl– ions from the intracellular solution into the pore. These results identify Lys-95 as playing an important role in attracting permeant anions into the channel pore inner vestibule, probably by an electrostatic mechanism. This same electrostatic attraction mechanism also acts to attract larger anionic molecules into the relatively wide inner vestibule, where these substances bind to block Cl– permeation. Thus, structurally diverse open channel blockers of CFTR appear to share a common molecular mechanism of action that involves interaction with a positively charged amino acid side chain located in the inner vestibule of the pore. Chloride transport by the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) Cl– channel is inhibited by a broad range of organic anions that enter the channel pore from its cytoplasmic end, physically occluding the Cl– permeation pathway. These open channel blocker molecules are presumed to bind within a relatively wide pore inner vestibule that shows little discrimination between different large anions. The present study uses patch clamp recording to identify a pore-lining lysine residue, Lys-95, that acts to attract large blocker molecules into this inner vestibule. Mutations that remove the fixed positive charge associated with this amino acid residue dramatically weaken the blocking effects of five structurally unrelated open channel blockers (glibenclamide, 4,4′-dinitrostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid, lonidamine, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid, and taurolithocholate-3-sulfate) when applied to the cytoplasmic face of the membrane. Mutagenesis of Lys-95 also induced amino acid side chain charge-dependent rectification of the macroscopic current-voltage relationship, consistent with the fixed positive charge on this residue normally acting to attract Cl– ions from the intracellular solution into the pore. These results identify Lys-95 as playing an important role in attracting permeant anions into the channel pore inner vestibule, probably by an electrostatic mechanism. This same electrostatic attraction mechanism also acts to attract larger anionic molecules into the relatively wide inner vestibule, where these substances bind to block Cl– permeation. Thus, structurally diverse open channel blockers of CFTR appear to share a common molecular mechanism of action that involves interaction with a positively charged amino acid side chain located in the inner vestibule of the pore. Cystic fibrosis results from mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), 1The abbreviations used are: CFTR, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; NPPB, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid; TES, N-tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl-2-aminoethanesulfonate; TM, transmembrane region.1The abbreviations used are: CFTR, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; NPPB, 5-nitro-2-(3-phenylpropylamino)benzoic acid; TES, N-tris(hydroxymethyl)methyl-2-aminoethanesulfonate; TM, transmembrane region. an epithelial cell Cl– channel (1Sheppard D.N. Welsh M.J. 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blocking effects of are on its charge D.N. 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The that of the positive charge this block by a diverse range of intracellular anionic blockers that these substances share a common molecular mechanism of are into a relatively wide inner vestibule of the pore to an electrostatic attraction by the fixed positive charge of the lysine side and that the interaction with Lys-95 and pore-lining is to a within the pore to the of Cl– to of the pore and an in the of Cl– permeation. to the effects of blockers in the same the present that of Lys-95 a on block by 4,4′-dinitrostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid, lonidamine, on to this the large with Lys-95 and in the pore D.N. in the same in different of the to bind to different of the that of Lys-95 of the that effects on CFTR and different different on the of a positively charged amino acid side chain within the pore inner vestibule. the of to open channel blockers that Lys-95 a role in of these substances within the pore. 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