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dc.contributor.authorAyan, Meral
dc.contributor.authorEşsiz, Şebnem
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T08:04:30Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T08:04:30Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1610-2940en_US
dc.identifier.issn0948-5023en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/948
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00894-018-3739-z
dc.description.abstractWhile similar to 30% of the human genome encodes membrane proteins only a handful of structures of membrane proteins have been resolved to high resolution. Here we studied the structure of a member of the Cys-loop ligand gated ion channel protein superfamily of receptors human type A gamma(2)alpha(1)beta(2)alpha(1)beta(2) gamma amino butyric acid receptor complex in a lipid bilayer environment. Studying the correlation between the structure and function of the gamma amino butyric acid receptor may enhance our understanding of the molecular basis of ion channel dysfunctions linked with epilepsy ataxia migraine schizophrenia and other neurodegenerative diseases. The structure of human gamma(2)alpha(1)beta(2)alpha(1)beta(2) has been modeled based on the X-ray structure of the Caenorhabditis elegans glutamate-gated chloride channel via homology modeling. The template provided the first inhibitory channel structure for the Cys-loop superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels. The only available template structure before this glutamate-gated chloride channel was a cation selective channel which had very low sequence identity with gamma aminobutyric acid receptor. Here our aim was to study the effect of structural corrections originating from modeling on a more reliable template structure. The homology model was analyzed for structural properties via a 100 ns molecular dynamics (MD) study. Due to the structural shifts and the removal of an open channel potentiator molecule ivermectin from the template structure helical packing changes were observed in the transmembrane segment. Namely removal of ivermectin molecule caused a closure around the Leu 9 position along the ion channel. In terms of the structural shifts there are three potential disulfide bridges between the M1 and M3 helices of the gamma(2) and 2 alpha(1) subunits in the model. The effect of these disulfide bridges was investigated via monitoring the differences in root mean square fluctuations (RMSF) of individual amino acids and principal component analysis of the MD trajectory of the two homology models-one with the disulfide bridge and one with protonated Cys residues. In all subunit types RMSF of the transmembrane domain helices are reduced in the presence of disulfide bridges. Additionally loop A loop F and loop C fluctuations were affected in the extracellular domain. In cross-correlation analysis of the trajectory the two model structures displayed different coupling in between the M2-M3 linker region protruding from the membrane and the beta 1-beta 2/D loop and cys-loop regions in the extracellular domain. Correlations of the C loop which collapses directly over the bound ligand molecule were also affected by differences in the packing of transmembrane helices. Finally more localized correlations were observed in the transmembrane helices when disulfide bridges were present in the model. The differences observed in this study suggest that dynamic coupling at the interface of extracellular and ion channel domains differs from the coupling introduced by disulfide bridges in the transmembrane region. We hope that this hypothesis will be tested experimentally in the near future.en_US]
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectNeural GABA type A receptoren_US
dc.subjectAllosteric proteinsen_US
dc.subjectHomology modelingen_US
dc.subjectLigand gated ion channel proteinsen_US
dc.subjectConformational dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectNeurotransmittersen_US
dc.titleThe neural gamma(2)alpha(1)beta(2)alpha(1)beta(2) gamma amino butyric acid ion channel receptor: structural analysis of the effects of the ivermectin molecule and disulfide bridgesen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Molecular Modelingen_US
dc.identifier.issue8
dc.identifier.volume24en_US
dc.departmentFakülteler, Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi, Biyoinformatik ve Genetik Bölümüen_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000438875000003en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00894-018-3739-zen_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85050148422en_US
dc.institutionauthorAyan, Meralen_US
dc.institutionauthorEşsiz, Şebnemen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.identifier.pmid30008086en_US


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