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SUBMITTER: Lee SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2409406 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Seok-Yong SY Letts James A JA Mackinnon Roderick R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080528 22
In voltage-gated Na(+), K(+), and Ca(2+) channels, four voltage-sensor domains operate on a central pore domain in response to membrane voltage. In contrast, the voltage-gated proton channel (Hv) contains only a voltage-sensor domain, lacking a separate pore domain. The subunit stoichiometry and organization of Hv has been unknown. Here, we show that human Hv1 forms a dimer in the membrane and define regions that are close to the dimer interface by using cysteine cross-linking. Two dimeric inter ...[more]