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SUBMITTER: Chow SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3249114 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chow Sarah S SS Van Petegem Filip F Accili Eric A EA
The Journal of biological chemistry 20111114 1
Cyclic AMP binds to the HCN channel C terminus and variably stabilizes its open state. Using isothermal titration calorimetry, we show that cAMP binds to one subunit of tetrameric HCN2 and HCN4 C termini with high affinity (∼0.12 μM) and subsequently with low affinity (∼1 μM) to the remaining three subunits. Changes induced by high affinity binding already exist in both a constrained HCN2 tetramer and the unconstrained HCN1 tetramer. Natural "preactivation" of HCN1 may explain both the smaller e ...[more]