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Domain cooperativity in the ?1a subunit is essential for dihydropyridine receptor voltage sensing in skeletal muscle.

ABSTRACT: The dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) ?1a subunit is crucial for enhancement of DHPR triad expression, assembly of DHPRs in tetrads, and elicitation of DHPR?1S charge movement--the three prerequisites of skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling. Despite the ability to fully target ?1S into triadic junctions and tetradic arrays, the neuronal isoform ?3 was unable to restore considerable charge movement (measure of ?1S voltage sensing) upon expression in ?1-null zebrafish relaxed myotubes, unlike the other three vertebrate ?-isoforms (?1a, ?2a, and ?4). Thus, we used ?3 for chimerization with ?1a to investigate whether any of the five distinct molecular regions of ?1a is dominantly involved in inducing the voltage-sensing function of ?1S. Surprisingly, systematic domain swapping between ?1a and ?3 revealed a pivotal role of the src homology 3 (SH3) domain and C terminus of ?1a in charge movement restoration. More interestingly, ?1a SH3 domain and C terminus, when simultaneously engineered into ?3 sequence background, were able to fully restore charge movement together with proper intracellular Ca(2+) release, suggesting cooperativity of these two domains in induction of the ?1S voltage-sensing function in skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling. Furthermore, substitution of a proline by alanine in the putative SH3-binding polyproline motif in the proximal C terminus of ?1a (also of ?2a and ?4) fully obstructed ?1S charge movement. Consequently, we postulate a model according to which ? subunits, probably via the SH3-C-terminal polyproline interaction, adapt a discrete conformation required to modify the ?1S conformation apt for voltage sensing in skeletal muscle.

SUBMITTER: Dayal A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3645543 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

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Domain cooperativity in the β1a subunit is essential for dihydropyridine receptor voltage sensing in skeletal muscle.

Dayal Anamika A Bhat Vinayakumar V Franzini-Armstrong Clara C Grabner Manfred M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130415 18

The dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) β1a subunit is crucial for enhancement of DHPR triad expression, assembly of DHPRs in tetrads, and elicitation of DHPRα1S charge movement--the three prerequisites of skeletal muscle excitation-contraction coupling. Despite the ability to fully target α1S into triadic junctions and tetradic arrays, the neuronal isoform β3 was unable to restore considerable charge movement (measure of α1S voltage sensing) upon expression in β1-null zebrafish relaxed myotubes, un ...[more]

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