PMID:20208543

Citation	Belyy, V, Anishkin, A, Kamaraju, K, Liu, N and Sukharev, S (2010) The tension-transmitting 'clutch' in the mechanosensitive channel MscS. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 17:451-8
Abstract	Under prolonged stimulation, the mechanosensitive channel MscS of Escherichia coli enters a tension-insensitive inactivated state. We transformed the delipidated crystal structure and restored the link between lipid-facing TM1 and TM2 and gate-forming TM3 helices. Joining the conserved Phe68 of TM2 with Leu111 of TM1, this buried contact mediated opening in steered molecular dynamics simulations with forces applied to the peripheral helices. Both F68S and L111S substitutions produced severe loss-of-function phenotypes in vivo by increasing the inactivation rate and promoting unusual 'silent' inactivation from the resting state. F68S also suppressed the noninactivating phenotype of G113A. The L111C cysteine buried in the TM2-TM3 crevice was accessible to methanethiosulfonate-ethyltrimethylammonium (MTSET) only in the inactivated state, which was stabilized upon modification by a positive charge. The restored interhelical contact thus is critically involved in force transmission from the lipid-facing helices to the gate, and inactivation appears to be a result of TM2-TM3 uncoupling.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1038/nsmb.1775
Keywords	Escherichia coli/physiology; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/physiology; Ion Channels/chemistry; Ion Channels/physiology; Models, Molecular; Molecular Dynamics Simulation; Protein Conformation
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