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Cooperative and acute inhibitionby multiple C-terminal motifs of L-type Ca2+ channels

  1. Nan Liu
  2. Yaxiong Yang
  3. Lin Ge
  4. Min Liu
  5. Henry M Colecraft
  6. Xiaodong Liu  Is a corresponding author
  1. Tsinghua University, China
  2. Columbia University, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21989
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  1. Nan Liu
  2. Yaxiong Yang
  3. Lin Ge
  4. Min Liu
  5. Henry M Colecraft
  6. Xiaodong Liu
(2017)
Cooperative and acute inhibitionby multiple C-terminal motifs of L-type Ca2+ channels
eLife 6:e21989.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21989
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Abstract

Inhibitions and antagonists of L-type Ca2+ channels are important to both research and therapeutics. Here, we report C-terminus mediated inhibition (CMI) for CaV1.3 that multiple motifs coordinate to tune down Ca2+ current and Ca2+ influx toward the lower limits determined by end-stage CDI (Ca2+-dependent inactivation). Among IQV (preIQ3-IQ domain), PCRD and DCRD (proximal or distal C-terminal regulatory domain), spatial closeness of any two modules, e.g., by constitutive fusion, facilitates the trio to form the complex, compete against calmodulin, and alter the gating. Acute CMI by rapamycin-inducible heterodimerization helps reconcile the concurrent activation/inactivation attenuations to ensure Ca2+ influx is reduced, in that Ca2+ current activated by depolarization is potently (~65%) inhibited at the peak (full activation), but not later on (end-stage inactivation, ~300 ms). Meanwhile, CMI provides a new paradigm to develop CaV1 inhibitors, the therapeutic potential of which is implied by computational modeling of CaV1.3 dysregulations related to Parkinson's disease.

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  1. Nan Liu

    X-Lab for Transmembrane Signaling Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  2. Yaxiong Yang

    X-Lab for Transmembrane Signaling Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  3. Lin Ge

    X-Lab for Transmembrane Signaling Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  4. Min Liu

    X-Lab for Transmembrane Signaling Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  5. Henry M Colecraft

    Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, United States
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  6. Xiaodong Liu

    X-Lab for Transmembrane Signaling Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (81171382,31370822,81371604)

  • Xiaodong Liu

Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (7142089)

  • Xiaodong Liu

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Kenton J Swartz, National Institutes of Health, United States

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  1. Received: October 5, 2016
  2. Accepted: January 5, 2017
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: January 6, 2017 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 30, 2017 (version 2)

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  1. Nan Liu
  2. Yaxiong Yang
  3. Lin Ge
  4. Min Liu
  5. Henry M Colecraft
  6. Xiaodong Liu
(2017)
Cooperative and acute inhibitionby multiple C-terminal motifs of L-type Ca2+ channels
eLife 6:e21989.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21989

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