Symmetry transitions during gating of the TRPV2 ion channel in lipid membranes
- Duke University School of Medicine, United States
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, United States
Abstract
The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 2 (TRPV2) channel is a member of the temperature-sensing thermoTRPV family. Recent advances in cryo-electronmicroscopy (cryo-EM) and X-ray crystallography have provided many important insights into the gating mechanisms of thermoTRPV channels. Interestingly, crystallographic studies of ligand-dependent TRPV2 gating have shown that the TRPV2 channel adopts two-fold symmetric arrangements during the gating cycle. However, it was unclear if crystal packing forces played a role in stabilizing the two-fold symmetric arrangement of the channel. Here we employ cryo-EM to elucidate the structure of full-length rabbit TRPV2 in complex with the agonist resiniferatoxin (RTx) in nanodiscs and amphipol. We show that RTx induces two-fold symmetric conformations of TRPV2 in both environments. However, the two-fold symmetry is more pronounced in the native-like lipid environment of the nanodiscs. Our data offers insights into a gating pathway in TRPV2 involving symmetry transitions.
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The EM maps and atomic models have been deposited with the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (accession numbers EMD-20143, EMD-20145, EMD-20146, and EMD-20148) and the Protein Data Back (entry codes 6OO3, 6OO4, 6OO5, and 6OO7), respectively.
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Cryo-EM structure of the C4-symmetric TRPV2/RTx complex in amphipol resolved to 2.9 AElectron Microscopy Data Bank, EMD-20143.
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Cryo-EM structure of the C2-symmetric TRPV2/RTx complex in amphipol resolved to 3.3 AElectron Microscopy Data Bank, EMD-20145.
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Cryo-EM structure of the C2-symmetric TRPV2/RTx complex in amphipol resolved to 4.2 AElectron Microscopy Data Bank, EMD-20146.
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Cryo-EM structure of the C2-symmetric TRPV2/RTx complex in nanodiscsElectron Microscopy Data Bank, EMD-20148.
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Cryo-EM structure of the C2-symmetric TRPV2/RTx complex in nanodiscsProtein Data Bank, 6OO7.
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R35NS097241)
- Seok-Yong Lee
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (ZIC ES103326)
- Meario J Borgnia
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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Symmetry transitions during gating of the TRPV2 ion channel in lipid membranes
eLife 8:e45779.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.45779
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