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Mechanistic insights into volatile anesthetic modulation of K2P channels

  1. Aboubacar Wague
  2. Thomas T Joseph
  3. Kellie A Woll
  4. Weiming Bu
  5. Kiran A Vaidya
  6. Natarajan V Bhanu
  7. Benjamin A Garcia
  8. Crina M Nimigean
  9. Roderic G Eckenhoff
  10. Paul M Riegelhaupt  Is a corresponding author
  1. Weill Cornell Medical College, United States
  2. University of Pennsylvania, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59839
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  1. Aboubacar Wague
  2. Thomas T Joseph
  3. Kellie A Woll
  4. Weiming Bu
  5. Kiran A Vaidya
  6. Natarajan V Bhanu
  7. Benjamin A Garcia
  8. Crina M Nimigean
  9. Roderic G Eckenhoff
  10. Paul M Riegelhaupt
(2020)
Mechanistic insights into volatile anesthetic modulation of K2P channels
eLife 9:e59839.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59839
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Abstract

K2P potassium channels are known to be modulated by volatile anesthetic (VA) drugs and play important roles in clinically relevant effects that accompany general anesthesia. Here, we utilize a photoaffinity analog of the VA isoflurane to identify a VA binding site in the TREK1 K2P channel. The functional importance of the identified site was validated by mutagenesis and biochemical modification. Molecular dynamics simulations of TREK1 in the presence of VA found multiple neighboring residues on TREK1 TM2, TM3 and TM4 that contribute to anesthetic binding. The identified VA binding region contains residues that play roles in the mechanisms by which heat, mechanical stretch, and pharmacological modulators alter TREK1 channel activity and overlaps with positions found to modulate TASK K2P channel VA sensitivity. Our findings define molecular contacts that mediate VA binding to TREK1 channels and suggest a mechanistic basis to explain how K2P channels are modulated by VAs.

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  1. Aboubacar Wague

    Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
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  2. Thomas T Joseph

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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  3. Kellie A Woll

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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  4. Weiming Bu

    Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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  5. Kiran A Vaidya

    Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
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  6. Natarajan V Bhanu

    Epigenetics Program, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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  7. Benjamin A Garcia

    Epigenetics Program, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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  8. Crina M Nimigean

    Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
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  9. Roderic G Eckenhoff

    Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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  10. Paul M Riegelhaupt

    Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States
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Funding

Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER-182483-2)

  • Paul M Riegelhaupt

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (K08GM132781)

  • Paul M Riegelhaupt

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P01GM055876)

  • Roderic G Eckenhoff

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. Leon D Islas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Version history

  1. Received: June 9, 2020
  2. Accepted: December 19, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 21, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 4, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2020, Wague et al.

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  1. Aboubacar Wague
  2. Thomas T Joseph
  3. Kellie A Woll
  4. Weiming Bu
  5. Kiran A Vaidya
  6. Natarajan V Bhanu
  7. Benjamin A Garcia
  8. Crina M Nimigean
  9. Roderic G Eckenhoff
  10. Paul M Riegelhaupt
(2020)
Mechanistic insights into volatile anesthetic modulation of K2P channels
eLife 9:e59839.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.59839

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