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SEA ANEMONE TOXIN (BGK) WITH HIGH AFFINITY FOR VOLTAGE DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNEL, NMR, 15 STRUCTURESSEA ANEMONE TOXIN (BGK) WITH HIGH AFFINITY FOR VOLTAGE DEPENDENT POTASSIUM CHANNEL, NMR, 15 STRUCTURES
Structural highlights
FunctionK1B_BUNGR Inhibits voltage-dependent potassium channels of the Kv1 family (Kv1.1/KCNA1 (Kd=6 nM), Kv1.2/KCNA2 (Kd=15 nM), Kv1.3/KCNA3 (Kd=10-39 nM), Kv1.6/KCNA6, and KCa3.1/KCNN4 (Kd=172 nM)).[1] [2] [3] [4] Publication Abstract from PubMedBgK is a K+ channel-blocking toxin from the sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera. It is a 37-residue protein that adopts a novel fold, as determined by NMR and modeling. An alanine-scanning-based analysis revealed the functional importance of five residues, which include a critical lysine and an aromatic residue separated by 6.6 +/- 1.0 A. The same diad is found in the three known homologous toxins from sea anemones. More strikingly, a similar functional diad is present in all K+ channel-blocking toxins from scorpions, although these toxins adopt a distinct scaffold. Moreover, the functional diads of potassium channel-blocking toxins from sea anemone and scorpions superimpose in the three-dimensional structures. Therefore, toxins that have unrelated structures but similar functions possess conserved key functional residues, organized in an identical topology, suggesting a convergent functional evolution for these small proteins. On the convergent evolution of animal toxins. Conservation of a diad of functional residues in potassium channel-blocking toxins with unrelated structures.,Dauplais M, Lecoq A, Song J, Cotton J, Jamin N, Gilquin B, Roumestand C, Vita C, de Medeiros CL, Rowan EG, Harvey AL, Menez A J Biol Chem. 1997 Feb 14;272(7):4302-9. PMID:9020148[5] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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