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Mutations in the EF-hand motif impair the inactivation of barium currents of the cardiac alpha1C channel.
Bernatchez G
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Talwar D
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Parent L
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Calcium-dependent inactivation has been described as a negative feedback mechanism for regulating voltage-dependent calcium influx in cardiac cells. Most recent evidence points to the C-terminus of the alpha1C subunit, with its EF-hand binding motif, as being critical in this process. The EF-hand binding motif is mostly conserved between the C-termini of six of the seven alpha1 subunit Ca2+ channel genes. The role of E1537 in the C-terminus of the alpha1C calcium channel inactivation was investigated here after expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Whole-cell currents were measured in the presence of 10 mM Ba2+ or 10 mM Ca2+ after intracellular injection of 1,2-bis(2-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid. Against all expectations, our results showed a significant reduction in the rate of voltage-dependent inactivation as measured in Ba2+ solutions for all E1537 mutants, whereas calcium-dependent inactivation appeared unscathed. Replacing the negatively charged glutamate residue by neutral glutamine, glycine, serine, or alanine significantly reduced the rate of Ba2+-dependent inactivation by 1.5-fold (glutamine) to 3.5-fold (alanine). The overall rate of macroscopic inactivation measured in Ca2+ solutions was also reduced, although a careful examination of the distribution of the fast and slow time constants suggests that only the slow time constant was significantly reduced in the mutant channels. The fast time constant, the hallmark of Ca2+-dependent inactivation, remained remarkably constant among wild-type and mutant channels. Moreover, inactivation of E1537A channels, in both Ca2+ and Ba2+ solutions, appeared to decrease with membrane depolarization, whereas inactivation of wild-type channels became faster with positive voltages. All together, our results showed that E1537 mutations impaired voltage-dependent inactivation and suggest that the proximal part of the C-terminus may play a role in voltage-dependent inactivation in L-type alpha1C channels.
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