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Membrane protein PDB id
1k4d
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Contents
Protein chains
219 a.a. *
212 a.a. *
103 a.a. *
Ligands
DGA
F09
Metals
__K ×2
_NA
Waters ×266
* Residue conservation analysis
PDB id:
1k4d
Name: Membrane protein
Title: Potassium channel kcsa-fab complex in low concentration of k
Structure: Antibody fab fragment heavy chain. Chain: a. Antibody fab fragment light chain. Chain: b. Potassium channel kcsa. Chain: c. Fragment: potassium channel kcsa. Engineered: yes. Mutation: yes
Source: Mus musculus. House mouse. Organism_taxid: 10090. Streptomyces lividans. Organism_taxid: 1916. Expressed in: escherichia coli. Expression_system_taxid: 562
Biol. unit: Dodecamer (from PDB file)
Resolution:
2.30Å     R-factor:   0.218     R-free:   0.235
Authors: Y.Zhou,J.H.Morais-Cabral,A.Kaufman,R.Mackinnon
Key ref:
Y.Zhou et al. (2001). Chemistry of ion coordination and hydration revealed by a K+ channel-Fab complex at 2.0 A resolution. Nature, 414, 43-48. PubMed id: 11689936 DOI: 10.1038/35102009
Date:
07-Oct-01     Release date:   14-Nov-01    
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Protein chain
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Protein chain
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Protein chain
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
P0A334  (KCSA_STRLI) -  Voltage-gated potassium channel
Seq:
Struc:
160 a.a.
103 a.a.*
Key:    PfamA domain  PfamB domain  Secondary structure  CATH domain
* PDB and UniProt seqs differ at 1 residue position (black cross)

 Gene Ontology (GO) functional annotation 
  GO annot!
  Cellular component     voltage-gated potassium channel complex   1 term 
  Biological process     potassium ion transport   1 term 
  Biochemical function     protein binding     2 terms  

 

 
DOI no: 10.1038/35102009 Nature 414:43-48 (2001)
PubMed id: 11689936  
 
 
Chemistry of ion coordination and hydration revealed by a K+ channel-Fab complex at 2.0 A resolution.
Y.Zhou, J.H.Morais-Cabral, A.Kaufman, R.MacKinnon.
 
  ABSTRACT  
 
Ion transport proteins must remove an ion's hydration shell to coordinate the ion selectively on the basis of its size and charge. To discover how the K+ channel solves this fundamental aspect of ion conduction, we solved the structure of the KcsA K+ channel in complex with a monoclonal Fab antibody fragment at 2.0 A resolution. Here we show how the K+ channel displaces water molecules around an ion at its extracellular entryway, and how it holds a K+ ion in a square antiprism of water molecules in a cavity near its intracellular entryway. Carbonyl oxygen atoms within the selectivity filter form a very similar square antiprism around each K+ binding site, as if to mimic the waters of hydration. The selectivity filter changes its ion coordination structure in low K+ solutions. This structural change is crucial to the operation of the selectivity filter in the cellular context, where the K+ ion concentration near the selectivity filter varies in response to channel gating.
 
  Selected figure(s)  
 
Figure 2.
Figure 2: Stereo view of electron density in the region of the K+ channel selectivity filter. The 2F[o] - F[c] electron density map (contoured at 2 ) covers amino acids forming the selectivity filter (two diagonally opposed subunits are shown), with K+ ions (green spheres) along the ion pathway, and water molecules (red spheres) in the vicinity.
Figure 3.
Figure 3: Stereo view of a hydrated K+ ion in the central cavity. Eight water molecules (red spheres) surround a single K+ ion (green sphere) in the cavity. The 2F[o] - F[c] electron density map is contoured at 2 . Residues forming the cavity are shown in ball-and-stick representation. For clarity, only backbone atoms and the side chains facing the cavity (Thr 75, Ile 100, Phe 103, Gly 104 and Thr 107) are shown. The subunit closest to the viewer has been removed.
 
  The above figures are reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature (2001, 414, 43-48) copyright 2001.  
  Figures were selected by an automated process.  

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