The Human Acid-Sensing Ion Channel ASIC1a: Evidence for a Homotetrameric Assembly State at the Cell Surface.

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Title
The Human Acid-Sensing Ion Channel ASIC1a: Evidence for a Homotetrameric Assembly State at the Cell Surface.
Journal
Plos One
Author(s)
van Bemmelen M.X., Huser D., Gautschi I., Schild L.
ISSN
1932-6203 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1932-6203
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
10
Number
8
Pages
e0135191
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
The chicken acid-sensing ion channel ASIC1 has been crystallized as a homotrimer. We address here the oligomeric state of the functional ASIC1 in situ at the cell surface. The oligomeric states of functional ASIC1a and mutants with additional cysteines introduced in the extracellular pore vestibule were resolved on SDS-PAGE. The functional ASIC1 complexes were stabilized at the cell surface of Xenopus laevis oocytes or CHO cells either using the sulfhydryl crosslinker BMOE, or sodium tetrathionate (NaTT). Under these different crosslinking conditions ASIC1a migrates as four distinct oligomeric states that correspond by mass to multiples of a single ASIC1a subunit. The relative importance of each of the four ASIC1a oligomers was critically dependent on the availability of cysteines in the transmembrane domain for crosslinking, consistent with the presence of ASIC1a homo-oligomers. The expression of ASIC1a monomers, trimeric or tetrameric concatemeric cDNA constructs resulted in functional channels. The resulting ASIC1a complexes are resolved as a predominant tetramer over the other oligomeric forms, after stabilization with BMOE or NaTT and SDS-PAGE/western blot analysis. Our data identify a major ASIC1a homotetramer at the surface membrane of the cell expressing functional ASIC1a channel.
Keywords
Acid Sensing Ion Channels/chemistry, Animals, CHO Cells, Cell Membrane/chemistry, Cricetinae, Cricetulus, Cross-Linking Reagents/chemistry, Cysteine/chemistry, DNA, Complementary/chemistry, Humans, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, Mutation, Oocytes/cytology, Protein Multimerization, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Tetrathionic Acid/chemistry, Xenopus laevis
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Web of science
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