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构象扩散在离子通道门控中的作用

The role of conformational diffusion in ion channel gating

Igor Goychuk, Peter Hanggi

摘要:

我们考虑一个完全易处理的Kramers型模型的电压依赖性门控动力学的单离子通道。据推测,门控动力学是由热激活的过渡在一个负电位。此外,通道的封闭状态是高度退化的,并且包含封闭子状态的整个流形。离子通道的打开从大多数闭合子状态被积极地禁止,并且需要特殊的构象,其中电压传感器可以沿着激活途径移动并触发转变成打开构象。当对应的激活势垒朝向通道的开口被所施加的电压去除时,非导电时间间隔的统计数据受到构象扩散的强烈影响。对于相应的阈上电压,我们的模型解释了封闭时间间隔的幂律分布的起源。开放率对电压的指数-线性依赖关系,经常被用作实验拟合,也再现了我们的模型。

英文摘要:

We consider an exactly tractable model of the Kramers type for the voltage-dependent gating dynamics of single ion channels. It is assumed that the gating dynamics is caused by the thermally activated transitions in a bistable potential. Moreover, the closed state of the channel is highly degenerate and embraces the whole manifold of closed substates. Opening of the ion channel is energetically prohibited from most of the closed substates and requires a special conformation where the voltage sensor can move along an activation pathway and trigger the transition into the open conformation. When the corresponding activation barrier towards the channel's opening is removed by the applied voltage, the statistics of non-conducting time intervals become strongly influenced by the conformational diffusion. For the corresponding supra-threshold voltages, our model explains the origin of the power law distribution of the closed time intervals. The exponential-linear dependence of the opening rate on voltage, often used as an experimental fit, is also reproduced by our model.

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