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Mechanism for PIP2 activation of TRP channels | 38798
Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Open Access

ISSN: 0974-276X

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Mechanism for PIP2 activation of TRP channels


9th International Conference on Structural Biology

September 18-20, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland

Ivan Barvik and Vlastimil Zima

Charles University, Czech Republic

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Proteomics Bioinform

Abstract :

Transient receptor potential (TRP)-related channels are a large, diverse superfamily of proteins consisting of up to 28 members in mammals (1). TRP channels are activated by diverse cellular and environmental signals. Inhibition of TRP channels expressed on nociceptive neurons represents a viable therapeutic pain target (2-3). The recent high-resolution structures captured TRP channels in different conformations (4-5). All TRP channels form functional tetramers, with each subunit consisting of six transmembrane segments (S1-S6) flanked by amino- and carboxyl-terminal cytosolic domains. The S1-S4 helices form isolated sensor domains arranged radially around the periphery of the central-ion conducting pore, which is lined with four S5-S6 domains. The central cavity involved in the ion permeation exhibits major constrictions at the selectivity filter, as well as at the lower gate. The proximal C-terminal region represents the only cytosolic region of sequence conserved among TRP channels. This region can be divided into three sections: the six-amino acid TRP box; a variable region, historically known as the â�?�?TRP domainâ�?; and a poly-basic region proposed that constitutes the PIP2 binding site (6-7). The putative PIP2 binding region contains three to nine positively charged amino acids and, typically, one or more aromatic amino acids (7). Here, we use bioinformatics tools, sequence and structural alignments, homology modeling and molecular dynamics simulations to propose a detail molecular mechanism, how TRP channels are activated by PIP2. We describe pathways through which the signal is transmitted from peripheral binding sites of PIP2 up to the lower gate of TRP channels. Evolutionary conserved amino acids that serve as key switches during transitions between closed and open states of TRP channels are identified.

Biography :

Ivan Barvík is now the Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physics of Charles University. He is interested in computer modeling of biomolecules (bioinformatics, homology modeling, molecular docking, rational drug design, molecular dynamics simulations, quantum chemical calculations), high performance computing & parallelization (OpenMP, MPI, CUDA) and numerical methods.

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