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Tryptophan 207 is crucial to the unique properties of the human voltage-gated proton channel, hHV1.
The Journal of general physiology - 1 Nov 2015
Cherny Vladimir V, Morgan Deri, Musset Boris, Chaves Gustavo, Smith Susan M E, DeCoursey Thomas E
Abstract excerpt
Part of the "signature sequence" that defines the voltage-gated proton channel (H(V1)) is a tryptophan residue adjacent to the second Arg in the S4 transmembrane helix: RxWRxxR, which is perfectly conserved in all high confidence H(V1) genes. Replacing Trp207 in human HV1 (hH(V1)) with Ala, Ser, or Phe facilitated gating, accelerating channel opening by 100-fold, and closing by 30-fold. Mutant channels opened at...
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