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Ion channels

Across
• have no natural ligand. • open and close as a result of changes in membrane potential produced as electrical currents move through biological systems. • propagation of nerve impulse through axons, muscle contraction, and cardiac function. 1. Stimulus above the gating threshold → channel opening Rapid 2. Depolarization caused by ion flow through the channel → hyperpolarization and closing of the inactivation gate. 3. The inactivation gate remains closed until the membrane potential is reset by the action of opposing forces. 4. Stimulation of the channel will not evoke a response until this “refractory period” has ended and the resting potential (−50 to−70 millivolts) is restored.
electrical gradients across cellular barriers result from differences in ion concentrations on the inside and outside of cells created by the selective movement of ions across the cellular barrier
•Mediate the generation, conduction and transmission of electrical signals in the nervous system • Control the release of neurotransmitters and hormones • Initiate muscle contraction • Transfer small molecules between cells (gap junctions) • Mediate fluid transport in secretory cells • Control motility of growing and migrating cells • Provide selective permeability properties important for various intracellular organelles •let ions diffuse across the hydrophobic barrier of the lipid bilayer
• nicotine in tobacco is an agonist of nAChR, gives activation of reward system of brain • smoking cessation medication Chantix is a partial agonist of nAChR and provides the lower level of channel activity upon binding than nicotine • Chantix competes with nicotine for binding to nAChR • Chantix decreases cravings and pleasurable effects of nicotine
membrane potential becomes more negative at a particular spot on the neuron’s membrane
• open-close mechanism • gating of a channel can be dependent on the presence of a ligand, environmental pH, temperature, or membrane voltage differences
• activated in the presence of a ligand • close in the absence of a ligand • Binding of ligand to channel causes conformational changes that causes the channel to open • suitable ions migrate through channel • ligand removed channel closes ion-flow stops • can be activated by synthetic lens are blocked with antagonists(compounds that bind to the ligand binding side but do not lead to channel opening)
Not possible with agonists and antagonists • Options- Blocking the open channel directly • E.g. Flecainide blocks Nav1.5, a voltage-gated sodium channel that plays a major role in cardiac function, and is useful for the treatment of arrhythmia and the prevention of tachycardia. • The scorpion venom Margatoxinblocks the Kv1.3 channel, a voltage- gated potassium channel found in a variety of cell types, including neuronal cells. Kv1.3 channel blockade also can induce immunosuppression by decreasing T- cell proliferation. •Either close or open state maintained • Interaction of compounds with the protein at sites other than the pore region. This could be considered a form of allosteric modulation, as the “active site” of an ion channel is the pore through which ions move. • Retigabine, an anticonvulsant useful for the treatment of epilepsy and seizures, stabilizes the open forms of voltage-gated potassium channels Kv7.2 and Kv7.3, leading to increased potassium flow and seizure suppression.
Contains over 3100 crystal structures categorised as iron
Amiodarone •Used to treat cardiac arrhythmias prolonging the repolarisation
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• in the resting state voltage-gated channels are closed • when membrane potential reaches the proper level conformational changes cause the channel to open • ions flow across the membrane • hyperpolarised state • another set of conformational changes that inactivate the channel are induce • channel cannot be opened until the resting potential is restored and it’s confirmation shifts back to the close resting potential state
Ion channels have… to: Cation permeable: Na+ K+ Ca++ Anion permeable: Cl-
• Temperature-gated channels • Mechanosensitive ion channels • pH gating has also been observed • Phosphorylation • GPCR mediated
•Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activated in the presence of acetylcholine