期刊
FASEB JOURNAL
卷 29, 期 10, 页码 4324-4333出版社
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.15-274787
关键词
HNP1; HD5; potassium channel modifier; immune modulation; interaction mechanism
资金
- National Natural Sciences Foundation of China [31470812, 31170789]
- National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars [31422049]
- Wuhan University Natural Sciences Foundation [2042015kf0168]
Defensins form a major family of antimicrobial peptides. Recently, human beta-defensin 2 and fungal plectasin were shown to be immune-related potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 3 (Kv1.3) channel inhibitors. This work continued to show that the human alpha-defensins human neutrophil peptide (HNP) 1 and human defensin (HD) 5 are selective Kv1.3 channel inhibitors with 50% inhibition concentration values of 102.0 +/- 30.3 nM and 2.2 +/- 0.2 mM, respectively. Furthermore, HNP1 was found to inhibit Kv1.3 currents and IL-2 secretion in human CD3(+) T cells. Despite the structural similarity between HNP1 and HD5, HNP1 could simultaneously bind to the S1-S2 linker and the pore region of the Kv1.3 channel as both a toxinlike blocker and a novel modifier, whereas HD5 could only bind to the channel pore region as a toxinlike blocker. As a channel modifier, HNP1 could shift the conductance-voltage relationship curve of the Kv1.3 channel by similar to 9.5 mV in the positive direction and could increase the time constant for channel activation through the electrostatic repulsion between the cationic HNP1 anchored in the S1-S2 linker and the positively charged S4 domain of the Kv1.3 channel. Together, these findings reveal that human alpha-defensins are novel endogenous inhibitors of Kv1.3 channels with distinct interaction mechanisms, which facilitates future research into their adaptive immune functions.
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